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To: TimF who wrote (96616)	11/18/2008 7:57:11 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541790

>>JOHN STUART MILL once dismissed the British Conservative Party as the stupid party. ... Yes and the tories opponents where the "evil party". Disregarding the rather frantic typos/homonym, do you have any source for this? I've never heard the phrase applied before to the British Labour party, and googling shows it mainly applied to the Communists (and then apparently by Falun Gong...). Searching UK sources for '"the evil party" Labour' manages just 25 hits, all blogs/chat, split mostly between both major parties with a few mentions for the GOP. The nearest I can think of is the "Nasty party", and I'm afraid that was primarily applied to the Tories also... Not to mention that the badge of the "Stupid Party" was once worn with some pride, befitting the descendants of rich people who didn't have to be clever and actually work. e.g. the repellent Alan Clark, snob epitome of the Tory shites, who mocked the admirable Michael Heseltine [High Tory and a self-made millionaire] as someone who had had to 'buy his own furniture'.