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Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Who is the token leftie this week
16bha
New member
That David Dimbleby makes sense though! Who booked him? (And also a man of Sussex and Amex visitor I understand?)
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CT1
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Couldn't disagree with anything the expert on economics said about the state of the nation.
And the fact the country becomes an extra 18 million pounds in debt every hour is simply disgusting.
And the fact the country becomes an extra 18 million pounds in debt every hour is simply disgusting.
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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He is an interesting character, you'd think he is terribly right wing but actually he is terribly liberal.
Past press spokesman for the Liberal Democrats and Campaign Director for Liberty. That lefty campaigning grouping who leader used to be a member of the SDP. We're not used to this ultra liberalism is in this country because they never win anything. Personally they scare me more than the Tories.
Interesting
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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Again a slightly more complex character than the press would let you believe. Opposed identity cards and thought section 28 a nonsense.
Sorry perhaps missing something but why do those two things make him complex?
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
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Can't stand the bloke but respect him for having an independent mind. Quite unusual for an MP. I disagree with most he says but I believe them to be the views of Michael Gove and not his party.
I also have sympathy for his views on the natural curriculum but from quite a different perspective. I got taught quite rubbish history about this country at school, but that was very very much under Thatcher.
I did one year of a degree before moving to another where I was taught proper history, Kings and Queens etc.. However it was part of a cultural studies course about as lefty as you get. So they you go, the Thatcherites failed to teach me history but the Marxist Lecturers did a very very good job. Give would have loved it.
There is another reason I went through school thinking Science and Maths weren't particularly for me and wasn't encouraged to change that opinion. I'm not stupid so ended up with a degree in Media Production and Business Studies from Manchester University, not to sniffed at I suppose but to be honest an absolute breeze.
Stupid thing was I always mucked about with computers from a very early age and in retrospect always had an aptitude but no one at school MADE we study it. This gnawed away at me for years until finally I bit the bullet in my late thirties and went back part time to University after work. I now have a Masters in Computer Science from London University.
I could have done that years ago. I've met so many people who have done the humanities route who are frighteningly technical. Not down playing the artistic thing, but there are far more many scientists, engineers and doctors out there who never were. Simply because they weren't pushed or were able easily to avoid those sort of subjects.
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Albumen
Don't wait for me!
I could quite happily shoot Gove in the face. If it was legal.
Though being a moderate tory myself, I've never really bothered with him before but I thought he came over as a reasonable orator tonight, something that leftie didn't.
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I under took a post school, College a level ECONOMICS course under the control of an ultra Leftie.
Every thing that i was taught is now redundant in modern times but the sentiments are as strong as ever.
The RICH get rich and the POOR get poorer.
45 years on and nothing changes
Every thing that i was taught is now redundant in modern times but the sentiments are as strong as ever.
The RICH get rich and the POOR get poorer.
45 years on and nothing changes
Sergei's Celebration
Well-known member
You'd have to wrestle the gun out of my hand as i am executing that manifesto splurting Labour lightweight. Shadow AG? A joke shirley.
Seagull on the wing
New member
So the left is for the poor....did'nt hear multi-millionaire Blair say that......
Join the queue. I think Gove is one of the most dangerous and woefully out of touch politicians there currently is.
And your point is?
