#Westminster

Starting a new thread - for reference I am reading through the Pogrund/Maguire book and giving thoughts and paraphrases of interesting bits. So far it is fairly even-handed and I
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1. “Stretching back to 1968”…? (a) The Equal pay act was updated because the EEC defended our right to equal pay.(b) That right was bestowed on us by the EEC
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#OTD 1945. Landslide. Attlee becomes first PM to lead a majority Labour Government. After winning a 146 seat majority, he says "It will give heart to all those all the
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When I see this sort of thing I always wonder: how can they go further?The logical next step is shaming women who _don't_ do sex work. "Do you think you're
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A thread. Is @NicolaSturgeon as shiny and clean on COVID-19 as she's now trying to make out? From her tone of disdain towards @BorisJohnson and his new slogan you'd be
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good morninghappy Sunday! Today on #Insiders are Jennifer Hewitt (AFR national affairs), Lanai Scarr (Westralian political chief) and Pat Karvelas (ABC radio and TV). The interview is with Nats deputy
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.@POTUS Message in the Westminster Abbey guestbook“Thank you so much. This has been a great honor. Special place.”Notice: "Special Place"GS=George SorosWe have a Special Place picked out for GS Really
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#TheWeekInTory returns, and I’m very sorry, but it’s a monster. The little scamps have achieved quite a lot in the - yep - FIVE DAYS - since the last one.Let’s
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#NotForSale #NHSNotforSale NO to #TrumpTradeDealLook who else was involved in these discussions.DANIEL HANNAN ! The Brexit reptile.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/6030060/Senior-Tories-links-with-Republican-NHS-bashers-revealed.ht
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What, and I ask this sincerely, the fuckhttps://twitter.com/Zone1Bracket/status/1246712932496539648 Lambeth, okay, I can cope with. It's not a borough I have huge love for but there are good bits. It's fine.But
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#NotForSale #NHSNotforSale NO to #TrumpTradeDealIn the 1990's this man below, Liam Fox was sacked by the Conservative PartyAt the time he was sacked he ran a think tank called #AtlanticBridge.The
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For your #fragmentfriday (tho’ I‘m vaguely aware it’s Sunday): a long vertical scroll (rotulus) from the #cairogeniza with an equally long social history. A winding thread: I’ll tell the story
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NEW POST: The RCP’s long march from anti-imperialist outsiders to the gates of Downing Street http://brockley.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-rcps-long-march-from-anti.html A few more that I didn’t go into detail about in my RCP/Spiked blogspo
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1./ How out of touch is our political class? A thread about a bullying politician and the trendy but dangerous delusion he promotes that means big burly guys get to
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A most disturbing political development of the last few years has been the convergence of elements of the Far Left and Far Right. From #GeorgeGalloway to #ChrisWilliamson to #NigelFarage to
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Okay, if everyone is ready (do pour yourself a martini for this one) we are going to be discussing the murder of Josslyn Hay, the 22nd Earl or Erroll. No
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