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The point that Professor John Curtice made yesterday about the big dividing politics British politics has become between social liberals and social conservatives is very much backed up by the above polling published by YouGov earlier in the year.
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The crossover is significant.
You could just as easily say that people who fought on D Day in 1944 are more likely to be in favour of hanging and the cane in schools. Therefore fighting in World War Two is a bad thing because it makes you part of the hang em and flog 'em brigade. Its a disingenuous argument intended to discredit leave.
From 2015:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32061822
Support for the death penalty in Britain has dropped below 50% for the first time on record, an annual opinion survey says.
The NatCen British Social Attitudes Report found 48% of the 2,878 people it surveyed were in favour of capital punishment.
It is the lowest figure since the survey began in 1983, when around 75% of people were in favour.
I want a yellow one.
Everyone? Really?
Obviously popularity is no guarantee of quality, but they wouldn't keep making so much money if everyone was hugely disappointed after the initial hype (that's why Ep 2 made so much less money than Ep 1). The Sonic cycle may indeed be a thing, but the difference is because there really were plenty of bad ones, they no longer have the profile of, say, Mario games, which have had fewer bad ones.
Speaking personally, the people who get most disappointed by the movies tend to be ultra dedicated fans, since they piss all over the expanded universe books, games and various other stuff.
Nakedly partisan judicial decision.
So I think comparisons between Brexit Britain and Berlusconi Italy are valid. A further point is that as we leave the EU we will no longer have the same level of influence as Germany or France, but Italy of a similar population and size of economy as the UK is probably about right.
It's important to them that you have a blue passport.
That's the important thing.
Take back control
If it were yellow. I might spend less time rummaging for it.
Perhaps losing Scotland and Northern Ireland would be a short cut to that new position that would avoid the slow decline.
I'd only support the death penalty for treason and terrorism, both crimes against the state.
It is this which the government needs to solve to get re-elected, regardless of Brexit.
The portents do not look good.
https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/943573394154491905
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRfH8UPW4AAy5gH.jpg
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/3445
Out of interest I wonder what the top petitions from that government were:
SOPHIES CHOICE. smear test lowered to 16
Stop the badger cull
Convicted London rioters should loose[sic] all benefits
Drop the Health Bill
Reconsider West Coast Mainline franchise decision
(several don't appear to have been updated despite being scheduled for debate)
People seem more active now though. the top 7 from 2015-2017 all have more signatures.
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions?parliament=2
That seems reasonable - without examining the ballot yourself it's difficult to claim it's clearly wrong (which is what you would need for "nakedly partisan")
My parents worked on the London buses at the time. They told me that for some reason London Transport didn't decimalize until three days after the rest of the country, so they had to collect fares in new money but account for them on their waybills in old.
https://twitter.com/dmreporter/status/943151902606413827
'Lost respect for Harry and he is a traitor to his own country. The non German part that is'
For gods sake people let the German thing go already!
Surprised none of the top comments talk about his parentage.
'He should start with giving up his place at the royal trough and go live a life of a leftie politician with his older divorced minx. Who knows maybe France would embrace them since they know how to treat the monarchy and their president is also married to an older woman'
Older divorced minx? She's 3 years old for crying out loud DM reader.
Why would we no longer have the same influence as France and Germany? Indeed both are in the G7 as the UK is and also as Italy is too. The UK is also in the UN Security Council like France but unlike Germany and Italy.
I guess the outcome was that he misled people in his previous categorical denial, if this is the result though.
Anyhow, wasn't he only going to resign if DG was pushed?
https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/943583664486649858
In Italy and Germany it is lower at 1.44 and 1.45 respectively.
With the SNP losing almost half their MPs in June and the DUP still the largest party in NI both Scotland and Northern Ireland's positions in the UK is secure.
Nou Fil
He seems bitter - and (if my reading is correct) - reasonably so in that he has been asked to resign for something very minor