Reply to: 225k - Not Bad

[The Lone Gunman]

Yeah, yeah, and when the story turns out to be b0llox, no doubt it will be because public opinion made them change their mind. Is there any evidence of public money invovlement apart from an e-petition?

From what I read of the original story yonks ago the whole thing was to be funded from some royal Saudi, no UK money was to be involved at all.
The original Mega Mosque was to be put on the olympic site, but I suspect it was a sham to make getting planning for a more modest structure less of a challenge on the grounds of "at least we are not building the big one".

[Old Greg]

That's twice you've tried to sell us that, OG.

We'll see...

Yeah, yeah, and when the story turns out to be b0llox, no doubt it will be because public opinion made them change their mind. Is there any evidence of public money invovlement apart from an e-petition?

[Kyajae]

its hardly NVDA is it?

NVDA??

[BrilloPad]

It's not. It's news. And I posted the thread more as a discussion about how people will turn to their keyboards about something they feel strongly about as opposed to turning out and voting or protesting.

its hardly NVDA is it?

[Clippy]

It's not. It's news. And I posted the thread more as a discussion about how people will turn to their keyboards about something they feel strongly about as opposed to turning out and voting or protesting.

Yeah, right.

BTW, thanks for the news update.

[Old Greg]

It's not. It's news. And I posted the thread more as a discussion about how people will turn to their keyboards about something they feel strongly about as opposed to turning out and voting or protesting.

I'm not having a go. But I don't think it's 'not bad', I think it's pretty depressing. It's an example of why these e-petitions are such a terrible idea. Someone sticks a fabrication in and then people click on 'me too please'.

[wendigo100]

Fairenough, but I don't see how 225k people signing an e-petition based on propaganda (that public money was involved in this new mosque) is good news.

That's twice you've tried to sell us that, OG.

We'll see...

[Kyajae]

Fairenough, but I don't see how 225k people signing an e-petition based on propaganda.... ....is good news.

It's not. It's news. And I posted the thread more as a discussion about how people will turn to their keyboards about something they feel strongly about as opposed to turning out and voting or protesting.

[Old Greg]

It's hardly represetitive public opinion is it? 225K get an email from a mate saying 'ooh, this looks bad' and then in 2 mouse clicks sign a factually inacurrate petition.

Hardly civil disobedience now is it!

This is why I don't like extended postal voting or e-voting. If you can't be @rsed to get to the polling station once every 4 or 5 years, who cares what you think?

[Pondlife]

So the govt can ignore the public opinion...fantastic!!!

It's hardly represetitive public opinion is it? 225K get an email from a mate saying 'ooh, this looks bad' and then in 2 mouse clicks sign a factually inacurrate petition.

Hardly civil disobedience now is it!

[Old Greg]

We did visit this subject a while back - this current thread is the update

Fairenough, but I don't see how 225k people signing an e-petition based on propaganda (that public money was involved in this new mosque) is good news.

[Kyajae]

I thought we'd been through this before (I think Dodgy started a thread). Wasn't it based on a fabrication that public money was going to go into it?

Found the thread: http://forums.contractoruk.com/threa...ga-mosque.html

We did visit this subject a while back - this current thread is the update

[Old Greg]

So the govt can ignore the public opinion...fantastic!!!

Of course they can. That's how representative democracy works.

[Let-Me-In]

It's good to see people willing to take so much time out of there busy email schedule to really make a difference.

So the govt can ignore the public opinion...fantastic!!!

[Old Greg]

I thought we'd been through this before (I think Dodgy started a thread). Wasn't it based on a fabrication that public money was going to go into it?

Found the thread: http://forums.contractoruk.com/threa...ga-mosque.html