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Post by zanygame on Feb 20, 2024 19:10:17 GMT
I love the way these people always feel the need to drape themselves in flags. Like it makes them super British. It rather depends which flag your talking about. I know which is my flag of choice, do you?   Indeed, I love my country. I just don't feel the need to virtue signal it to prove my care for it. As for Palestinian flag. That's a complicated issue where Hamas terrorists have caused the deaths of 25,000 innocent people, but where civilised peoples should rise to a higher standard. I would point out to you that your own government have demanded Israel stop killing civilians to get to terrorists. I find it very sad that you as a soldier do not espouse those values. I foolishly believed the soldiers mantra that a soldiers job is to fight for people who cannot fight for themselves. |
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Post by Dan Dare on Feb 20, 2024 22:01:05 GMT
I'm not advocating a business as usual approach — far from it. For example, among the changes I'd propose would be stricter and more stringently monitored (and working?) immigration and work visa policies; real business, research and mega trade deals with other countries and tax levels to encourage such investment; encouragement and support for private landlords to invest in schemes for required housing; less pandering to, and a more radical approach to the growing pensioner constituency; reform of education through schooling, university, skills training, etc, with more relevancy to life and earning a living.
These proposals are ready for debate, criticism and to be added to. They, and others, could be effective moving a revitalised Conservative party away from the current Labour party that's chasing the current Brexit-Tory populism and past electoral success model — not just a plaintive call for "clear blue water" between the parties...
It all sounds like standard manifesto blurb as we have seen for decades now, nibbling at the margins and engaging in ritual shadow-boxing with Labour who will no doubt come up their own version of more less the same old rhubarb.
Nothing about population, or about an industrial strategy to resolve the chronically imbalanced economy, nothing about a foreign policy to integrate the UK with its its friends and neighbours, and nothing about defence against the real and proximate threats to national security. Nothing either that is likely to resolve the deep-rooted social pathologies that make life in Britain's urban areas so challenging these days.
As for education, the solution is simple: scrap the current secondary and tertiary systems in their entirety and adopt instead the highly successful systems used in German-speaking Europe.
There is also scope for a cultural renaissance and for reversing the Long March, which will also likely prove to be highly attractive to the grassroots if not the metropolitan chattering classes.
There is no merit in being too timid.
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Post by patman post on Feb 21, 2024 15:01:10 GMT
I'm not advocating a business as usual approach — far from it. For example, among the changes I'd propose would be stricter and more stringently monitored (and working?) immigration and work visa policies; real business, research and mega trade deals with other countries and tax levels to encourage such investment; encouragement and support for private landlords to invest in schemes for required housing; less pandering to, and a more radical approach to the growing pensioner constituency; reform of education through schooling, university, skills training, etc, with more relevancy to life and earning a living.
These proposals are ready for debate, criticism and to be added to. They, and others, could be effective moving a revitalised Conservative party away from the current Labour party that's chasing the current Brexit-Tory populism and past electoral success model — not just a plaintive call for "clear blue water" between the parties...
It all sounds like standard manifesto blurb as we have seen for decades now, nibbling at the margins and engaging in ritual shadow-boxing with Labour who will no doubt come up their own version of more less the same old rhubarb.
Nothing about population, or about an industrial strategy to resolve the chronically imbalanced economy, nothing about a foreign policy to integrate the UK with its its friends and neighbours, and nothing about defence against the real and proximate threats to national security. Nothing either that is likely to resolve the deep-rooted social pathologies that make life in Britain's urban areas so challenging these days.
As for education, the solution is simple: scrap the current secondary and tertiary systems in their entirety and adopt instead the highly successful systems used in German-speaking Europe.
There is also scope for a cultural renaissance and for reversing the Long March, which will also likely prove to be highly attractive to the grassroots if not the metropolitan chattering classes.
There is no merit in being too timid.
Isn't your text also blurb if it's just proposals floated to win votes and never carried out? |
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Post by johnofgwent on Feb 21, 2024 21:18:15 GMT
I think more than any other, the issue is the desire to get one’s claim for the golden goodbye firmly in. Any MP in office on the day parliament is prorogued collects this. Above that, well as various labour carpet baggers said, they are available as a lobbyist the day parliament rises …
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