Common Sense

[Khandro]

If you know of any parliamentarian of either the left or the right persuasion who has more of it than this man, I'd like to know who it is. Please don't ask me for a synopsis, either watch it or don't bother;

[naomi24]

No idea.

[Khandro]

Corby; //I would be willing to bet the MP was not qualified to give such a diagnosis.//

Did you mean 'MP' or MD ? Anderson didn't diagnose anything.
I felt there was a slight scepticism about some doctors, - I may be wrong though.

[Ellipsis]

You spent half an hour talking to Lee Anderson. Do you spend time listening to other people like him too? Probably.

What about spending half an hour talking to somebody with a different persuasion, like, oh I don't know ... Alexandria Villaseñor? Or Shabana Mahmood? Do you spend loads of time talking about people like that? I would admit that you don't. Life's too short, right? Better to talk about people you like or agreed with, than with people you didn't like or don't agreed with. That's the nature of people.

You like Lee Anderson. You agree with him. But I've never heard of Lee Anderson, I don't give a monkey about him and I'm not going to spend 30 minutes reading his time. Life's too short, right? And there are too many Lee Andersons in this world. The thing is, we're on The AnswerBank together. So if you want to debate, we can debate. But if you can say "Read this 30 minutes of propaganda and let's not even debate it", forget it. I'd probably spend time about, say, Rishi Sunak, or Kevin McCarthy, or Volodymyr Zelensky, or Vladimir Putin ... people who make a difference.

[THECORBYLOON]

KHANDRO, he said he didn't believe the wee ones had ADHD.

He said benefits are increased because of ADHD but folk cannot just claim to have ADHD in order to receive benefit, there would need to be evidence to confirm the condition and the impact upon the claimant.

As with the rest of the claim about the family, he gave no evidence to support that belief.

For him to make that claim, he would have to know the criteria, as stated by the NHS, how to recognise them and then reach a conclusion about how each of the wee ones was affected which I suspect he was not qualified to do.

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - I am perfectly willing to listen to a valid well-argued point from anyone.

But experience tells me that if you advise me to watch a link, it's going to be none of those things.

On that basis, I am happy not to watch what you offer, because I know your propensity for talking up pompous blowhards, so I don't bother wasting my time with them

[Khandro]

Damnant quod non intellegunt

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - Being pompous and rude in a dead language merely makes you even more pompous and rude.

I understand perfectly, your typical right-wing attention-seeker isn't bright enough to do subtlety.

Perhaps you follow his lead ...