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		squiggleblaz on Oct 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dutch family 'waiting for end of time' discovered ... How is it conservative to throw away your own traditions and replace them with someone else's? Don't let them steal your country by taking your words.

NeedMoreTea on Oct 16, 2019 [–]

They started taking the word when they named the party 150 or 200 years ago, when they formed out of the smoking wreckage of the Tory party.

Up until 1979 they were a mostly traditionalist and small c conservative party. Since then they have been steadily getting more radical and extreme.

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