What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

Having an English guy running an Irish discussion site could be considered a conflict of interests. Take for instance the immigration thread. Someone from England would be happy to see a policy of open door immigration for asylum shoppers in this country, because a lot of those shoppers are coming from the UK. That policy is good for the UK but not for us.

That would give an English mod on that thread an incentive to suppory the pro immigration side and come down on the anti economic migrant side like a ton of bricks.

Has he beaten anyone unconscious though?

Media and legal circus. Both are coining out of it.

Yeah I thought the Jews were behind every real and imagined conspiracy. Or is it immigrants?

In any case, the English haven't been behind a conspiracy for a while. It's like they say, everything comes back into fashion eventually

C’mon El_D, it’s the NGOs now.

Soros and the Jews are so last year. But, of course, you already know that.

Are parents forced into having kids?

True, and he'd probably purge his contempt and slip out of jail unnoticed.

The late Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo who won the Nobel peace prize back in 2010 there is one particular quote attributed to him He’d written that it would take “300 years of colonialism” for China to become as civilized as Hong Kong,"

https://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/death-dissident-chinafile-liu-xiaobo

What I'm gonna say next some may find controversial and I hope my post won't be removed or flagged as any sort of so called hate speech. But looking at it from a longer term point of view Liu Xiaobo was right I 100 % agree with the quote attributed to him. Hypothetical speaking if it could of been possible for all of China to of been colonized it would of been a necessary evil in the longer term. Presently in mainland China take human rights abuses / persecution of religious minorities / organised organ harvesting / forced brainwashing in camps under the guise of re education plus other cultural backwardness . Also take the Hong Kong protests before the outbreak of covid part of the reason why they protested for universal suffrage is they were exposed to enlightenment ideas vs most those in the mainland had not hypothetical speaking If all of China had of been colonized like Hong Kong in the longer term the mainland would be different to what it is today. Liu Xiaobo was 100 % right in his assessment may he rest in peace.

Actually China is more civilised than the west. If you want to see the future for the west, look at China.

Came here to post about here.

She's lapping it all up.

You can see her setting up a charity of some sort and drawing a tasty salary. Ironically….she could benefit a lot from this.

What happened to her was dreadful. The guy should be in prison.

I was assulted…..reported it, guy arrested, admitted the assault but nothing happened

I've had 2 bikes stolen and 1 bike damaged beyond repair from an attempted theft……all reported and nothing came from them.

I think there's a strange contradiction in criticising people on benefits having children and also knowing we need more children to run the country as the population ages.

If you're on benefits with a big family of 3 or 4 children, then you must have a very low expectation for your quality of life. And maybe they're right...

I'm in a 2 income house, careful with money, finally saved enough to buy a house. Have one child and weighing whether we can afford to have another child if we also want to live what my parents generation would consider any kind of middle class lifestyle. By which I mean having enough to do nice things as a family, buy groceries, pay the mortgage and probably have a family holiday most years, save some money for school and uni for the child and have a pension to fall back on in later life.

But I'm wondering if my expectations are wrong and people on benefits are more realistic. The era of normal people working on median income and owning a house, having a big family of 3 or 4 children and living comfortably, are coming to the end

I siad that last week it was only a matter of time before she started to milk the whole thing and it didn't take her very long to do it.

How long before one of those get her to run in the next election?

Are these kids of families on benefits going to work as adults or become layabouts like their parents though?

If the latter, they won't be "running" anything, running to the bookies perhaps.

Times change,. The days of 'The Simpsons' family: 1 x wage earner and 1 x homemaker, their own house and 3 or 4 kids are well gone for various reasons. And they're not coming back.

Schools being good makes no difference if there is zero encouragement from home.LeBron James has spent millions on a school in Ohio and the results in the school are horrific, and I suspect he could keep spending money and it would make no difference as people who generally do well do well in school because there is some emphasis on education within the household not because the teachers or school facilities are brilliant.