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I believe he is a journalist
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Stanley also unsuccessfully ran for a sabbatical post on Cambridge University Students' Union, standing in 2007 for Welfare Officer. His manifesto consisted of a handwritten note simply reading "This is hand written because I was too drunk to write a manifesto. There is no better testament to my character."[1]
Stanley is a columnist at the Daily Telegraph and a regular contributor to CNN.
Stanley joined the Labour Party at the age of 15.[citation needed] He was Chair of Cambridge University Labour Club in 2003–04, and stood as the Labour candidate for his home constituency of Sevenoaks at the 2005 general election, where he came third. He has since distanced himself from the Labour Party,[16] and has argued in support of the American Republican Party.[17][18] In the 2017 general election, Stanley allied himself with the Conservative Party and voted for them for the first time.[19]
Stanley was a supporter of the campaign for the UK to leave the European Union.
Later, he considered himself to be an Anglican, beginning around "one glorious summer" in 2002, and was baptised as an Anglican in Little St. Mary's, Cambridge, in New Year 2003. He subsequently aligned himself with the Church of England's Anglo-Catholic wing,[21] before converting to the Catholic Church when he was 23.[22]
Stanley is a columnist at the Daily Telegraph and a regular contributor to CNN.
Stanley joined the Labour Party at the age of 15.[citation needed] He was Chair of Cambridge University Labour Club in 2003–04, and stood as the Labour candidate for his home constituency of Sevenoaks at the 2005 general election, where he came third. He has since distanced himself from the Labour Party,[16] and has argued in support of the American Republican Party.[17][18] In the 2017 general election, Stanley allied himself with the Conservative Party and voted for them for the first time.[19]
Stanley was a supporter of the campaign for the UK to leave the European Union.
Later, he considered himself to be an Anglican, beginning around "one glorious summer" in 2002, and was baptised as an Anglican in Little St. Mary's, Cambridge, in New Year 2003. He subsequently aligned himself with the Church of England's Anglo-Catholic wing,[21] before converting to the Catholic Church when he was 23.[22]
Anyone you want him to be if you have the dollar, apparently...
Alan Whittle
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He believes he is a journalist. I’m surprised that anyone else would.
Thomasc
Formerly known as By God I'm Blue
Like I just said in the GE thread, thought he spoke quite well last night and was on the attack with the Tory’s and was vocal about how high the tax burden is on the U.K. public.
Still came across a bit of a bell end though at times.
He's not going to flame the fire and start a culture war is he? Surely not
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summerisle
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spectateur
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I have commented before on the ageism often prevelent in some of these threads.I forget where the pension conversation was had, but...
Will Britons work until they’re 71? Expert examines proposed pension age rise
Increasing life expectancy and falling birthrates means many of us may have to keep working until beyond 71 years of age.theconversation.com
The crux of the issue, all of which makes it especially ironic that the parasitic pensioners are often most opposed to migrants who actually pay their pension.
Parasite is not a nice term to use for people who have worked, often in manufacturing industry, in unpleasant conditions for their employment.
Its not their fault that the system funding their pensions is no longer fit for purpose.
Go on the gov website and your pension provision is determined by how many NI years and to what level YOU have contributed. The mechanism or decision that governments decide to rob Peter to pay Paul is not the fault of the contributor. According to some we now have fully compliant ex workers being called parasites subbed by immigrants, do me a favour. The good people coming into this country will I hope grow the economy and good luck to them, but pensioners owe them nought but gratitude for their skills.
tsubaki
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He's not going to flame the fire and start a culture war is he? Surely not
he decided instead to say nothing of significance, and announce nothing of significance
Right? I switched on expecting an election announcement or resignation, and got….nothing.
What was the point, can anyone tell me?
Ming the merciless
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“ I’m the Prime Minister, honest. You must remember me, don’t you ? .”
NorthernBlue
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Just blabbering about nothing. Weird.
NorthernBlue
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I’ll never support a single thing that emanates from the vermin, but if he said that he was sending in the riot police to smash up protests at least that would be something. I wouldn’t agree with it but at least he’d have found his balls.
tsubaki
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I think that was what he was trying to say with that bit around "we will back the police", but obviously didn't want to get into legal bother never mind have responsibility for that so couldn't.
In terms of what he was claiming to say, yes we absolutely have to stop divisive extremism. I won't hold my breath for him to do something about GB News, the right wing press generally, social media or all the money flowing into political activity to push the likes of the Tufton Street mob, Yaxley-Lennon and the rest.
There's all manner of stink kicked up whenever suggestions to change the system you openly admit is not fit for purpose are made, and because older people vote more than younger people it never does change. Hence we have this situation where not only have pensioners enjoyed the triple lock during a time when the rest of society has lived through austerity, but the growing number of pensioners has meant that the state pension alone makes up 42% of all welfare spending today. In total nearly £140 billion is spent on pensioner benefits, or roughly 2/3 of the entire NHS budget. This at a time when councils are going bust and cutting back on "discretionary" services, like libraries.
So if pensioners don't like being accused of sucking the rest of the budget dry, perhaps be a little bit more open to actually changing the system and stop kicking up merry hell (as I'm fairly sure you yourself did with regards to the pension reforms Macron wants to introduce in France?) whenever the very mention of changing the golden goose is made.
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