Forest Hill Focus

I know this is a Lib Dems newsletter, but I’ve added it to this category instead of Politicos as it’s mainly about FH issues (library, FH sinkholes, FH trains etc), and se23.life has a little mention too

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If that’s from you, many thanks, @JohnRussell

Chris,
Your most welcome. I struggle to get the time to post here as much as I should but I do read lots of posts. A great forum.

John

A LibDem mailout without an openly fraudulent bar chart? Whatever next?

Oi. Keep that sort of thing in Politicos please.

I can’t think of much more political than the full text of a leaflet from a political party.

I agree, and if there’s a way of cropping it to the relevant section, that would a good. Otherwise I imagine people will only read the bit about the library and ignore the rest so no harm done.

If we’re going to shill for a party because they want to attract some love by putting an Apple Pie issue in their newsletter, it’s positively ridiculous to get irked about a light-hearted comment about that party’s predelictions in the same publications.

@Baboonery: ‘Light-hearted’ comments about the lies (or not) told by political parties belongs in Politicos. House rules.

I wasn’t irked by that, but if you’re going down the ‘some people just can’t take a joke’ route, I will be. That, not patriotism, is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Far from it.

However, if we’re being that strict, I don’t see any earthly way that reproducing a piece of party political propaganda doesn’t belong in politicos. Ah, it’s because they’re being nice about us? Right.

Actually, I had to think hard about whether the moderators should challenge it or not. It didn’t go without consideration. In the end I came down on the side of assuming people would take the positive affirmation for the library, for which many people have worked extremely hard, and ignore the political context. I kinda think if you hadn’t drawn attention to it, no one would have considered it an endorsement for the LibDems. Entirely open to being proved wrong.

The other @moderators may or may not agree with my stance on this (we are a broad church).

I wasn’t even the first person to make the point on the thread.

Eh? If you’re referring to the OP I suppose that’s technically correct.

Anyway, since both you and Michael have commented, the team will take this into consideration the next time there is a posting like this. If you want to raise any issue, just include @moderators in your post and we’ll respond. All moderating here is transparent and we do try to be as fair and balance as possible.

@ chrisbeach Perhaps this entire thread should now be moved to Politicos?

I made a joke about the usual contents of a LibDem focus. Michael followed up by suggesting a party political leaflet should be in politicos. Which I then picked up and ran with. On the basis that it was a better and more fundamental point than mine was.

I’ve already acknowledged you have a point and we’ll take it into consideration. Can we leave at that?

This sort of crap reminds me why I don’t sub to politicos.
Perfectly happy about the newsletter which has a tiny bit of politics, but the reaction reminds me why I am perfectly happy not to hear other people bang on about politics…
If anyone is that offended then it is very easy to remove the top bit about Brexit - it’s only an image
Or we could just very easily ignore the political overtones
For those offended by any sight of politics

Is that better?

Well done. big round of applause

I’m not in politicos either, by the way.

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The problem in my mind is setting a precedent when another party want their leaflet on the main section of the forum because it is about relevant issues (not ‘political’ issues) from a political party.

My concern would have been the same for any political leaflet outside the politicos area, but then I’ve never been a fan of duplicate threads about the same issue - one with and one without ‘politics’. It is a false division in my view, but I accept the majority decision on the forum was to keep politics as a separate section (so long as it is applied equally and not just picking on Chris).

@Michael - that’s a very valid point.

Can one of the admins with access to the closed groups move this thread to Politicos please? @anon5422159 @Londondrz

On my phone atm so will have to wait till I get in or CB sorts it out.

I moved it!

I didn’t mean to cause a stir with my OP!

I posted it because of the general FH issues & NOT for political reasons.

Thanks @RachaelDunlop and @Michael.

It’s right to set a precedent for posts from political parties.

This leaflet wasn’t overly partisan, but future leaflets from other parties could be.