Comments by "80s Music" (@eightiesmusic1984) on "Nadine Dorries doesn't know how Channel 4 works in embarrassing select committee appearance" video.

I am not sure many in the Conservative Party would know what antithesis means. Is it a type of plant?
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@SanDimas234 Not sure it's available over the counter.
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Worst government since the extension of the vote ( 1918 and 1928). Bar none no matter how dreadful the Conservatives have been under previous leaders.
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@datingdave1310 I am 52 and lived through the eighties and remember well how bad it was. I think she destroyed society and the consequences are still playing out today. I think her anti Europeanism sowed the seeds for the catastrophe of Brexit, which is the last gasp of empire. That said, many in the Conservative Party then were one nation Conservatives, more paternalistic in their outlook and conception of the role of the state. Not all by any means of course. The Johnson iteration of the Conservative Party is really a hard right ( a phrase the media never uses unlike hard left) takeover/ purge of what went before. There can be no excuse for the policies of the 1980s but some of the Conservative Party were motivated by a sense of public service and accepted the post war consensus with Labour. Their world view was shaped by the experience of the Second World War. The Johnson Conservative government is heavily populated with lightweight, unprincipled, dishonest opportunists who have dragged the country into the gutter.
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