Your view is diametrically opposite to mine which is reassuring as you're almost always wrong.
There are Trillions of pounds at stake for the globalist club. With Trump sticking a spanner in the works across the pond, probably for nearly 5 more years, Britain, along with the city of London is the next port in the storm.
Moving parliament to a purpose-built, securable, modern site somewhere North of the Watford Gap (Derby, say) would solve a huge number of problems. Second homes for MPs? We've built them all on site. They're owned by the country. You get to use one whilst you're an MP, the same way the PM gets Downing Street and Chequers. Not enough seats? Offices to small? Totally insecurable according to those talked with doing so? WiFi useless? Purpose-built site solves all of these. You can still do the grand events (State Opening of Parliament and perhaps the budget) in the houses of parliament. The rest of the time they get to be a money generating tourist attraction (rather than a costly millstone) as does Downing Street. Sure you'd have to move a load of Civil Servants and their departments but that would allow you to pay off/get rid of plenty of them.
I'd love to see it done. Somebody tell Cummings...
It's the difference between knowledge and faith.
Mrs Smith has 4 children. That's knowledge.
Mr Smith has 4 children. That's faith.
A hospital in East London has to stop routinely doing DNA tests on Mother, supposed father and baby as around 30% of supposed fathers turned out not to be.
Statistically it's said that you have to knock 800 doors to change one vote. This may be true but it's not the point. The point is to identify party voters and to ensure that they are able to vote on the day by contacting them if they haven't turned up by (say) 4pm, offering them lifts to the polling station, reminding them that the election is today etc... The whole point is GOTV - Get Out The Vote.
TLDR: It's written by David Gauke, you didn't miss anything.
P.S. David, we're all looking forward to your loss on Thursday.
The problem is the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. We read one article on which we are an expert and conclude that the journalist is full of bull.... But then we turn the page and read an article which agrees with our world-view and take it at full face value without subducting it to scrutiny, forgetting the article full of bull that we've only just read.
Sir John apparently thinks that Conservative core values are "…to find compromise, seek allies, and strive for unity, rather than division and disarray". I have to say that they aren't the first core values I'd have come up with. In fact, I don't think they'd have made my list of core Conservative values at all, nor, I suspect would they make any true Conservative's list.
Given the choice between John putting up or shutting up, the latter would be preferable. You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.
A great article. It's hard to understand why the nuclear family has been attacked so hard and in such a sustained fashion in my lifetime by successive governments. Making the full tax allowance transferable between spouses (or civil partners) would go a long way to restoring some balance.
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