Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#1
Post Brexit and post Trump the excellent Rod Liddle (who is now living locally) has nailed it in one.
Usually a bit of a polemicist, winding up the bien pensants just for fun, he's summed up where we now are a lot better than I ever could.
It's no wonder the Labour party has suspended his membership! People thinking things for themselves. Wherever will it all end?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#2
Totally wrong on Cruella who has understood practically nothing about why most of us who voted to leave did so. She is planning a complete brake on immigration which is totally daft as it was uncontrolled unskilled immigration that concerned most. Colleges and universities depend on revenue from overseas students, she hasn't sussed that out. Today Deloitte announced their plans to relocate from the UK as they won't be able to call upon overseas talent to fill the skills gap.
The Far right and people like Liddle across the board have totally confused patriotism and racism.
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Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 509
#3
I think they may have confused some other aspects of society too. The vast majority of unemployed people would love to have a full time job, and most potential parents do wait until they can afford it, to start their families. It is the tiny minority that get the publicity and sway public opinion. Making 'celebrities' of semi-evolved essex people (for example), and using them to advertise products on TV is one of the things that sends the wrong message out to the more impressionable amongst us. A strange St. Vitus dancing horse-faced mutant was on TV advertising clothes a few days ago, who would buy from that company ?
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,599
#4
Where does Liddle live? Not many famous people around. (If it's Deal, don't reply
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Paul M- Registered: 1 Feb 2016
- Posts: 393
#5
He lives near Canterbury but is about to move up North.
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Guest 1849- Registered: 12 Sep 2016
- Posts: 440
#6
He's from Middlesbrough, supports Millwall, excellent journalist.
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
- Posts: 1,039
#7
Those of who think for ourselves got pigeonholed as "Daily Mail", even though we never read the paper, under Labour's groupthink rule.
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
- Posts: 1,071
#8
Andrew Stucken wrote:Those of who think for ourselves got pigeonholed as "Daily Mail", even though we never read the paper, under Labour's groupthink rule.
That's a Daily Express comment if ever I read one!
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,709
#9
Andrew, many of us think for ourselves, I for one have never been accused of being a Daily Fail reader; though I often get accused of being a member of the Labour Party, an organisation I left when a certain T Blair was elected leader. I now have no party allegiance, having come to the view that the best way to change things is through community activism & action.
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