tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post2843019609185841549..comments2024-03-18T23:52:19.552+02:00Comments on A Political Refugee From The Global Village : QuotationsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-13598880221022545632019-05-22T21:36:58.777+03:002019-05-22T21:36:58.777+03:00Thanx! I'll show your post to my mom: she thin...Thanx! I'll show your post to my mom: she thinks I'm a lazy good-for-nothing...Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-77435360107281237542019-05-22T19:26:01.859+03:002019-05-22T19:26:01.859+03:00"I think it entirely possible that the Tory p..."I think it entirely possible that the Tory party will disappear before Theresa May does."<br /><br />Ha, ha, ha, that is so funny :).David In Waleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12442479878591522298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-45690453225796261172019-05-22T19:24:06.484+03:002019-05-22T19:24:06.484+03:00@Toma
Wow - thanks, I am so pleased to hear that ...@Toma <br />Wow - thanks, I am so pleased to hear that :).<br />I immensely enjoy your contributions and admire your googling skills ;).<br /><br /><br />David In Waleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12442479878591522298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-60778141330478739122019-05-22T10:06:48.738+03:002019-05-22T10:06:48.738+03:00The Conservative Party is haemorrhaging support so...The Conservative Party is haemorrhaging support so badly it should carry a Do Not Resuscitate sign.<br />Joanna Williams<br /><br />I think it entirely possible that the Tory party will disappear before Theresa May does.<br />Reader’s comment<br />The Conservative Woman<br /><br />“About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.” <br /> Joan of ArcTomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-55386832356120703412019-05-22T10:04:51.621+03:002019-05-22T10:04:51.621+03:00'Nursing his voice for nearly three and a half...'Nursing his voice for nearly three and a half hours with the aid of two bottles of white brandy...'Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-75787165038378975892019-05-22T10:02:52.186+03:002019-05-22T10:02:52.186+03:00Thanks for the link David. You've made my day!...Thanks for the link David. You've made my day!Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-37256647121577887022019-05-21T13:02:57.933+03:002019-05-21T13:02:57.933+03:00Second that... I'd rather die in a ditch or fr...Second that... I'd rather die in a ditch or frozen on a bus station bench than live in one of those...Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-49863534913528319732019-05-21T11:32:05.658+03:002019-05-21T11:32:05.658+03:00Who invented One Nation Conservatism?
Sunday, 8 O...Who invented One Nation Conservatism?<br /><br />Sunday, 8 October, 2017<br />Disraeli is widely believed to have originated it. Several years ago, however, Alistair Lexden established that he had never used the famous phrase which first appeared much later. He has pointed this out many times since then—and did so again in a letter published in The Times on October 6. Not only was Disraeli’s Manchester speech remarkable for its length, it was also delivered “without reference to a note”, as the 15th Earl of Derby, who was present, recorded in his diary on 3 April 1872.<br /><br />Sir, Disraeli would have been astonished to hear that he “defined One Nation Conservatism” in his Manchester speech 145 years ago, as Philip Collins claims (“May disguises the Tories’ deeper problems”, Comment, Oct.6). Nursing his voice for nearly three and a half hours with the aid of two bottles of white brandy, Dizzy dealt with social issues in two paragraphs, which proposed “the consolidation of existing sanitary legislation”. He believed that Britain would always be divided into two nations of rich and poor “between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy”. The first Tory leader to speak of One Nation was Stanley Baldwin more than 50 years later.<br /><br />Lord Lexden<br />House of Lords<br /><br />https://www.alistairlexden.org.uk/news/who-invented-one-nation-conservatismTomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-43180509269026816532019-05-21T10:35:12.583+03:002019-05-21T10:35:12.583+03:00Depardieu is fixing to die Russian... In February ...Depardieu is fixing to die Russian... In February 2013, he registered as a resident of Saransk.Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-55946253280334462122019-05-21T10:30:46.438+03:002019-05-21T10:30:46.438+03:00'Christian values... motivated the founding of...'Christian values... motivated the founding of the European Union.'Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-64028151589202154582019-05-21T10:25:37.038+03:002019-05-21T10:25:37.038+03:00'an alcoholic... is a painful and boring thing...'an alcoholic... is a painful and boring thing to be'<br /><br />Not always: look at Jean Claude Drunker... <br />https://i2.wp.com/www.alexanderboot.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JunckerDrunk.jpg?w=3216Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-83712405949152702432019-05-21T10:12:03.953+03:002019-05-21T10:12:03.953+03:00https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3926783W/The_movin...https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3926783W/The_moving_toyshopTomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-2421707882332699922019-05-21T10:11:00.137+03:002019-05-21T10:11:00.137+03:00'the Nazis were also great believers in a Euro...'the Nazis were also great believers in a European economic union'<br /><br />You bet:<br /><br />'Striking similarities: The origins of the European Economic Community'<br /><br />David Blake discusses the Plan for a European Economic Community that was developed at the University of Berlin in 1942. There are striking similarities with the European Economic Community that was introduced in 1957 – and which became the foundation stone of the European Union.<br /><br />https://briefingsforbrexit.com/striking-similarities-the-origins-of-the-european-economic-community/Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-49343035929267745942019-05-21T10:02:49.785+03:002019-05-21T10:02:49.785+03:00Intimate auto-documentary of Amis here:
https://ww...Intimate auto-documentary of Amis here:<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MXMVeAbxRg<br /><br />I enjoyed it.David In Waleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12442479878591522298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-21161972938783507182019-05-21T10:02:35.135+03:002019-05-21T10:02:35.135+03:00Yes, indeed. I am not sure, though, that Waugh'...Yes, indeed. I am not sure, though, that Waugh's personal appearance has any bearing on the truth of the remark I quoted.<br /><br />https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/disgusting-ear-trumpet-is-blast-from-waugh-s-past-w8s65qqnfPolitical Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-84995810326895348402019-05-21T09:57:40.569+03:002019-05-21T09:57:40.569+03:00Catholic bishops strongly supported General Franco...Catholic bishops strongly supported General Franco in the Spanish Civil War and he was far right. They strongly De Valera who was as nationalist as you can get. Wanting to leave the EU and stop immigration are not far right or even nationalist.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-9678601961223113632019-05-21T09:54:23.081+03:002019-05-21T09:54:23.081+03:00At my recommendation? From where did you borrow it...At my recommendation? From where did you borrow it, if I am not being too inquisitive?Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-86281152621107122082019-05-21T09:52:38.234+03:002019-05-21T09:52:38.234+03:00Kingsley Amis was an alcoholic which is a painful ...Kingsley Amis was an alcoholic which is a painful and boring thing to be, but he made a very good point when he said: “No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home in Weston-super-Mare" Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-86650661387444683832019-05-21T09:50:21.782+03:002019-05-21T09:50:21.782+03:00It would be good to hear why he thinks this is so ...It would be good to hear why he thinks this is so and why he elides greater job opportunities for women with homosexual marriage and much more immigration. These things are discrete.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-77984227334385369862019-05-21T09:48:23.881+03:002019-05-21T09:48:23.881+03:00Very interesting. I wish I had studied this period...Very interesting. I wish I had studied this period. And the Nazis were also great believers in a European economic union.<br /><br />In 1990 Nicholas Ridley famously called European Monetary Union 'A German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe' - a remark he did not expect Dominic Lawson to print - and had to resign from Margaret Thatcher's cabinet for doing so.Political Refugee from the Global Villagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-10845353256369444722019-05-21T07:32:41.303+03:002019-05-21T07:32:41.303+03:00"We must create a Central European Economic A..."We must create a Central European Economic Association through common customs treaties to include France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Austria-Hungary and perhaps Italy, Sweden and Norway. This association will not have any common constitutional supreme authority and all members will be formally equal but in practice under German leadership and must stabilise Germany’s dominance over central Europe”.<br /><br />Imperial Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg on 9 September 1914<br />https://campaignforanindependentbritain.org.uk/witness-to-history/Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-89343500543889794302019-05-21T07:19:25.129+03:002019-05-21T07:19:25.129+03:00The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ireland re...The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ireland released a statement on Monday ahead of European elections this week, reminding voters of the Christian values which motivated the founding of the European Union. The Bishops also warn voters of the rise of populism and address the Irish concerns over Brexit.<br /><br />https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/37137Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-51966419663679295882019-05-21T03:39:59.264+03:002019-05-21T03:39:59.264+03:00In recent decades, we have seen dramatic changes i...<em>In recent decades, we have seen dramatic changes in the nature of our society – changes which, I would argue, are overwhelmingly positive. </em><br /><br />But he doesn't argue it does he? He merely asserts it. These changes are good because I say so.<br /><br />That's political debate today.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-34765475065346370872019-05-20T16:49:50.374+03:002019-05-20T16:49:50.374+03:00'England and America didn’t let Germany conque...'England and America didn’t let Germany conquer Europe'<br /><br />What precipitated the entry of the Americans in the First World War was a telegram sent at the time by Zimmerman, the German Foreign Minister to his Ambassador in Mexico. Everything would have been O.K. for the Germans but for the inquisitiveness of British intelligence who managed to break the German cipher. The text of the telegram was amazing. It started by telling the Mexican government of the German intention to start unrestricted submarine warfare, and then went on:<br /><br />“We make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona…”<br /><br />The ambassador was further instructed to contact the Mexican President if war broke out and to ask for his services to recruit Japan into the alliance. Japan’s reward, although this was not in the telegram, would have been the State of California.<br /><br />https://www.thearticle.com/the-telegraph-reshaped-international-politics-heres-how#Tomahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14355268309169462651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-14968103710260475862019-05-20T16:01:36.171+03:002019-05-20T16:01:36.171+03:00"Fat, pigeyed alcoholic and dyspeptic"
..."Fat, pigeyed alcoholic and dyspeptic"<br /><br />Sounds French to me:<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gérard_DepardieuDavid In Waleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12442479878591522298noreply@blogger.com