To think that people have the principles they can afford?

[Hullygully]

Do you have, or know anyone that does, principles that would absolutely not be ditched in the event of greater wealth?

I am a person not a label.

whigs were tory-lite

FFS shj - get a new keyboard. Your posts are giving me a headache

I recall a Barbara Trapido book fro years back where soeone was described, disparagingly, as a "socialist with ixer taps"

eidently things shift a bit

They are really demanding, aren't they?

"oti es" was particularly hard.

Is it just the Ms and Vs?

they're giing YOU a headache??

you try sitting here thinking of words that dont hae a [] or a [] in the

y brian hurts

that's why I' two pages behind eeryone else

what's happened to them?

I would describe myself as a lefty, if forced into using a label, I think. nice and vague! basically I am a fan of the state offering support to all its citizens, particularly the vulnerable, and think kindness and social justice are the most important social goods.

a dd dripped yogurt all oer it

now banned kids fro eating at pc

they are howling at the raw injustice

see, really I' autocratic Czarist type

did the yog dissolve it or something? Was it like acid yog?

It's a bit like putting too much pickle in your sandwich. You wouldn't eat the sandwich because it would taste awful. So, you scrape some off. Full on socialism would make you (family) miserable. It doesn't mean you don't have principles.

That pickle one would baffle the said person a bit. Good one.

I'm a bit wafty when it comes to my politics.

Can I be a Wafty Whig?

me? I go for "genius"

Anyone who tries to tell people what they should do with their lives/politics/family can safely be labelled a twat.

When I do the political compass-y test I always come up somewhere next to Ghandi, so kind of lefty liberal.

when I was running my own country on Facebook I was somewhat more autocratic than Stalin. Poor people of my fake country [sa]d

I'd make a wonderful dictator. It's my dream

But but when we (in rl) is having big ol political discussions, does it mean I have to say I'm not allowed an opinion because of how I live?

Good. You still have a cheese and pickle sandwich. There's no law on how much/little pickle you need before it stops being a cheese and pickle sandwich.

SHJ I've had to stop using my laptop because the puppy ate A, S and W. They are now just the stumps. And the space bar. I'm using my phone.

Is Ghandi in the bottom left quadrant? I come up there too if yes.

Yes, bottom left

Of COURSE you can participate in political discussions. If someone says you can't, they're being a twat. And if they're someone purporting to be a lovey-dovey socialist, they're being even MORe of a twat. Freedom of speech and all that.

Pickle analogy depends a lot on how much you like pickle... and which pickle are we talking about here? I am not keen on branston but like plenty of chilli and lime. piccalily is ok. I think hully is worried that she has scraped off all the pickle. and if you do scrape off all the pickle is it still a left wing sandwich?

Of course you're allowed an opinion.

Everyone maintains the status quo to some extent. It's sort of hard not to when you live within a system.

Hully no of course not! I can see how some people would throw it into the argument though. Do your friends carry notebooks to make lists of each misdemeanour? Do they wear black clothes with a beret placed just so?