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Very thought provoking.

We certainly need new words for ‘right’ and ‘left’ wing. The ‘left’ seem to have no interest in improving life for the working class- in fact they are terrified to say ‘working class’- instead they obsess about identity politics.

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The modern Critical Social Justice left, the "woke" If you will, despise the working class, and especially the white working class.

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Time for the Scottish Conservatives to break with Head Office if we want to maintain the UK. The Scots won’t tolerate a move to the ‘right’ even though we are a surprisingly conservative county - small ‘c’. Oh yes, we like to think we’re exceptional and ‘progressive’ but that’s nonsense. We’re are thrawn as any right wingers.

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You've probably read Tim Garton Ash's analysis in yesterday's paper but in case you missed it...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/10/elections-europe-danger-eu-ukraine

As he says, just as Britain has finally woken up to the cost of Brexit and is beginning to teeter back towards a more pragmatic relationship with Europe, there’s a serious risk that France may get a hard right Eurosceptic government. Interesting times indeed

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