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Should Anyone Be Forced To Apologise For Something That They Said Over 30 Years Ago?
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We were getting on so well Zacs ! Agreeing and all that !
This is probably off-topic but I am looking forward to the Tory Party tearing itself apart over the European issue over the next 19 month - two years. They will do that with or without Corbyns help.
I suspect John Mmmmmmajors Bar Stewards never went away !
This is probably off-topic but I am looking forward to the Tory Party tearing itself apart over the European issue over the next 19 month - two years. They will do that with or without Corbyns help.
I suspect John Mmmmmmajors Bar Stewards never went away !
This was the subject on the radio this morning, and a black fellow phoned in and said the reason that blacks riot at the least occasion is because of the way they have been treated in the past, and of course mentioned slavery as one example.
When are they going to put all that in the past and move on, or could it really be that it is inborn into their particular culture and has nothing to do with slavery at all?
When are they going to put all that in the past and move on, or could it really be that it is inborn into their particular culture and has nothing to do with slavery at all?
Oliver Letwin has the potential to be as damaging to the Tories as Corbyn is to Labour. He must have something on somebody or he surely would not be in the office he is in. A few snippets from https:/
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In December 2015 Letwin apologised for "the offence caused" when he argued that setting up a £10m communities programme to tackle inner-city problems would do little more than “subsidise Rastafarian arts and crafts workshops" stating that black "entrepreneurs will set up in the disco and drug trade" he made in cabinet in 1985 released under the 30 years rule.
According to official government documents from 1985, released in December 2014, Letwin recommended the Prime Minister to "use Scotland as a trail-blazer for the pure residence charge", i.e. the controversial Community Charge or 'Poll tax', having trialled it there first, and to implement it nationwide should "the exemplifications prove... it is feasible."
During the campaign for the 2001 general election, Letwin expressed an aspiration to curtail future public spending by £20 billion per annum relative to the plans of the Labour government. When this proposal came under attack as regressive, Letwin found few allies among his colleagues prepared to defend it, and adopted a low profile for the remainder of the campaign. He famously went into 'hiding' during the 2001 election, and for some time after the election.
The Daily Telegraph reported in 2009 that Letwin agreed to repay a bill for £2,145 for replacing a leaking pipe under the tennis court at his constituency home in Dorset, which he had claimed on his parliamentary expenses.
In October 2011 the Daily Mirror reported a story that Letwin had thrown away more than 100 secret government documents in public bins in St. James's Park, with no real care to dispose of them properly. Enquiries made by the Information Commissioner's Office found that Letwin did not dispose of any government documents; they were in fact his constituents' personal and confidential letters to him. Letwin later apologised for his actions.
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In December 2015 Letwin apologised for "the offence caused" when he argued that setting up a £10m communities programme to tackle inner-city problems would do little more than “subsidise Rastafarian arts and crafts workshops" stating that black "entrepreneurs will set up in the disco and drug trade" he made in cabinet in 1985 released under the 30 years rule.
According to official government documents from 1985, released in December 2014, Letwin recommended the Prime Minister to "use Scotland as a trail-blazer for the pure residence charge", i.e. the controversial Community Charge or 'Poll tax', having trialled it there first, and to implement it nationwide should "the exemplifications prove... it is feasible."
During the campaign for the 2001 general election, Letwin expressed an aspiration to curtail future public spending by £20 billion per annum relative to the plans of the Labour government. When this proposal came under attack as regressive, Letwin found few allies among his colleagues prepared to defend it, and adopted a low profile for the remainder of the campaign. He famously went into 'hiding' during the 2001 election, and for some time after the election.
The Daily Telegraph reported in 2009 that Letwin agreed to repay a bill for £2,145 for replacing a leaking pipe under the tennis court at his constituency home in Dorset, which he had claimed on his parliamentary expenses.
In October 2011 the Daily Mirror reported a story that Letwin had thrown away more than 100 secret government documents in public bins in St. James's Park, with no real care to dispose of them properly. Enquiries made by the Information Commissioner's Office found that Letwin did not dispose of any government documents; they were in fact his constituents' personal and confidential letters to him. Letwin later apologised for his actions.
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