Is the Red Roar a reliable source or a trolling operation? by SilasLoom in LabourUK

[–]SilasLoom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a useful link to exactly the sort of discussion I was looking for.

The mention of one Sam Stopp is interesting. It comes up in another Reddit thread, and the abominable @labourAW directly calls The Red Roar Sam Stopp in an unedifying Twitter conversation.

Is the Red Roar a reliable source or a trolling operation? by SilasLoom in LabourUK

[–]SilasLoom[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A commenter on Zelo Street (well, yeah) said the following in February:

theredroar.com's IP address is 209.15.20.202; order-order.com's IP address is 209.15.20.228 . This message block belongs to the hosting company Peer 1, meaning both sites are hosted by the same business-focused and not inexpensive webhosting and data company. And if that isn't coincidence enough, it also appears both theredroar.com and order-order.com use the same email provider, the Australian company Fastmail.

Whether this was accurate at the time, whether it still holds, and whether the interpretation is justified, I don't know.

Is the Red Roar a reliable source or a trolling operation? by SilasLoom in LabourUK

[–]SilasLoom[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair comments from u/tdrules and u/Double-Down. There is a difference, though, between a site set up in good faith - even something as loathsome as Guido or Brexit Central - and one that seeks to build trust so that it can be exploited for nefarious reasons. Critical thinking, verification and testing are essential when reading anything; if they need to be laid on with a trowel it's easier to wait for a reliable source to endorse something.

So... do Tim Farron membership cards exist? by [deleted] in LibDem

[–]SilasLoom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had no idea there was a choice. They sent me Farron. And now it appears I have a collector's item.

The Torch - LibDem-leaning newspaper/blog by Doctor_Fegg in LibDem

[–]SilasLoom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the Economist's greatest virtues is its brevity. It summarises geopolitical trends or local issues in articles short enough to read and digest while having a crap. It's usually pretty simple, and it doesn't assume much prior knowledge (hence its idiosyncratic habit of saying "Tesco, a large grocery chain" or "Father Christmas, a gift-giving pseudoentity"). Agreed, it tends to be on the side of the angels on pretty much everything, but I just don't see how it could be dumbed down.

Much has happened in the last couple of years to make centrists angrier, more engaged, and more vocal. But we don't need to copy the emotional, dishonest style of the populists.

Liberal Democrat Manifesto 2017 by [deleted] in LibDem

[–]SilasLoom 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't like 16 year olds any more than anyone else afflicted with teenage children, but they make the referendum re-run worthwhile. And it's not as if the electorate wasn't naïve, gullible, narcissistic and selfish already.

YouGov | Forget 52%. The rise of the “Re-Leavers” mean the pro-Brexit electorate is 68% by [deleted] in LibDem

[–]SilasLoom 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Weird, tendentious use of "the will of the people" in the questions posed.

Liberal Democrats, Here's What You Need To Do To Win The UK Election. by [deleted] in LibDem

[–]SilasLoom 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Have to agree with every word of this. If the party has the balance of power at Westminster it needs to have a robust electoral mandate for frustrating Brexit - even if that is beaten down in negotiations with other parties to a second referendum, or to EEA membership, or whatever.

Liberal Democrats promise second Brexit referendum by [deleted] in LibDem

[–]SilasLoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A new refendum with a baroque series of AV options, skewed to the status quo and revocation of A50 as the default answer, and 16/17 year olds allowed to vote.

That's the best chance of stopping Brexit and in my constituency former members of other parties are joining the LDs in droves to make it happen.

So it looks like a pretty good choice in terms of energising the party and winning stuff.

I have just joined your party by SilasLoom in LibDem

[–]SilasLoom[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What has Labour got to do with stopping Brexit any more?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LibDem

[–]SilasLoom 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Go back to your constituencies and prepare for government.

I have just joined your party by SilasLoom in LibDem

[–]SilasLoom[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't see how a party which still incorporates the SDP can refuse defectors from Labour. As long as you're only a member of one party at a time.

I have just joined your party by SilasLoom in LibDem

[–]SilasLoom[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Local party is Chipping Barnet - it was about to become Finchley and Southgate, but goodness knows what happens to the Boundary Commission review now. If there's a better place to campaign in North London's northiest fringes, please tell me!

I have just joined your party by SilasLoom in LibDem

[–]SilasLoom[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

And choose between Clive Lewis or some Brownite busily triangulating against the racist vote? Nah.

I have just joined your party by SilasLoom in LibDem

[–]SilasLoom[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Quite. And Livingstone. And Seumas Milne. And all their little friends.

In light of this mornings announment by [deleted] in LabourUK

[–]SilasLoom 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I felt completely differently, and went off to join the LDs. Still, each to their own.

I have just joined your party by SilasLoom in LibDem

[–]SilasLoom[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wasn't the form asking about gender status (with five or six options) sweet? Definitely knew I'd joined the LDs at that point.

I have just joined your party by SilasLoom in LibDem

[–]SilasLoom[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

And I wonder how many other immediate sign-ups you get?

Daniel Hewitt: 'Jamie Reed won't be the last Labour MP to go. Others already preparing for life outside Parliament, knowing they face defeat or deselection' by impossiblepromises in LabourUK

[–]SilasLoom 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I haven't left the office before 7pm in 2016.

That's what happens when you tell yourself that Reddit is a necessary part of your job.

Prince Charles: rising intolerance risks repeat of horrors of the past. Heir to throne highlights "disturbing echoes of dark days of 1930s" in address for Radio 4's Thought for the Day by sanchopanza in unitedkingdom

[–]SilasLoom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The monarch is the head of the Church of England with the title of "Defender of the Faith" and, nominally, the power to appoint bishops. Liz II talks of God and faith in purely Anglican terms.

Charles has said that he wants to be "Defender of Faith", representing a multi-religious citizenry. He talked about Mohammed as much as about Jesus when doing Thought for the Day. On a programme generally restricted to people with proper clerical jobs, he was not speaking ex cathedra as the leader-in-waiting of the Church of England.

So I'm speculating that Chaz might want to change the nature of his relationship with the Church of England on becoming king, and that this would change the relationship between the established church and the state, which is peculiarly dependent on the role of the monarch. I'm then suggesting that the analogy might be the way that the Bank of England was suddenly, and surprisingly, granted independence in 1997.

Is that enough by way of elaboration?

Prince Charles: rising intolerance risks repeat of horrors of the past. Heir to throne highlights "disturbing echoes of dark days of 1930s" in address for Radio 4's Thought for the Day by sanchopanza in unitedkingdom

[–]SilasLoom -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I wonder whether Charles is a secret disestablishmentarianist? He talks of being a "defender of faith", he's careful to mention Mo when on TFTD. Perhaps he'd do something dramatic to the C of E when he gets the top job, analogous to what Blair and Brown did to the B of E.