RE: Official then....24 Jul 2025 20:46
Oh Red, you’re nothing if not consistent: consistently wrong, consistently loud, and consistently convinced that opinion shouted loudly enough becomes truth. Let’s start with your latest accusation — that I “deliberately quoted a misleading bank balance.” No, I didn’t. I used the public figure from December (£1.31m) and added the clearly stated £1.375m raise post-period. That gives you £2.685m before expenditure. Now, unless you’re moonlighting in the PHE finance team or the HMRC, your “common sense” adjustment is just back-of-napkin scribble dressed up as gospel. You can throw around words like “deliberate” and “misleading” all day, but unless you’ve got the books open in front of you, what you’re offering is exactly what you accuse me of: speculation. As for this waffle claim — funny coming from a man who’s dished out enough of it to open a Belgian café. You say I post no facts, but every post of yours is built on projections, bitterness, and the vague whiff of a grudge dating back several fundraises. Then you circle back to the qualifications — again. You keep bringing it up like it’s a scandal that I’ve had more than one username or that I referenced my PhD in economics. Shocking, isn’t it, that someone might want to speak with credibility in a sea of noise? And you accusing others of “waffle” while adopting the name “DrAl” for satire is the kind of irony you only see in low-budget farce. You ask what gives me the right to be condescending — well, Red, it’s the fact that I take the time to reply to your increasingly frazzled essays with something that resembles logic and consistency. I don’t need to win a popularity contest, but at least I’m not swinging wildly at anyone who posts an optimistic sentence about PHE. Oh, and Swazers? You’ve been obsessing over him for months. If he’s so wrong and irrelevant, why do you treat him like your North Star in reverse? You say we’ve cost people money — no Red, people make their own decisions. No one forced anyone to buy or sell based on a forum post, and if they did, that’s on them — not me, not Swazers, and certainly not your running commentary. And finally, let’s deal with your charming sign-off — I’m a Kiwi, not an Aussie. You might think they’re the same, but that’s the sort of casual ignorance that tends to colour all your posts. Still, I’ll take the soft spot, even if it’s coated in condescension and wrapped in your usual performative disdain. Always a pleasure, Red. Shall I pencil you in for the next meltdown?