Rose Blush , pigs are quite flirty on the lipstick front ???
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DanFST
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Everyone wants reform until they get to the position where they can initiate reform, then it no longer suits them.
Politics is broken at it's core at all levels in the UK. Don't even get me started on the building, costing us millions because they need access to a bar.
Doon frae Troon
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QT worked well last night with a virtual audience. Bruce was excellent [for a change]
How incompetent do you have to be to be a government minister...…..Helen Whatley gave a masterclass.
Scotland looks like it is not going to sweep the Cummings fiasco under the carpet anytime soon.
Massie seems to have defected to the SNP.
How incompetent do you have to be to be a government minister...…..Helen Whatley gave a masterclass.
Scotland looks like it is not going to sweep the Cummings fiasco under the carpet anytime soon.
Massie seems to have defected to the SNP.
Swinglowandslow
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huds1475
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Perplexes me why they give airtime to these muppets.
Hopefully we'll have a vaccine soon so we can enjoy the anti-vaxxers' inane ramblings too.
Foxholer
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My view is that while his talents may have been 'needed'/valuable in the 'selling Brexit' phase, they are not the sort of talents that are needed for the negotiation or implementation phases. He seems much more a 'blue sky thinking' sort of advisor rather than a 'detail' one that is necessary for the next phases of Brexit. I wouldn't imagine he'd be particularly interested in those phases though likely would be interested in the 'post Brexit relationships' UK has with rest of the World. This may or may not include the EU as a group - as part of 'The Deal', but I'd think not, as he's a planner, not a negotiator imo.
larmen
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This is when you have people wanting balanced views rather than objective views. Coming soon you have to listen to pro pedophiles on crime watch. ;-(
SwingsitlikeHogan
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Anyway - I guess that Cummings will be gone soon after 1st Jan 2021 - with him hanging on in there until then to make sure that there is no backsliding from Johnson or his buddies on the departure date...
SwingsitlikeHogan
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You need to remember just who is the Leader of the House.
Ha ha, fair point. Sadly, no one is really trying to modernise it, nor have they in the past. The building is falling down and they will have to move out shortly. That would be the ideal time to turn the Palace of Westminster into a pay to visit tourist attraction, build a new, fit for purpose, modern parliament. It doesn't need to be an architectural money pit 10 years in the building but it does need to house all MP's, staff and have a modern chamber with electronic voting.
larmen
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I think you have to have a party campaigning with a reform like this and getting traction. See the Liberal Democrats with single preferential vote or ukip with the withdrawal from the European Union. This can then force a government into a referendum and possibly into change.
SocketRocket
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That's right. A start would be changing from the facing benches to a layout more like the EU Parliament (must go and lay down after saying that)
larmen
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Well, Sir Norman Foster has some experience in modernising old buildings for government purpose
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_building
What would have been ideal, but it is too late now, Battersea Power Station.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_building
What would have been ideal, but it is too late now, Battersea Power Station.
SocketRocket
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I do agree with you. I would add that the expectations of politics have been transformed through the manipulation of perception by Social media, Press media and Television media. It has become increasingly difficult to take a neutral or detached view, we are bombarded with conflicting information and it's easy for us to filter it through our traditional beliefs and prejudice.
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clubchamp98
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Isn’t the bar subsidised as well ?
So they pay less than us .
Totally agree on this. It would reduce the childish nature of debates, the jeering, the animosity. If split up, I would have each seat linked to a constituency, it would reduce the tribal element which can only be good.
huds1475
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Balance is a good thing.
Positioning the slider is the tricky part.
Always.
I do love the personal liberty vs death argument though .
Doon frae Troon
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Holyrood is a wonderful example of how architecture/design can change actions.
clubchamp98
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Yes and put it in the middle of the country somewhere.
They could use the old one for an English Parliament then.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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...and going back to the 15th Century when the Three Estates comprised the Scottish parliament and all sat in the one 'house'. No Lords and Commons for a Scottish Parliament - and so it is today.
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