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T_i_B

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3. We are at a stage now....

Reply to LeftishBrit (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 4, 2023, 11:22 PM

Apr 2023

...where my generation is getting into power. The Prime Minister is younger than me, and I grew up knowing Oliver Coppard, who is now the Mayor of Sheffield.

To be honest, as long as there exists a market for spiteful, bigoted politics there will be grifters who seek to ride that bandwagon. The question is how to attract the decent people into politics and it isn't an easy one.

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