Can someone give an example 11:13 - Jul 25 with 2468 views | chicoazul | of a thing "Boris" has done in the last 15 years that is right wing? | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:17 - Jul 25 with 1136 views | chicoazul | I'll settle for something conservative. | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:20 - Jul 25 with 1125 views | Nthsuffolkblue | Would "flag-waving picaninnies" count or is it just racist? | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:21 - Jul 25 with 1122 views | chicoazul |
Can someone give an example on 11:20 - Jul 25 by Nthsuffolkblue | Would "flag-waving picaninnies" count or is it just racist? |
Definitely racist, but as we must surely all agree the right wing do not have the monopoly on racism. | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:24 - Jul 25 with 1103 views | GeoffSentence | He opposes socialism. | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:25 - Jul 25 with 1094 views | Nthsuffolkblue | Buying water cannon (albeit that he never deployed them) is certainly right wing too. | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:26 - Jul 25 with 1089 views | m14_blue | Have you seen his cabinet? Anyway, being right wing isn’t the problem, being a populist, lying, incompetent, bumbling, lazy, immoral, shallow, racist buffoon is. | | | | Login to get fewer ads
Can someone give an example on 11:28 - Jul 25 with 1084 views | chicoazul |
I dont think it's right to say racism is inherently right wing or left wing. Under Stalin something like 1m Tarters and Chechens were genocided. | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:29 - Jul 25 with 1074 views | chicoazul |
Can someone give an example on 11:25 - Jul 25 by Nthsuffolkblue | Buying water cannon (albeit that he never deployed them) is certainly right wing too. |
Well, I agree if youre saying it was stupid, but right wing? The French and Belgian use water cannon very recently and theyre practically commies. | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:29 - Jul 25 with 1081 views | itfcjoe | The problem with Boris is he has gone from a socially liberal (by Conservative standards) London Mayor, to a PM who has just put the most right wing cabinet in living memory in place. Boris isn't anything, he's an enigma, but the reality is more likely he is a charlatan who will do whatever it takes for power. What he does now will be fascinating. The Politico e-mail this morning summed him up well: Vote Leave campaigner. Quit Theresa May’s Cabinet in protest over the Brexit deal he approved. Eton-educated man of the people. Brexiteer who loves immigration. Social liberal who loves water cannons. Jogging enthusiast who is addicted to cheese. Drives a beaten-up Toyota and drinks £180 bottles of Italian wine. Clever as hell but hides it well. Not popular in Liverpool. Or Scotland. Or Europe. Greek classicist. Somewhat competitive. Colorful private life. | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:30 - Jul 25 with 1070 views | chicoazul |
Can someone give an example on 11:26 - Jul 25 by m14_blue | Have you seen his cabinet? Anyway, being right wing isn’t the problem, being a populist, lying, incompetent, bumbling, lazy, immoral, shallow, racist buffoon is. |
I agree entirely. But people keep saying he is right wing without, pretty much, any evidence whatsoever of this. | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:30 - Jul 25 with 1065 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
Can someone give an example on 11:28 - Jul 25 by chicoazul | I dont think it's right to say racism is inherently right wing or left wing. Under Stalin something like 1m Tarters and Chechens were genocided. |
I didn't. I said this was an example of right-wing racism. It is racism based on the continuance of the British Empire. He is racist and right wing from this quote alone. Try this one too. "Orientals … have larger brains and higher IQs. Blacks are at the other pole." He wouldn't exactly be on the same side as William Wilberforce would he? | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:32 - Jul 25 with 1051 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
Can someone give an example on 11:26 - Jul 25 by m14_blue | Have you seen his cabinet? Anyway, being right wing isn’t the problem, being a populist, lying, incompetent, bumbling, lazy, immoral, shallow, racist buffoon is. |
Both are the problem. The combination is the redeeming factor because his untrustworthiness means he might not enact all of his right-wing rhetoric. Unfortunately it also means his socialist rhetoric about loving the NHS etc is also just that, rhetoric. | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:33 - Jul 25 with 1044 views | chicoazul |
Can someone give an example on 11:29 - Jul 25 by itfcjoe | The problem with Boris is he has gone from a socially liberal (by Conservative standards) London Mayor, to a PM who has just put the most right wing cabinet in living memory in place. Boris isn't anything, he's an enigma, but the reality is more likely he is a charlatan who will do whatever it takes for power. What he does now will be fascinating. The Politico e-mail this morning summed him up well: Vote Leave campaigner. Quit Theresa May’s Cabinet in protest over the Brexit deal he approved. Eton-educated man of the people. Brexiteer who loves immigration. Social liberal who loves water cannons. Jogging enthusiast who is addicted to cheese. Drives a beaten-up Toyota and drinks £180 bottles of Italian wine. Clever as hell but hides it well. Not popular in Liverpool. Or Scotland. Or Europe. Greek classicist. Somewhat competitive. Colorful private life. |
Exactly. I dont think he believe anything, he is about as far from an ideologue as it's possible for a politician to be. And yet people say hes right wing and isnt it awful etc. | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:33 - Jul 25 with 1043 views | Steve_M | Scrapping the congestion charge extension? | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:34 - Jul 25 with 1032 views | footers | Carrie Symonds. | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:35 - Jul 25 with 1023 views | chicoazul |
Can someone give an example on 11:30 - Jul 25 by Nthsuffolkblue | I didn't. I said this was an example of right-wing racism. It is racism based on the continuance of the British Empire. He is racist and right wing from this quote alone. Try this one too. "Orientals … have larger brains and higher IQs. Blacks are at the other pole." He wouldn't exactly be on the same side as William Wilberforce would he? |
I simply dont agree racism is right or left wing and therefore can't agree that what you quote is "right wing racism". It infects both spheres, and most people in between too. | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:36 - Jul 25 with 1020 views | chicoazul |
Can someone give an example on 11:34 - Jul 25 by footers | Carrie Symonds. |
Bang tidy eh? He is punching there, big time. | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:36 - Jul 25 with 1016 views | m14_blue |
Can someone give an example on 11:30 - Jul 25 by chicoazul | I agree entirely. But people keep saying he is right wing without, pretty much, any evidence whatsoever of this. |
Fair enough, I’m not sure he has any actual sincerely held beliefs at all... | | | |
Can someone give an example on 11:37 - Jul 25 with 1009 views | Herbivore |
Can someone give an example on 11:33 - Jul 25 by Steve_M | Scrapping the congestion charge extension? |
Voting against the fox hunting ban, voting for increased use of surveillance of people's communications. If only there was some way of checking people's voting records to get a sense of the kind of policies they support.... | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:37 - Jul 25 with 1008 views | chicoazul |
Can someone give an example on 11:36 - Jul 25 by m14_blue | Fair enough, I’m not sure he has any actual sincerely held beliefs at all... |
Agreed. | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:39 - Jul 25 with 999 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
Can someone give an example on 11:35 - Jul 25 by chicoazul | I simply dont agree racism is right or left wing and therefore can't agree that what you quote is "right wing racism". It infects both spheres, and most people in between too. |
This racism is in the context of right-wing beliefs. It can't be that difficult to see. The one follows from the other. I never said racism is inherently one or the other. You tried putting those words in my mouth and I clearly pointed out I never said them. | |
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Can someone give an example on 11:41 - Jul 25 with 989 views | lowhouseblue | economically and socially he isn't right wing as the term would have been understood in the '80s. | |
| And so as the loose-bowelled pigeon of time swoops low over the unsuspecting tourist of destiny, and the flatulent skunk of fate wanders into the air-conditioning system of eternity, I notice it's the end of the show |
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