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UPtimist · 04-28-2010, 07:42 AM

Did you make that remark about Thatcher?

I forget what it was you (or whomever made said remark) said but I hope you didn't seriously say that Thatcher would be a good candidate... (like, if she were to make some sort of time-warp comeback)

Squinky · 04-28-2010, 10:09 AM

Jatsie · 04-28-2010, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by UPtimist

Did you make that remark about Thatcher?

I forget what it was you (or whomever made said remark) said but I hope you didn't seriously say that Thatcher would be a good candidate... (like, if she were to make some sort of time-warp comeback)

It was probably me, as that's a view that I hold.

Let me quote from the 1979 Conservative Party manifesto, as I find the content still applicable today:

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Foreword:

FOR ME, THE HEART OF POLITICS is not political theory, it is people and how they want to live their lives.

No one who has lived in this country during the last five years can fail to be aware of how the balance of our society has been increasingly tilted in favour of the State at the expense of individual freedom.

This election may be the last chance we have to reverse that process, to restore the balance of power in favour of the people. It is therefore the most crucial election since the war.

Together with the threat to freedom there has been a feeling of helplessness, that we are a once great nation that has somehow fallen behind and that it is too late now to turn things round.

I don't accept that. I believe we not only can, we must. This manifesto points the way.

It contains no magic formula or lavish promises. It is not a recipe for an easy or a perfect life. But it sets out a broad framework for the recovery of our country, based not on dogma, but On reason, on common sense, above all on the liberty of the people under the law.

The things we have in common as a nation far outnumber those that set us apart.

It is in that spirit that I commend to you this manifesto.

Margaret Thatcher

RLacey · 04-28-2010, 10:38 AM

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Giligan · 04-28-2010, 11:51 AM

Oh dear god. Conservatism?

RLacey · 04-28-2010, 01:26 PM

It amuses me how thinking that Thatcher did some good things is still a kiss of death in social circles.

Jatsie · 04-28-2010, 01:57 PM

Only if your social circle consists of communists, I associate with the elite!

Giligan · 04-28-2010, 02:14 PM

Liberals will rule the world.

Squinky · 04-28-2010, 03:23 PM

Brown people will rule the world.

Jatsie · 04-28-2010, 03:44 PM

Silly Squinky, people aren't brown.

Squinky · 04-28-2010, 03:47 PM

Yeah, you keep telling yourselves that...

rlpw · 04-28-2010, 06:49 PM

Everyone has a little brown in them. Hmmmm, that could be misconstrued.
And then there is all this political profiling going on here. Next thing you know someone will be saying Rational Economics is good for America.

Giligan · 04-28-2010, 07:55 PM

You know what's good for America? Creme-filled donuts.

Squinky · 04-28-2010, 10:28 PM

The baby-flavoured ones are my favourite.

RLacey · 04-29-2010, 05:21 AM

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Squinky · 04-29-2010, 08:20 AM

If you have nothing nice to say, write some filler.

RLacey · 04-29-2010, 11:37 AM

some filler

*stepurhan* · 04-29-2010, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Jatsie

I keep getting harassed by the Liberal Democrats. So far I've been sent two letters from Nick Clegg, and one from their candidate in my region. Where are they getting my details from? I'm a card carrying member of the Conservative Party!

LibDems

Bizarrely Mrs Urhan is getting the Lib Dem stuff while I keep getting "personal messages" from Davey Cameron.

The reverse of our normal affiliations.

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Originally Posted by Jatsie

Only if your social circle consists of communists, I associate with the elite!

The Elite! That's us all right.

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Originally Posted by Squinky

Brown people will rule the world.

I am very much in favour of this sentence for slightly obscure reasons.

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Originally Posted by RLacey

some filler

I think this line's mostly filler.

RLacey · 04-29-2010, 12:50 PM

I refuse to acknowledge the contents of that last link, Step.

Squinky · 04-29-2010, 01:17 PM

Whateversie.

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04-28-2010, 01:26 PM	#42406
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04-28-2010, 06:49 PM	#42412
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04-28-2010, 07:55 PM	#42413
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04-29-2010, 11:37 AM	#42417
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04-29-2010, 12:50 PM	#42419
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