Big effort launching tonight by @ukonward to help the Conservatives reach out across generational divides & broaden appeal to ethnic minorities
Meanwhile in Bedfordshire ...https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/998442691435401217 …
Would Trump have been possible without the Tea Party, the kamikaze campaigns by Ron Paul and other libertarians, (more controversially) the alt-right etc? Political activism made that possible. Ditto controlling language around immigration “aliens” etc. Not led by politicians
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Still, we all know that the main reason you will not stand is that you would fail miserably & expose your unpopularity. I can not blame you for weaving an elaborate Theory of Change to distract from that basic problem.
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Why did opinions change on gay rights in the period 85 - 05 in your view? Certainly wasn’t the governments of the period...
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The very rapid change in UK median opinion mostly happened after 1999 if you were to check the BSA data series. Certainly Stonewall and Eastenders and some elected politicians (eg GLC) played an important role prior to that when it was a more contentious issue.
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I guess you are probably much too young to recall or know that the 1997 govt, including first gay Cabinet minister (first out gay MP back in 1985), certainly played a significant role well before 2005.
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But those things were unthinkable in, say, 1960. My question to you is what changed? I want to know if you believe in some magic “progress”, “zeitgeist” or whatever, or do you acknowledge social change comes through activism, usually driven by small groups initially
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On gay rights, lots of factors pre & post decriminalisation. Cultural activism certainly part of it. I suspect you rather underestimate the importance of personal & family social contact in shifting attitudes and entrenching the shift. Can you reverse that? It seems difficult
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Not trying to reverse it, as I’m sure you know
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I didn't know. Why not? You have to remember like most people, I have heard almost zip about you. Am aware of a bit of pissing around on boats in the Med with pan-European racists & noelw this curious idea that hipster racism is somehow less toxic; not more annoying.
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