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Rachel's avatar

Why has Shrewsbury Flower Show been cancelled? The government guidance states that this 2025 legislation won't be in force until after a 24 month period allowing premises and event organisers to prepare.

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HF's avatar

Claire be careful with the SDP. I fid their comms for a while and stepped in to write their animal welfare policies. For a party that sounds like it has English values of family, community and national, pro Brexit and anti mass immigration, it folded at the first fence when entryism Muslims became enraged with a non halal policy. We compromised with ‘stun then slash’ as accepted by Muslims and Jews in Australia and other countries, but they became nasty and SDP leadership were spineless and backed down. I left.

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Robert G Mules's avatar

Worrying. Like Claire I thought the SDP might be the best of a terrible bunch, I'm actually a member. Of course, the halal issue is what happens when religion has a specific list of commands supposedly coming from the Almighty. Christ reduced the Judaic commandments to just two, love God and love your neighbour as yourself. Nothing specific. But who is your neighbour? He actually found it hard to tolerate let alone love the Philistines.

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Robert G Mules's avatar

Who on earth would want to be in Parliament, either in the Commons or the Lords. The triviality of the exchanges you relate would drive me crazy, fiddling while Rome is about to burn. I don't envy you your seat in the upper chamber which people used to say had more intelligent debates than in the Commons. What on earth's happened to this country?

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