Woke

The trouble is that they have no sense of humour and have to examine in minute detail everything you say , so they can be offended at some stage . I think there is some ......and there is woke , some mean for the best but some just want trouble . We live in days when humour is gone because it's dangerous to be funny....and a lot of humour is about people or offending somehow , but not in a meaningful way , it's just sometimes pointing out oddities or contradiction........Dave Allen would no way get on TV now were he alive , most programmes we were raised up with wouldn't exist now......did they make us bad people ? They did make us think....but maybe they don't like people to think nowadays 🤔

You can't get a job unless you can get an interview and I personally have experience of managers who used to tear up CVs in front of me that had foreign names. There should definitely be positive discrimination in the CV stage of employment and then people should be interviewed always by more than 1 person to keep racism out of the process, then give it to the best person. Only place for box ticking perhaps is in the event of a complete toss up between candidates.

There would be a difference in public service financing, Labour would at least keep it just about functioning whereas the Conservatives will run the NHS  down to the position where they can say it's unfit for purpose and replace it with an insurance system.
  Mind you, ever Tories are having socialist thoughts now days that are more extreme than the Labour leader which really says something about how out of touch politicians are.

www.malaymail.com/news/world/2022/08/29/poll-half-of-uk-conservative-voters-back-renationalising-energy-firms/25381



"The YouGov poll for the Times newspaper found 47 per cent of those who currently plan to vote Conservative at the next election favoured returning the energy companies to public ownership, with 28 per cent percent opposed and 25 per cent unsure.







Among those who voted for the Conservatives at the last election in 2019, 53 per cent backed renationalisation."

Exactly, Jon. That is the difference between the "woke" and those who are merely left-wing or socially conscious. That's what I like about this site: it is not woke. The only woke member we've ever had was Qrobur, and we got rid of him after he rubbed everybody up the wrong way.

I view this as very postive (though have not watched any ad breaks where black people make up half the participants - what channels do you see this on Pol?)

I love seeing minorities represented, even over represented, on TV

For decades you'd never know they lived here and if the pendulum has swung into over represenation so what?

Bring it on I say

I'll answer your points in order.

1)Does it matter that I'm the only one on here who thinks your a right wing extremist? There's definitely a lot of people on here who oppose your party's policies which are currently tantamount to a genocide.

2)To think that the West are not protecting their own interests by arming Ukraine against their former friend and ally is totally naive. The real point is that the policies that your party is propagating are universally despised by most of the country including seemingly, a lot of Tory voters/supporters.
Whose right? You or them?

3)I've no problem being seen as a communist
 I've never been a Stalinist. I believe in socialist humanitarianism just like Connolly and McLean. They might not mean anything to a lot of British socialists but their ideas resonate with Irish Republicans and working class Scottish Socialists. The British Road to socialism is well and truely dead. 

As a Republican socialist I believe the break up of Britain is a prerequisite to building socialism. This is happening. Occupied Ireland and Scotland have the right to succede.

4)The Cuban State had every right to defend it's sovereignty against armed terrorists funded and armed by the US during the Bay of Pigs invasion. The fact that they were Cubans is irrelevant. They were combatants who knew what they were doing and why. The fact they were annihilated is just the risk they stupidity took. Likewise, with all counter revolutionaries, spies and informers. They declared war and they got it.

You'd be better looking at the murderers of the British army who murdered their 'own' citizens, whitewashed the slaughter of unarmed civilians on Bloody Sunday and then lied that they were responsible.

5)'Most people' again. Who are these 'people'. I see you don't deny it.

6)With repression comes resistance. Races that the white race has oppressed have had their own political heritage and resistance culture. Look at the likes of the Black Panthers and the Republican movement in Ireland. It's no accident that Irish people were caricatured as 'apes' by white Victorian Britain. It was their white supremacist world view.

Why does it bother you so much that there's more black people on the telly?

I suppose you have 'data' to back up the facts that half of people in all the adverts on the telly are black?