Your five top policies (if you were granted then)

I am far more concerned about what our government does than with what China and Russia do.

I don't agree with Facebook doing it either.

Who are these bad guys that you're so concerned with?

I have already stated why I want prostitution legalised. Nice womanly dig implying I'm desperate to have sex with hookers. I'm not, although I regret the time I wasted on hook ups when younger. But besides it doesn't matter one bit to my argument if I'm the biggest fat virgin basement dweller or a complete Chad with my own harem.

You didn't tell me why recognizing bitcoin is dangerous.

I am confusing nothing. It mandates equality of opportunity but this doesn't work and when it does not work will require equality of opportunity to 'fix' it .

I think it's wrong for the government to force people to hire or associate with people they don't want to.

Sure, if they were do inclined. If you were such a vital component to their business they wouldn't fire you would they?

How would it not be meritocratic?

My dig wasn’t about you not being out to get laid. My dig was at you thinking prostitution would encourage women to Up their game and sexually empowered women would want to get paid for it.

as for who are these enemies?

https://www.cpni.gov.uk/espionage

The good old, bad old days of the Cold War are on again. And that’s not including hostile powers outside of the northern hemisphere and non state actors.

That's a rather circuitous way of informing everyone that you struggle with women.

The Equality Act says nothing about equality of outcome, though. If anything, equality of outcome would contradict the Equality Act. Can you name any laws that mandate equality of opportunity?

It would not be meritocratic for my employer to fire me because my sexuality has no relevance to my job. Whether I can do my job is totally independent of my sexuality. It would be equally anti-meritocratic if a would-be employer chose not to hire me solely because I am white and male.

Why not?

I don't believe it is. Russia is not the USSR and China is the other side of the globe.

This is about an out of control security apparatus trying to justify itself and expand.

I read your link and nothing there troubles me.

I have spoken to lots of people here from the middle East and Africa who would greatly contend your assumption that the UK are the 'good guys'

I find it far more likely that releasing this info would reveal and humiliate some of the sickness infecting our society rather than lead to us being invaded by Russia or collapse our economy. Prince Andrew is the tip of the iceberg.

I fully support Snowden and Assange.

I presume you mean outcome in your last sentence? There are none (yet) . If equality of outcome went against the equality act then why is equality of outcome legal in some cases to a certain extent ? Eg labour women only shortlists (as the first example to come to mind)

Sure I agree with your second paragraph but I don't think it's meritocratic for the government to legislate this and impose this on businesses. If businesses do not want the best person for the job then why should we force them to?

Lastly if your boss doesn't like gay people all that's changed is that they now have to pretend that they don't mind you. I'd rather be in s business where I'm actually wanted rather than tolerated.

I think the government should stay out of business and am in favour of a small but strong state generally.

(1) Someone obviously feels threatened by legalisation of prostitution

(2) Yet absurdly appears to have a prostitute for an avatar

(1) Someone obviously feels threatened by legalisation of prostitution

(2) Yet absurdly appears to have a prostitute for an avatar

China is the other side of the world. But it also has one of the most prolific hostile foreign intelligence agency’s in terms world.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/05/uk-quietly-expelled-chinese-spies-who-posed-as-journalists

Russia however has been ramping up not only the rhetoric, but backing it up with action.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-sonic-boom-heard-over-23304945

Those are just samples of what’s out there. There’s more you could research yourself.

Both are quite adept at using fellow travellers and useful idiots to help their cause.

The sickness you deceive can easily be found out by simple research on the internet. Jeffrey Epstein was well known about before his downfall. He used his money and influence to intimidate.

the twi country’s I used as examples have been heavily involved in suppressing democracy’s. Murdering political dissidents and prosecuting minorities.

That was a typo, yes. If there aren't any laws mandating equality of outcome then why do you want to repeal the Equality Act? In the case of women only shortlists, this was a 'special' case that was made legal through it's own law. The law is due to expire in 2030.

Mandating that businesses hire 'the best person for the job' is by definition meritocratic; you'd be making them hire people based on merit, not on irrelevant factors such as sexuality. Would you not consider it wrong if you were turned down for a job because of, say, your skin colour or religion? How would it make you feel, knowing that you have all the skills and experiences necessary to do something but were rejected because of someone else's prejudice?

The Equality Act doesn't stop people from having prejudices, it just stops them acting upon them. My boss can tell me they dislike bisexual people, but what they can't do is fire me for it.

You didn't tell me we I was wrong about prostitution and it's impact on women, I'm curious. Also you still haven't said why we shouldn't recognise bitcoin.

Now onto China and Russia ...

How does releasing state secrets prevent us from removing Chinese spies?

Wow Russia flew a plane near us!!! Meanwhile we have military bases all around them which we'd promised to remove.

Jeffrey Epstein was BLATANTLY murdered in a cover up before he could give up his intel.

So what? What China and Russia do in their own country is none of our business. Also our own foreign policy is pretty unglamorous to say the least.

We’ll start from the end. Russia and China can do what they want to in their own country. Snowden and assange however gave away details of information that this country uses to protects itself from country’s like China and Russia.

State secrets are state secrets for a reason. They can either show an enemy, potential or real, what you’re weaknesses are, but more importantly what your capability’s are.

I don’t know how old you are, or your understanding of history or the world. But I’ll give you an example, one of the forerunners of one of the organisations that Snowden leaked classified information about was a British organisation who’s for runner was based as Bletchley park. Bletchley park was a key component in defeating Nazi germany in WW2. It allowed twelve allies to read German codes. That information needed to be kept secret because had the Germans found out we were able to read their codes the the Germans would’ve just changed how they encrypted information. So server was its role than nobody who worked there spoke of its role from 1945 until it was finally made public in the late 70s

I’ve seen no reporting to indicate that Epstein was murdered. If he was, they did such a good job that they left no evidence. Remember that had somebody wanted to murder him, they’d have been easier and less risky to kill him outright rather than risk exposure by a highly risky murder made to look like suicide.


As for Bitcoin. It’s not banked by a central bank. The US $ is backed by the federal reserve. The € is backed by the European Central Bank and the £ is backed by the Bank of England.

Should any of those currencies get into difficulties. The central banks are able to facilitate supper packages for those currency’s.

Bitcoin has no central bank backing it, which means that if there is an economic crisis like we saw in 2008, any investments in Bitcoin have the potential to become worthless. The fact that it isn’t backed by a central bank also means that it is now becoming the ore free method of money laundering and funding crime.

@MatureStudent37

I'm enjoying our chat but you forgot impact of prostitution on women , I know there's a lot to talk about do you can reply to that point here.

Prostitution has been classed as the oldest profession in the world.

it’s been legalised and tolerated at numerous times in history. It’s also been vilified.

Generally when it’s been vilified and outlawed there’s been some religious aspect to it. The Americans introduced prohibition due to religious pressure. Prostitution was outlawed in the U.K. during the victorian period. Firstly for moralistic reasons, but also as an attempt to reduce the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

it takes political courage to legalise things like that though. You’d have religious organisations, feminists and every other pressure group coming out of the woodwork with political parties in opposition trying to make political capital out of the situation .

my dig was at you thinking prostitution would encourage women to up their game and sexually empowered women would want to get paid for it

Eh... I dont see what the above has to to do with what you said :



Implying I am wrong to think that. How am I? In fact I think your point shows that I'm right. Prostitution was criminalised during Vicotrian times which were famous for strict family values and chastity.

Which charlatans in particular?

If you wish to hang them you would need to legalise the death penalty first.

It's a sort of grey area in the law eg brothels are illegal but prostitution isn't technically.

Drugs are more harmful than having consenting sex. I'm ambivalent on drug legislation personally though.

Victorian times were also famous for urban poverty and the exploitation of children.

The worlds moved on since Victorian times though.