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What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?

Boris Johnson

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism – that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.
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Communism Democracy Replacement Tyranny Wrong
Plus I think she can articulate what’s needed at the moment, which is a bit of an antidote to some of the gloom and negativity and misunderstanding about what the Brexit vote means.
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Misunderstanding Moment Negativity
We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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Better Celebration Contribution Country
I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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Jump Love Swimming
It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
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Ecosystems Greed Understanding
Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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Deal Friendship Queue Trade
I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
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Dance Documentary People Respect War World
It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness.
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Cheer Fall Queens
It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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Easy Hard Work Promise
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
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Better Ideas People Truth
But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
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Ancestor Freedom Hands Ourselves People
The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what’s going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.
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Force Imbalance Looks People System
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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Disaster Discover Friendship Myself Opportunity
Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It’s not. On the contrary, it’s a massive opportunity for this country.
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Country Himself Massive Opportunity People Thinking
My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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Ideals Trying World
I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.
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Believe Economy Equality Essential Myself Possible Value

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