Category Archives: Politics

Workhouses: did Charles Dickens get it wrong?

Posted on December 16, 2016 by odeboyz

Britain was a swaggeringly confident country in 1834 with a firm belief in laissez-faire economics. Yet they created a tightly regulated centralised welfare system which deleted localised authority by imposing national standards. Every aspect of the new system was laid … Continue reading →

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Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938: Time Magazine

Posted on December 14, 2016 by odeboyz

Time (1939): Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938: “What Adolf Hitler & Co. did to Germany in less than six years was applauded wildly and ecstatically by most Germans… …He lifted the nation from post-War defeatism. Under the swastika … Continue reading →

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President Valery Giscard d’Estaing comments on President Jacques Chirac’s * honesty

Posted on December 13, 2016 by odeboyz

Jacques Chirac could have his mouth full of jam, his lips can be dripping with the stuff, his fingers covered in it, the pot can be standing in front of him. And when you ask him if he’s a jam … Continue reading →

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The Californian referendum on the death penalty: Proposition 62 (8th November 2016)

Posted on December 2, 2016 by odeboyz

California voted on the death penalty through Proposition 62 (8th November 2016) . Currently 31 states in the USA have the death penalty with California a relatively late convert in 1978. Interestingly the November review of that decision rarely strayed … Continue reading →

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A lesson too late for the learning

Posted on November 11, 2016 by odeboyz

The majority of our largely put upon poor residents of the country swallowed a pack of lies over “Brexit” perpetrated by some very prominent (albeit delusional) politicians. They included Johnson, Gove, Davis, and let us not forget those other two … Continue reading →

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Why Donald Trump is popular: he spends his own money!

Posted on November 1, 2016 by odeboyz

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush is our great teacher in this: He and his allies vastly outspent Donald Trump in the Republican primaries, but he won only three delegates to Trump’s 1725. As The Post pointed out, Bush could have … Continue reading →

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Two Brexit maps of the world

Posted on October 25, 2016 by odeboyz

© Nigel Farage: MEP; Donald Trump’s acolyte; suffers from Cecil Rhodes Syndrome.   © Boris Johnson: Foreign Secretary; adulterer; suffers from Winston Churchill Syndrome Chris

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The ‘Cat and Mouse’ Act 1913

Posted on October 21, 2016 by odeboyz

The 1913 Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health) Act was an elegant way of nullifying the women prisoners who were using hunger strikes for publicity. The government was irritated by the suffragette movement (the lesser of two constitutional crises* they faced), … Continue reading →

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The Core Philosophy of Brexiteers

Posted on October 18, 2016 by odeboyz

Boris Johnson                                          Liam Fox                                                 David Davis Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life. (Cecil Rhodes: 19th Century Imperialist) Chris

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Who’d have thought it?

Posted on October 18, 2016 by odeboyz

Chris

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