Nice one Pete and thank you.
The situation we have with this thread is that the mods would not mod it as we can't mod a political thread. We didn't want a political thread for the reasons you can understand. The posters wanted it though and as for all things QPR they were in the doldrums back then and the board would be relatively dead. We agreed that this thread would be self-moderating. The thread could continue as it was supposed to be self-moderated. This kinda worked while sb_73 was involved and he had a tendency to try and keep matters in line, but sb_73 has since gone awol.
I realise that the thread has descended into a willy-waving contest and has become somewhat over personal. In that instance, we could pull it and ban almost all of our members who have posted on it leaving us with almost no posters or prorogue it until after the election.
For your information, we haven't received one complaint about this thread although I do agree at best, it's unsavory.