Originally posted by Richard Tarleton
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The Dictatorship of the Etonariat
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostDon't they just! I don't watch TV news but when I saw a photo the other day I did a double take thinking it was a massive zit. What's wrong with leaving them 'tech black'. I've only seen the pinkish version - do they have a suite of flesh tones to choose from do you suppose?
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Originally posted by ahinton View PostNow what is there about this that reminds me of William Walton's remark upon hearing of the appointment of Malcolm Williamson to the position of Master of the Queen's Musick - "they got the wrong Malcolm"...
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Originally posted by ahinton View PostThey've lost nowhere near as many members as the Tories are about to do! BoJo's evident desire to call a GE in that climate is either bizarrely suicidal or deeply sinister for reasons that I cannot fathom. Also, it seems that the LibDems have attracted some 2,000 new members over the space of a week (not that this necessarly proves or disproves anything)...
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Originally posted by Bella Kemp View PostPerhaps I can help with this one. If there is a General Election before Brexit the Tories will probably win - they are comfortably ahead in the polls and the Brexit Party will probably urge their voters to vote Tory in order to avoid Mr Corbyn and a new Euro vote. After the Tory win,The Labour Party will then split into a hard left faction and a more moderate party and the Tories will rule for ten more years. If, however, the election comes after a No Deal Brexit, with all the chaos and possible social unrest that that will cause, then the Tories will face wipeout.
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Originally posted by Bella Kemp View PostPerhaps I can help with this one. If there is a General Election before Brexit the Tories will probably win - they are comfortably ahead in the polls and the Brexit Party will probably urge their voters to vote Tory in order to avoid Mr Corbyn and a new Euro vote. After the Tory win,The Labour Party will then split into a hard left faction and a more moderate party and the Tories will rule for ten more years. If, however, the election comes after a No Deal Brexit, with all the chaos and possible social unrest that that will cause, then the Tories will face wipeout.
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post- although not to the extent that they were in the spring of 2017..."I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
Lady Bracknell The importance of Being Earnest
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Originally posted by LHC View PostThe difference between then and now is that this time the Tories will run with a nakedly populist agenda and promises of ‘sun lit uplands’
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostYes well if people fall for that nonsense they will only have themselves to blame. My feeling is that they won't, but I'm an incurable optimist.
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostYes well if people fall for that nonsense they will only have themselves to blame. My feeling is that they won't, but I'm an incurable optimist.
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostThat was then. Campaign slogan noticed on FB: "His own brother doesn't trust him - why should you?"
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Originally posted by Bella Kemp View PostWell, er, a majority did vote for Brexit - which, in my view at least, represented a certain falling for 'that nonsense.' Boris is certainly hoping for an election now: that's why he's pumping so much money into education and healthcare. He stands a fair chance of winning in October. After the disaster of a no deal Brexit, as I observed earlier, he would almost certainly lose - possibly to a resurgent Lib Dems.
There are a lot of lessons to be learned from all this, and good may yet come of it. Whatever happens, we as a nation really need to learn to respect others’ beliefs and opinions, because, like our own, they are just that. Beliefs, not absolute truths. And we have seen too clearly what happens when we don’t.
( IMO , if they get their act together, the lib dems , Labour and / or the Scots have a good chance of forming a government, especially if they give the tories a couple of weeks more rope).I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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