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Monday, 2 October 2017

Quotes 3 Oct 17

"I like no people better than those of Yorkshire", Henry Venn (1770).

It is true that the King never dies; the demise is immediately followed by the succession; there is no interval: the Sovereign always exists; the person only is changed.-Lord Lyndhurst, Viscount Canterbury v. Att.-Gen. (1843), 1 Phill. 322.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable,
or dangerous to do so. --Walter Lippman (1889-1974) _A Preface to Morals_ [1929]

The UK needs to build a city the size of Liverpool every year to house all the new people who come to Britain each year – let alone the primary school places and the strains on the National Health Service.Whilst many immigrants work hard and overall provide a benefit to the economy – the fact is that according to a report from University College London in 2013 entitled “the fiscal effects of immigration to the UK” the overall cost to the UK economy of immigration between 1995 and 2011 was at least £114 billion.“During Britain’s EU debate one millionaire pro-EU entrepreneur insisted that migration into Britain was necessary because he didn’t want his daughter to become a “potato picker”Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe, p 212 (page 50)https://theweeflea.com/2017/08/11/the-strange-death-of-europe-part-2-immigration/

There’s not a plant or flower below
But makes His glories known;
And clouds arise, and tempests blow,
By order from His throne.
Isaac Watts

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