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CON leadership contender Liz Truss on the monarchy in 1994 – politicalbetting.com
CON leadership contender Liz Truss on the monarchy in 1994 – politicalbetting.com
Liz Truss opposes the monarchy at the 1994 Lib Dem conference. pic.twitter.com/i68cqNmdwA
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Everyone is entitled to change their mind/opinion and this was nearly 30 years ago.
i am not a royalist or a republican - more of a "whatever" - the one thing I dont like though is having my spare time organised by others so love doing my own thing
It will be a sorry day when we cannot change our minds about an issue, and this forum has plenty who want those who support leave to change their minds
I won't even indulge the whataboutism of the last line.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens a decade from now, when all the students who grew up on Facebook and Twitter, start to stand in numbers for political office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Beaconsfield_by-election
If only a certain dildo flint-knapper wasn't in Georgia, then he might have provided the highlight for Sunday's Royal Pageant. Or perhaps he has and is being unusually modest about it?
I mean we wouldn’t accept hereditary Prime Ministers or Doctors so why should we be saddled with a hereditary head of state.
We’re not North Korea.
Joining the Tories in 1996 was a long term investment bought when the price is cheap and all the cool kids are looking elsewhere.
Having said that, IMHO she is nowhere near being a serious contender, pace Mr Smithson.
54 plus letters in please on monday conservative mps
https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1532736969071120384?t=kRSyj7KKDReuTiHcLZEJTw&s=19
Strangely, the "fear of revolution" often makes so-called democracies enact repressive legislation and as I've said before, make people frightened enough and they'll happily sign away any rights they do have in the name of "security".
Which was the more "free" society in 1795 - Britain or France?
I don't think the right have a great track record on free speech, democracy or the rule of law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3jIE3b-bhY
Today's students wouldn't be seen anywhere near Boomer Central.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1534760/Liz-Truss-BBC-Republican-Monarchy-Queen-Nick-Robinson-VN
In much the same way as Truss has now abandoned her support for nuclear disarmament as well as her support for Remain in 2016 to back Johnson's hard Brexit.
If she had not changed her views she would not have a hope in hell of being elected Tory leader
I'm on principle opposed but in practice I am a whatever. I couldn't give a toss about any of them but then I don't give a toss what Rita Ora or whoever is wearing either.
As it happened, I would rather have eaten my own left testicle than become a politician, but it was a nice thought.
Identity politics - Woke - rushed to fill the gaping void. Very successfully. As it is a form of secular religion. So it ticked all the boxes
However in a religion the holy thing trumps all else so all the Enlightenment values got dumped in favour of extreme social justice for the intersectionally oppressed
At the next election (on current polling) Labour will be gaining a hundred seats, so joining in the Corbyn years without being too tainted would be a good move.
But what a memory of yesterday, he’ll forever have his first Test innings figures ingrained on his brain.
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See above.
The views of the "right" (if we mean not just those supportive of the Government but those opposed to the alternative) seem to this observer to dominate. Most of the newspapers are broadly anti-left. Where is the left-wing alternative to GB News or Talk TV? Look at Sky News in Australia - strongly anti-Labor and pro-Coalition and their response to the election of a Labor Government has been illuminating.
Free speech means allowing as many different voices as possible to be heard not just the same voices. As a good liberal authoritarian, I'd love all media outlets to be forced to provide balanced coverage - don't worry, I do appreciate the irony of that.
Time to get back to that.
That alone makes him more qualified than most of the post-2005 Labour intake
It's a bit like me discussing LFC team selection. I don't watch them much. And when I do it isn't dispassionately.
I think in general he's a good poster and I like him but this part of his personality winds people up.
The right to free speech does not extend to consequence free speech.
Judging by the vid, Liz T could have been Hermione in Harry Potter. Borisov Absentia Permanens !Nice to see that the NS is trying to scare us. Do we have any PB LT admirers in the military?
How many votes will change because of something La Truss said at a Lib Dem conference at the age approximately 18 and a half?
A lovely afternoon in the garden. Now I need some rain because the patio plants have drunk the water butt.
It is observable both on the left and the right, to the extent that these terms still mean something.
Typically it is the winners of a particular battle trying to entrench their position by silencing their opponents, neutralising the threat they pose.
If you look back at Brexit, the right were pretty bad. Anyone who disagreed with Brexit was a traitor. There were half serious calls to make support for the EU an act of treason.
However, the left are generally more dangerous on this front, because they are driven by the idea that humans can be improved. This is an idea that has done vast amounts of damage in world history and should be rejected.
Personally, I tend to think that it is the conservative party which I trust the most on the issue of freedom of speech, which is why I vote for them, even though they aren't perfect.
If the lib dems went back to being actually liberal and democratic, then I would switch to them, but there is no real sign of that happening.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/were-liverpool-fans-sexually-assaulted-at-the-stade-de-france-/
And Macron has apparently given his full backing to the wanker Darmanin. Soft on Putin, hard on teenage abuse victims. The French government are truly scum.
https://twitter.com/cathynewman/status/1532763050054455296
“If you chuck Boris, you blow the Red Wall apart”
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnsons-allies-warn-tory-rebels-they-risk-brexit-the-red-wall-and-next-election-if-they-oust-him-1668177?ito=twitter_share_article-top
There is also a feeling among the PM’s supporters it would be better to face a leadership vote next week, than after potentially damaging by-election defeats on June 23 or the Privileges Committee Partygate probe in autumn
Women drivers!
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