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Re: Election news

From LFS <lauraDRAGON.spira@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.usage.english
Subject Re: Election news
Date 2017-06-09 18:02 +0100
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On 09/06/2017 17:22, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 15:12:36 +0100, Katy Jennison
> <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 09/06/2017 14:30, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>>> On Friday, June 9, 2017 at 9:09:06 AM UTC-4, the Omrud wrote:
>>>
>>>> We went to vote yesterday afternoon.  As we collected our ballot papers,
>>>> the lady (perhaps 80 years old) who had been ahead of us returned to the
>>>> desk to post her paper in the box.  She addressed us directly with some
>>>> emphasis and entirely seriously: "I hope we don't get a Communist
>>>> government.  We'll have Putin running things soon".
>>>>
>>>> We stepped sideways and got on withour own voting.
>>>
>>> Well, nearly ... the BBC World Service just said that May has turned to an obscure
>>> Northern Ireland party with 10 seats to make her "ruling coalition."
>>>
>>
>> "Obscure" in the sense of "dark, dim; gloomy, dismal" and
>> "unenlightened, benighted" (OED).  According to one blog (and I've no
>> reason to think it exaggerates by much) the DUP's opinions apparently
>> include:
>>
>> Abortion should be “ruled out for rape victims”
>> The Pope is the Anti-Christ
>> Gay couples “more likely to abuse children”
>> “Homosexuality is an abomination”
>> No gay marriage
>> “Gays more vile than child abusers”
>> Attempts to reduce CO2 emissions are “Green propaganda”
>> Claims that fossil fuels will run out are “nonsense”
>> “Man-made climate change is a con”
>> Creationism should be “taught in every school”
>> Removal of evolutionary teaching from the curriculum
>> The 60 million-year-old Giant’s Causeway is only 6,000 years old
>> Line dancing is “sinful”
>>
> Those opinions/beliefs may be held by some members and supporters of the
> DUP however their election manifesto mentions only one or two of them.
> 
> I recognise several of those quoted opinions as having been expressed by
> individuals rather than by the party as a whole.
> 
> My impression is that the DUP will not attempt to impose the religious
> beliefs of its more fundamentalist Christian members on the whole of the
> UK.
> 
> Also, I think that the party's supporters and those who voted for it
> have a broader range of attitudes and beliefs.
> 
>> (From
>> https://tompride.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/desperate-theresa-may-gets-into-bed-with-barmy-extremist-dup-to-hang-onto-power/)
> 

But Arlene Foster looks as if she could be a bloody difficult woman, to 
coin a phrase.

-- 
Laura (emulate St George for email)

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Election news Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2017-06-09 01:17 -0400
  Re: Election news Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2017-06-09 08:09 +0200
  Re: Election news occam <occam@127.0.0.1> - 2017-06-09 10:54 +0200
  Re: Election news nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2017-06-09 13:39 +0200
    Re: Election news nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2017-06-10 09:51 +0200
  Re: Election news the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com> - 2017-06-09 14:09 +0100
    Re: Election news "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2017-06-09 06:30 -0700
      Re: Election news Katy Jennison <katy@spamtrap.kjennison.com> - 2017-06-09 15:12 +0100
        Re: Election news nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2017-06-09 16:34 +0200
          Re: Election news "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2017-06-09 08:09 -0700
            Re: Election news Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2017-06-09 08:46 -0700
              Re: Election news the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com> - 2017-06-09 16:50 +0100
                Re: Election news Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2017-06-09 08:51 -0700
                Re: Election news Harrison Hill <harrisonhill2345@gmail.com> - 2017-06-09 08:53 -0700
                Re: Election news the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com> - 2017-06-09 17:07 +0100
                Re: Election news Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2017-06-12 02:32 +1000
              Re: Election news Jack Campin <bogus@purr.demon.co.uk> - 2017-06-09 17:45 +0100
                Re: Election news Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2017-06-12 02:42 +1000
              Re: Election news "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2017-06-09 09:53 -0700
        Re: Election news Jack Campin <bogus@purr.demon.co.uk> - 2017-06-09 16:28 +0100
        Re: Election news "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2017-06-09 17:22 +0100
          Re: Election news LFS <lauraDRAGON.spira@gmail.com> - 2017-06-09 18:02 +0100
            Re: Election news "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <mail@peterduncanson.net> - 2017-06-09 18:54 +0100
              Re: Election news HVS <usenet@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk> - 2017-06-10 20:12 +0100
        Re: Election news the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com> - 2017-06-10 12:24 +0100
          Re: Election news nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2017-06-11 11:04 +0200
        Re: Election news "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2017-06-10 06:42 -0700
          Re: Election news HVS <usenet@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk> - 2017-06-10 18:38 +0100
            Re: Election news "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2017-06-10 15:19 -0700
              Re: Election news "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2017-06-10 22:31 -0700
            Re: Election news nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2017-06-11 11:04 +0200
              Re: Election news "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2017-06-11 05:33 -0700
                Re: Election news nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2017-06-11 17:34 +0200
                Re: Election news "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2017-06-11 10:33 -0700
                Re: Election news "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2017-06-11 10:37 -0700
                Re: Election news nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2017-06-11 20:54 +0200
              Re: Election news Richard Yates <richard@yatesguitar.com> - 2017-06-11 06:27 -0700
              Re: Election news David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2017-06-11 09:49 -0700
            Re: Election news HVS <office@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk> - 2017-06-11 14:28 +0100
              Re: Election news Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2017-06-12 23:44 +1000
            Re: Election news "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2017-06-11 10:43 -0700
            Re: Election news Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2017-06-12 21:50 +1000
              Re: Election news Andy Leighton <andyl@azaal.plus.com> - 2017-06-12 07:46 -0500
                Re: Election news Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> - 2017-06-12 23:35 +1000
              Re: Election news "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2017-06-12 06:16 -0700
              Re: Election news "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> - 2017-06-12 19:57 -0700
        Re: Election news occam <occam@127.0.0.1> - 2017-06-10 23:12 +0200
        Re: Election news nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2017-06-11 11:04 +0200
          Re: Election news nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2017-06-11 17:34 +0200
          Re: Election news Jack Campin <bogus@purr.demon.co.uk> - 2017-06-11 17:28 +0100
    Re: Election news Quinn C <lispamateur@crommatograph.info> - 2017-06-09 13:13 -0400

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