Can I take it that you weren't alive or politically aware in the 1970s?
No, I wasn't. I have admitted several times I don't know much about the era.
Read the OP's original post as well as the emoticons showing&
indicating sarcasm, as in "I don't believe this, its just for the lulz". The
's were just to play off the anti-american anger of the time regarding how the ultra-left in the UK played up every American sin out there, real and imagined, while the USSR scarcely seemed to even exist in their universe. OK? I was not accusing OTL Labour IRL of being Soviet agents, I was simply reading what the OP had posted. Even as an American I know that Labour never had a history of any Soviet infiltration, not at the level of elected office (including backbenchers, in power parties or opposition). The British Civil Service was another matter, and that was not a thing of conspiracy theories.
It is often very hard on the internet to ascertain whether someone is being serious or not, the problem is that while you (I'm including myself in this you as I am in fact guilty of this below if you read on) may know its a joke but other don't. I see now that I should have taken the copious use of similes as evidence of the 'ironic' nature of your comment. Thats my mistake.
1) I suggest you take a look at my own board history before you make such outrageous charges. I am a pronounced anglophile who wishes I lived under the parliamentary system, as it is far superior to the American republican one (one civil war, McCarthyism, Jim Crow, W, Tea Party, etc).
Nevertheless, since I don't want things to get any worse, I will delete the portion of that post you find so incredibly offensive.
BTW? Hair trigger accusations of trolling IS trolling. I just thought you might want to remember that in future.
'I suggest you take your trolling elsewhere sir' was meant in a playful manner, alas I am guilty of the very fault I pointed out above in not making my language clear enough to convey my emotions. Perhaps if I had posted a '
The first half stays, as it simply represents a "shoe-on-the-other-foot" example.
I struggle with recognising sarcasm on the internet. I tend to take myself and others far too seriously. I can only apologise if I have come across as brash or rude in any manner, that was not and will never be my intention.