Snap UK General Election On 8 June

The nursrs in white coats probably took her back to central office for reprogramming by BA IT specialists b4 bbc could get to her.

Thats nice

"PC Plod" will try to find them, arrest them and charge them.  Then the CPS will decide on which charges to take to court.  They'll be tried, and if found guilty sentenced.

As with any other crime.  Including those committed against Jews, Sikhs, Hindus, Christians, Muslims, blacks, whites, women, children, men, asians, atheist, pro-lifers et cetera ad infinitum.

Now either this thread returns to discussing the election or it gets locked.

I love the way the rioting in the streets has been dismissed by government as a "protest by the rich". Yea, right.

By the way, is the threat to lock the thread simply because the subject of Muslims is off the thread topic, or is it out of bounds in general?

I wanted to make a general point on elections in a media age.  Maybe apart from this forum (let's face it P2P lending was always going to attract more Conservative of people) one thing that strikes me is how you really cannot judge popular opinion by Facebook or twitter posts or protest numbers.

I don't know why but continually if I go onto my Facebook page (and I don't think I have a disproportionate number of left wing friends) I would say 90-95% of the posts are pro Corbyn or anti Conservative.   The same is true of marches and protests, although probably there more like 99.9% left wing focused.

Why I am not sure, maybe the left just lends itself to protest, maybe it just encourages those who speak up.  Maybe it's easier to make a good soundbite if you are on the left, you just need to watch comedy for that.  Maybe those on the right are just quieter folk who don't think they need the world to know what they think.  Maybe some are scared to admit to how they will vote.

You can well understand why it is so difficult for pollsters in the current climate.  Based on social media and even based on what you see and hear you could imagine Corbyn will walk it.  But the same was true of Remain (ok I know not strictly left right but it largely was!) and Hilary Clinton and look at what happened to them.  I may eat my hat here, but I am going to say Corbyn will do a lot worse than people are thinking and leave people again scratching their head as to why.

I beg to differ, radicalisation, integration and social cohesion need to be addressed by government and the Muslim community rather than sweeping it under the carpet as has been the case until now, therefore it is a legitimate subject for discussion in the context of an election campaign.

However, I take heed of your comments.

whereas mine  has been more biased to Conservatives. I'm not a big face book user, but it strikes me there is something  unseemly, even perhaps juvenile about trying to make seroius political points by virture of "reposting" or commenting on things via face book and other such outlets. Not only does it not seem like an appropriate meidium for serious debate (generally) but why would your supposed 'friends' want to have stuff rammed down their throats which may grate. i've seen colleagues in a small company counter posting material to score political points on facebook.

It seems about as appropriate as The Donald having a Twitter account.

The number of people I follow has dropped considerably the last coupel of weeks: and I wasn't much of a user anyway...