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making this my pinned so everyone knows what they signed up for

“Ted Heath was a nonce-” No he fucking wasn’t.

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ages ago someone pissed me off by joking heath supported the nazis because they thought it was a funny thing to joke about and heath remains the big hate figure of prime ministers. so. have this.

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I have officially reached my worst creation

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do you think the high-profile/effective backbencher is a lost art?

I don’t know what to answer other than I mean I miss dennis skinner

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the moral dimension is so peak i love that it was inspired by rl jim (callaghan's) antics

I think I’ve heard that before? Most normal Jim story

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rather self-serving ask but any favourite ym/ypm moments?

uhhhhhhhh hmmmm what comes to mind. i mean my favourite episode is the moral dimension

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Asks always open!

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Anyway this blog is anti generative AI. This includes the creation and reposting of images or text. Use your brain, that thing has been proven to rot critical thinking. Stop harming the environment and use editing softwares or collages. Draw something. Stop promoting slop and support real humans in this capitalistic hellscape. We all worked fine without generative AI before.

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Hahahahaha anyway everyone look at the 1975 Oxford Union debate team

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is this a safe space to say I’m ill about political dramas as well. like I think I’m the number one house of cards franchise liker out there

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in case anyone’s up for talking about political dramas, my favourites are house of cards (both uk and us as well as the books o7) and scandal abc, but I also like the new statesman and yes minister

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is this a safe space to say I’m ill about political dramas as well. like I think I’m the number one house of cards franchise liker out there

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Joseph Chamberlain in regards to the Radical Programme // Neville Chamberlain in regards to peace talks

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i had a dream the night before my exam that i was in the exam hall and I was really stressed but then ted heath came up behind me and put his big fat hand on my shoulder and then I knew all the answers

I’m sorry????? HELP

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anything to do w operation midland in relation to heath

Tbf Midland was revealed as a hoax, so I can’t add anything on here in detail that isn’t already on the internet. Here’s the Guardian.

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ted conspiracy i've seen: allocations of sexual abuse of boys on his yachts

See this one is really funny because it is so easy to debunk.

Okay so first of all I should note where this theory comes from. From my understanding, this theory originates from an allegation later repeated in the Mirror. Here’s that specific allegation, because I will explain why I really doubt this story.

But in summary, this woman claimed she saw 11 boys from Jersey’s notorious child abuse residence board the boat, and later only 10 getting off. What I find odd is that you would count them in the first place. Now, the man she talks about in question said this had happened before, which okay seems really odd that you have a literal politician here who somehow already… knows this story? I think it’s different when you have someone who actually has the power to investigate something. And remember, Heath was NOT the Establishment. He hated it, they hated him.

I honestly don’t think he even had connections with Jersey. The only mention of it in his autobiography is connected to Morning Cloud 1, yes, but here’s the thing: he had already sold it at that point. It was no longer his. And the woman says this happened around the early 70s, which seems reasonable, but… Heath sold 1 in 1970. He couldn’t have been on that one at all. Is it possible that the new Morning Cloud, now Nuage de Matin, could have been a vessel for abuse? I mean. I don’t know. Maybe? But Heath couldn’t have been on it. And early 70s? He was Prime Minister then. Where would he get the time to do this, as it’s implied, multiple times?

And adding on further - let’s say the stars aligned, Heath had time to go to Jersey and do this. He wouldn’t have. Morning Cloud crew easily testified that he never used the boats for anything but racing. Not even a cruise. The only time he ever used the boat for anything other than racing, according to Andrew Roth’s biography (especially good as a primary source as it came out in the seventies), was to transport it, and then afterwards he decided that he would just get a transport crew instead. He was an extremely serious man when it came to sailing. Even years later, there were Lords testifying that he refused to let even his close friends on the boats because he was nervous they would mess about with the mechanisms. Let alone kids - these are working environments too.

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always take suggestions :>

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"She doesn't flirt," says a male Conservative MP who, like many others I speak to, does not want to be quoted on the record for fear of stoking talk around any leadership bid this close to an election. "She doesn't use sex as a weapon. Thatcher did, by all accounts. Theresa is almost asexual. I think we're dealing with a mature, wise, experienced and competent politician but what she lacks, I think, is warmth and personality on first meeting."

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If I had a pound for every time a Conservative postwar prime minister was asexual I’d have two pounds or something