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[...] I don’t think that announcing policies in a rush amounts to substance. Real substance is about taking time to think things through, not trotting out easy answers that people might want to hear.
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Everyone in this hall, me included, knows that a low tax economy is a strong economy. But some people want me to flash up some pie in the sky tax cuts to show what we stand for. Let me tell you straight. That is not substance. And that is not what we stand for. Do you know what I think? I think that when some people talk about substance, what they mean is they want the old policies back. Well they’re not coming back. We’re not going back.
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There’s something special about marriage. It’s not about religion. It’s not about morality. It’s about commitment. When you stand up there, in front of your friends and your family, in front of the world, whether it’s in a church or anywhere else, what you’re doing really means something. Pledging yourself to another means doing something brave and important. You are making a commitment. You are publicly saying: it’s not just about me, me me anymore. It is about we – together, the two of us, through thick and thin. That really matters. And by the way, it means something whether you’re a man and a woman, a woman and a woman or a man and another man. That’s why we were right to support civil partnerships, and I’m proud of that. Of course not every marriage lasts, and many couples are much better off apart. Women must have an escape route from abusive relationships.
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David Cameron <a href="http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.story.page&obj_id=132730&speeches=1">dixit</a>
okay: io non posso votarlo, e probabilmente non lo voterei comunque (le sue posizioni sulla sicurezza e l’idea di abolire l’<i>human rights act</i> per sostituirlo con una nuova "bill of rights" non mi fanno impazzire). ma mi sembra – e lo dico con le lacrime agli occhi – di essere in un episodio di <i>the west wing</i> della settima stagione, con Vinick da una parte e Santos dall’altra, e io in mezzo a chiedermi chi è il più riformatore tra i due.
<i>vorrei anche aggiungere: il sito dei tories ha anche un feed RSS per seguire l’attività dei vari <acronym title="Member of Parliament">MP</acronym>; tutti quanti, poi, hanno un’email e un sito personali.</i>
via <a href="http://www.wittgenstein.it/post/20061006_65165.html">wittgenstein</a>