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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Stephen McPartland and... · 1 reply · +1 points

But we're talking about buildings that met government standards when built and were therefore legal. The government has since changed the rules, but it can hardly expect the companies to then payout as this is a government action.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Stephen McPartland and... · 0 replies · +1 points

Most large scale builders bypass local authority building control, as they have been entitled to do since the 1990s. The Major government gave them the ability to pick their own provider to sign off their designs as complying with legislation. Those companies were under a legal obligation to enforce the government's rules and not to go further. We're back to this either being a government problem or a leaseholder one

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Stephen McPartland and... · 1 reply · +1 points

It is a slogan stolen from Senile Joe Biden. That should tell you all you need to know

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Daniel Hannan: If a re... · 14 replies · +1 points

So if all the supermarkets, phone companies, airlines, banks, utility providers and all the rest decided to stop sales to Daniel Hannan because they do not like his political views then that is free trade and purely a matter for them?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Why shouldn’t Tories... · 12 replies · +1 points

Twitter is a censored, woke platform. It needs to go and Parler and Gab are part of the answer. It is sad to see the RINOs that are the Conservative party once again selling out, calculating no doubt that if we just never mention our record levels of immigration and never criticise taking the knee or AntiFa that somehow 'we'll be alright', That though is wrong for two reasons. First the Left intend to ban all dissent, no matter how mildly expressed and secondly identity voters (and that's what the Red Wall voters are) will not support an establishment party that agrees with Labour on everything except on the tax treatment of hedge funds.

Also check out Glenn Greenwald (remember him, the Left leaning antiwar journalist who got sacked). As he points out, most of the Capitol protest planning was done on Facebook (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9131977/Parler-squeezed-Trump-seeks-new-online-megaphone.html) . I'd love to see that banned.

Almost all political violence is from the Left. Call that out and do something about that

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The China genocide ame... · 2 replies · +1 points

I suspect you'll find that the human rights abuses of the next few years will be coming from Biden, the crazy people behind him and Big Tech in the suppression of all dissent from their agenda

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The China genocide ame... · 2 replies · +1 points

Agreed in spirit. However the people pushing this are not Remainers. Rather it is Brexiteers, motivated I suspect in part by bitterness at the EU's new investment framework agreement. IDS is leading this.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Harry Fone: Bristol is... · 0 replies · +1 points

The biggest driver of costs in local government is children's social care, the rules for which were all effectively nationalised under arch-centraliser Michael Gove. Now councils have to spend a fortune taking children into care and if they don't, their children's services functions will be stripped from them and placed in a trust answerable only to parliament and which will send them the bill. If you want to do something about the council tax, you have to address these problems first. Gimmicks won't do it.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Gerard Fox & Martin Sm... · 1 reply · +1 points

I'm sure the UK would love a deal like this. It's another have-cake-and-eat-it proposal that the EU would never accept and why should it?

What you're asking for is for the UK to be able to end free movement, financial contributions and the rule of EU law, to change any rules it likes in areas where it thinks it can secure an advantage but then to be treated as part of the EU when it comes to exports cars or licensing chemicals as to do otherwise would damage UK production. That is exactly the sort of cherry picking we've seen promoted by various Brexiteer fantasists for the last four years.

An independent Scotland may be coming. If that happens, would England allow Scottish government bodies to make decisions on the licensing of medicines in England? Would it allow Scottish goods to be exempt from import rules? Were Scotland more competitive in goods delivery and England in insurance, would we allow Scotland to decide to diverge in insurance to keep the English out, while allowing them to carry on their delivery business because they haven't diverged? Of course not. Neither will the EU

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - "That's a lot of death... · 8 replies · +1 points

Six months a year of lockdown this year and every year will condemn hundreds of thousands to die from preventable diseases and from the shrinkage of the health service, which is the inevitable result of destroying the economy.

There's no lockdown for the flu or pneumonia and more die from that.

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