Reading Time: 6 minutes The Young Tories group of the Plymouth University have just got into some hot water concerning a pretty shady night out in town. As you can see from the photograph below, these young and easily impressionable individuals have some pretty distasteful opinions. There are Hitler moustaches, and anti-semitic images and writing aplenty. One is seen wearing a […]
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A Sweet Irony on Election Day
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have voted, for what it’s worth in my Furst Past the Post condemned constituency. Here is a sweet irony from my local newspaper, the Portsmouth News. I always like to get my political education from the Richmond Motor Group, as well as theological advice, too.
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Conservative Contradiction: Meritocracy and Inheritance Tax
Reading Time: 4 minutes I have not particularly studied anything about Inheritance Tax (IHT), so this is coming purely from my own thinking about this. Yesterday, the Daily Mail predictably spouted off about the Labour Party’s designs on IHT: Corbyn’s sly death tax trap: 1.2million more families’ homes to be hit by Labour’s plan to slash inheritance rate to […]
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Manchester Bombing and the Political Context
Reading Time: 2 minutes As with so many, I am deeply angered by the attack from last night. I could offer all the usual condolences but it would all sound rather trite from me. So I’ll do what I usually do: offer some kind of analysis, this time political rather than theological. What will the fallout of this be? Well, […]
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The Media, and Similarities between Trump and Corbyn
Reading Time: 10 minutes The UK election is hotting up. May arguably called it early because the Conservatives were going to romp through, gaining a vastly increased number of seats, and marginalising Labour and an effective opposition into the sidelines of UK politics. This might well still happen, given that the Conservatives have stolen the right-wing UKIP vote (given […]
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The Circularity of Voter Disenchantment
Reading Time: 3 minutes Young people often claim that they don’t vote because they are disillusioned with politics and politicians. They have no buy-in to the whole system. I think part of this can be written off to laziness. Many people simply don’t motivate themselves to find out about politics, to get involved because these things actually affect their […]
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Asking for… No, Demanding a Progressive Alliance
Reading Time: 8 minutes Yesterday, I wrote about the fallout from Brexit and the idea that, in a state of chaos and disarray, the ideologically possessed will take advantage and fulfill their decades’ old plans. Whatever you say about the good and bad of Brexit, it will enable free marketeers and those on the right of the Conservative Party […]
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I See You, David Miliband
Reading Time: 7 minutes The last few days have torn the UK apart. At a moment when the Tory party is riven in twain and ripe for pickings, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has imploded spectacularly. In the past 36 hours, 23 out of 31 shadow cabinet members have quit. It is in this context that I include the following. “I See […]
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Nick Clegg: Tories Trying to Americanise UK Politics to One Party State
Reading Time: 4 minutes Nick Clegg was leader of the Liberal Democrats who were in coalition with the right-wing Conservative government in the last Parliament, and was our Deputy Prime Minister. The Lib Dems got stung this last election to leave a straight Tory majority. Now Clegg is spilling the beans in the Independent and letting us know exactly […]
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The Tories and their blatant cronyism. It disgusts me.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hey Conservative Party, how about I do something for you – you know, in the name of elitist, right-wing party politics, and you, you know, scratch my back in return. I wouldn’t mind one of those titles. You know, a Sir or something. Yup, it’s that time of year when the New Years Honours List […]