People can of course say whatever they like. But the OP's question was why are we talking about local issues instead of Lebanon. I disagree, as usual, with you, Stewart. I think a lot of people in Chiswick live in a very middle class bubble, and have little understanding of how the rest of the country thinks about country-wide, and international issues. Recent votes, and the shock in Chiswick that resulted, confirmed this, when to me it was plain which way things were going. Perhaps because I was not born and bred in the South East, let alone Chiswick. I am guilty of debating wider issues than those that affect Chiswick only on here but try to keep them to a minimum. I would much rather engage (and do daily) with people on many social media channels that have a much broader cross-section of perspective than do many on a localforum. The value to me of the forum is the local input. If you don't like that, bully boy, tough.
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