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A Connected Community

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'All in One"

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You must know the story of the Soldier of Fortune Who Went Egypt

Sphinx to reveal the divine wisdom of the ages in one sentence,

and the Sphinx said

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‘Don't expect too much’

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I am Mentally Ill Schizo Affective Disorder 

People Trigger Purpose

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Just You Know 

"Don't Expect Too - 

Much from a Man No Money!

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WHAT IS THE POLITICS TODAY?

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(1st) I don't think we realise sufficiently how new our present democratic system is. We still have comparatively little experience of the effect of the universal franchise which didn't come until 1928. And the first election in this country which was fought on the principle of

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‘(1) Person (1) Vote

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1950

So we are still in the early stages of dealing with the

problems and opportunities presented by

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‘Everyone Having a Vote.

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(2nd)  , this and other factors have led to a different party political structure.

There is now little room for independent members and the controversies which formerly took place outside the parties on a large number of measures now have to take place inside.

There is, and has to be room for a variety of opinions on certain topics within the broad general principles on which each party is based.

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(3rd) We have far more information about events than ever before and since the advent of television & the internet, news is presented much more vividly.

It is much more difficult to ignore situations which you have seen on film with your own eyes than if you had merely read about them, perhaps skimming the page rather hurriedly.

Television is not merely one extra means of communication,

it is a medium which because of the way it presents things is radically influencing the judgments we have to make about events and about people, including politicians.

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I had no idea there was such a clear alternative.’

I found the idea challenging and infinitely more effective than one in which

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Everyone expects MP or the government to solve their problems.

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- Why Politics is Failing The People'

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I want to talk to you about 

"POLITICS WHAT GONE WRONG THEN?'

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Why Politics Fails — a pretty fierce title don't you all Think Speak!

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If you say that politics is failing, you better have a good answer.

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I tell You All Today I Have Simple Answer and it's an answer that comes from decades of my and other scholars’ research in politics, economics, and across the social sciences. The argument I make -

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Overall is that our politics fails because time and time again, our individual self-interest overrides our collective wellbeing. In other words, even though each of us might think we're public spirited, we often end up acting in what turns out to be our particular interest at any point in time. It's the interaction of all of our individual self-interest that prevents us from getting what we want. "Self Interest"

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The way my talking is structured is to look at the big things that 

I think we all broadly agree on:

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Democracy Equality Solidarity Security Peace Prosperity & Progress


ENOUGH IS ENOUGH Lives Not Knives Community Contribution

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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - its Wild Fires & Wild Cat Strikes Wild West

LIVES NOT KNIVES - 1st Last Death 'On A Bus' A 14 Year Old Boy -

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I BEGIN

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Crystal Ball Gazing - “If it is hard to make predictions about what the year ahead holds for society,it is doubly difficult to predict what will happen to the World .It’s not just that we suffer the vagaries of all human sinners and societies,but the Holy Spirit will not be restricted to our timetables and limited visions.Imagine being a disciple of Jesus after the crucifixion and before the day of Resurrection who could have foreseen what would happen? None here can predict the future there's a Process!"

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1st Introduction Marouane Derfoufi It Started 2003 London Move

August 10th 2003 Move London - I Bought £2500 PC Computer for

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"Music Making" Magix Music Maker Midi & Drum Machine +MIC

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Ended Up Trying To Impress with Codes & Websites

The 1st Thing I Did Coming Moving to London was Go "Job Centre"

A Nice Indian Auntie Told Me about NVQ II In Painting & Decorating

I Started The Course Did Not Finish Because " I Became Unwell"

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I Started Building Websites

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I Created "The One Love Movement"

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April 22nd 1978 - 2028 50th (1) Love Peace Concert -

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BBC London Wanted An Interview In The End I Forgot All About It

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2004 Community Revolutions Stomped from

"Wembley to Golders Green" "To Speak to a Rabbi"

In 2005 I Created "Above The Brim" (of Caps)

Myspace Anti Knife Crime

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A Youth Feels The Need to Carry a Knife

No Single Raindrop Believes It's Responsible for "The Flood"

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"Every Drop Counts"

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Campaign "Bad Attitude Kills Like Cancer" -

A Reasonable Man Adjusts To The World -

All Progress Is Due to -

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"Unreasonable Men" Trying Adjust World To Their "Own Preference"

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# A 17 Old Boy Was Killed By a Knife So I Set Up my Campaign -

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Black on Black Gun Knife Crime Police Set up "Operation Trident"

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Poiseden Trident "God Of Seas" Our Sea R & C Roots & Culture

Roots Seas Slavery Ships - Ships in The Beginning Exploration

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Sea Master Watch & Telescope

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China & England Invention speak on Great Inventors & Inventions

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China Beijing Olympics 2008 "Fire Work Feet into The Birds Nest"

London Olympics 2012 "Year Of Citizen Action & The Volunteers"

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Name From Tupac Shakur Basketball Film "Above The Rim" Tagline

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- Some Games You Play, Some Games Play You -

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Dear British Transport Police Sorry for

'My Public Transport Outbursts (1) See It (2) Say It (3) Sort It

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In 2008 60th Declaration Of Human Rights I Set Up Lesson Blog

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1st Post

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"Jesse Jackson Angry Barack Obama Talking Down Black People"

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OUR SEA R & C ROOTS & CULTURE (The Posieden Trident Code)

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Dear Youth You Have a Choice -

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(1) Bad Boy Bad Gal - Enter Lies Backstabbers & The Web of Deceit

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(2) Righteous Path Follow Jesus Christ Routine Groom Its Self Care

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I Wanted to Write "A New Gospel" A "Street Code" for the Youth

Something "They Can Relate To" Making Creating Connections

To Create "Out Of Nothing" is God's Gift We All Have God's Gift

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The Parable of The Talents - It is Up to You Not to "Bury Talent"

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"The Talent Is Out There" Use Your Talent to Do God's Work Ends

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In The Ends You Can All Do "God's Work" Light World One By One

Jesus Christ Said I am The Light Of The World City is Set on a Hill

Cannot Be Hid The Talent is Out There Can Not Hide from My Light

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"BACK & FORTH" Go Forward Pass Go Collect & Shine Your Light

Surround Yourselves with People who Shine A Light Guiding PATH

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Key Take Aways

(1) Music Makers

(2) Games & Players

(3) (1) Love Movement

(4) Shine A Light

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"Spring!” A Time of Restoration Rebirth Renewal Regeneration

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A Little Time I with You - As a Follower of Christ - RESURRECTION

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(1) People (1) Planet (1) World Community (1) Humanity (1) Love

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1988 - 2028 40 Years Since My 1st Computer Should Computed It!

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1988 1st Computer Commodore 64 from my Parents "Roy & Mary"

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1989 Taylor Swift Has Something with Lewis Charles Sanderson

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1990 FREEDOM George Michael Right To Party "New World Order"

1991 BATMAN Prince Shut The Funk Up Mar - Jokers & Batman

1992 Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit "Here We Are Entertainers!"

Part 1 John Major Speech - The Ultimate "Back To Basics" WIN!

Part 2 Queen Elizabeth Speech - No Community All Vice / Virtue

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1993 HADDAWAY What is Love? Here I am Girl May Get Answers

1994 CLEVELAND BROWNS Italy vs USA World Cup Final Full 90

1995 COMMON PEOPLE LIVE You Know Want It You Got It Girls

1996 EURO 96 The National Anthem Gave Me Some Goosebumps

1997 LONDON Cool Britannia I Moved To London Sold Dr Martens

1998 FOOD SERVICE Mar & Lee (Marley, Mali) Crack Pals in Room

1999 MUSIC PRODUCTION CD's Vinyl Mass Master - Remastering

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2000

Part 1 BEXTOR - Mar "Feels So Good" Ibiza White Island Party

Part 2 BECKHAM - Mar "You Outta Mind" Playing For Free Innit

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2001 PARTEE Vs INXS London Glass Carpet Lining "I am So Crazy"

2002 Jade Goody NHS Patient Record Enemy (Crouching Tiger)

2003 DEEPEST BLUE - Painting Decorating Met Friend Black Peter

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2004 MAD GANG Human Traffic/ Animals "Community Revolution"

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2005 CORRS On a Virus - Oldtown I am In Town Mar with My Money

2006 EDITORS - Glad I Found This Mar So Glad I Did She Will Son

2007 SHOOTER Super Sharp Sho-T Delta Level Request "Find Girl"

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2008 - X FACTOR - Boy Met Girl Our 1st Christmas "Much Ado Mar"

2009 - BRITAINS GOT TALENT Simon "Did Not Judge Susan Boyle"

2010 - DirTEE LOVE - T Shirt Business I Had a Baby to Look After

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2010 1st WIN Lord David Cameron "Lays Out Coalition Plans"

2015 2nd WIN Lord David Cameron Continues with "The Plan"

2017 3rd WIN Theresa May Rocky Road Insiders Backroom Deals

2019 4th WIN Boris Baby Retire Boris Write Romantic Fiction

2021 Largesse Liz - Growth Growth Growth Its "Trussecnomics!"

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2022/3 Hustings of Rishi Sunak "We Wish You Rishi Christmas"

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2024 Right Honorable Kier Starmer United Kingdom Prime Minister

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2025 General Election "One Year On" Labour "Fixing Foundations"

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2026 FIFA WE ARE 26 World Cup "It's a Football Funny Old Game"

2027 27 Miles 27 Days MIND 27 Is All About "Better Mental Health"

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2028 LA28 The Games Are Back - Los Angeles Loves a Comeback!

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What Do I mean Shine a Light in 2028 I Will Be 50 Years Old

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2028 - Hold On Now Its Not Over

2028 The Year of Anniversaries & Comeback

Los Angeles Loves a Comeback - "The Los Angeles Olympics"

Story Where

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We All Learn from Past Look Future & “Build Back Better”

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2028 Year of The Anniversary

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70th - Madonna Birthday

60th Earth Rise

50th Teenage Kicks

40th You Came Kim Wilde

30th All Star - Smashmouth

20th 1st Run On Banks Recession

10th # Me Too Movement

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2028: A Year of Reflection and Hope - As we stand on the precipice of 2028,

a year brimming with significant anniversaries,let us take a moment to reflect on the past and embrace the future with renewed hope.

The Los Angeles Olympics, a beacon of athleticism and unity, will once again grace our shores. Let us celebrate the spirit of competition, the dedication of athletes, and the power of sport to inspire and unite people across the globe.

May the Olympic flame ignite a fire within us all, a fire of perseverance, resilience, and the unwavering pursuit of excellence. Let us strive to embody the Olympic values of respect, friendship, and excellence in our own lives, and work towards a future where these values are upheld not just in the realm of sport, but in every aspect of human endeavor.

As we look back on the milestones and achievements of the past, let us also acknowledge the challenges and setbacks that have shaped our journey. Let us learn from the past, not to dwell on its mistakes, but to draw strength and wisdom from its lessons.

Let us embrace the future with open hearts and minds, ready to face the challenges that lie ahead with courage and determination. Let us strive to create a world where diversity is celebrated, inclusivity is embraced, and every individual has the opportunity to reach their full potential.

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BUILD BACK BETTER

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The year 2028 is a reminder that the human spirit is capable of extraordinary feats. Let us use this momentous year as a catalyst for positive change, a year to celebrate our shared humanity and work towards a brighter future for all (3) Years Left - LA 28

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"Wild Fires" & "Wild Cat Strikes" It is What it Is - THE WILD WEST

Hollywood We Got "Stars to Navigate Fate DREAM NOT TOO LATE!

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"Think You Can Make A Difference"

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Part Conversations that Matter about Works that Make a Difference.

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GOOD MENTAL HEALTH - 1st "You Are Not Alone" I am Here Now

Relax Take It Easy Baby - You Will Work in Hollywood Again Babe

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Park Royal Centre for Mental Health 2004 - 2024 20th Anniversary

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INSIGHTS

(1) Bi Polar Disorder - TRUST THE PROCESS #TrustTheProcess

(2) Schizo Affective Disorder - FREEZE FRAME #TrustTheFrame

1st BI POLAR 1st Conscious 2nd Speech 3rd Mania 4th Hospital

Bi Polar is a Process

2nd SCHIZOPHRENIA - ASK Does God Exist? Angels Vs Demons

ANALYSE THIS FRAME - ANALYSE THAT FRAME

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INSIGHT SOLUTIONS Mental Health Services

1st DATABASE or (1) What Was Seen (2) What Was Heard

Lives Times of British People a Big Data Bank of SEE / HEAR

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OPPORTUNITY THANK THE NHS STAFF - Doctors Nurses & Staff

Administrators Security Cooks Cleaners All The NHS FRONTLINE

100,000's of NHS Staff Working the Wards with "Care & Precision"

COVID19 NEW NORMAL Home Hub Internet & LBC / Radio 4 247

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The Kingdom of Heaven. (1) Local Leaders (2) Community Groups

Amen.

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ITS IN THE FORGIVE LIVE AGAIN !WORLDWIDE RADIO ONE LOVE!"

PEOPLE ARE CELEBRATING EASTER ALL OVER THE WORLD SPECIAL

SUNDAY SERVICE AT A SACRED SITE - JESUS DEFEATED DEATH

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All Music & Choir Music are Performed for Reporting & Educational

Good Tidings We Bring to You & Your King & Queen God Save King

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Marouane Says “It’s about creating a place to live, a place to work, a place regardless what’s happening at Wembley City Park Stadium.”

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READ MORE ABOUT "HOUSING" NEW PEOPLE IN GREAT BRITAIN

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ASYLUM SEEKERS & RUFUGEES ARE WELCOME TO GOV BENEFITS

These People are "Skilled Workers" Most Come from Middle Class

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH This Culture War Has To Stop from Right Now

No Matter Their Sexual Orientation Disabled or Race Colour Creed

HAPPIEST COUNTRY "FINLAND" 90's SWEDEN are 30 Years Ahead

It's All Going "Nordic Neighbours" - Being a Neighbour Whats That?

LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR - All Praise Belongs to God Mind Body Soul

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Darling. I have been Marouane Derfoufi PROUD to be your MAYOR 

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Believe in Better We Can All Demand Better - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

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Our democracy seems so hard at the moment because it's difficult, in an era of stagnant growth rates — worse than they've been since the Napoleonic era —

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to find ways to buy off or to keep peace with the losers in our democracy.

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The Creed has never offered  a life of ease without effort.

Democracy is not for such people.

Self-government is for those men and women

who have learned to govern themselves.

No great party can survive except on the basis of firm

beliefs about what it wants to do.

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We want people's enthusiasm as well. We need to "BE EXCITED!"

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Marouane Derfoufi A Professor of Meaning of Life & is 'The Truth'

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WHY IS POLITICS FAILING?

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“Why Politics is Failing” Community Contribution by Marouane Derfoufi

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Political leaders never escaped criticism:

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I Always Thought I Was Hated I Thought They Thought

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I try to unite the maximum of Parliamentary cleverness

with the minimum of statesmanlike capacity.

No one ever dreams to have me lead.

I belong not to the bees but to the wasps and the butterflies of public life.

I can sting and sparkle but cannot work.

My place in the arena is marked and ticketed for ever.’

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There is no need to remind you how utterly wrong that judgment was.

There are even some things that have improved over the years.

Bribery and corruption, which have now gone, used to be rampant.

The votes of electors were purchased at a high price.

But we can't dismiss the present criticisms as easily as that.

The dissatisfaction with politics runs too deep both here and abroad.

People have come to doubt the future of the democratic system and its institutions. They distrust the politicians and have little faith in the future.

Why the present distrust?

Let us try to assess how and why we have reached this pass. What is the explanation?

Broadly speaking I think we have not yet assimilated many of the changes that have come about in the past thirty to forty years.

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(1st) I don't think we realise sufficiently how new our present democratic system is. We still have comparatively little experience of the effect of the universal franchise which didn't come until 1928. And the first election in this country which was fought on the principle of

‘(1) person (1) vote’

1950

So we are still in the early stages of dealing with the

problems and opportunities presented by

‘Everyone Having a Vote.

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(2nd)  , this and other factors have led to a different party political structure.

There is now little room for independent members and the controversies which formerly took place outside the parties on a large number of measures now have to take place inside.

There is, and has to be room for a variety of opinions on certain topics within the broad general principles on which each party is based.

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(3rd), from the party political structure has risen the detailed programme which is placed before the electorate. Return to power on such a programme has led to a new doctrine that the party in power has a mandate to carry out everything in its manifesto. I myself doubt whether the voters really are endorsing each and every particular when they return a government to power.

This modern practice of an election programme has,

I believe, influenced the attitudes of some electors;

all too often one is now asked

‘what are you going to do for me?’

, implying that the programme is a series of promises in return for votes.

All this has led to a curious relationship between elector and elected.

If the elector suspects the politician of making promises simply to get his vote,

he despises him, but if the promises are not forthcoming he may reject him.

I believe that parties and elections are about more than rival lists of miscellaneous promises—indeed, if they were not, democracy would scarcely be worth preserving.

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(4th), the extensive and all-pervading development of the welfare state is also comparatively new, not only here but in other countries as well. You will recollect that one of the four great freedoms in President Roosevelt 's wartime declaration was ‘freedom from want.’ Since then in the Western world there has been a series of measures designed to give greater security. I think it would be true to say that there is no longer a struggle to achieve a basic security. Further, we have a complete new generation [end p2] whose whole life has been lived against the background of the welfare state. These developments must have had a great effect on the outlook and approach of our people even if we cannot yet assess it properly.

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(5th), one of the effects of the rapid spread of higher education has been to equip people to criticise and question almost everything. Some of them seem to have stopped there instead of going on to the next stage which is to arrive at new beliefs or to reaffirm old ones.

You will perhaps remember seeing in the press the report that a man has been awarded a degree on the result of his past work.

His examiners said that he had posed a series of most intelligent questions.

Significant?

I would have been happier had he also found a series of intelligent answers.

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(6th) we have far more information about events than ever before and since the advent of television & the internet, news is presented much more vividly.

It is much more difficult to ignore situations which you have seen on film with your own eyes than if you had merely read about them, perhaps skimming the page rather hurriedly.

Television is not merely one extra means of communication,

it is a medium which because of the way it presents things is radically influencing the judgments we have to make about events and about people,

including politicians.

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(7th) Our innate international idealism has received many nasty shocks.

Many of our people long to believe that if representatives of all nations get together dispassionately to discuss burning international problems, providence and goodwill will guide them to wise and just conclusions, and peace and international law and order will thereby be secured. But in practice a number of nations vote not according to right or wrong even when it is a clear case to us, but according to their national expediencies.

And some of the speeches and propaganda to explain blatant actions would make the angels weep as well as the electorate.

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All of these things are a partial explanation of the disillusion and disbelief we encounter today.

The changes have been tremendous and I am not surprised that -

the whole system is under cross-examination.

I welcome healthy scepticism and questioning.

It is our job continually to retest old assumptions and to seek new ideas.

But we must not try to find one unalterable answer

that will solve all our problems

for none can exist.

You may know the story of the soldier of fortune

who once asked the Sphinx to reveal the divine wisdom of the ages in one sentence,

and the Sphinx said

‘Don't expect too much’

In that spirit and against the background

I have sketched, let us try to analyse what has gone wrong.

The great mistake—too much government

I believe that the great mistake of the last few years has been for the government to provide or to legislate for almost everything. Part of this policy has its roots in the plans for reconstruction in the postwar period when governments assumed all kinds of new obligations. The policies may have been warranted at the time but they have gone far further than was intended or is advisable. During our own early and middle period of government we were concerned to set the framework in which people could achieve their own standards for themselves, subject always to a basic standard. But it has often seemed to me that from the early 1960s the emphasis in politics shifted. At about that time ‘growth’ became the key political word. If resources grew by X per cent per annum this would provide the extra money needed for the government to make further provision. The doctrine found favour at the time and we had a bit of a contest between the parties about the highest possible growth rate. Four per cent or more. But the result was that for the time being the emphasis in political debate ceased to be about people and became about economics. Plans were made to achieve a 4 per cent growth rate. Then came the present government with a bigger plan and socialist ideas about its implementation, that is to say if people didn't conform to the plan, they had to be compelled to. Hence compulsion on Prices and Incomes policy and with it the totally unacceptable notion that the government shall have the power to fix which wages and salaries should increase.

We started off with a wish on the part of the people for more government intervention in certain spheres. This was met. But there came a time when the amount of intervention got so great that it could no longer be exercised in practice by government but only by more and more officials or bureaucrats. Now it is difficult if not impossible for people to get at the official making the decision and so paradoxically although the degree of intervention is greater, the government has become more and more remote from the people. The present result of the democratic process has therefore been an increasing authoritarianism.

2025 People are reacting against this rule of impersonal authority.

The question was

‘In your opinion or not do people like yourselves have enough say or not in the way the government runs the country (68 per cent not enough), the services provided by the nationalised industries (67 per cent not enough),

the way local authorities handle things (64 per cent not enough—note this rather high figure; people don't like

remote local authorities any more than they like remote governments’

Recently more and more feature articles have been written and speeches made about involving people more closely with decisions of the government and enabling them to participate in some of those decisions.

But the way to get personal involvement and participation is not for people to take part in more and more government decisions but to make the government reduce the area of decision over which it presides and consequently leave the private citizen to ‘participate’, if that be the fashionable word, by making more of his own decisions. What we need now is a far greater degree of personal responsibility and decision, far more independence from the government, and a comparative reduction in the role of government.

These beliefs have important implications for policy.

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Prices and incomes

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First Prices and Incomes policy. The most effective prices policy has not come by controlling prices by the government, through the Prices and Incomes Board, but through the Conservative way of seeing that competition flourishes.

There have been far more price cuts in the supermarkets than in the nationalised industries.

This shows the difference between the government doing the job itself and the government creating the conditions under which prices will be kept down through effective competition.

On the Incomes side, there seemed to be some confusion in the minds of the electorate about where the parties stood. This was not surprising in the early days because a number of speeches and documents from both sides of the House showed a certain similarity. For example, here are four separate quotations—two from the Labour Government and two from our period of office. They are almost indistinguishable.

1. ‘Increases in the general level of wage rates must be related to increased productivity due to increased efficiency and effort.’ (White Paper on Employment Policy, 1944)

2. ‘It is essential therefore that there should be no further general increase in the level of personal incomes without at least a corresponding increase in the volume of production.’ (Sir Stafford Cripps, 1948) [end p5]

3. ‘The Government's policy is to promote a faster rate of economic growth … But the policy will be put in jeopardy if money incomes rise faster than the volume of national production.’ (Para. 1 of Incomes Policy, The Next Step, Cmnd 1626, February 1962)

4. ‘… the major objectives of national policy must be … to raise productivity and efficiency so that real national output can increase and so keep increases in wages, salaries and other forms of income in line with this increase.’ (Schedule 2, Prices and Incomes Act, 1966) All of these quotes express general economic propositions, but the policies which flowed from those propositions were very different. We rejected from the outset the use of compulsion. This was absolutely right. The role of the government is not to control each and every salary that is paid. It has no means of measuring the correct amount. Moreover, having to secure the state's approval before one increases the pay of an employee is repugnant to most of us.

There is another aspect of the way in which Incomes policy is now operated to which I must draw attention. We now put so much emphasis on the control of incomes that we have too little regard for the essential role of government which is the control of money supply and management of demand. Greater attention to this role and less to the outward detailed control would have achieved more for the economy. It would mean, of course, that the government had to exercise itself some of the disciplines on expenditure it is so anxious to impose on others. It would mean that expenditure in the vast public sector would not have to be greater than the amount which could be financed out of taxation plus genuine saving. For a number of years some expenditure has been financed by what amounts to printing the money. There is nothing laissez-faire or old-fashioned about the views I have expressed. It is a modern view of the role the government should play now, arising from the mistakes of the past, the results of which we are experiencing today.

Tax and the social services

The second policy implication concerns taxation and the social services. It is no accident that the Conservative Party has been one which has reduced the rates of taxation. The decisions have not been a haphazard set of expediencies, or merely economic decisions to meet the needs of the moment. They have stemmed [end p6] from the real belief that government intervention and control tends to reduce the role of the individual, his importance and the desirability that he should be primarily responsible for his own future. When it comes to the development of the social services, the policy must mean that people should be encouraged if necessary by taxation incentives to make increasing provision for themselves out of their own resources. The basic standards through the state would remain as a foundation for extra private provision. Such a policy would have the advantage that the government could concentrate on providing things which the citizen can't. Hospitals are one specific example.

The other day I came across a quotation which you will find difficult to place.

‘Such a plan as this was bound to be drastic and to express nothing less than a new pattern … (for the hospitals of this country) … Now that we have it, we must see that it lives. As I have said before it is a plan which has hands and feet. It walks and it works. It is not a static conception stated once and for all but something which is intended to live and to be dynamic

… My Ministry will constantly be carrying this review forward so that there will always be ten years work definitely projected ahead.’ (Hansard, 4th June 1962, Col. 153.)

No, it doesn't come from Harold Wilson.

It is not about our enormous overall plan, but a very limited plan in a small area in which the government could make a distinctive contribution.

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10-year NHS hospital plan

Independence from the state

To return to the personal theme, if we accept the need for increasing responsibility for self and family it means that we must stop approaching things in an atmosphere of restriction. There is nothing wrong in people wanting larger incomes. It would seem a worthy objective for men and women to wish to raise the standard of living for their families and to give them greater opportunities than they themselves had. I wish more people would do it. We should then have fewer saying ‘the state must do it.’ What is wrong is that people should want more without giving anything in return. The condition precedent to high wages and high salaries is hard work. This is a quite different and much more stimulating approach than one of keeping down incomes.

Doubtless there will be accusers that we are only interested in more money. This just is not so. Money is not an end in itself. It enables one to live the kind of life of one's own choosing. Some will prefer to put a large amount to raising material standards, others will pursue music, the arts, the cultures, others will use their money to help those here and overseas about whose needs they feel strongly and do not let us underestimate the amount of hard earned cash that this nation gives voluntarily to worthy causes. The point is that even the Good Samaritan had to have the money to help, otherwise he too would have had to pass on the other side. In choice of way of life J. S. Mill 's views are as relevant as ever.

‘The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way so long as we do not deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it … Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.’

These policies have one further important implication. Together they succeed at the same time in giving people a measure of independence from the state—and who wants a people dependent on the state and turning to the state for their every need—also they succeed in drawing power away from governments and diffusing it more widely among people and non-governmented institutions.

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(2) The Problem of Size

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The mistake politics have made at present is in some ways related to the first one.

We have become bewitched with the idea of size.

As a result people no longer feel important in the scheme of things. They have the impression that everything has become so big, so organised, so standardised and governmentalised that there is no room for the individual, his talents, his requirements or his wishes. He no longer counts.

It is not difficult to see how this feeling has come about. In industry the merits of size have been extolled for some years now and too little attention given to its demerits.

Size brings great problems. One of the most important is the problem of making and communicating decisions.

The task of decision tends to be concentrated at the top, and fewer people get used to weighing up a problem, taking a decision, sticking to it and carrying the consequences.

The buck is passed.

But even after a decision has been made, there is the problem of communicating it to those who have to carry it out in such a way that it is understood, and they are  made to feel a part of the team. In a large-scale organisation, whether government, local government or industry, failure to do this can lead to large-scale mistakes, large-scale confusion and large-scale resentment.

These problems, can, and must be, overcome, but all too often they are not.

Government agencies and the public

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(3) Mistake is that people feel they don't count

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when they try to get something done through government agencies.

Consider our relations with government departments.

We start as a birth certificate; attract a maternity grant; give rise to a tax allowance and possibly a family allowance; receive a national health number when registered with a doctor; go to one or more schools where educational records are kept; apply for an educational grant; get a job; start paying national insurance and tax; take out a television and a driving licence; buy a house with a mortgage; pay rates; buy a few premium bonds; take out life assurance; purchase some shares; get married; start the whole thing over again; receive a pension and become a death certificate and death grant,

and the subject of a file in the

Estate Duty Office!

Every one of these incidents will require a form or give rise to some questions, or be recorded in some local or national government office.

The amount of information collected in the various departments must be fabulous.

Small wonder that life really does seem like ‘one damned form after another.’

A good deal of this form-filling will have to continue but I think it time to reassert a right to privacy. Ministers will have to look at this aspect in deciding how to administer their policies. There is a tendency on the part of some politicians to suggest that with the advent of computers all this information should be centralised and stored on magnetic tape. They argue that this would be time-saving and more efficient. Possibly it would; but other and more important things would be at stake. There would be produced for the first time a personal dossier about each person, on which everything would be recorded. In my view this would place far too much power in the hands of the state over the individual. In the USA there is a Congressional enquiry sitting on this very point because politicians there have recognised the far-reaching dangers of such a record.

Too much reliance on statistics, too little on judgment

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(4) I believe that there is too great a reliance on statistical forecasts; little on judgment.

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We all know the old one about lies, damned lies and statistics, and I do not wish to condemn statistics out of hand. Those who prepare them are well aware of their limitations. Those who use them are not so scrupulous.

Recently the economic forecasts have been far more optimistic than the events which happened. The balance of payments predictions have been wrong again and again.

‘The balance of payments forecast taken year by year look a lot worse than previously estimated, but the difference is largely one of timing—with the movement into surplus coming later, and with a still large rate of improvement.’

The truth is that statistical results do not displace the need for judgment, they increase it. The figures can be no better than the assumptions on which they are based and these could vary greatly. In addition, the unknown factor which, by its very nature is incapable of evaluation, may well be the determining one.

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(5) The party political system

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We have not yet appreciated or used fully the virtues of our party political system.

The essential characteristic of the British Constitutional system is not that there is an alternative personality but that there is an alternative policy and a whole alternative government ready to take office. As a result we have always had an Opposition to act as a focus of criticism against the government. We have therefore not suffered the fate of countries which have had a ‘consensus’ or central government, without an official opposition. This was one of the causes of trouble in Germany. Nor do we have the American system, which as far as Presidential campaigns go, appears to have become almost completely one of personalities.

There are dangers in consensus; it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. It seems more important to have a philosophy and policy which because they are good appeal to sufficient people to secure a majority.

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I had no idea there was such a clear alternative.’

I found the idea challenging and infinitely more effective than one in which

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Everyone expects MP or the government to solve their problems.

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- Why Politics is Failing The People'

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I want to talk to you about "POLITICS WHAT GONE WRONG THEN?'

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Why Politics Fails — a pretty fierce title don't you all Think Speak!

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If you say that politics is failing, you better have a good answer.

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I tell You All Today I Have Simple Answer and it's an answer that comes from decades of my and other scholars’ research in politics, economics, and across the social sciences. The argument I make -

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Overall is that our politics fails because time and time again, our individual self-interest overrides our collective wellbeing. In other words, even though each of us might think we're public spirited, we often end up acting in what turns out to be our particular interest at any point in time. It's the interaction of all of our individual self-interest that prevents us from getting what we want. "Self Interest"

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The way my talking is structured is to look at the big things that I think we all broadly agree on: democracy, equality, solidarity, security, and prosperity. But I can't cover all of those here.

So what I'm going to do is talk about democracy. I'm going to talk about our abilities and our desire to govern ourselves and why we often seem to feel that we're in a democratic malaise, that governing ourselves isn't making us happy. The reason for that is that we get caught in what I call ‘The Democracy Trap’. And the quickest way of summarising the Democracy Trap is to say that there's no such thing as a will of the people.

And that sounds rather unfortunate if you want the people to govern themselves. So what do I mean by that? Well, I don't mean that we can't all agree. Sometimes we might all agree. For example, I imagine that we could get a hundred per cent, or at least almost a hundred per cent approval to not be invaded by planet Mars. I think we could all agree on that, except possibly for a few traitors to Earth's survival. There are some cases where we do all agree, but they're very rare because most of the time in politics we disagree on things. We want different outcomes. We want the government to do different things, we want different things to be allowed or to be banned. But let's imagine the case where we did insist that everybody actually agreed. How would we implement that?

Well, one way would be to provide everybody with a veto. Family life is sometimes like that, right? "We want to Watch I am a Celebrity Mum Does No She Has a 'Veto" But when we scale up from the family to a parliament or even a nation as a whole, then giving everybody a veto stops working. . It was called the ‘liberum veto,’ which means ‘I freely oppose’, and meant that during parliamentary sessions, any parliamentarian could essentially raise their hand to announce their liberum veto and end that parliamentary session or that debate.

So we can't all have a veto. We do all disagree, and we have to manage that disagreement somehow. But as we do, we end up pivoting between two risks: a risk of chaos and a risk of polarisation. The risk of chaos is where we can't come to any kind of agreement at all. And many people reading this will remember a period where Britain couldn't seem to come to any agreement. In March of 2019, Theresa May was desperately trying to pass a Brexit bill, to pass a bill that would bring Britain out of the European Union, as the public had clearly voted for a few years earlier. And yet, because there were so many different ways of Brexiting, it wasn't entirely clear how Britain should do so. It was that multiplicity of options and the multiplicity of preferences in parliament that made it very hard to make a decision.

So, with Brexit, it would look like this. Theresa May preferred her deal to a no deal, which she had as her backup plan to a new referendum. Then there were remainers and they wanted a referendum. And if not that, a soft Brexit like May's deal, but definitely not a no deal. But then on top of that, you had a group of people called the ‘Spartans’. The self-declared Spartans — the right of the Tory party — and they wanted a no deal for its own sake. In fact, they hated Theresa May's deal so much they would've been willing to risk a referendum which they thought they would win instead. This order of preferences makes it very hard to come to any conclusions. So, if you put up May's deal against no deal, it gets voted down by the remainers and the Spartans. But then if you put up a referendum against no deal, it gets voted down by May and by the remainers and equivalently, a referendum against May's deal is going to get voted down by the Spartans and by Theresa May's team.

And so, you've got a majority for each of the options — majorities that keep on cycling around. For reasons like this, Britain was ultimately unable to come up with any decision at all in the spring of 2019. But let's fast forward, because in December 2019 Boris Johnson won a huge general election victory — a victory that was based entirely on the proposition that he could get Brexit done, that he could end the chaos. But what Britain exchanged for chaos was polarisation. We now had a clear victory — we had a very hard Brexit under a very large majority under Boris Johnson. But with polarisation comes a new problem — the problem of losers' consent. Because in any large victory that is not total, where not everybody agrees, there are losers. And the losers' consent has to work in two ways.

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Firstly, the losers have to be willing to agree that they lost at all. And it's not clear, for example, that people supporting remain actually agreed that they had lost the referendum and that it shouldn't be overturned. But at this stage, they knew that they had lost.

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In turn, the winners also need to get the consent of the losers. They need to not ride roughshod over them or call them enemies of the people. Here, I think, Britain has struggled more and the absence of loser's consent can really quite quickly spill over into invective and into violence.

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Democracy is always going to be a challenge to us because those twin perils of chaos and polarisation are going to follow us around. We always disagree, and what we have to do, as I said a lecture on the future of democracy, is to find a way to disagree — but to do so agreeably, to be able to make a decision without harming each other. The easiest way to do that would be to return back to another thing that I think we all agree on, and I talk about in my book: some form of extended economic prosperity where losers can be bought off by the gains of winners.

Our democracy seems so hard at the moment because it's difficult, in an era of stagnant growth rates — worse than they've been since the Napoleonic era —

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to find ways to buy off or to keep peace with the losers in our democracy.

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The Creed has never offered  a life of ease without effort.

Democracy is not for such people.

Self-government is for those men and women

who have learned to govern themselves.

No great party can survive except on the basis of firm

beliefs about what it wants to do.

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We want people's enthusiasm as well. We need to "BE EXCITED!"

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Marouane Derfoufi A Professor of Meaning of Life & is 'The Truth'


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