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Alistair20000

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There’s nothing about recognising the self-ID fantasy that is common sense or based on objective facts., as the SNP discovered. Rumours also that Sir Kieth is about to distance himself from his earlier pronouncements on self-ID.
I sense Sir Keith trying to tiptoe quietly away from this preposterous subject but he will be reminded of it of course.
 

Mr Jinx

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Well done Seb Coe i say. (y)
It wasn't really him who did the hard yards though. Well done the likes of Sharron Davies and JK Rowling applying the constant pressure.
 

DB9

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It wasn't really him who did the hard yards though. Well done the likes of Sharron Davies and JK Rowling applying the constant pressure.
Of course, But he's head of the IOC so you have to say well done to make it official IOC policy
 

lamrobhero

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I conclude that a number of exewebers do not see themselves as self-defining. Ah well it's your loss.
 

tavyred

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I sense Sir Keith trying to tiptoe quietly away from this preposterous subject but he will be reminded of it of course.
Not least from his own MP’s and party members. 🤷‍♂️
 

angelic upstart

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Just out of interest to the labour voting contingent on here - are we yet at the stage when you admit there's barely any difference in policy between the two parties and therefore it's largely pointless voting labour so people will just end up sticking with what they know?
 

Alistair20000

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Just out of interest to the labour voting contingent on here - are we yet at the stage when you admit there's barely any difference in policy between the two parties and therefore it's largely pointless voting labour so people will just end up sticking with what they know?
We actually have the most socialist Tory government ever but I think it would be better to have the real thing. It will be useless but we deserve it and maybe the Conservative party will sort itself out as it did when Heath was kicked into touch in 1975.

Tax hikes that even Corbyn did not suggest.

Wasteful public spending.

Services that don't work.

No attempt to get rid of useless regulations that deliver no value.

Feckin' dire
 

Mr Jinx

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Just out of interest to the labour voting contingent on here - are we yet at the stage when you admit there's barely any difference in policy between the two parties and therefore it's largely pointless voting labour so people will just end up sticking with what they know?
But isn't that roughly how things ended up in 97 ie little between the two parties? People just ended up voting Labour just because they weren't the Tories.
 

Mr Jinx

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I sense Sir Keith trying to tiptoe quietly away from this preposterous subject but he will be reminded of it of course.
Another just-don't-mention-it-on-the-doorsteps moment perhaps? 2024's second referendum.
 

Alistair20000

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But isn't that roughly how things ended up in 97 ie little between the two parties? People just ended up voting Labour just because they weren't the Tories.
Not forgetting the Reverend Blair coming across with some charisma after the grey years of Mr Major and a good economic inheritance which Labour promised to maintain by adopting Tory economic policies for 2 years. Prudence was the lassie.

Some decent sound bites too, although that was all they were as it turned out. “Tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime”
 
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