Hello Steven,I think you are correct, there is not much political debate on the Forum at the moment. Thank goodness!There was never a debate but there was snapping if your (in my case, my) views did not coincide with others.There is much more to life than the blinkered "blue and red" - however difficult it is for many to understand. Or, in the case of the USA, red and blue.I do not think you read Henry Zeffman's article on the BBC which I posted a few days ago.To make it easier for you, I am copy-pasting an extract of the article entitled:"British obsessionThere’s another element to this, too. The British political world is utterly obsessed with American politics, even if it is an almost totally unrequited passion.Every four years, British politicos stream across the Atlantic for a taste of campaigning on a far bigger canvas.There are numerous examples. Earlier this summer Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, was at the Republican convention just days after his election as an MP, as was Liz Truss, the former prime minister, just days after she lost her seat.Penny Mordaunt, the former Conservative cabinet minister, worked for George W Bush before she became an MP. Liam Fox, another ex-Conservative MP, has had ties with senior figures in the Republicans for a number of years.Not that the parties on either side of the Atlantic always match up neatly.In January 2020, I was shadowing a small group of canvassers for Joe Biden in the New Hampshire presidential primary, when I realised that one of them was Sir Simon Burns, the former Conservative MP for Chelmsford.In recent weeks Sir Robert Buckland, who lost his seat as a Conservative at the general election, has been in the US campaigning for Harris."
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