((I don't care what happened 3 elections ago. You're deliberately stacking the cabinet with all the Labour players to inflate your PP just before an election. It is unsportsmanlike and stop acting as if that's not the issue.))
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((I don't care what happened 3 elections ago. You're deliberately stacking the cabinet with all the Labour players to inflate your PP just before an election. It is unsportsmanlike and stop acting as if that's not the issue.))
((You do realise that the Cabinet has the exact same number of player characters as at the beginning of the session? We lost Bennett, and we gained Epping. That's not 'stacking', and not all the Labour players are in Cabinet. Monaghan moved up to be Home Secretary so a replacement was found for his previous post. That's all. It's extremely petty to complain about this system now when it worked to your advantage one election ago.))
((Sorry if I'm being harsh, but it's incredibly frustrating to switch parties and taking a leadership I never wanted for the sole sake for making the game more balanced when it was becoming dangerously inactive, and getting rewarded with constant IC and OOC shit, and Labour making a surprise alliance with the Liberals last election just for PP, and then making surprise cabinet promotions this election for the exact same reason.))
((Against the 450 majority, yeah.
EDIT: Syriana, check your messages. Probably better to keep the thread clean.))
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((Let me be very clear. No player enforced appointment has ever significantly altered the PP makeup. I've got a system of delays and restraints that ensures any appointment sequence does not descively alter the PP distribution. Neither have my GM mandated changes significantly affected PP either: the last change was coupled with bonuses for the disaffected party. IC posts and other mechanics remain the only techniques for scoring a decisive victory (aside from the addition of new players). Cabinet appointments, furthermore, are generally slashed or tempered during election time, and their effect remains minimal or secondary. They are most useful during the regular legislative session, to gauge factional clout and support for a particular bill.))
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Dodging Devolution:
The Labour Pledge Against Scotland
Published in the Scots Independent
The Labour Pledge Against Scotland
Published in the Scots Independent
In my years of service during the Labour government, it became a shock intially that for a party that claimed, in their own manifesto, to bring forth a "properous Scotland", was able to deliver the most hypocritical stance I had ever witnessed. As the first member of the SNP elected to Parliament during a general election, I must say that my experience there was truly a sight to behold. Labourites and Tories bickering on and on for their core English issues: Lord reform, imperialism, and integration; not to mention the fact that my particular seat in the Coomons was wedged between the raving communists and that raving right-winger. But, the biggest disservice was the constant ignorance of the vital issue of Scottish devolution. I myself had to speak up on an issue that many opposed or hoped to place on the backburner for a decade or two. As shown during the Bennett ministry, Labour failed to act or even clearly address the Scottish Parliament question. That is a question with a simple answer: Yes. The Scottish National Party has restated their goals for a Scottish legislature and ultimate sovereignty of the Scottish people, fiscally and socially, to build and create a strong, free Scotland. Between the Unionists and Labour it has become evident that neither aim for this popular goal. Throughout his administration, the Doctor only attempted to make head on local authoritive reform. Has he no sense of the popular will in our Province? Has he not seen the millions and millions who have signed the Covenant for self-government? So why must we continue putting off what we can successfully do today? In the upcoming election, please ask yourself: Do I want another Labour government to tell me "Maybe next time"? If you are tired of Labour rhetoric and Labour idleness, my colleagues and I are prepared to make your concerns heard loud and clear.
-William MacDougal, SNP MP of East Dundee
-William MacDougal, SNP MP of East Dundee
Closing Remarks by the Rt Hon Sylvia Leighton,
Leader of the Labour Party,
Labour Party Conference
Blackpool, 1963
Leader of the Labour Party,
Labour Party Conference
Blackpool, 1963
"...Under Labour's leadership, Britain has weathered the worst of the international recession. We are now beginning to see the green shoots of recovery. But we must remain vigilant. Only Labour recognises the essential role of the Government in defending our economic welfare. The Conservatives would return this country to the 1930s; they would strip back the State to its skeleton, leaving our economy unprotected and our most vulnerable citizens at the mercy of market forces. Labour has not curtailed the British economy; we have channeled its output into new programmes for the universal uplifting of our society. Prosperity and equality need not run contrary to each other. The only model that balances the material and spiritual welfare of our nation is the social market economy.
When Mr Attlee lead this party into government in 1945, our manifesto stated boldly: "Let us face the future." I believe that single sentence encapsulates all that is wonderful about the Labour movement. It epitomises our reluctance to be bound by the past, and our infinite capacity for renewal. We have recorded many achievements in the past nine years. But we shall not contest this election on past glories. We shall not be complacent. When the people go the polls, we must offer them a new agenda, reinforcing our past successes and embracing new challenges. We must be bold.
We are halfway through this decade. It has been a decade of change, both at home and abroad. In the international sphere, the Empire has transformed into the Commonwealth; equality and international law have substituted themselves for coercion and might makes right. The cause of democracy has been advanced in Spain, even as it has retreated elsewhere. A new world is emerging, one in which Britain shall continue to play a pivotal role. But not as the conqueror and hegemon of yesteryear - but as mediator and leader. It is our values of liberty, equality and democracy that shall distinguish Britain in this new world. They are most clearly expressed at home, as a new generation has risen to maturity. Untainted by the global conflicts of the past, they fight a very different war - on the domestic front, against inequity injustice. I pledge this to our young people: Labour shall not be deaf to your demands. Labour prides itself on representing all citizens, regardless of age, race, sex or creed.
I once said that every manifesto has an ethos. What is Labour's ethos? Power to the people. We shall rigorously pursue the decentralisation of the State. We shall diffuse power throughout the United Kingdom, from Whitehall to the regions, from central bureaucracy to local government. We shall render power accountable and responsive to local needs. In the economic sphere, we shall entrench the rights of working people and improve their representation in management. We shall build the Just Society: one in which every British citizen shares the same rights and opportunities as their peers, enjoys the same fundamental standards of living and quality of life, and where the social diseases of poverty, ignorance and squalor have been swept into the ash-heap of history. This is the future of Britain under Labour: it is a future worth fighting for."
When Mr Attlee lead this party into government in 1945, our manifesto stated boldly: "Let us face the future." I believe that single sentence encapsulates all that is wonderful about the Labour movement. It epitomises our reluctance to be bound by the past, and our infinite capacity for renewal. We have recorded many achievements in the past nine years. But we shall not contest this election on past glories. We shall not be complacent. When the people go the polls, we must offer them a new agenda, reinforcing our past successes and embracing new challenges. We must be bold.
We are halfway through this decade. It has been a decade of change, both at home and abroad. In the international sphere, the Empire has transformed into the Commonwealth; equality and international law have substituted themselves for coercion and might makes right. The cause of democracy has been advanced in Spain, even as it has retreated elsewhere. A new world is emerging, one in which Britain shall continue to play a pivotal role. But not as the conqueror and hegemon of yesteryear - but as mediator and leader. It is our values of liberty, equality and democracy that shall distinguish Britain in this new world. They are most clearly expressed at home, as a new generation has risen to maturity. Untainted by the global conflicts of the past, they fight a very different war - on the domestic front, against inequity injustice. I pledge this to our young people: Labour shall not be deaf to your demands. Labour prides itself on representing all citizens, regardless of age, race, sex or creed.
I once said that every manifesto has an ethos. What is Labour's ethos? Power to the people. We shall rigorously pursue the decentralisation of the State. We shall diffuse power throughout the United Kingdom, from Whitehall to the regions, from central bureaucracy to local government. We shall render power accountable and responsive to local needs. In the economic sphere, we shall entrench the rights of working people and improve their representation in management. We shall build the Just Society: one in which every British citizen shares the same rights and opportunities as their peers, enjoys the same fundamental standards of living and quality of life, and where the social diseases of poverty, ignorance and squalor have been swept into the ash-heap of history. This is the future of Britain under Labour: it is a future worth fighting for."
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As past year's Secretary of State for Health and Social Services, I have seen us do many great things - performed miracles, even, as thousands of our society's poorest have been cured of their "expensive" illnesses with NHS coverage. After ten years of Bennett's guidance, with the Service's funding finally at a good level, we can really see the fruits of our Labour. Yet I have also seen oppurtunity. After all, reform is a gradual process, especially when faced with a large Tory presence in the Commons and Lords. In five more years, Labour could do more for its people than free healthcare. It could do more than provide just the unemployed with a small sum of money. We could make sure that anyone near the poverty line, anyone who goes through a rainy day, anyone at any and all times can provide for their basic needs. No more social isolation of children from poor families. No more bread for dinner to get through the end of a month. No more loans to pay the rent. Not for anyone. A United Kingdom without personal financial hardship, that is my vision.
Together, we can make it reality.
Together, we can make it reality.
*Talfryn Ryley makes an appearance in a televised interview*
Interviewer: "Today we are honored to welcome the Member of Parliament for Monmouth and Shadow Secretary of State for Transportation, Talfryn Ryley to the show."
Ryley: "It's a pleasure of my own, it is."
Interviewer: "Now, Mr. Ryley, you've made quite a name for yourself in the past few years in your support for environmental legislation. Provided that a Conservative Government might find itself in charge after this election, would we be likely to see further pursuit of this policy?"
Ryley: "Of course we would continue to work for the interests of the British people when it comes to the environment. While I am only a Shadow Secretary, Jacobs' work has predated my own in matters of the environment, having brought the Clean Air Act to the fore and would make an excellent Prime Minister on matters of ecological security. Far better than Labour, that's for certain."
Interviewer: "What makes you single our Labour as being the lesser choice on environmental matters?"
Ryley: "What makes me single them out? What have they done to avoid being singled out? The Labour Party has proven to us all in these past few years that they are more concerned with protecting union interests than they are with protecting British fisheries or the people they claim to represent."
Interviewer: "You attack Labour on fighting for union interests, but is it not the case that we should care for and support British workers? Couldn't you be accused of choosing the environment over human lives?"
Ryley: "That's all a misunderstanding. For one, there are a great many British workers who are not unionized and are neglected by the Labourites because of this, but even setting that important contingent aside, it ignores the fact that the environment is our collective property. That, by violating the natural wealth and beauty of this country without a mind to the future, we are not only denying its ownership for future generations, but causing harm to what is, in part, another man's property. Certainly, if you were co-owner of a lot and decided to desecrate it, the other co-owner would be affronted, and blindly ignoring that is not a matter that I can stand for."
Interviewer: "Well, thank you for sharing your perspective with us, Mr. Ryley. Any final comments?"
Ryley: "Oh, I suspect that people will be getting enough of us in the coming weeks as it stands, but I can assure you, the Conservative Party is the party of not only the environment, but the British interest."
Interviewer: "Thank you, Mr. Ryley."
Ryley: "Thank you."
Interviewer: "Today we are honored to welcome the Member of Parliament for Monmouth and Shadow Secretary of State for Transportation, Talfryn Ryley to the show."
Ryley: "It's a pleasure of my own, it is."
Interviewer: "Now, Mr. Ryley, you've made quite a name for yourself in the past few years in your support for environmental legislation. Provided that a Conservative Government might find itself in charge after this election, would we be likely to see further pursuit of this policy?"
Ryley: "Of course we would continue to work for the interests of the British people when it comes to the environment. While I am only a Shadow Secretary, Jacobs' work has predated my own in matters of the environment, having brought the Clean Air Act to the fore and would make an excellent Prime Minister on matters of ecological security. Far better than Labour, that's for certain."
Interviewer: "What makes you single our Labour as being the lesser choice on environmental matters?"
Ryley: "What makes me single them out? What have they done to avoid being singled out? The Labour Party has proven to us all in these past few years that they are more concerned with protecting union interests than they are with protecting British fisheries or the people they claim to represent."
Interviewer: "You attack Labour on fighting for union interests, but is it not the case that we should care for and support British workers? Couldn't you be accused of choosing the environment over human lives?"
Ryley: "That's all a misunderstanding. For one, there are a great many British workers who are not unionized and are neglected by the Labourites because of this, but even setting that important contingent aside, it ignores the fact that the environment is our collective property. That, by violating the natural wealth and beauty of this country without a mind to the future, we are not only denying its ownership for future generations, but causing harm to what is, in part, another man's property. Certainly, if you were co-owner of a lot and decided to desecrate it, the other co-owner would be affronted, and blindly ignoring that is not a matter that I can stand for."
Interviewer: "Well, thank you for sharing your perspective with us, Mr. Ryley. Any final comments?"
Ryley: "Oh, I suspect that people will be getting enough of us in the coming weeks as it stands, but I can assure you, the Conservative Party is the party of not only the environment, but the British interest."
Interviewer: "Thank you, Mr. Ryley."
Ryley: "Thank you."
"... Labour can't have it both ways. They cannot expel Bennett for unpopularity with the electorate, but then take credit for his 'guidance'. Mr. Harwick, a Labour Minister, cannot resign from his government stating the failures of Labour's foreign policy as a reason, but then immediately back Labour's own Foreign Secretary, whom directed that policy personally, as Prime Minister. The Labour Party is a jumbled mess of competing factions, conflicting personalities, bound only by the desire to gain and retain power. I for one cannot, in good conscienceness, allow a Government to come into power which has become so unstable that we cannot definitely say the Prime Minister they put forward today will not be replaced, if elected, two years into their own term. We cannot know for certain if that if they preach a gospel of moderation in this election that it will not face internal upheaval from the Party's socialist left - we cannot know for certain if a Labour government can even pass the legislation in their manifesto any more. This country deserves better than that.
But I do not intend to win this election by simply denigrating the Government's failures - I intend to convince this country by presenting a credible alternative to the status quo of division, uncertainty, and stagnation.
This country needs a Government which is not afraid to make tough decisions to ensure a healthy economic recovery, and a Government which values the civic necessity of national pride and upholds our greatest traditions. This country needs freedom of opportunity, so that any British subject, regardless of origin, can work his way to the highest positions in this nation - one only needs to look at our Home Secretary, Mr. Chipps, to see how far the working class can rise under the auspices of the Conservative Party. The country needs a Government which not only will take action in the economy to protect our interests - as our proposed environmental measures have shown - but a Government which also respects the necessity and freedom of the Private sector and does not prioritise other sectors over the Private workforce, both employer and employee. We need less capital going away from those who earned it and towards the state, and more directly in the hands of the people who worked hard for it. But what it needs most of all is a United Government which the public can trust to put forward their case in Parliament, without asterisk or equivocation.
No more broken promises, no more division, no more uncertainty. That is what the Conservative Alternative brings to the British people."
But I do not intend to win this election by simply denigrating the Government's failures - I intend to convince this country by presenting a credible alternative to the status quo of division, uncertainty, and stagnation.
This country needs a Government which is not afraid to make tough decisions to ensure a healthy economic recovery, and a Government which values the civic necessity of national pride and upholds our greatest traditions. This country needs freedom of opportunity, so that any British subject, regardless of origin, can work his way to the highest positions in this nation - one only needs to look at our Home Secretary, Mr. Chipps, to see how far the working class can rise under the auspices of the Conservative Party. The country needs a Government which not only will take action in the economy to protect our interests - as our proposed environmental measures have shown - but a Government which also respects the necessity and freedom of the Private sector and does not prioritise other sectors over the Private workforce, both employer and employee. We need less capital going away from those who earned it and towards the state, and more directly in the hands of the people who worked hard for it. But what it needs most of all is a United Government which the public can trust to put forward their case in Parliament, without asterisk or equivocation.
No more broken promises, no more division, no more uncertainty. That is what the Conservative Alternative brings to the British people."
PRESS BRIEFING
"Labour is Lead by the People"
Cross-Country Campaign
21st-30th March, 1964
Labour Party
Intinerary
"Labour is Lead by the People"
Cross-Country Campaign
21st-30th March, 1964
Labour Party
Intinerary
Plymouth
Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport
"Seapower and International Peace"
Oxford
University of Oxford Union
"Empowering Young People"
Birmingham
Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce
"Industrial Co-operation and Economic Stability"
Liverpool
Royal Liver Building
"Defending our Dockyards"
Manchester
Town Hall
"Citizenship and Social Justice"
Carlisle
State Management Scheme
"Bridging the Borders"
Glasgow
Mitchell Theatre
"Keeping Coal and Steel in Safe Hands"
Belfast
City Hall
"Peace, Prosperity and Good Government"
Edinburgh
Balmoral Hotel
"Direct Devolution"
Newcastle
City Hall
"Power to the Regions"
Durham
University of Durham Union Society
"Expanding Education and Providing Opportunities"
Leeds
Corn Exchange
"National Communications"
Sheffield
Sheffield Arena
"Fighting for the Future"
Cardiff
Coal Exchange
"Workplace Democracy"
London
Royal Institute of International Affairs
"Great Britain in the Brave New World"
Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport
"Seapower and International Peace"
Oxford
University of Oxford Union
"Empowering Young People"
Birmingham
Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce
"Industrial Co-operation and Economic Stability"
Liverpool
Royal Liver Building
"Defending our Dockyards"
Manchester
Town Hall
"Citizenship and Social Justice"
Carlisle
State Management Scheme
"Bridging the Borders"
Glasgow
Mitchell Theatre
"Keeping Coal and Steel in Safe Hands"
Belfast
City Hall
"Peace, Prosperity and Good Government"
Edinburgh
Balmoral Hotel
"Direct Devolution"
Newcastle
City Hall
"Power to the Regions"
Durham
University of Durham Union Society
"Expanding Education and Providing Opportunities"
Leeds
Corn Exchange
"National Communications"
Sheffield
Sheffield Arena
"Fighting for the Future"
Cardiff
Coal Exchange
"Workplace Democracy"
London
Royal Institute of International Affairs
"Great Britain in the Brave New World"
Before embarking on the Cross-Country Campaign, Sylvia Leighton held a press conference outside Downing Street, making the following statement...
"Anyone who looks at the Tories of today – divided between discredited One-Nationism, undigested National Liberalism and pseudo-socialist Christian 'Fellowship' – and sees a united, credible alternative is either mad or Ted Jacobs.
I will not say that the past nine years have been without rough sailing. No government has endured for such a time without encountering difficulties. But contrary to Mr Jacobs’ insinuation, I do not intend to tie myself to the mast of Dr Bennett. That was the past, and this is the present. Let the people of this country judge Labour on its new leadership and its new agenda.
I find it rather bemusing that a millionaire like Mr Jacobs would champion the humble roots of his Cabinet. The Tories may admit the token working-class candidate to their front-bench, but we all know how they really feel about the ‘common folk’. If they truly wished to improve the representation of working people, they would be defending their rights in the workplace, not vilifying their representative unions.
We know exactly what tough decisions the Tories would make: sloth and inaction. Under Mr Eden, the Conservatives enjoyed their largest mandate since 1931. Yet you could count the legislation that was passed in that time on one hand. The Tories prevaricated in government until they were duly ejected by the electorate. How can we expect them to achieve the momentous reforms that Britain urgently requires? Only Labour has the will to do what must be done."
I will not say that the past nine years have been without rough sailing. No government has endured for such a time without encountering difficulties. But contrary to Mr Jacobs’ insinuation, I do not intend to tie myself to the mast of Dr Bennett. That was the past, and this is the present. Let the people of this country judge Labour on its new leadership and its new agenda.
I find it rather bemusing that a millionaire like Mr Jacobs would champion the humble roots of his Cabinet. The Tories may admit the token working-class candidate to their front-bench, but we all know how they really feel about the ‘common folk’. If they truly wished to improve the representation of working people, they would be defending their rights in the workplace, not vilifying their representative unions.
We know exactly what tough decisions the Tories would make: sloth and inaction. Under Mr Eden, the Conservatives enjoyed their largest mandate since 1931. Yet you could count the legislation that was passed in that time on one hand. The Tories prevaricated in government until they were duly ejected by the electorate. How can we expect them to achieve the momentous reforms that Britain urgently requires? Only Labour has the will to do what must be done."
Small public statement to attack the new Labour leader Leighton, who stood for the most right-wing Labour in decades
"Across Europe, no party since the war has betrayed the electorate and renegated it's origins as much as the Labour Party has done after 1945 with Atlee, Bennett and now Leighton. The Prime Minister and her administration are those who have weakened British independence, refused a path towards Socialism and are responsible for the immense suffering of the Spanish people, victims of the Pime Minister and her allies personal aims of imposing their bellicist and pro-US philosophy. With a continued mandate for this government, those in power will continue to do their best to dismantle and destroy the Labour Movement. Capitalism and imperialism are the two core tenants of Leighton's philosophy, together with her traditional class-collaboration where she has fueled and innovated new Toryist ideas.
United against these ideas and the militant manner the Prime Minister is implementing them and defending a capitalist system our struggle for democracy, independence and socialism shall continue. During the campaign of these General Elections, I will as the leader of the Communist Party travel across Britain and continue in the spirit of the initiatives and movements launched during the summer of 1960. Let us together continue this popular initiative during this campaign, for the Labour Movement of Britain!"
- Jarlath Connor, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, MP for Dagenham
"Across Europe, no party since the war has betrayed the electorate and renegated it's origins as much as the Labour Party has done after 1945 with Atlee, Bennett and now Leighton. The Prime Minister and her administration are those who have weakened British independence, refused a path towards Socialism and are responsible for the immense suffering of the Spanish people, victims of the Pime Minister and her allies personal aims of imposing their bellicist and pro-US philosophy. With a continued mandate for this government, those in power will continue to do their best to dismantle and destroy the Labour Movement. Capitalism and imperialism are the two core tenants of Leighton's philosophy, together with her traditional class-collaboration where she has fueled and innovated new Toryist ideas.
United against these ideas and the militant manner the Prime Minister is implementing them and defending a capitalist system our struggle for democracy, independence and socialism shall continue. During the campaign of these General Elections, I will as the leader of the Communist Party travel across Britain and continue in the spirit of the initiatives and movements launched during the summer of 1960. Let us together continue this popular initiative during this campaign, for the Labour Movement of Britain!"
- Jarlath Connor, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, MP for Dagenham
"The incredible clutching at straws with which Ms. Leighton tries to identify loose groups of opinion within the Conservative Party, none of which - unlike the factionalism in Labour - have ever threatened the stability of the party, and Ms. Leighton's continued insistence on bringing up Mr. Eden's long-dead Ministry, only goes to demonstrate how dangerously out of touch the Labour establishment is with political reality. Labour have proven they can no longer pass their own agenda, and the fact of the matter is that they cannot be trusted to run the country."
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Speech at the Friends of Israel Society, in Jacob's home constituency of Chelsea, in London.
"The Conservative Party, both under my leadership and the preceding Gibbons' leadership, has worked tirelessly to ensure that all vestiges of antisemitism have been expelled from the political mainstream. We have ensured that those who hold those views have been forced to the political sidelines, discredited and mocked. And I will continue to tirelessly fight to ensure that those of the Jewish faith will never face demonisation or estrangement in this country.
However, that is not enough. I recognise the necessity of the Jewish race to have a state and homeland of their own, after the widespread persecution that have faced for centuries as a people in exile. That homeland is Israel, and this country, in 1947, recognised this by creating the Dominion of Israel. A second state for the Arab inhabitants of the Holy Land, Palestine, was also created, which ensured both communities would have control over their own affairs in separation, whilst externally having friendly relations between states.
The current Prime Minister during her stint as Foreign Minister, as many of the members of this society remember, had attempted to force an unwanted and unneeded settlement in the Holy Land, forcing the Israeli state into an unwanted marriage with the Palestinian one. To patronise two races of people - both the Arabs and the Israelis - by telling them that they cannot be trusted with a nation of their own and must be merged into a single Federation, speaks of an incredible naivety. Neither nation would have benefited from such an arrangement - it would have ensured that such a Federation would be plagued by sectarianism, and would have been to the detriment to every citizen of such a Federation. I voted against the proposal then, and I will fight any one-state solution in the future. If Labour is elected, I have no doubt that Leighton would once again try to undermine the integrity of Israel.
When the Israeli state attempted to assert it's sovereignty, she denigrated the people of Israel - describing a Jewish state as "absolute folly". This utter disdain which she had shown the Israeli people demonstrates her signature lack of tact at best, and a latent antisemitism at worst. It is only thanks to the substantial pressure by the international and domestic community that Israel was allowed to remain a free state, unhampered by Ms. Leighton's imposed whims. And so we now have the current situation - a once stable and peaceful land now tense, thanks to an incredibly poor policy by the previous Government which has left borders vague, grudges high, and has left communities torn apart. This will ultimately lead to conflict in the Holy Land, and it is this which is Labour's greatest shame.
What I, and the Conservative Party, want is both the Israeli nation and the Palestinian nation to each have their own separate state - not some imposed Federal Canaanite identity - equal in legitimacy and integrity, with friendly relations with their neighbours and defined borders. I want such an Israeli state to have good relations with the United Kingdom, and to repair the damage done to the esteem of Britain in Israel which had been done by Labour, by supporting Israel's continued existence as an independent nation. This two-state solution is the only way to ensure that the Holy Land has long term stability, and the ultimate safety of all Jewish and Arab peoples in the region."
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Speech at the Friends of Israel Society, in Jacob's home constituency of Chelsea, in London.
"The Conservative Party, both under my leadership and the preceding Gibbons' leadership, has worked tirelessly to ensure that all vestiges of antisemitism have been expelled from the political mainstream. We have ensured that those who hold those views have been forced to the political sidelines, discredited and mocked. And I will continue to tirelessly fight to ensure that those of the Jewish faith will never face demonisation or estrangement in this country.
However, that is not enough. I recognise the necessity of the Jewish race to have a state and homeland of their own, after the widespread persecution that have faced for centuries as a people in exile. That homeland is Israel, and this country, in 1947, recognised this by creating the Dominion of Israel. A second state for the Arab inhabitants of the Holy Land, Palestine, was also created, which ensured both communities would have control over their own affairs in separation, whilst externally having friendly relations between states.
The current Prime Minister during her stint as Foreign Minister, as many of the members of this society remember, had attempted to force an unwanted and unneeded settlement in the Holy Land, forcing the Israeli state into an unwanted marriage with the Palestinian one. To patronise two races of people - both the Arabs and the Israelis - by telling them that they cannot be trusted with a nation of their own and must be merged into a single Federation, speaks of an incredible naivety. Neither nation would have benefited from such an arrangement - it would have ensured that such a Federation would be plagued by sectarianism, and would have been to the detriment to every citizen of such a Federation. I voted against the proposal then, and I will fight any one-state solution in the future. If Labour is elected, I have no doubt that Leighton would once again try to undermine the integrity of Israel.
When the Israeli state attempted to assert it's sovereignty, she denigrated the people of Israel - describing a Jewish state as "absolute folly". This utter disdain which she had shown the Israeli people demonstrates her signature lack of tact at best, and a latent antisemitism at worst. It is only thanks to the substantial pressure by the international and domestic community that Israel was allowed to remain a free state, unhampered by Ms. Leighton's imposed whims. And so we now have the current situation - a once stable and peaceful land now tense, thanks to an incredibly poor policy by the previous Government which has left borders vague, grudges high, and has left communities torn apart. This will ultimately lead to conflict in the Holy Land, and it is this which is Labour's greatest shame.
What I, and the Conservative Party, want is both the Israeli nation and the Palestinian nation to each have their own separate state - not some imposed Federal Canaanite identity - equal in legitimacy and integrity, with friendly relations with their neighbours and defined borders. I want such an Israeli state to have good relations with the United Kingdom, and to repair the damage done to the esteem of Britain in Israel which had been done by Labour, by supporting Israel's continued existence as an independent nation. This two-state solution is the only way to ensure that the Holy Land has long term stability, and the ultimate safety of all Jewish and Arab peoples in the region."
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Mr. Jacobs seems unwilling to understand that the resignation of Dr. Bennett has left the Labour Party factionless and united under a strong and visionary platform, which is to be published shortly. If he wishes to posit a coherent argument that there is anything more than civil discourse between members of Labour, that our Party is not more united than ever under the strong and capable leadership of a proven politician like Sylvia Leighton, then he is free to do so - but as of now, he has presented nothing but a rambling oration on events a year past.
The Labour Party now claims it could do more for the people it has disappointed in the last decade with new policies and programms, however, poverty cannot and is not solved by hand outs on the backs of a middle class plagued by recession and economic overregulation and the working class alienated by a government more concerned by the line of succession and internal division than actually bettering the lives of the Britons they serve. I say no to another parliament of problem evasion and government division! The British People should not be forced to fear that a Government, which has proven its inability to even pass its own manifesto with a substantial majority, could survive even the shortest of terms as the Labour Party maintains its façade of unity, hiding the deep divisions between Gaitskellites, Marrites, Bennettites and Bevanites. However, politics should be about voting for a party, rather than against another. A Conservative Government will work to deliver jobs in new sectors and guarentee the prosperity and strength brought by British Industry. A Conservative Government we will work to end the overregulation of the private sector and the overtaxation of small businesses and allow the free market to bring to these fair isles the widely-shared prosperity and economic growth. A Conservative Government will not engage in dangerous experiments and large and expensive prestige projects to evade the problems that Britons face, rather than solve them. This is what the Conservatives offers you, jobs, less taxes and no experiments!
David Thornbloom to his constituents in Salisbury
David Thornbloom to his constituents in Salisbury