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I was heartened to see Boris Johnson MP calling for parents to be fined for the actions of underage miscreants. Parental responsibility is something political parties avoid like the plague. It’s about time parents whose underage children are harming others to have to repay them for their loss. Maybe then parents who cry “I have tried, really,” will think twice before letting their children run riot.
Expect some social worker to write an hysterical letter to the Daily Telegraph
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As far as the rest of his comments go, he thinks the organisation is, by association, racist because it includes the US and the “white commonwealth”. He fails to realise that the Anglosphere is based on historical and philosophical links rather than racial ones. The countries in the Anglosphere are not homogeneous and neither should they be. If the organisation fulfills its goals then eventually non-white countries will be in the majority.
The aim of the Anglosphere is not to envelope any country within it. It merely seeks to strengthen ties that have been eroded due to the efforts of the left and the European Union. The European Union wants to the UK to ditch its legal, philosophical and cultural history in order that it might “better” Europeans. The Anglosphere has no such desire, prefering to preserve the theories of freedom, natural justice and law that exist amoungst the countries spawned by the UK. As Bennett has said, “the Anglosphere is a memtic concept, not a genetic one.”
Rather than weakening Britian’s ability to act on the world stage. the Anglosphere prospect would ensure a presence thereon. Goldstein need not worry, the Anglosphere is not more American cultural imperialism.
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Earlier this week Tory leader came out in support of turning the Lords in a “Senate.” . Instead of conserving a great institution IDS has jumped on the bandwagon to oblivion, joining the Labour Party in their quest to destroy the upper chamber and a great British institution.
The true desire is not to have a second elected chamber like in the US. It is for the UK to be, either in reality or in effect, governed by a unicameral legislature. Labour governments are tired of the upper house overriding laws. Blair and his cronies have no interest in a strong upper house. They wish for a rubber stamp that will not stand in the way of progress.
The alternative of course is just as vile. Does the UK want to replicate the Senate of the US? The Senate is a useless organisation that serves no purpose but a ceremonial one. Does this country really need another set of elections? Surely with European, National, County/CIty and Local elections the British people have is enough. Adding another set of elections is not going to increase voter participation. Would it really be helpful to have a percentage of the new “Senate” re-elected every two years?
This is another lame idea from new Labour at best and at worst it is a cynical ploy to turn the UK into a defacto one house state.
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