Soubry’s opining about “tribalism” is disingenuous too but appeals to precisely the right media demographic. Of course politics is tribal, it involves the battle of one ideology against (at least) another, and championing one group over another.
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Yup. You're right. Some of us have supported Labour all our lives until recently. We are now utterly furious at the racism Jeremy Corbyn has inflicted on Jews and oppose him out of necessity. Never Tory, but now, sadly, never racist Labour.
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Technocrats sitting in committees nodding sagely at each other, that’s the goal
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This drives me up the wall too. “Stop fucking killing people you evil bastards” “Good Lord there’s no need to Swear, have some decorum!” *feeds more homeless people into a grinder*.
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I read 'The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power' a few years ago. I think many of the revelations and conclusions would apply to legislatures. All that centralised power is a magnet for sociopaths.
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Keep going Dawn. We need you!
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When they talk about "civility in politics" I always remember what Neil Gaiman said about Terry Pratchett after his passing, how anger was an engine that powered him. Angry gets things done, & I feel they want to take it away from us so we can't do things https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett-angry-not-jolly-neil-gaiman …
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Well said.! Guardian needs more of Dawn less of Freedland and his upper-middle class centrism.
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And many people seem to have far more invested in their self-image as a smart and level-headed individual who makes up their own mind about things, than they do in the future of their society.
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