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Unread 07-14-2016, 11:08 AM
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If you do actually report the news (as if that ever happens), you have a liberal bias.
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Unread 07-14-2016, 11:18 AM
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So, Stephen Crabb, good clean-living family-values Christian who voted against gay marriage has resigned from the Work and Pensions post in cabinet after a sexting scandal.

He's being replaced by Damian Green. I had a quick google. There seems to have been some questions about Green's need for a second tax-payer funded home that's 5 minutes closer to Parliament than his main residence. Still, whats £80,000 over four years between friends? And I'm sure it was with a clear conscience that he voted to cut £30 a week from the benefits of the disabled and chronically ill, who I'm sure will be welcoming his appointment to this role.

[All links from right wing press, so everyone can read them]

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Unread 07-14-2016, 12:59 PM
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You re right, Matt. Green is a worm.
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Unread 07-14-2016, 06:34 PM
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An interesting video juxtaposing Theresa May's speech with her voting record. It's selective, I'm sure, and we can't know exactly why she voted in each case, but still makes for interesting viewing.
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Interesting indeed, Matt. Pity it's the Independent a noted supporter of the IN camp, still at it.

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Sounds like an awesome cast she is assembling. Andrea Leadsome as the Environment Secretary.
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I take it you know nothing about fox hunting Andrew. Actually foxes are hunted everywhere. Blair's legslation was all fur coat and no knickers, as with nearly everything the war criminal did.

Her climate change stance is OK by me. I have no desire for our country to squander billions in that direction.

Don't much care for the stuff about forests, I must admit.

So one out of three.

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Unread 07-16-2016, 12:35 AM
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Oh good, John, that's the kind of thoughtful comments we expect of you. Silly, indeed, to waste money on climate change - our generation will be dead before the worst of it happens. Far better to focus on real problems, like the threat to fox hunting. Tally Ho, John, and be sure to remind your daughters to build on high ground, or learn to breathe underwater.
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What ARE you talking about, Michael? You squander your dollars if you like. Our house is on the highest ground in Canterbury, since you ask. Building windmills is another of those things the rich do, using the poor's money to do it. When we've got all that lovely coal?

When we make our country less welcoming to industry, do you know what happens? The Indians and the Chinese take over. They don't give sweet fanny adams for climate change. Does the planet benefit? Not one teeny bit. But rich guys with lefty politics feel good. So that's all right.
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Don't worry, Michael. All this is chaff. I still love yer. But don't you love our new PM! And all you've got is Hillary!
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