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Tory bosses urged to change leadership rules so Boris Johnson will have a better chance of being next PM https://t.co/NJvTscWK9n
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Actually a different link provided but somebody mentioned it in reference to cannabis which I thought was a bit strange as the original link didn't mention cannabis. This one does, but unsurprisingly it turns out it wasn't the cause of this incident but not taking his medication was.
It is unsurprising that cannabis wasn't the cause of this as we don't actually have evidence of cannabis causing mental illness, we do have a correlation and a link with smoking using foil for example and a correlation with people with mental illnesses and cannabis use. This follows a similar pattern with smoking though. You could argue similarly with alcohol but alcohol does actually cause mental illness whereas we do not have evidence of that being the case with marijuana.
Our modern version of 'reefer madness' with the newspapers carrying headlines about 'super skunk' is very exciting but just as much based on facts as the reefer madness propaganda was. Look to actual scientists, say government drug advisors that get fired and people like that. Not journalists who want headlines to sell papers or people who can't tell the difference between 'spice' 'legal highs' and marijuana. You may as well be talking about crack cocaine and fizzy drinks for the difference to health (mental and physical) between them.
Skunk with higher THC levels is simply stronger marijuana, you wouldn't drink a pint of wine like you would a pint of beer but that doesn't make wine some brand new drug in a completely different class from beer, wine is just a slightly different stronger alcohol.
This is why I do still want marijuana legalised because people incorrectly blaming marijuana for some guy with mental health issues and with all the baggage that holds society and individuals (more often minorities) back because of that is stupid. The only way we are going to move forward is with evidence based policy making not one that pleases right wing newspapers who like scary headlines or people who don't even understand what they are talking about.
Sir, – I’d like to add my voice to that of JH Martin (May 16th) regarding the woeful queues at Dublin Airport immigration. But what makes this baffling is that UK visitors have to go through this rigmarole, the same as visitors from anywhere else in the world, despite our much-vaunted and supposedly valued Common Travel Area. Yet when I travel back to the UK, the authorities there keep their side of the bargain. I never have to pass through immigration and am treated much as an internal UK traveller.
How can we mope and moan about Brexit barriers being introduced when we haven’t made an effort to take advantage of existing agreements to make life easier for trade and travel between Ireland and the UK? – Yours, etc,
DAVID CLARKE,
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/passport-control-1.3097967?mode=amp
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1033576502959456256?s=20
What it does not it do is alone send someone into a mad violent rage (as in the link). The idea that we should criminalise vast numbers of people and waste inordinate resources for a threat that is less than the problem we cause from the illegality of it is nonsense though. This is where the gammon element of the papers and clueless people moralising cames in.
If we really wanted to help we could work on discovering those who are prone to psychosis and provide support to them, those who think simply stopping them getting marijuana will help them are kidding themselves. We could even devote some of the resources saved or earned through taxation to mental health and this very area. It won't go down well with the gammon element though.
Also the super skunk thing is nonsense. People with the trigger can still be triggered by lower levels of THC weed, it is like getting drunk, beer will still do the job.
Since that makes an independent trade policy impossible, it will breach May's latest set of red lines and lead to the resignation of the rest of the Leavers. That is before we even get to her sellout on free movement that will follow.
But May will do it anyway, because she is a traitorous Remainer whose only interest is in siding with the establishment and invalidating the referendum result. Luckily, she will be forced from office and replaced with a Leaver. I find I am supporting Boris not because he is any good, but because it will be funny to see the collective meltdown from the PB great and good who somehow think that the Tories are going to elect another Remainer to replace May.
Meanwhile, in the world of action, the world you choose to ignore, far right terrorism is on the rise and the Conservative party, the party of government, is slowly being taken over by mad conspiracy theorists.
Most importantly, the country is heading for a Brexit settlement that will command no legitimacy from anyone because the xenophobic lies that Leave told cannot be honoured in any settlement that does not attack the country economically. The spiral of social decline is about to ratchet down another notch.
Further, the flaw in the revised approach is that it would directly and overtly reveal that a new leader didn't have the support of their parliamentary colleagues, setting him or her up in a Corbyn position from the outset. Tory MPs may be stupid in lots of ways but they will be able to see that this would put them in an impossible position.
And from a distance it is more fun to advocate risky experimentation, for others.
Mr. Eagles, to be fair, it is a refreshingly open and honest approach to wanting to gerrymander an electoral system to your advantage. The strength of the Conservative system is that it prevents someone unacceptable to MPs becoming their leader. Seeking to abolish that in favour of some sort of Corbynite idiocy is drunken madness.
Mr Eagles.
'Appals' has only one L (unless you are secretly an American).
Good pun on the safe X though.
Edit - I find she was in fact 16.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-creepiest-most-unsettling-comments-a-roundup-a7353876.html
Not sure that gets rid of the problem...
I don't think Tory members (edit - except possibly HYUFD) have been quite so ready to forget their error over IDS as Labour have over Corbyn. They wouldn't make him PM, but they might make him LOTO.
Incidentally following on from the discussion on the last thread, Asquith was considered Leader of the Opposition from 1918 to 1920 even though he wasn't in the Commons and didn't lead the second-largest group. Donald Maclean acted as Leader of the Opposition on his behalf.
That you ascribe your own warped notions to how I came to my decision in the ballot box clearly demonstrates that you appreciate fuck all.
Jenkins' comments are just silly, ignoring the purpose of both main parties' leadership processes and presuming betrayal which makes underlines the weakness of her point since she assumes defeat so is complaining about the rules in advance.
https://youtu.be/asas49ZLa98
If Jenkins thinks the Mps will not permit Boris, or some suitable candidate representing necessary strands of opinion in the party, through to the final two then the problem is the mps, not the rules, and changing the rules wouldn't fix that .
"If a population prefers to be xenophobic, should their democratic preference be denied? On what authority? "
That's not what is being suggested. They're suggesting democracy should be denied to those whom self-selected people consider xenophobic. Best just to ignore.
Maybe I should ask Corbyn for some lessons. After all, I've lived in Britain all my life so I don't quite get this sense of humour apparently.
Like another Doctor, my name is unpronounceable in English.
Edit - or at least, so I was told when I last went to see the medic.
Purdah, and the wording of the referendum question, certainly aided the Leave campaign compared to where it would have otherwise been - even further behind - but it's hard to argue that those were unfair or bias advantages.
Hard to face up?
Mr. Doethur, do you prefer to be known as Dr. Doethur?
You can of course refer to me as Y Doethur if you like.
Unemployment is at a 45 year low, inequality is at a 30-year low, the public spending figures last week were very, very good, wages are now rising faster than inflation, the economy is growing, and we've had a fantastic Summer.
Basically, the downsides are there's a lot of political drama on both sides of the channel, some are embarrassed by it, and more are worried by what the lurid headlines might mean. But, once it all settles down, and a deal is done, most people will breath a sigh of relief, and carry on with their lives. And be loathe to touch the subject again.
True, there will be a minority of very angry people (on both sides) who are determined to uproot the settlement in pursuit of absolute victory, and that could very well go on for generations, as it did in Elizabethean and Stuart England over religion, but, just as then, there will be diminishing interest for it over time.
http://enormo-haddock.blogspot.com/2018/08/belgium-pre-race-2018.html
Ok, Y Doethur.
The contrast with Labour supporters wrestling with what they do in the face of anti-Semitism couldn’t be starker.
It's own behaviour - its tin-eared, dogmatic (and even arrogant) pursuit of this - led to my vote. Nothing else.
The Meeks defeat huff (psychosis) is entering Ted Heath territory.
I hear a lot about "xenophobia", sometimes with a few tenuous anecdotes, but precious little evidence for it.
And did you agree with all the Remain campaigns and campaigners? What of the falsehood that Clegg told about the EU Army, which has come to pass? Or the punishment Budget and collapse of Western Civilisation?
The referendum was about remaining in the EU or leaving it. I voted on that basis, as did almost everyone. I didn't vote based on which campaign had the politicians I thought would be nicest at a dinner party, or who knew their way around London art galleries. The only things the campaigns persuaded me of was that both were utterly dreadful.
Claiming everyone who voted to leave is a xenophobe is as inaccurate and unhelpful as claiming everyone who voted to remain is a traitor.
In a democracy, people get to have opinions which aren't yours without automatically becoming evil.
Point is, they lost. They lost the argument, they lost the vote, they lost their blue blanket. And that can only be because their opponents were ALL SO HORRID.
1. Brexit was the English revolution. Fed up with their lot being shit AND being told how marvellous things are England decided to vote for the other option on offer.
2. Things being as shit as they are the alternative can't be any worse (yes, I know it can and will be the way it's going) so get on with it already
3. The things that are shit are economic. Shit jobs, shit wages, shit conditions, shit towns. The fault lies with everyone who isn't them whether that be the elite, bankers, the EU Commissioners, foreign types or whoever - its not so much racism as desperation
4. Political hacks aren't stupid (yes, I know we are really). They can see the mood shifting towards "everything is shit". Labour activists have thought things are shit for their people for years so voted loony. Tory activists have thought things could be better if it was a little more shit for other people so want to vote loony.
Once you get the electorate agitated things tend to happen. The punters want change and they won't stop until they are satisfied (which will be never unless things significantly change) hence the cross political unholy alliance of Shire Tories and ShitTown Labour all agitating for the same thing. As long as Labour voters keep shouting about how shit things are Jeremy will be leader. As long as Tory voters keep shouting how shit things will get without FREEDOM Boris will be leader apparent.
Just get on with it Tories. Brexit screws you anyway, may as well get Boris over with now.
What I wasn't prepared to do, is to publicly denounce the Leave campaign only a few weeks out from the biggest vote in my lifetime, when it was already subject to infighting between various factions, yet alone vote Remain as a consequence.
I suspect that probably makes me as guilty-as-hell in your eyes, but I have no regrets about what I did: I sleep well at night, I can look myself in the mirror, and I'm fully comfortable I acted with integrity. At the end of the day, that's all that matters to me.
No one is evil as such: I subscribe firmly to the Christian idea of hating the sin not the sinner. But that also requires a recognition of the sin and acting accordingly. That process has not begun.
It's pure hyberbole, and well you know it. The rest of your post just reads like a late night A C Grayling rant.
Sorry.
So far, they've made precisely zero effort to understand this, or even begin to admit that there's something they have a duty to try and understand, preferring instead to blame British tabloids, and the right wing of the Conservative Party, or something.
"It's not me, it's you."
You are now verging on virtue-signalling. I've voted for three different parties at General Elections (Labour, LD, and UKIP) and each has had its share of obnoxious candidates. None has been perfect. As always, I vote for the least worst. It doesn't mean I support every scintilla of their manifesto or advertising.
I believe that everyone is a little xenophobic - including them furriners. Every religious person is a sinner, but that doesn't make very atheist a saint.