Jacob Rees-Mogg Moves For Conservative Party Leadership.

never say never Jalima1108 I remember being told Mrs May would NEVER be PM and lo and behold ...there she is !!

We're truly doomed then paddyann - an old, backward-facing Leader of the LP, an old rebel, and a young throwback to the 1800s.
And as for the Lib Dems, they can't seem to find anyone apart from good old Vince age 75.

The Future Looks Bright

Anyne who still thinks private enterprise is illegal in China is worfully out of date anniebach

China's telecom manufacturer Huawei Technologies Co Ltd ranked top among the country's private enterprise with 521.57 billion yuan ($79 billion) in revenue in 2016, according to a list released on Aug 24.

Suning Holdings Group and Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering Group Co Ltd ranked second and third respectively.

The list, called China Top 500 Private Enterprises 2017, was released by the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.

www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2017top10/2017-09/06/content_31618619.htm

I am aware that China has moved forward regards private enterprise . And the rest ?

Yes, but it has state approval as with everything in China! Demonstrations are allowed, but again with state approval, same with religion or anything else you can think of which is hardly democracy as we know it !!

Artists in China are often imprisoned if their work upsets the government.

HONG KONG — A Hong Kong-based bookseller who was secretly detained in China has been taken away by Chinese authorities again after being released into house arrest last October, his daughter said Monday.
(23rd January 2018)
Gui Minhai, a Chinese-born Swedish national, ran a Hong Kong publishing company specializing in gossipy tales about high-level Chinese politics when he disappeared from his Thai holiday home about two years ago. He was believed to have been spirited away by Chinese security agents to mainland China, where he later turned up in police custody.
The case reinforced rising fears that Beijing was eroding rule of law in Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese city that is promised civil liberties like freedom of speech until 2047. The books the group sold at their Causeway Bay Bookshop were popular with visitors from mainland China, where such titles were banned.

Artists in Britain often have their work destroyed if it is considered offensive by some.

I don't think you can compare western democracies to China trisher how ever hard you try!! Try a peaceful demonstration, or practising religion, or watching a film disapproved of by the leader, spitting image?!! I don't think so!! Referring Xi Jinping as the equivalent of Maybot, would probably get you a prison sentence!!

I didn't do any of those things niggly I simply posted that the destruction of art is more widespread than people might think.

Which artists have had their work destroyed Trisha and which art gallery were they displayed ?

As far as I am aware the UK government has not ordered the destruction of any artwork. There have been cases when members of the public have objected to artwork but that is not the same thing.

Unless Trisha was referring to that art work mocking Jews, the artist certainly wasn’t imprisoned

trisher Mon 04-Jun-18 15:53:27
Artists in Britain often have their work destroyed if it is considered offensive by some

Would you care to back that up with some hard facts, Trisher?.

www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/art-under-attack-histories-british-iconoclasm

Well this will do for starters

I suppose Henry VIII enjoyed his bouts of destruction which continued during the 150 or so years of the Reformation - does that count? And Oliver Cromwell flogged off much of Charles I's art collection at bargain prices.

X post maryeliza

I did think that trisher meant now, but perhaps not.

You know sometimes people should google before they ask a question to which they think they know the answer and so take a quick sarky pot shot at someone.

She didn’t specify but that doesn’t stop people having a potshot at her

I see that Sajid Javidis now changing the Conservative immigration policy without as much as a "by your leave" to Theresa May.

I am now beginning to have some sympathy for Theresa as she looks so isolated as her government continues to fall apart around her.

However, the implications for Britain in the above could not be worse, as the Brexit negotiations seem to be completely stalled on the UK side. In that, having an unstable British government at this point in time does not bode well for anyone residing in this country.

Certainly looks like a another contender throwing his hat into the ring to be a Conservative party leader

Oh yes SJ threw his hat into the ring a while ago.

He needs a bit more experience as Home Secretary then could be a contender.

I was actually talking about the present day Trisher the link maryeliza cites is ironically an exhibition devoted to iconoclasm of past centuries.

God knows there is enough questionable art about but we don’t go imprisoning the artist or shooting them as in the Charlie Hebdo case.

She didn’t specify but that doesn’t stop people having a potshot at her
I wasn't taking a potshot and I don't think anyone else was - we have often been asked for 'evidence' on GN as if 'opinion' is not good enough.

trisher do you have any evidence please, as I have not heard of this being Government policy as it is in some other countries.

Since it was T May who promoted Saviid Javid I should think she knew quite a bit about him.
He is a far , far likelier contender than JRM ( who has never been in the running, or even in the Cabinet.)