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9 years ago @ Conservative Home - Iain Dale: The Telegra... · 1 reply · +1 points

Anyone so thin-skinned/modish/PC as to worry about "racism" would be best advised to avoid the typical Conservative Club bar...

9 years ago @ Conservative Home - Iain Dale: The Telegra... · 8 replies · +1 points

I think the other poster means "How do you make this assertion about UKIP & racism with such confidence" - good question. Not that a charge of "racism" (however that is to be interpreted) means much outside student unions, The Guardian and the BBC...
What next: UKIP supporters eat babies/hamsters and have poor personal hygiene?

9 years ago @ Conservative Home - Iain Dale: The Telegra... · 1 reply · +1 points

Yes.

9 years ago @ Conservative Home - Iain Dale: The Telegra... · 5 replies · +1 points

I say, couldn't you girls confine this banter to the Ladies' cloakroom?

9 years ago @ Conservative Home - Iain Dale: The Telegra... · 3 replies · +1 points

"Wet" certainly fits you, though "conceited idiot" is preferable.

9 years ago @ Conservative Home - Iain Dale: The Telegra... · 0 replies · +1 points

No mention of that C4 "abortion of a programme" mockumentary on UKIP should include any comparison with the work of Leni Riefenstahl (nb sp...) who was clearly an apologist for Nazism and known to have been pally with Hitler, but also a brilliant film maker. I share Ian Dale's puzzlement at how C4 got away with showing such a dire, crudely constructed, grossly propagandist effort.

9 years ago @ Conservative Home - You MUST read TheGoodR... · 0 replies · +1 points

Good common sense: "People change to fit the benefits available." The Left will always say benefits evolve to fit those who need benefits, but everyone knows that to some extent it's the other way around: create a hugely complex overarching benefits system, and - shock! horror! - huge numbers of people will come forward to claim benefits, often in bewildering combination.

9 years ago @ Conservative Home - You MUST read TheGoodR... · 0 replies · +1 points

"..a sympathetic view of the state....[etc]...This is much closer to traditional One Nation conservatism than Thatcher’s own."
Indeed, and barely distinguishable ISTM from the LibDems.
"Do Good Right conservatives have more in common with many on the left than with libertarians?”
Yes.

9 years ago @ Conservative Home - You MUST read TheGoodR... · 0 replies · +1 points

Agree too. Freedom would be nice, a Party dedicated to restoring respect for political liberty by reducing the State and maximising individual freedom.

9 years ago @ Conservative Home - Oborne's resignation. ... · 5 replies · +1 points

Really? But I suppose your rather excitable damning of Breitbart is par for the course... Breitbart is one of a number of political sites/blogs I try to visit daily, and it's useful. Today, it has such subheads as, "Green Party: the First Hundred Days - New Blow For Miliband As Senior Labour Figure Says She Will Be Voting UKIP - Syrian Doctors: ISIS Jihadists ‘Demanding Viag*a,’ Lingerie for Wives and Slaves - Saudi Cleric Argues That the Sun Revolves Around Earth - Now They’re Coming For You: Games Press Finally Turns On Developers - Judge Criticises Council that Took Child into Care over Father’s Links with English Defence League...
Not particularly different from a similar list one might cull from – say - the Telegraph site. In fact Breitbart is somewhat more mature I'd say, given that the Telegraph has been moving downmarket and might soon rival the Mail in trashiness & triviality.

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