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Post by carlton43 on Jul 23, 2023 12:37:09 GMT
I see that Keir Mather is gay - and has previously worked for Wes Streeting and Matthew Parris.Interesting perhaps! I am deeply shocked but not of course surprised. |
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Post by kvasir on Jul 23, 2023 12:51:24 GMT
I see that Keir Mather is gay - and has previously worked for Wes Streeting and Matthew Parris.Interesting perhaps! Why is it interesting? |
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 23, 2023 13:07:53 GMT
I see that Keir Mather is gay - and has previously worked for Wes Streeting and Matthew Parris.Interesting perhaps! Why is it interesting? Parris AND Streeting? |
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on Jul 23, 2023 13:12:26 GMT
All I know is Walden was better than Parris! |
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 23, 2023 13:23:15 GMT
All I know is Walden was better than Parris! Both the man and the book are vastly superior to Parris: Most things are: He has a distinct quality of extreme repulsion. |
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on Jul 23, 2023 13:27:07 GMT
All I know is Walden was better than Parris! Both the man and the book are vastly superior to Parris: Most things are: He has a distinct quality of extreme repulsion. I think on a personal note Walden reminded me of Sunday afternoons and my granddad(RIP) watching him on Weekend World. Later on I got to appreciate that BW had a formidable mind |
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Post by graham on Jul 23, 2023 14:43:26 GMT
Does their shared orientation suggest a bit of cliquishness there? |
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Post by Khunanup on Jul 23, 2023 14:46:39 GMT
One thing that I've heard from several people in different villages around Winchester is a resentment against incomers (mostly from London) whose first action is to erect large gates to prevent access to their property, and who then play no part in village life thereby undermining what had historically been a stable social culture. Whether this has any political impact I don't know: at a by-election I suppose it might. That will probably prove a double boost to the Lib Dems in Winchester. The local NIMBYs will vote Lib Dem and the wealthy incomers from London will too. In my experience, people who build impassable gates around their houses (in urban or rural areas) and communicate with the outside world via intercoms are, even now, the most completely reliable Tory voters, if they vote at all. And they're almost always incomers. |
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 23, 2023 14:49:52 GMT
Does their shared orientation suggest a bit of cliquishness there? My thoughts in this one narrow instance were entirely on the politics because of the implied suggestion he was some sort of centrist, establishment blue-Labour type. I obviously don't know anything about him but he does not seem to me to be anywhere near my conception of that daft quality termed POSH by the chav element. |
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Post by Sibboleth on Jul 23, 2023 15:08:29 GMT
If the residents of a rural Yorkshire constituency that contains a disproportionate share of the membership of Yorkshire County Cricket Club are not bothered by the things being snidely remarked on, then they are just not an issue in mainstream society full stop.
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Post by graham on Jul 23, 2023 15:10:40 GMT
If the residents of a rural Yorkshire constituency that contains a disproportionate share of the membership of Yorkshire County Cricket Club are not bothered by the things being snidely remarked on, then they are just not an issue in mainstream society full stop. Are they aware of it? |
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Post by myth11 on Jul 23, 2023 16:11:36 GMT
That will probably prove a double boost to the Lib Dems in Winchester. The local NIMBYs will vote Lib Dem and the wealthy incomers from London will too. In my experience, people who build impassable gates around their houses (in urban or rural areas) and communicate with the outside world via intercoms are, even now, the most completely reliable Tory voters, if they vote at all. And they're almost always incomers. I wonder if any polling has ever been done on that however from polling on wealth (70K+) I have seen its tends the best group for the lib dem. You gov poll for 2019 results among 70k+ voters were con 40 lab 31 lib dem 20 which for the libs dems it was their best group by 7 points. |
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 23, 2023 16:43:09 GMT
Both the man and the book are vastly superior to Parris: Most things are: He has a distinct quality of extreme repulsion. I think on a personal note Walden reminded me of Sunday afternoons and my granddad(RIP) watching him on Weekend World. Later on I got to appreciate that BW had a formidable mind |
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Post by Khunanup on Jul 23, 2023 18:09:38 GMT
In my experience, people who build impassable gates around their houses (in urban or rural areas) and communicate with the outside world via intercoms are, even now, the most completely reliable Tory voters, if they vote at all. And they're almost always incomers. I wonder if any polling has ever been done on that however from polling on wealth (70K+) I have seen its tends the best group for the lib dem. You gov poll for 2019 results among 70k+ voters were con 40 lab 31 lib dem 20 which for the libs dems it was their best group by 7 points. Doubtful there has been but it would be interesting! The point of course is that it's not only in wealthy areas where this happens. I've seen plenty of right-to-buyed ex-council properties who have this and follow the pattern as well as in more generally mixed areas (but it's in the wealthiest areas that you get the highest prevalence, partly because, due to the nature of the housing, they're able to). |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Jul 24, 2023 8:54:09 GMT
In addition to the problems with the design for agricultural subsidy payments, the RPA in practice is an extremely badly run organisation which has the predictable effect upon the level of service it can deliver. It's also led to the predictable amount of industrial unrest, which again impacts upon service delivery.
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Post by The Bishop on Jul 24, 2023 9:12:48 GMT
I see that Keir Mather is gay - and has previously worked for Wes Streeting and Matthew Parris.Interesting perhaps! Parris hasn't been an MP since 1986, so in what context did Mather work for him? |
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Post by timmullen1 on Jul 24, 2023 10:06:57 GMT
I see that Keir Mather is gay - and has previously worked for Wes Streeting and Matthew Parris.Interesting perhaps! Parris hasn't been an MP since 1986, so in what context did Mather work for him? Quoting from his Wikipedia page (that links to the article below) Sqwawkbox and Evolve Media are claiming that, whilst at Oxford, he worked as a researcher for Parris - Sqwawk are saying “at The Sunday Times”. Evolve are also bitching because he may have attended a fee paying primary school that’s attached to the State secondary school they, after being forced to correct themselves, now acknowledge he attended; these right wing, Tory supporting four year old kids have no place in Jezzaworld. www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8b000b94-27f4-11ee-b92f-f3b1bf190fd2?shareToken=407fcee381a86196369e3ff7dd734d0e(apologies for the paywall) |
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Post by The Bishop on Jul 24, 2023 10:11:09 GMT
Ah yes, devotees of the privately educated Jeremy Corbyn.....
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Post by uthacalthing on Jul 26, 2023 20:53:32 GMT
I wonder what qualities Matthew Parris discerned in the undeniably pretty gay 20-year-old?
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Post by sirbenjamin on Jul 28, 2023 14:41:33 GMT
I wonder what qualities Matthew Parris discerned in the undeniably pretty gay 20-year-old? Is it anything to do with OMRLP-Tory defectors and Harry Potter? |
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