Gina Miller Quotes
The very fact Boris Johnson is the favourite to succeed May says everything about how vacuous and morally bankrupt our politics has become.
Miller, Gina. Rise: Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading the Way. Canongate Books, 2018.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Sowell’s definition of “degeneracy” seems to be departing from his ideal version of proper views and action.
In the latter part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, right wing talk show hosts had extensive conservative audiences who were very susceptible to hyperbole, exaggerations, vitriol, ideology, and conspiracy theories. They in turn pressured the conservative politicians along the lines of the media shows version of conservatism. The result was that the most powerful conservatives in America were media personalities like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. They had more influence on the Republican party than any of the Republican elected officials. Moyers, used to working with Republicans in many bi-partisan efforts attributed the extreme hyperpartisanship, and nasty, gridlocked political scene that developed in these media personalities.
President’s did not have then the kinds of staff resources that they would get later. Roosevelt had friends and professional relationships with journalists, military men, business men and others whom he used for staff work and advice. Franklin Delano Roosevelt also used this technique extensively.
Gina Nadira Miller is a Guyanese-British business owner and activist who initiated the 2016 R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union court case against the British government over its authority to implement Brexit without approval from Parliament. In September 2019 she successfully challenged the government's prorogation of Parliament, formally supported in the legal case by the former prime minister Sir John Major and the shadow attorney general, Shami Chakrabarti. She founded the True and Fair Campaign in 2012, calling for an end to financial misconduct in the investment and pension industries. She also founded the (now defunct) True and Fair Foundation.
