To be fair, he did pull up Boris on the use of Scottish “Nationalist” Party. It took him long enough though.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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11-02-2021 02:47 PM #3032
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Tory Andrew Bowie being ripped to shreds here by George Monbiot. Tory elites and
https://twitter.com/PhantomPower14/s...67075641167880
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11-02-2021 04:47 PM #3033This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
To George Monbiot...
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11-02-2021 10:16 PM #3034
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"I'm not even going to bother responding to that" = I know I just got ripped up for arse paper.
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12-02-2021 07:58 AM #3035This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Monbiot isn’t even really of ‘the left’ ideologically, he just challenges positions of power.
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12-02-2021 10:12 AM #3036This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
He's given much greater profile to rewilding than it would otherwise have had. Politically he's literally been all over the place as you say. Can't forgive him for advocating voting for the Lib-Dems in 2010, one of a number of factors which opened the door to Cameron as PM and subsequently the Brexit referendum.
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12-02-2021 12:48 PM #3037This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Was he behind the Guardian temporarily switching to support the Lib-Dems?
I remember them doing that at the time and found it a bit strange.
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12-02-2021 12:56 PM #3038This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Not sure he was 'behind' that but he certainly publicly supported voting for the Lib-Dems. Reading the piece he put his name to in the guardian along with others is eye-popping when you consider the actual consequences of putting those charlatans into government. Two paras leap out for me:
"The MPs that assemble in Westminster next month could usher in one of the great reforming parliaments in British history, one to rank in the history books alongside 1831-32, 1865-67 or 1911-1914. The next parliament could see cherished progressive liberal aspirations realised: a proportional electoral system; wider and better-defended civil liberties; a new, internationalist approach to foreign affairs and immigration; reform of the tax system to share wealth and curb carbon emissions; and an assault on the vested interests of the financial sector."
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"The Liberal Democrats are today's change-makers. They have already changed the election; next they could drive fundamental change in our political and economic landscape."
**** me some people shouldn't be allowed anywhere near political judgement.
This is an extraordinary political moment. An election seemingly destined to produce a narrow Conservative victory has been seized by the voters and turned into a democratic contest – a contest not just between parties, but over the shape of our democracy itself.
The MPs that assemble in Westminster next month could usher in one of the great reforming parliaments in British history, one to rank in the history books alongside 1831-32, 1865-67 or 1911-1914. The next parliament could see cherished progressive liberal aspirations realised: a proportional electoral system; wider and better-defended civil liberties; a new, internationalist approach to foreign affairs and immigration; reform of the tax system to share wealth and curb carbon emissions; and an assault on the vested interests of the financial sector.
The question for progressive liberals is what election result now offers the best chance of achieving these goals. Certainly not a Conservative majority. Despite some welcome commitments in areas such as civil liberties and localism, the Tories remain instinctively opposed to the deep democratic reforms the country needs.Advertisement
But a return of a majority Labour government under Gordon Brown would not provide a strong enough guarantee of reform. Labour has a long list of achievements over the last 13 years, of which it can be proud. But Labour has also presided over a ruinous period for civil liberties and has failed to deliver wholesale political reform.
Labour does now promise fixed-term parliaments, an elected House of Lords and a referendum on the alternative vote: too little, too late.
The question is where the energy for the future of progressive politics is to be found. It is a contemporary political fact that the stronger the performance of the Liberal Democrats on 6 May the better the chances of progressive reform.
The Liberal Democrats are today's change-makers. They have already changed the election; next they could drive fundamental change in our political and economic landscape.
Some of us have already pinned our colours to the Liberal Democrat mast. For others, the decision to back the Liberal Democrats in this election is a difficult one. Long-standing party loyalties, even in a less tribal world, are not easily suspended. But May 2010 offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshape politics for the better. It must be seized.
Richard Reeves, John Kampfner, Professor Noreena Hertz, Susie Orbach, Shazia Mirza, Camilla Toulmin, Brian Eno, John le Carré, Henry Porter, Alex Layton, Gordon Roddick, Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Philip Pullman, David Aukin, Nick Harkaway, Lisa Appignanesi, Francis Wheen, Alan Ryan, Raymond Tallis, Julian Baggini, Jeanette Winterson, Rodric Braithwaite, Richard Dawkins, George Monbiot, Ken Macdonald, Philippe Sands, Misha Glenny, Anthony Barnett, Richard Sennett, David Marquand
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12-02-2021 02:27 PM #3039This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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12-02-2021 09:14 PM #3040This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230836597_Lynx_Depredation_on_Domestic_Sheep_in_No rwayThere is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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13-02-2021 09:09 AM #3041
Everytime I read a Martina Hyde piece, I laugh.
We do get the occasional glimpse of the prime minister, who was wheeled out this week for a visit to Derby, where we were given yet another opportunity to see Boris Johnson dressed up in a white coat. I think he’s supposed to appear medical and scientific, but only ever succeeds in looking like he’s got a lovely bit of pork cheek he can do you for £3.50.
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13-02-2021 09:34 AM #3042
A decent insight from a Scottish born Tory on how Scottish Tories see their fellow Scots. It might only be meant as humour but it explains a lot about their self-loathing.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/s...drunk-16214072
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13-02-2021 09:53 AM #3043This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Michael Gove’s **** ‘comedy’ from the 1990s tells us as much about how Scottish Tories see other Scots as a 90s SNP MP suggesting blowing up water pipelines tells us about the SNPs approach to parliamentary democracy - ie none.
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13-02-2021 10:24 AM #3045This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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13-02-2021 10:26 AM #3046This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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13-02-2021 10:37 AM #3047
https://twitter.com/scottories/statu...196366336?s=21
Tories as good as admitting they can’t win in May.
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13-02-2021 12:03 PM #3048This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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13-02-2021 12:05 PM #3049
If Michael Gove is already criticising the state of Brexit, do we take that as a start to his leadership challenge? Blame it on Boris and get in there? "There would have been no downsides to Brexit if I was in charge, vote for me as leader" and we end up back to Brexit being able to be sold as different things to different people?
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Do you think your security can keep you in purity, you will not shake us off above or below. Scottish friction, Scottish fiction
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13-02-2021 12:43 PM #3051This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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"I did not need any persuasion to play for such a great club, the Hibs result is still one of the first I look for"
Sir Matt Busby
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13-02-2021 04:02 PM #3052
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15-02-2021 07:44 PM #3053
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Tories with their hands in the till again. When will it stop? They've squandered Billions.
Dominic Cummings was instrumental in the process of awarding a government contract without tender to a company run by his “friends”, according to court documents that raise questions about whether the Cabinet Office may have misled the public.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...run-by-friends
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15-02-2021 10:44 PM #3054This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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16-02-2021 06:41 PM #3055
Truss picking and choosing which topics are discussed
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16-02-2021 09:17 PM #3056This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-02-2021 07:08 AM #3057
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...struck-eu-deal
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17-02-2021 10:33 AM #3058This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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18-02-2021 02:44 PM #3059
up to date contracts for cronies list
Boris Johnson's Crony Contracts Archives – Byline Times
this shower of crooked corrupt tory bar stewards would have been run out of government in a whole lot of countries
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18-02-2021 02:45 PM #3060This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
it all smells a bit whiffy
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