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"Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." - John Stuart Mill
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How have his court cases still not been completed?
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Well there goes any faith I had in this country...
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That's not particularly snap. That's almost five months away.
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The difference being that Trump can afford to do that in a presidential system where his position is unchallengeable. Prime Ministers in a parliamentary system don't have the same luxury.
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"I helped elect a sex offender as president" is not the gotcha that Musk seems to think it is.
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The next Bob Woodward book is going to be amazing
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How long before he starts pushing raw milk for infants?
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Hint: If your version of patriotism involves getting drunk and smashing up the place, then it's probably not patriotism.
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Any party leader that wants to take the UK out of NATO would be fatal for that party's chances.
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That's what the whole article is about. People having a right to object when homophobia is considered normal behaviour.
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To be fair, what happened 50 years ago doesn't mean that people today can't want to do right by them now.
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The only important question that should be asked. How do the Chagossians feel about all of this?
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Congratulations
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The problem with that line of thinking is that we came second only a few years ago. So when we put up a good song we can do well.
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There were 26 contestants, so any one of them could have topped the polls with only 4% support. Hardly a majority.
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Malta were robbed. Denmark were robbed. Even Armenia got robbed. And I'm left feeling like the Principal Skinner meme.
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Just like Dominic Cummings and Lynton Crosby before him, these supposed election geniuses are portrayed as unbeatable right up until they're beaten.
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At least they're honest about how vile they are and don't try to hide it behind false claims of cosmopolitanism.
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Accept doesn't mean support. Of course he has to say he accepts the ruling, to say otherwise would be to an attack on the court system itself.
We can all accept the rule of law as a concept while also working to change the parts of the law we disagree with.
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Are we just making things up now?
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Such a dumb idea. This is going to do nothing to curb immigration and is just punishing people who are already making an attempt to integrate.
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You're free to make that choice but he's still a better option than either the transphobe or hypno-tits.
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It costs upwards of £10,000 just for a British citizen to be able to live with their foreign-born spouse in the UK. Yes, people think the system is unfair, but what you are doing is only going to make it more unfair.
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He's saying the right stuff
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Ed Davey it is then
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That depends on which constituency you live in. But if the choice is between Reform and Labour doing a Reform tribute act, then I still think a non-racist party is the best choice even if it is ultimately a wasted vote.
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The problem Labour has is that there are now two mainstream parties to the left of them, the Lib Dems and Greens, who would give us much of the same but without the racism. So why wouldn't I just vote for them instead?
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I'm not going to vote for him either, but I'm certainly not going to be held hostage into voting for someone who is a poor imitation of him.
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Punctuation please.
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Modern slavery is already illegal and would not be addressed by the changes to workers visas that the government is proposing in their white paper.
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If he is intending to court the votes of racist, that may not make him explicitly racist but it does make him implicitly racist.
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Yes, he was borrowing rhetoric from Enoch Powell.
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Gordon please use punctuation, otherwise I have no way of understanding what you are trying to tell me.
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Yes.
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I never thought I'd live to see the day when Labour became a racist party...
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When their party leader is doing a poor imitation of Enoch Powell, it's hard to see how they're not.