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Originally Posted by Carruthers
We British are a peaceable and civilised bunch.
We live in a land where debate isn’t characterised by ill tempered exchanges.
A land where arguments are never advanced by personal insult or abuse but by intellectual rigour and the marshalling of incontrovertible facts, or demolished by equally rigorous forensic analysis.
The nature of debate is well illustrated by this Twitter exchange between Jon Snow, Channel 4 News presenter, and Geoffrey Cox, the Attorney General.
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MP George Eustace this morning on the Sunday Politics South West show:
"Theresa May is an overdried teabag in a Poundland sale."
(Quoted from memory within minutes of the broadcast)