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May 22, 2023Liked by Helen Dale

"...National Conservatism is an American-Israeli movement..."

No tah, we need no lessons in doing ourselves up the arse from our former colonies (stares hard at the Dominions); excepting those lessons as even stinkier egregious cowpats for us to AVOID LIKE THE FECKIN' PLAGUE.

Biggar for PM, I say... and Starkey for Queen; Gawd save him! Huzzah! :-)

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Thank you for the article. I love the picture above.. "Good evening Miss Dale, I've been expecting you"

I also liked your understated heading, 'A shortage of policy offerings' which shows you have a sense of humour. This lot wouldn't spot a policy offering if it turned up on a flat bed truck with The Pope tap dancing and shouting, "Policy Offerings are Here Today".

I lifted this from The Diplomatic Courier from March 25th. It's the famous Peel quote (Robert not Emma)

I have the firmest convictions that that confidence cannot be secured by any other course than that of a frank and explicit declaration of principle; that vague and unmeaning professions of popular opinion may quiet distrust for a time, may influence this or that election but that such professions must ultimately and signally fail, if, being made, they are not adhered to, or if they are inconsistent with the honour and character of those who made them. (Sir Robert Peel, 1834)

https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/the-national-consequences-of-tory-party-politics

Signposts and Weathervanes. Harrumph.

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adverted to; not "averted to"

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