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| steve1984 08 Dec 18 1.36pm | |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
This process should have been headed by a Brexiter and frankly without one we haven't had a real negotiation... Was watching my former boss Greg Dyke on Sky News last night (cries of Labour rent boy incoming). He argued very persuasively that what we are witnessing is British parliamentary sovereignty in action. MPs are elected not to do what people tell them to do but to act in the country's best interest. There's no majority for Brexit in parliament. MPs are listening to the arguements for and against, ignoring party loyalties and the whip and deciding for themselves upon the best course of action.
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 Stirlingsays  08 Dec 18 1.37pm |
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Originally posted by steve1984
No you (plural) hound people by referring to them for example as Labour rent boys instead.
Edited by steve1984 (08 Dec 2018 1.30pm)
I'm ok with things getting a bit heated personally as long as there's no swearing and people don't hold grudges.....perhaps that's a bit naivete of me though. I've recently been told twice now, on here, that I shouldn't be allowed around children.....pretty bad stuff....though at least that second time it specified educationally....still a bit off though. I think we all need to grow slightly more thicker skins personally.....it's far better than the alternative of turning the Internet into something akin to cable TV. Edited by Stirlingsays (08 Dec 2018 1.38pm)
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| steve1984 08 Dec 18 1.38pm | |
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I stand by what I said about you teaching history. As I understand it on a previous occasion someone (possibly you) jumped to the conclusion that a teacher were being accused of being a kiddie fiddler. Which I'm led to believe wasn't the case. Having said that I've got better things to do than trawl through the thread in question to see exactly what was said. Edited by steve1984 (08 Dec 2018 1.41pm)
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| Stirlingsays 08 Dec 18 1.42pm |
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Originally posted by steve1984
Was watching my former boss Greg Dyke on Sky News last night (cries of Labour rent boy incoming). He argued very persuasively that what we are witnessing is British parliamentary sovereignty in action. MPs are elected not to do what people tell them to do but to act in the country's best interest. There's no majority for Brexit in parliament. MPs are listening to the arguements for and against, ignoring party loyalties and the whip and deciding for themselves upon the best course of action. There's a sense in which this is true of course......much as we can say that parliament voting itself out of relevance is an exercise in parliamentary sovereignty......The EU being a gravy train for a lot of them of course. As for Greg Dyke......lets just say....I don't think very highly of the guy's politics.
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| Badger11 Beckenham 08 Dec 18 1.42pm |
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Originally posted by steve1984
Was watching my former boss Greg Dyke on Sky News last night (cries of Labour rent boy incoming). He argued very persuasively that what we are witnessing is British parliamentary sovereignty in action. MPs are elected not to do what people tell them to do but to act in the country's best interest. There's no majority for Brexit in parliament. MPs are listening to the arguements for and against, ignoring party loyalties and the whip and deciding for themselves upon the best course of action. Exactly which is why the country was offered a referendum in the first place. The only times we have been offered a vote is when parliament and the major parties are split on an issue. If parliament is now going to ignore the will of the people then they should never have agreed to a referendum in the first place. Parliament is split because as you say many MPs are Remianers whilst their constituents are Leavers.
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| steve1984 08 Dec 18 1.45pm | |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
..and what about him taking Blair's bullet over the sexed up case for WMD? Or does his politics cloud your judgement regarding that affair?
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| Stirlingsays 08 Dec 18 1.47pm |
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Originally posted by steve1984
I stand by what I said about you teaching history. As I understand it on a previous occasion someone (possibly you) jumped to the conclusion that a teacher were being accused of being a kiddie fiddler. Which I'm led to believe wasn't the case. Having said that I've got better things to do than trawl through the thread in question to see exactly what was said. Edited by steve1984 (08 Dec 2018 1.41pm)
You were out of order then and not a bit hypocritical I might add. Still, I'm over it. Edited by Stirlingsays (08 Dec 2018 1.50pm)
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| Stirlingsays 08 Dec 18 1.50pm |
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Originally posted by steve1984
..and what about him taking Blair's bullet over the sexed up case for WMD? Or does his politics cloud your judgement regarding that affair? While I wouldn't say one is as bad as the other.....let's just say that I'm glad that Dyke was ditched. I'm sure he's wealthy enough...the hypocrites always are.
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| steve1984 08 Dec 18 1.51pm | |
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Originally posted by Badger11
If parliament is now going to ignore the will of the people then they should never have agreed to a referendum in the first place. Parliament is split because as you say many MPs are Remianers whilst their constituents are Leavers. Don't expect me to come to the defence of the referendum. I'm not gonna sully these boards by banging about it only being advisory. The tories clearly said that they'd act on the result. But in the final analysis our sovereign parliament is the highest authority in the land and if you want to oppose that then actually you are opposing our sovereignty.
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| steve1984 08 Dec 18 1.56pm | |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
when you give out slurs on a person's suitability to teach......which I did for years with no issues.
I'm not slurring you. I'm sure you are / were a very good teacher. But if you were teaching children about Britain's historical role in for example the partition of Ireland, I'd have some concerns that you wouldn't paint a appropriately balanced picture. Of course I might be wrong (remember that bit?) But they're my concerns nonetheless.
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| steve1984 08 Dec 18 1.57pm | |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
I'm sure he's wealthy enough...the hypocrites always are. I can confirm that well before he worked for the FA he was minted.
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| Stirlingsays 08 Dec 18 2.03pm |
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Originally posted by steve1984
I'm not slurring you. I'm sure you are / were a very good teacher. But if you were teaching children about Britain's historical role in for example the partition of Ireland, I'd have some concerns that you wouldn't paint a appropriately balanced picture. Of course I might be wrong (remember that bit?) But they're my concerns nonetheless. Well, to be frank, without any evidence you shouldn't really be casting aspersions about people's professional lives. History was not my topic area but on the rare occasions I did cover for it I wasn't interested in pursuing ideology, my own nor anybody else's. I'm very much against teachers like that. Students should be taught how to think critically, not what to think.
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