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Originally posted by .TUX.
Oh well A troubling but likely accurate take. I'd always considered that if you have significant resources at your disposal it's very easy to hold massive influence in a first past the post system. Just flash the cash in both directions and you've got it sewn up, US lobbying style. Then ensure the population are endlessly at loggerheads and fragmenting along social issues as a distraction. Equals Profit! $$$$$
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
If the Tories broke up all their voters would go to Farage......So I'd rather suspect you'd very much hope they didn't break up. If the Tories broke up only a proportion of their voters would go to Farage! There are many, like me, who detest the drift to the right and want nothing to do with Farage or his kind. Where their home will be in future is unclear right now. It could be in the LibDems, if they get themselves sorted out. It might have been in Change, but they seem to be uncertain of where they are going themselves. My hope is that all these elements will coalesce around a central imperative, whilst retaining some degree of individual identity and co-operate in any future GE under an "Alliance" banner. They could then become an important partner in a coalition, which I see as the most likely outcome of the next GE. What is for sure is that a substantial number of Tories won't go to Farage if they break up. Most perhaps but never all.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
If the Tories broke up only a proportion of their voters would go to Farage! There are many, like me, who detest the drift to the right and want nothing to do with Farage or his kind. Where their home will be in future is unclear right now. It could be in the LibDems, if they get themselves sorted out. It might have been in Change, but they seem to be uncertain of where they are going themselves. My hope is that all these elements will coalesce around a central imperative, whilst retaining some degree of individual identity and co-operate in any future GE under an "Alliance" banner. They could then become an important partner in a coalition, which I see as the most likely outcome of the next GE. What is for sure is that a substantial number of Tories won't go to Farage if they break up. Most perhaps but never all.
I made the mistake of saying 'all' which is rarely correct when we are referring to humans.
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
I was in Peterborough city centre last month and it was like being in a foreign city. Edited by Stirlingsays (07 Jun 2019 10.17am) It's always been that way to me. I would prefer the familiarity of Polish and Nigerian accents myself.
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Originally posted by Mapletree
It's always been that way to me. I would prefer the familiarity of Polish and Nigerian accents myself.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
If the Tories broke up only a proportion of their voters would go to Farage! There are many, like me, who detest the drift to the right and want nothing to do with Farage or his kind. Where their home will be in future is unclear right now. It could be in the LibDems, if they get themselves sorted out. It might have been in Change, but they seem to be uncertain of where they are going themselves. My hope is that all these elements will coalesce around a central imperative, whilst retaining some degree of individual identity and co-operate in any future GE under an "Alliance" banner. They could then become an important partner in a coalition, which I see as the most likely outcome of the next GE. What is for sure is that a substantial number of Tories won't go to Farage if they break up. Most perhaps but never all. Link? or is it just your opinion?
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
I made the mistake of saying 'all' which is rarely correct when we are referring to humans. Thanks for the honesty.
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Originally posted by Spiderman
Link? or is it just your opinion? Substantial is my opinion. Not all is a fact. What constitutes substantial in this context is another opinion.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
Substantial is my opinion. Not all is a fact. What constitutes substantial in this context is another opinion. That's very honest of you...
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Originally posted by Park Road
That's very honest of you...
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Originally posted by Spiderman
In truth I have not had the opportunity to study the native cambridgean tribes in their natural habitat. The rumours may in fact not be entirely true.
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Originally posted by Mapletree
It's always been that way to me. I would prefer the familiarity of Polish and Nigerian accents myself. Thanks for your agreement in changing our country for ever against the view of the majority and sanity. Not. We would think it was like coy your opinion would never get into power, only did and does, with people like Tony Bliar doing it without telling or asking the country what it thinks. Typical really, because it’s crazy stupidity. Edited by Rudi Hedman (09 Jun 2019 8.09am)
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
Thanks for your agreement in changing our country for ever against the view of the majority and sanity. Not.
He's making a joke at the idea of being unduly unsettled by the sound of foreign accents and languages, rather than saying that he desperately wants to hear them.
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Originally posted by Mapletree
In truth I have not had the opportunity to study the native cambridgean tribes in their natural habitat. The rumours may in fact not be entirely true. I suspect the Iceni are the ones most have heard of.
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Originally posted by Mapletree
In truth I have not had the opportunity to study the native cambridgean tribes in their natural habitat. The rumours may in fact not be entirely true. I expect there are some black birds here and there and occasionally some great tits.
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the odd red breasted type too, but it depends what the weathers been like
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Originally posted by dollardays
He's making a joke at the idea of being unduly unsettled by the sound of foreign accents and languages, rather than saying that he desperately wants to hear them. I think if you were used to his opinions you’d forgive me for thinking he was being serious. He may have been.
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Well that was easy, next please.
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