Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Tousi TV"
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Hunt might be an intellectual giant, and prove to be the salvation of the UK, but those mad, staring, eyes do tend to be rather alarming, and indicative of a fanatic.
As Cardinal Newman wrote, 'better for sun and moon to drop from Heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions on it to die of starvation in the most extreme agony... than that one soul... should commit one single venial sin, should tell one wilful untruth or should steal one poor farthing.' I suspect Hunt would have a similar approach to his convictions, whilst probably thinking that Newman didn't go nearly far enough.
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@Land-of-reason Which simply present the manifesto commitments (for what they are worth) of the party the candidate represents.
If you think that people vote for the person, not the party, explain this :-
Frank Field, Labour candidate for Birkenhead in 2017, polled 33588 votes, and won a majority of 25514.
He left the Labour party in 2018 because of anti-semitism.
Frank Field, Independent candidate for Birkenhead in 2018, polled 7285 votes, and lost to the Labour candidate, who polled 24990 votes.
Frank Field had been MP for Birkenhead continuously since 1979.
40 YEARS!
Explain again how people vote for the candidate, not the party?
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@Land-of-reason No. I mentioned manifestos, because that is what appears on the leaflets of candidates. I didn't say that the vast majority of people read manifestos, because of course they don't.
You do realise that you are agreeing with me, I suppose? I wrote 'In reality, how many people who vote actually even know the names of the candidates?' Now you say 'Labour voters tend to follow the direction of their parents or partners - group think.' Isn't that agreeing with my argument that people tend to vote for parties, not people?
No, we don't have General Elections because circumstances change. We have them because, at least in theory, we are a democracy, and a self-perpetuating parliament would not be accepted.
The current situation has, at least in my opinion, been brought about by a combination of Johnson simply not following through on those issues which chimed with the northen voters who elected Tory MPs. By which I mean, Levelling Up, Brexit, and Border Controls. Certainly behaving more like an Islington Thinker than a Tory Prime Minister has hardly aided his cause.
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