Politics
Since 2007, the two Bristol City councillors for Filwood ward have been Labour Party members. The MP for the Bristol South constituency, since 1987, is Dawn Primarolo, of the Labour Party. Filwood is represented in the European Parliament by the six MEPs of the South West England constituency.
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“Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate. Not the compromising conciliatory politics of humaneness, not the Erasmian, but rather the politics of vested power which firmly exploits every opportunity, politics in the sense of the “Principe,” has determined the development of European history ever since.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops.”
—Maurice Johnstone (20th century)