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Neville Chamberlain had been an extremely good health minister.
Chamberlain may have been out of his depth in 1937 - 1940, but then most UK politicians were.
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Wouldn't that undermine and devalue the achievements of those in that group who have made the top grades on their own merit? How would future employers know who's grades had been inflated and who's hadn't? Why does deprived always have to mean black?
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Codswallop
Parliament recognised in the long title of the City of London Police Act 1839 that the City of London's existing policing arrangements were efficient. (Therefore no need of newfangled Met Police.)
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In Finnish Molopää = dickhead, so I've campaigned to call this the Molopää-Ribbentrump deal.
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And all of this while the war is still ongoing and far from lost.
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Neither tower is in the City of London. Tower Bridge links LB Tower Hamlets in the north to LB Southwark in the south.
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Not 1939, but snippets from Churchill's speech in the House of Commons on 5 October 1938 regarding the Munich Agreement.