DT Politics Thread

[swaddon]

Imagine moving from one Dons message board to another.

Wouldn't catch me doing that.

I wonder how Red John is getting on?

[Ajja]

I’m only there because there isn’t enough chat in here . When you find you were responsible for the last 3 posts in a thread you start to realise you might be having a conversation with yourself and need to find new avenues. 

[Don Julio]

1 hour ago, swaddon said:

Imagine moving from one Dons message board to another.

Wouldn't catch me doing that.

I wonder how Red John is getting on?

Are you Red John in disguise???

[RicoS321]

2 hours ago, Ajja said:

I’m only there because there isn’t enough chat in here . When you find you were responsible for the last 3 posts in a thread you start to realise you might be having a conversation with yourself and need to find new avenues. 

I'll try harder. 

[Mason89]

The folk that executed Jean Charles de Menezes, strip searched school kids, employed Wayne ‘The Beast’ Couzens & David Carrick, secretly filmed arrested women in the toilet & ripped the pish out of murdered sisters in a group chat, want the Green Party to turn it down a notch 

[Panda]

On 30/04/2026 at 10:57, TheDonbytheDee said:

That hat is mental.

The Pub section is full of entitled bile. Very hunnish at times.

I have read P&B but never took to the leap to joining it.

If there was a law passed that everyone on an internet forum had to use their real name and have a photo of them as their profile picture, stripping everyone of their anonymity, that entire forum would change overnight.

 

[Jupiter]

3 hours ago, Panda said:

If there was a law passed that everyone on an internet forum had to use their real name and have a photo of them as their profile picture, stripping everyone of their anonymity, that entire forum would change overnight.

 

If that was the law there wouldn't be any internet forums.

[manc_don]

4 hours ago, Jupiter said:

If that was the law there wouldn't be any internet forums.

That's probably a fair shout. But that said, there are plenty of boomers on fezbook who use their real names and say incredibly stupid shit.

[Panda]

6 hours ago, Jupiter said:

If that was the law there wouldn't be any internet forums.

Like @manc_don says, Facebook and the likes still have people posting away. 

But my point was, 90% of what is being posted wouldn't make it past drafts if you thought the target of your abuse was going to be able to identify you at the next home game.

[TheDonbytheDee]

7 hours ago, manc_don said:

That's probably a fair shout. But that said, there are plenty of boomers on fezbook who use their real names and say incredibly stupid shit.

You must know my Brothers.

[TheDonbytheDee]

14 hours ago, Panda said:

If there was a law passed that everyone on an internet forum had to use their real name and have a photo of them as their profile picture, stripping everyone of their anonymity, that entire forum would change overnight.

 

I've worked with some of the prominent posters off the hat and they don't hide their opinions. 

Toned down a bit at work, but not far off the shit they spout on the hat. 

 

[TheDonbytheDee]

Well election day today. No idea how it is going to turn out, but I still don't think the SNP will be in power after the counting is finished and not convinced they will do well, even though the polls suggest otherwise. 

I took down my note on the front door, asking political parties not to knock and 30 minutes after I got a knock on the door from the SNP.

I also got stopped by a Tory in Westhill yesterday, when I was out for my lunchtime walk. I was civil enough, but he knows he won't be counting on my vote.

[RicoS321]

40 minutes ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

Well election day today. No idea how it is going to turn out, but I still don't think the SNP will be in power after the counting is finished and not convinced they will do well, even though the polls suggest otherwise. 

I took down my note on the front door, asking political parties not to knock and 30 minutes after I got a knock on the door from the SNP.

I also got stopped by a Tory in Westhill yesterday, when I was out for my lunchtime walk. I was civil enough, but he knows he won't be counting on my vote.

Nobody ever comes to my house. I have the kettle filled and ready. Sometimes it's just nice to talk to someone. 

[Mason89]

SNP will fall short of a majority 

Jackie Baillie will lose her seat 

Tories and Labour will become an irrelevance and then come to the conclusion it’s because they weren’t right wing enough 

Scotland, Wales & N. Ireland will be ran by parties that want to break up the Union. England will have an English nationalist party running riot. Unionists won’t give a fuck 

[Ajja]

I have a feeling SNP will get a majority, despite the fact the Scottish system is deliberately engineered for this not to occur. Labour will be decimated to the benefit of the Greens. Every young person I know is voting Green. Tories same to Reform. Hopefully enough people vote tactically to keep the right away in as many places as possible but I do worry. 
 

I was reading some stuff about Rupert Lowe the other day. Nice to see that Reform is eating itself up through its own arsehole and he has created a new party called Restore to dilute the right wing party, who diluted the right wing party. 

Edited May 7 by Ajja

[Mason89]

The Restore Party is just Reform on steroids. I know I go on about it but the mistake Rupert is making, is that he thinks Facebook bots are real. His pages have thousands of him praising his common sense policies 

He’s a senile racist wanker.

[RicoS321]

5 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

The Restore Party is just Reform on steroids. I know I go on about it but the mistake Rupert is making, is that he thinks Facebook bots are real. His pages have thousands of him praising his common sense policies 

He’s a senile racist wanker.

But if he thinks they're real, then so do his voter and potential voter base. Those Facebook bots will still gain him votes. That's why they exist. 

[Mason89]

55 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

But if he thinks they're real, then so do his voter and potential voter base. Those Facebook bots will still gain him votes. That's why they exist. 

Racist Dogs with 2 friends and 4000 posts in a week don’t vote though. They will confuse the dribbling idiots but not in the numbers he needs. 
At best he’ll split the dribbling idiot vote, which is nice 

[Ajja]

The splitting of the vote is the key gain. Also potentially taking Nigel out of the limelight for a nanosecond would be good. 
 

loonies on the right are also good for brand trashing 

Edited May 7 by Ajja

[tom_widdows]

On 06/05/2026 at 16:24, Panda said:

If there was a law passed that everyone on an internet forum had to use their real name and have a photo of them as their profile picture, stripping everyone of their anonymity, that entire forum would change overnight.

 

You'd like to think so but I doubt it.

The internet seemingly used to be the place to post stuff you wouldnt shout in a crowded place. Its becoming the place you post videos of yourself saying those things in public to pick up 'likes' and the occasional few quid from youtube

[Panda]

2 hours ago, tom_widdows said:

Its becoming the place you post videos of yourself saying those things in public to pick up 'likes' and the occasional few quid from youtube

You found my TikTok didn't you?

Please like and subscribe, and remember to send money.

[TheDonbytheDee]

Looks like Labour are sinking in England and they have apparently already conceded defeat in Wales.

Could be a tough day ahead for Starmer. I wonder who will be out defending him on the media rounds.

 

[Ajja]

Huge challenge for Labour but could see the demise of the Tories as a credible party. 

[Mason89]

1 hour ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

I wonder who will be out defending him on the media rounds.

 

Kowalski? 

[Kowalski]

Local elections used to be what they said on the tin, but now they seem to be about the national picture. Load of bollocks really. 

Long gone are the days when a good independent candidate could get in because they knew how to get a library re-opened or sort out the pot holes in your area. 

As for Reform, they have a horrific record running some councils in England but still the happy clappers are voting for them. Right wing media is hugely complicit in this.