Bridget Phillipson needs to channel her inner David Cameron – politicalbetting.com
Bridget Phillipson needs to channel her inner David Cameron – politicalbetting.com
We’ve been here before, a leadership election with a clear favourite going into conference season then we had the speech of a lifetime which upended the leadership contest, I am of course referring to the 2005 Tory leadership election where David Cameron went from rank outsider to the longest serving Tory leader this millennium.
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But what other kind of person would be appropriate for dealing with the gang of thieves, liars and twats in power in Washington?
It casually mentions half way through that he was a student Trotskyist, like it’s no problem, because of course political violence of the extreme LEFT is just fine
The double standards are so howlingly blatant I can only presume the Guardian doesn’t even see them
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/16/basic-decency-british-people-hope-not-hate-nick-lowles-how-to-defeat-far-right
https://x.com/agpambondi/status/1967913066554630181
Charlie says there’s no such thing as hate speech.
(Note to Mr Eagles, that’s how one does a subtle and topical ‘90s pop music reference).
Does it matter? Who knows. I don't think it was the only thing Cameron had going for him.
It acknowledges it, but does it condone ?
.. “When I first got involved in anti-fascism – this was late 80s – it was all about the street. I’m not saying it was right, but that’s how it was. You didn’t have cameras.” So, wait, he doesn’t mean handing out leaflets in the street? “No, you would have groups of Nazis and groups of anti-fascists, and they would battle it out, down sidestreets, and sometimes it got quite violent. I mean, look at me, I’m not built for that. I never got involved in that. But that was the world it was.”..
Posters of Thatcher and Tebbit weren’t going to get the girls and emoting at a disco about the benefits of fiscal dryness lose out to the guy who wants to throw Molotov cocktails at “the man” regardless of the fact that the man who employs “the man” is our wannabe revolutionary’s father.
Some can; some can't.
People who can talk fluently for half an hour at a time can be reduced to embarrassed muttering.
Cameron's enormous (and not entirely justified) self confidence stood him in good stead. Ditto Boris.
But it's hardly a quality which on its own separates a good PM from a duff one.
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OUST STARMER!
And vote Bridget ?
And vote Powell.
https://youtu.be/8zHURhs0DbM?si=meYGwwUJpkhmkVDh
Give it to Lucy
It's not magic- it just needs you to accept the feedback you get from doing it lots.
The first removal flights to France under the government’s returns deal have been delayed"
https://www.thetimes.com
When and where? Without looking it up.
I watched Taylor Swift's Eras tour film recently and I was utterly in awe of her ability to perform for 3.5 hours and apparently never forget a word, sing a bum note (ok, she was very slightly flat a couple of times) or miss a dance step. I don't really understand how anyone could have performed that concert, let alone in front of tens of thousands of people. This is before we even consider the physical stamina involved. It's mind blowing.
It was originally to be closed for a few days because of airspace incursions and military exercises in the area.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1967898925295194386
Good good, the more economic sanctions of those helping Russia, the better.
Well timed for Mr Trump’s visit to Europe as well.
It’s fuxking ludicrous. This guy is held up an an exemplary opponent of right wing political violence yet it turns out he was a revolutionary activist in his youth, desiring to end parliamentary democracy, and she doesn’t even note that this is somewhat jarring
* Top Tip. If you are the applicant and think it is safe, then you can opt not to speak, and the objectors can't either. It really annoys them !!!
I wouldn't critise her if it prevented her being with Trump tomorrow
It’s nearly identical to the knife my good friend the murderer-turner-shepherd Jonata XXXXX used to cut me a tranche of kidgoat-stomach-sac-cheese yesterday, after using it to slice me a piece of maggot cheese the day before
See a fascinating eco system, and compete to restore it to closer to its original state. What's not to like?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dqe9ey0kgo
"Acting legend Robert Redford dies aged 89"
See a fascinating eco system, and compete to restore it to closer to its original state. What's not to like?
Imagine the uproar if anyone tried that with grey squirrels in the UK. The reaction was bad enough with the recently introduced hedgehogs in the Long Island, and those were blatantly destroying the ground-nesting seabirds.
I once used a teleprompter and it was a bigger disaster than the Liz Truss premiership, I kept on looking at that and completely losing my focus.
Had I become an MP my first speech to Parliament would have begun like this
'Hello, my name is Mr Eagles, and I'm an alcoholic, oh wait, wrong speech.'
Communism is *much* more acceptable, despite its blood-drenched history.
They were both terrible ideologies.
Even the whole lot of them still run Spiked, which was key to the whole establishment of a Brexit constituency.
Once I finished the stats I told them this was important if they didn't follow the rules I was implementing from next week their fate mind up like the Natwest Three who were extradited under Blair's one sided extradition treaty.
Fascism says it wants to spill blood. Communism says it doesn't want to spill blood... but has often ended up there. That's the difference. I share your criticisms of communism and I think those who support communism should be strongly pressed on what they think was happening in the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Albania etc., but they're not actively calling for violence in quite the same way as fascists.
Fucking disgrace that Boris Johnson put that IRA apologist in the Lords.
Because Communism is shite.
No, it doesn't change what anyone thinks of Johnson now. Imagine if all this had come out at the time, however! People thought the Sue Gray report was it, but there was all this other stuff going on.
To be clear, I'm not saying we shouldn't allow such views to be expressed. But I think we should be much less relaxed about actually inviting people who align themselves with explicitly anti-democratic ideologies - ideologies who are explicit about the desirability of overthrowing the liberal democratic model - into government. I'd have thought anyone who viewed overthrowing liberal democracy as desirable would be a poor source for advice for a government which did not share that aim.
Small bets but still satisfying.
Communism wants control. It will spill blood to get that control. Often, the control it wants is outside its borders.
At last years's election, the Commies didn't too great in fact:
The CPI won 2 seats across India in 2024
The CPI-M won 4 seats across India in 2024
There's also a Communist Party of India - Marxist-Leninist (Liberation), who also won 2 seats.
Can I just clarify what your point is here? Do you think the government should vet everyone who advises them for undesirable political beliefs? What happened to free speech?
So many people missed the death of loved ones/the funerals of them due to those lockdown regulations, my father’s ex colleagues weren’t even allowed to have Christmas lunch together at the hospital for those reasons.
People don’t forget that.
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