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timmy
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British politician - his sexuality led to an amusing slogan
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Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I can't take this one up myself, so let me help others: he came after Jo Grimond and before David Steele. (If I am wrong, Timmy will correct me!)
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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timmy
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hahahahahahahhaaa. I didn't know Grimond and Steel came anywhere near him
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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It's Jeremy Thorpe and the slogan I remember was:
"I'll be buggered if I'll become a Liberal."
Hugs
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…had run out.
I'm now logged in again.
Hugs
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I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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timmy wrote:
> hahahahahahahhaaa. I didn't know Grimond and Steel came anywhere near him<
Shame on you! The fact that Jo Grimond never came anywhere near to becoming Britain's PM is one of the geater losses of British politics in 20th century. (Him, together with Hugh Gaitskill.) For all he is "one of ours" I really don't think that the political demise of Jeremy Thorpe was a great loss. Like you and me, he was born too early.
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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cossie
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Delighted that you appreciate the merits of my fairly close relative Hugh, but the name's Gaitskell, not Gaitskill - though I must acknowledge that it originates from Gatesgill, a village in North Cumberland. He was indeed a humble intellectual, if that's not a contradiction in terms!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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cossie wrote:
> Delighted that you appreciate the merits of my fairly close relative Hugh, but the name's Gaitskell, not Gaitskill<
My apologies to the shade of Hugh Gaitskell.
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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timmy
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I had a different definition of "came" in mind
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timmy
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Jezza Thorpe it is.
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