by Bo-Gilly » Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:56 pm
[quote]Doubt you think the same about me, but hey ho.
Listen mate, whatever disagreement I might have with someone concerning politics/the state of the nation/religion/whatever, it has no effect on what I think of them as a person.
To give you an example ........ I regularly ride with someone who rants endlessly that the economic situation is not the fault of the global crises but all the fault of over-spending by the last Labour government (he's a Liberal Democrat - which is a fancy term for "Tory"). Now nothing could be more at odds with my own views, but I like the guy anyway, and we get on fine and chat as we ride. So there's no problem there for either of us.
The irony is I have recently discovered that despite his Daily Mail fuelled opinions, he's actually been receiving incapacity benefit since 1996, got a council flat, and has had most of the rent and council tax paid for by the state for the last 15 years (during the entire time of Labour being in government) . All the while, sailing around the world in his yacht, when he wasn't living in his French Normandy farmhouse.
And the moral of this story ? .......don't ever trust a Daily Mail reader