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I think the difference is that I don't see trans women as a genuine obstacle to other women or girls playing football. There are other issues to girls getting into sport that impact far higher numbers than a handful of trans athletes, surely? Societal attitudes, gender bias, lack of...

I think this is where you're going wrong. Calling it a "flounce" is both massively disrespectful and completely misses the point. I'm struggling to vote for Labour because they've moved away from me on a number of key issues. As I see it, voting for a party closer to what I believe in, is a...

Fair enough mate, I get that. I think we probably differ in a couple of things. I don't think people should be compelled to vote, because I see no harm caused to anyone else (or themselves) by an individual not voting. My failing to vote doesn't hurt democracy, my not being able to vote...

All of the non voters in the country are here on this thread? Wow, I don't know how the server keeps up.

How do you know what the people who don't vote think? All these lazy assumptions and clichés, based on literally nothing beyond your own opinion. Part of living in a free country is that not everyone does what you want, get over it and quit whining. If you want bigger uptake in elections...

Anyway, putting the compulsory voting issue aside, it certainly is fun to be around for the Tory end-of-times party. Lots of skewering of Sunak and the Tories in the media today. Long may it continue.

Are you sure about that? Would you want a situation like North Korea or Russia, where the ruler can claim that he's got the support of 99% of the population? Would you really want to be obliged to vote for a party that you don't believe in...

I hear where you're coming from on this, and I'm genuinely sorry that in our generation (you and I are broadly contemporaries), women's and girls football wasn't taken seriously or even was actively discouraged. That was rubbish. Can I just make the polite observation though, that none of the...

I've had a browse, the numbers, compared to the number of participants in the sports I looked at, are miniscule. 10 footballers they mention, for example. That's out of 29 million female players, according to FIFA. Personally speaking, this feels a bit like a culture war thing than a huge...

I think if there was a genuine natural disaster on the way, the Tories would be desperate to hang on for it - they've shown they're brilliant at making money for their mates, out of others' grief.

Is that really true though? I don't know about you but it's going to take a lot more than the chance of a few medals to get me to part with my impressive three-and-a-half inches of blue steel. 😄

Yes, that was my thought too. I'm not claiming I've got the answers here either btw...

Voting good. Compulsion to do so bad. Is that simple enough for you? Face it mate, you've got an opinion you can't support except by mindless repetition and unnecessary unpleasantness. It's fucking boring. Get someone coherent if you want to win your 'good fight', you're obviously not quite...

So as previous, you've got no actual rational argument. You're not fighting the good fight, you're walking away from it! Make your case for compulsory voting if you've got one. I've got no problem with having a reasonable discussion on it, but don't think a handful of cheap slurs and a...

No invective mate, that's all from you with the usual meaningless 'snowflake' bullshit. Clearly you've figured out this is an argument you can't win via rational debate so you're down to playground level now. A bit poor, but if it shuts you up on it for a bit, that's got to be a win for me...

Oh do give over with the "snowflake/wokerati" rubbish. If anything you're the one being overly precious here by endlessly banging on about it - and those phrases are really just meaningless gibberish intended to insult. Anyway, people fought and died for our right to protest too. On that basis...

What's the overly simplistic three word Tory pitch this time then? I'm going for... Secure. Our. Borders.

Mate, it's Starmer. I wouldn't worry too much about anything left of centre getting through because of lack of a decent opposition. 😄

Journos seem to think it's happening! Push the button, Rishi...

Is it because he thinks that things can only get worse? I'm talking here in terms of Tory party unity, not the country as a whole - obviously he doesn't care much about the latter...