'Unspoken' forum rules?

That isn't interesting Chewbacca.
Don't think we had many supply teachers. We did have a lot of different games mistresses they kept getting married and pregnant

And on topic, trisher. Don't forget that. Just agreeing with each other is so pedestrian.

We tried that when this thread was started trisher, and look what happened!

Can't recall ever having any supply teachers. Our teachers must have been a healthy lot.
But the music teacher was dead easy to wind up.

To all those who dislike the political posts-Post something interesting then!

I never tormented supply teachers! The French master was much too reliable a target.

Hello Tom. Are you feeling like the supply teachers we used to torment many years ago in our unruly teens?

Correct M0nica. It was ever thus.....

Well said MOnica

Never mind a thread about a thread, this is a thread within a thread.

This is rapidly becoming a political thread, a long way from the original subject of unspoken forum rules.

Having been a member of gransnet for some years, I was surprised that one of my first posts (yes - on the news and politics threads!) was met with "ooh where is this person coming from? Was she directed to this thread? Wink wink."

Not sure what was meant by that. Did these two posters think I had been sent there from a political Movement (I think I posted about Brexit). It wasn't exactly welcoming and seemed to imply I had no right to post on there.

I did continue to post on politics threads and find it very thought provoking. I don't like it when it degenerates into squabbling and putting posters down.

This thread is a good discussion. Don't stop us debating it Gransnet!

bags no I’m ok with it it is just that I thought that it might be missed if you wanted to start a discussion about Scruton.

I mind if these rich people use their power and authority to strip benefits from the sick and disabled.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-disabled-people-benefits-legal-action-lose-government-work-pensions-department-frank-field-mp-a7886166.html

Particularly if they use taxpayers money to do so.

And I don't mind people being rich or having wealth. do mind if these that wealth to substantially change something in our society, creating for example areas of completely uninhabited housing which is used purely as an asset. It changes cities and communities. It's wrong

Day6, I hope you are watching parliament TV at the moment.
It's work and pensions questions about universal credit and about poverty caused by the Tories.

bags is that on the right thread?

Possibly not, but it follows some posts about political positions so I thought this thread was fine for someone else's (not mine) description of conservatism.

I can post it somewhere else if people are freaking out about it being on this thread

No some of us are down the pub having lunch!

Speak for yourself Charleygirl - I long to sit in an armchair knitting but I'm about to return to my domestic duties. Floors to clean, paint work to wipe down doggy shakes and toddler sticky fingers. Once I've worked through that, all those leaves and the mud on the patio area need cleaning up. I'm so grateful that I'm fit enough to do all of that and hope to get a row or two of knitting in this evening as I fall asleep watching something boring on the tv .

Welcome Tom, have you got a suitcase packed sitting beside you?

As you have read, we are not all sitting in armchairs knitting.

Hello Tom, welcome to grasnet. Hope you enjoy it.

Imperfect, I'm not the best at remembering who everyone is and whether they're new. I do recognise some of the longer term regular posters even if they pop up under a new name.
My feeling is that generally its political or in the news threads that can get overheated. I've seen some new posters who are asking for advice and receive what some would see as rather harsh responses.

trisher - "oh don't bring up anti semitism again". This is one area where I do depart from JC and the people who surrounds himself with. I know this thread isn't the place e to discuss this issue and that it's already been explored on previous threads. I probably should have sat on my hands and let your comment go but I didn't. Having had my say, it's probably best to leave this one because it could become a thread about a thread, or dominate the interesting responses to Imperfect's questions.

bags is that on the right thread?

I think respect is much more sensible than kind.

The strengths and weaknesses of conservatism and what it has achieved over 400 years in Britain are set out in this essay by John Holbrook which critiques, in passing, Roger Scruton's new book, Conservatism: Ideas in Profile.

There are a number of comments too. I haven't read them yet but they may prove just as interesting.

Welcome Tom. Buckle up and stay strong . Make of it what you will ...

Interesting to see how this post, like many, has meandered.
Just the way of it, but glad to see some earnest discussion. I tend to avoid the political threads as I think my views would be savaged and I don't have the level of knowledge that some have here. But I am a bit of a lefty.

Back to the intent of the OP though ... the way this post has developed makes me reflect that I am not one for a lot of conflict. Some people thrive on it, but I don't like it - so I will stay away from areas where that evidently happens.
However, there is a world of difference between avoiding the cut and thrust of vigorous argy bargy and wanting everything 'fluffy', 'nice' or 'sugar-coated.' Can't stand that either.

If we can't have a 'be kind' rule, can we have a 'be respectful' one instead? That shouldn't have to be difficult.