Thursday 3 July 2014

Back On Sunday Evening

Or Monday afternoon.

Off to a conference. Write-up to follow in due course.
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10 comments:

  1. Anonymous6 July 2014 at 18:47

    Much hilarity on Twittter over Peter Hitchens response when asked on Question Time how the Greens have managed to win a seat.

    "Because it's Brighton".

    As Christopher Snowden Tweeted "Sad but true".

    I don't know anyone on the Right who has ever cared about Brighton-the Greens are welcome to it.

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    1. David Lindsay6 July 2014 at 20:58

      Two Conservative MPs until 1997 (long after, as it were, becoming Brighton), and one again now, if you had bothered to check.

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  2. Anonymous6 July 2014 at 20:32

    A hell of a lot of admiring comments about you after the Blue Labour conference. Beats me why you weren't an official speaker with your intellectual leadership of our movement

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    1. David Lindsay6 July 2014 at 21:00

      Nice try, but we have no shortage of intellectual leadership. As was evident. It always is.

      A write-up will appear tomorrow, when I am less tired. I have had a very busy weekend.

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  3. David Lindsay6 July 2014 at 20:56

    I can never decide whether there will be a referendum on EU membership regardless of who wins the General Election, or there won't be a referendum on EU membership regardless of who wins the General Election.

    It is one or the other. Either way, it has nothing to with who wins the General Election.

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  4. Anonymous6 July 2014 at 22:57

    Peter's line "Because it's Brighton" explains everything about why the Greens have an MP.

    Like San Francisco, its not really a city so much as a kind of mad left-wing experiment gone horribly wrong

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    1. David Lindsay6 July 2014 at 23:00

      Half of which returns a Tory MP, as both halves did until quite recently.

      Do some research.

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  5. Anonymous7 July 2014 at 23:48

    Oh I know it well. My god parents live there ( or rather in the town next door).

    It's the kind of place that recently introduced "gender neutral toilets".

    While people do drugs on the seafront and the bin men call another strike, the Green councillors spend most of the time at fracking protests in Balcombe.

    It really is as loony as Peter says.

    The Greens are more than welcome to it.

    It's their natural home.

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    1. David Lindsay7 July 2014 at 23:50

      It has a Tory MP. It had two until not very long ago to those of us old enough to vote. This kind of anecdotage does not constitute research.

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    2. Anonymous7 July 2014 at 23:55

      He is making up the connection, he just read all that in the Daily Mail. Where doesn't have that kind of open, public drug use these days? Most places didn't four years ago, when he would only have been about 12. But most places do now, after four years of Thatcherism in government without the ghost of Thatcher's father to exercise very occasional restraint.

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