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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - David Willetts: The Go... · 0 replies · +1 points

You have 375 slices of pizza, and then put one in the bin. How is your box of pizza made any healthier, tastier, or "more responsive to public demand?"

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Fox on his with... · 2 replies · +1 points

This article is entitled "WATCH: Fox on his withdrawal from the contest to head the WTO." What exactly makes you think that the WTO has anything to do with the European Union, beyond the latter's bloc membership of the former (and, perhaps, the prospect of what has been described as a Brexit on "WTO terms")?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Ryan Henson: Overseas ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Your penultimate sentence might have been valid in relation to a domestic recession; however, many other countries - including lockdown-free Sweden - have experienced major falls in their GDP and employment levels.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Ryan Henson: Overseas ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Most countries have some form of overseas development assistance acknowledged in their budget; only a handful of other countries, mainly Nordic, join us in meeting or exceeding the UN-recommended 0.7% figure. Again, I'd like to thank you for forcing me out of my 13-week self-isolation from the ConservativeHome comments section.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Javid's resignation le... · 0 replies · +1 points

I am inclined on this occasion to agree with Stu255 and NorthernTory2 (and - if only as a general, rather than a situational, warning about the overcentralisation of power - AngelaMerkel). Javid is good and so was his last stand, but I suspect that punishing all of his SpADs for what may have seemed like the mistake of one of them a few months ago is disproportionate; Sunak, contrarily, I could tell was going to be a rather spectacular figure as soon as I saw him!

Somewhat off-topic: Johnson's goal of 50% of junior ministerial positions going to women is superficial and unambitious. I have previously called for a gender-equal Cabinet and Parliament on this website.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Long-Bailey pro... · 0 replies · +1 points

From page 64 of Labour's 2015 manifesto: "Labour is committed to replacing the House of Lords with an elected Senate of the Nations and Regions, to represent every part of the United Kingdom, and to improve the democratic legitimacy of the second chamber."

At the time, Labour was led by Ed Miliband, the last person you would expect to "appeal to Momentum." This generally disproves your assumption that supporting an elected Second Chamber only works as a strategy for Labour to attract what many [C]onservatives widely view to be far-left Marxisty sorts.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Long-Bailey pro... · 1 reply · +1 points

The assumptions are made that PR lists will be nationwide rather than allocated to the regions (or the counties, if needs must), and that voters will always vote for the same party for both the Commons and the Lords. The first assumpion is suspect; the second is highly dangerous.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - "Trillion dollar bills... · 0 replies · +1 points

You have 150 slices of pizza, and then put one in the bin. How is your box of pizza made any healthier, tastier, or "more responsive to public demand?"

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - All the Labour leaders... · 0 replies · +1 points

The assumption is that being a late-2010s activist for the Labour Party makes one totally unable to "credibly... condemn anti-Semitism" by virtue of one's former role. If tarring people with a wide brush is unacceptable - and that goes for the Jewish population as well as the MPs of Labour - then why is that not the case for tarring people with the Guinness World Record holder for Widest Brush?

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Iain Mansfield: Time t... · 0 replies · +1 points

+¾. I did at least try to read it (comment #2), but only plucked out what I knew I could... :p

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