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Ian Dunt

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
789 total appearances

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

To be like Sergeant Wilson, to go, do you think that's wise, sir?

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

Exactly.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

You know what?

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

Very well defined.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

So without that, it sort of feels like the left starts spiralling into ever more sort of, you know, excited whims of fancy.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

As you're sort of seeing with the Green Party in Britain right now, because you're losing the really healthy version of politics...

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

which is about the desire for change, the desire for progress, harnessed and controlled by skepticism about what is trying to be achieved and the manner in which one might pursue it.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

I think we're about three days away from that right now.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

That's exactly right.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

I think early on they just thought, I mean, this nonsense, it's clear they couldn't do it, the Trump whispering stuff, being like, oh, maybe this guy can Trump whisper, maybe this guy can Trump whisper.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

And Keir Starmer fancied himself a bit of a Trump whisperer.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

And it must be clear to anyone now that nothing's going to work.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

The guy is just, he's just basically a rabid animal and he'll be nice to you one day and he'll be very, very not nice the next and he'll threaten to invade Greenland.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

And none of your little quiet cups of tea are going to stop that.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

But then there's the extent of your strategic reliance.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

So, for instance, France and Britain are very different positions when it comes to this issue.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

France is a completely independent nuclear deterrent.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

It's its own system.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

It can use it when it likes, how it likes.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

as it likes.