This evening I will mostly be reading
Edmund Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France
"No experience has taught us, that in any other course or method than that of and hereditary crown, our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right."
What's really depressing is that conservatives still think this speaks to them. That's why it really doesn't bother me that I (Heart) DC is flouncing about the place trying to look all trendy with his red fleece (when was red fleece EVER cool?).
They are the party that grew out of opposition to changes to the settlement of 1688, right down to boundary changes from the orginal constituencies, having only reconciled them to even this after the event.
They remain, and will always remain, the party that stands for minimising the role of democracy, minimising the role of ordinary people in running their own lives, and minimises the right of the people as a whole interfering in the rights of the few to hoard property - purely on the basis that it has always been thus and that some mythical stability is maintained by some mythical tradition.
So the electoral map has shifted slightly with a flick of an old Etonian quiff. Davey =C= has four years to keep up the pretence - the mask will slip, he doesn't believe the people of Britain can or should be given the platform to achieve their full potential, in his heart of hearts he never will.
This year we remember it's a 100 years since the Labour Party was founded - on the simple principle that working people should be entitled to play a full role in the government of their country. That is our founding creed - what is the Conservatives and David Cameron's?
That ultimately there is something "Dangerous" in allowing people to
"1. Choose their own governors,
2. To cashier them for misconduct
3. To Frame a government for ourselves"
History is on our side on this one - and whatever shade of blue the PMQs tie is this week we'll be ready for you DC.
Congratulations on the new baby boy - I trust he'll be making full use of the "right" he has to the "Acquisitions of his parents". And their parents. And their parents before that.
How much did grandad's paintings go for in the end?
"No experience has taught us, that in any other course or method than that of and hereditary crown, our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right."
What's really depressing is that conservatives still think this speaks to them. That's why it really doesn't bother me that I (Heart) DC is flouncing about the place trying to look all trendy with his red fleece (when was red fleece EVER cool?).
They are the party that grew out of opposition to changes to the settlement of 1688, right down to boundary changes from the orginal constituencies, having only reconciled them to even this after the event.
They remain, and will always remain, the party that stands for minimising the role of democracy, minimising the role of ordinary people in running their own lives, and minimises the right of the people as a whole interfering in the rights of the few to hoard property - purely on the basis that it has always been thus and that some mythical stability is maintained by some mythical tradition.
So the electoral map has shifted slightly with a flick of an old Etonian quiff. Davey =C= has four years to keep up the pretence - the mask will slip, he doesn't believe the people of Britain can or should be given the platform to achieve their full potential, in his heart of hearts he never will.
This year we remember it's a 100 years since the Labour Party was founded - on the simple principle that working people should be entitled to play a full role in the government of their country. That is our founding creed - what is the Conservatives and David Cameron's?
That ultimately there is something "Dangerous" in allowing people to
"1. Choose their own governors,
2. To cashier them for misconduct
3. To Frame a government for ourselves"
History is on our side on this one - and whatever shade of blue the PMQs tie is this week we'll be ready for you DC.
Congratulations on the new baby boy - I trust he'll be making full use of the "right" he has to the "Acquisitions of his parents". And their parents. And their parents before that.
How much did grandad's paintings go for in the end?
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