i know lots of true conservatives.act that i may disagree with some of them doesn't mean they are not sure conservatives. ofre are scores of millions true conservatives across the country. there are as big a number as the true liberals across the country. are plenty of true conservatives in both chambers of congress and plenty of true conservatives in the media and punditry. i will not name names. host: is president trump a conservative? guest: it's not when it comes to government spending. medicare social security would not be touched. i think those two are really important contributors, dangerously important contributors to the increasing this spiral of federal debt. they need reform, but he promised not to touch them. to that extent he is not a conservative. he is a conservative in appointment of judges to the supreme court, in the deregulation of the economy. for every new regulation to would be eliminated. 2017, theourse of federal government was eliminating something like 20 regulations for everyone that was intr

and i think that the she has a central dilemma she can either go with the conservative solution conservative party solution try a solution which keeps the conservative party together or widen. and what mrs may appears to be doing the behind the entire strategy this week is the idea that mrs may is trying to keep the conservative party together the conservative party is split wide open over europe more than ever before more than a maastricht their effect of late two conservative parties with two separate whipping operations of those the european european reform group which has its own leader and leadership and whips and then you have the official conservative party and then you also of course have the remaining when the provisionals the provisional wing if you like although they're all vogl rather grand provisionals and mrs may is concentrating on finding a formula which will keep the conservative party together even though it doesn't look at all likely that this formula which involves getting fresh concessions from europe has any kind of bearing on what brussels can or will deliver and look

a doesn't pretend to be heritage conservative, and i don't pretend he is a heritage conservative, but he is a straight shooter. i appreciate that about him. i feel that i can go and tell ,im where we are going to be and he will be straight about where he is going to be on something. that is thethink kind of leadership you need at , and, because the problem especially a great frustration for grassroots conservatives, grassroots conservatives have seen the republican party over the last few years have the house on the senate, and presidency, and there is this feeling that and served as were now in power, but it is -- conservatives were now in power him up but it is not true. this is a coalition government at best. you have different republicans in the party. you have your freedom caucus republicans, we see the work closely to them. you have your republican study committee-republicans, leadership republicans, appropriators, and the so this is not a conservative majority or minority at this point. i do think it takes the leadership of the conference and they need to recognize they are put

it seems possible because there is a certain amount of conservative backing.esting thing is not necessarily the technical detail, it will mean the technical detail, it will mean the government is limited in some tax powers, nothing like not being able to raise income tax, but tweaking of amendments, changing references, you might not be able to do it. but it is significant because these numbers will show you the people who are trying to stop a no deal scenario. that is accommodation of labourmps, deal scenario. that is accommodation of labour mps, the snp, the lib dems, plaid cymru, the greens, and a certain number of conservatives. the crucial thing is, how many conservatives will there be who are prepared to vote against their government in this scenario? it is a way, really, showing the strength of feeling in the house as to how many conservatives are prepared to vote against their own government to stop what they would see as a damaging no deal scenario. you had hired onto that come there will be ministers who at this point will not be voting against their

mark: he's very conservative. >> he's very conservative.our lifetime that kept his word. that's why i believe -- mr. president, if you're watching the show, do not give in. the american people are behind you. don't give in until the democrats give you what they were giving each other 10 years ago, the $40 billion, $50 billion for the wall. he's standing on principle. he's standing on things we never -- we watched eight years. i suffered eight years watching the obama administration do things that are going to take us decades to get out of. president trump, i do find it -- i don't know what the word is. the media treats-they hate his guts, obviously. they never call him president trump. you ever notice that? that call him donald trump. you never heard them say barack obama. it was president obama. the little things. i don't get caught up in them. it's kind of funny. mark: you can join us most week nights on levin tv. give us a call on 844-levin-tv or go to blazetv.com/mark. we'll be right back. hings. i don't get caught up in it but it's jus

there are those conservatives who wrote to the publication who conservative right now feels very muchat president trump is trying to do. one of the writers in the symposium noted that back in one of the debates during the presidential election, president trump, and all of the others in the primary, were asked what conservatism was, and he said "conservatism is about conserving america," in other words making america great again. and what larry was saying in his piece is president trump was and that america itself was in danger, so the principal motive of conservatives should be about saving the country. withs something several people in the symposium disagreed with. host: what do conservatives think about the shutdown? i don't think, as as were a matter of thinking, stsservatism or conservati think any differently than anyone else about the shutdown. it is regrettable. it is not a good way of governing to have the government shutdown, and as your previous guest has pointed out, there are things that do not get done with really need to be done, and i do not think anyone wishes the gove

it was a conservative. he had a picture of richard nixon on his nightstand and he used to talked a bit night. scenes of michael j fox or i should say keaton, asked him, richard nixon's picture for advice in a difficult spot or different position. the godfather looking over him. the reagan campaign tried to capitalize this. he invited michael j fox to speak on the campaign. to the youth voters but michael j fox, i think for political reasons, politely declined. saying that he was canadian. he didn't want to get involved in american politics. but still the same, i think wh what, if anything, michael j f fox, he was the cultural shift in youth during the 1980s. it explains in many ways, richard nixon vision of youth came to be. this sort of square silent majority became the new youth politics. in the 1980s. this had limits, polling showed that on social issues, young people were for the most part, liberal as their 1960s counterparts. but still, we seek ways in which this is a success for the republican brand.

they are in college and they're pretty conservative. they are listening to liberal professors and they will text me and my son has one professor who says i don't want you to take what i say at face value, i want you to challenge me which is the first time i've ever heard anyone left to center say that. >> you think that country is moving in the wrong direction because of the social pressure that's in place in our schools and society and the media, even though there's a pushback, the president of the united states and other conservative. >> here's the thing. you know where we are right now. you're kind of in the eye of the storm given your influence on people on the right from those who come from the right and that means your on target. trump is gonna win 2020. there's no feasible way unless the russians and democrats get together again and try to rig another election but he wins in 2020. they're not going to suddenly scale back. they will be up a bucket more so than they are now meant you don't think it ends well. >> it can't because th

back in the conservancy the pack are hunting. close to a kill. but this world of beast is a little too big for them still it provides a good sparring partner for the younger dogs to hone their hunting skills. so after a little excitement predators and potential prey decide to go their separate ways. thanks but african wild dogs are themselves exposed to danger even inside the park as we discover the next day ranger king could several is out on patrol when a colleague contacts him they're going to go closer for work the dog dared to control my snake. the ranger immediately heads to the scene where jessica water myrick is waiting for him it soon becomes clear the situation is even worse than they thought so we got a report this morning that there were two dogs it reported was they were still fighting the was so we rushed just soon as possible and got it within twenty minutes of the report but unfortunately when we got to the dogs had already struggled themselves and suffocated. it's a senseless killing the dogs weren't even the target of the poache

the conservative movement encompasses traditional conservatives. by libertarian. and protecting the life, liberty and property of its citizens and commitment to the libertarian. ann ould include robert, rand. these views form a concxds con you umh. this is a constellation and commitments that is recognizable but no single bright line to demark ate the conservative from e classic liberal to the libertarian. but any conservative classic, libber terian is much more classical. most conservatives, classic liberals or libertarian don't find it to be concern that one has a lesser income. a millionaire has a lower income and less wealth than a billionaire. these ratios don't cause them anxiety. they are not committed to a istributional outcome. they reject the view that wealth or income is to be distributed by the state and generally are among capitalist acts inconsistenting adults. and they support fairness, not equality of outcomes and don't see ard and instead they equal protection of law, equal justice under the law. what concern classic call libertarians is not incom

conservatives will always be with us. if conservatives become convinced they cannot win democratically they will not abandon conservatism, they will reject democracy. what does that mean? >> guest: we were talking about a minute ago. the greater north carolina. that, they will become, you will see is more and more people saying explicit many republican members of the house say which i don't think everybody should vote. voting should be difficult. you should is to make an effort. you shouldn't be able to just, shouldn't be anybody walking in office. theory of democracy, you know, the most pungently expressed in series of debates during the civil wars, 400 years ago, the poorest he has a life to live as the much as the greatest he. that is the idea of democracy. not, people are not equal in wisdom or aptitude or wealth but, from the point of view where the meaning of their own lives, their human worth they are all equal. in that respect we're all one, one, one, one and the democratic theory says that one voice, from that on

the conservative movement today encompasses both traditional conservatives and classical liberals. and by libertarian, i mean protecting the life, liberty and property of its citizens and a commitment to the libertarian nonaggression principles. proponents of this view would include ayn rand and mary rappaport. it's become clear to me over the years these views form a contingent. each view represents a constellation of principles and commitments that is recognizable but there's no single bright line has demarcated a conservative from a classical liberal or libertarian. in fact, there are many fridays of each philosophy. but any conservative, classical liberal or libertarian is more committed to liberal than progressives or socialists. most conservatives, classic liberals or libertarians, particular moral concern, and middle-income person has a lower income and less wealth than an affluent professional, but a millionaire has lower income and less wealth than a billionaire. relative wealth or income ratios don't cause them anxiety. they're not ideologically committed to a predetermin

the conservative movement today encompasses traditional conservatives and classical liberals. and life, liberty and property of its citizens and a commitment nonaggression principles. and it would include ayn rand and mary rappaport. and these views form continually. each you represent a constellation of principles and commitments that is recognizable but no bright line has demarcated a conservative from a classical liberal or libertarian. there are many varieties of this philosophy but any conservative, classical liberal or libertarian is more committed to liberal than progressives. most conservatives, libertarians, particular moral concern, and middle-income person has a lower income and less wealth than an affluent professional, but a millionaire has lower income and less wealth than a billionaire. the income ratios don't cause them anxiety. they are not ideologically committed to a predetermined government enforced distributional outcome. to borrow a memorable description, they reject the view that wealth is like mana from heaven to be distributed by the state and generall

and that is when they become conservatives.this is the saying that if you -- i may be getting this wrong dashed but if you are young and conservative you don't have a heart and if you are old and liberal you don't have a brain. it's something like that this is not true. but in many ways it was the hope and it is interesting to see the way that those fictions were internalized into policy agendas and when i talked to george gordon who ran the college division of young voters for president he said that is a bunch of junk. that they went after college voters to and that there was conservatives on campus and that when you talk about the fact that nixon was winning over young working-class voters yes he was but it's relative to where they had them. he was splitting it. he was feeling in half. and so the idea that that plays out according to the choke is wrong. it is still inspired a lot of political thinking and group thinking and how they target this group. but something had to contend with. >> i think it's an interesting point but

the reality is that a conservative prime minister gave us the referendum and a conservative prime ministerrm of time — 12 weeks — when we were telling him "give us a lot longer." in scotland they had 18 months. it is a conservative prime minister in terms of theresa may who has now wasted two years with internal divisions and suddenly commentators want to try and blamejeremy corbyn for bringing about brexit. it is unfair and wrong. if labour was in power now we would have an agreement with europe that would unite our nation and would make certain that our economy, rather than slipping backwards with the investment and regional investment banks and national investment banks with the ability to invest on manufacturing, we would have an economy that was growing with real and decent jobs, well—paid jobs and not the precarious race to the bottom that we currently have. we have run out of time but i thank you very much for being on hardtalk. hello there. it won't be as cold to start this morning as it has been recent mornings. it will still be chilly, temperatures close to freezing in a few spot

is there a conservancy that already works with that park. >> i think it's a 51-c but not a conservancy. >> okay. >> president tsen: mr. samaha. >> a few comments and a couple questions. one, i have been on this commission long enough, i think 12 years now, to remember that we did have a discussion about conservancy for our parks. i don't know how many years ago this was that we had this discussion, but so much comes before us and we had so many reiterations of a lot of our plans. but did we not have a position on establishing a conservancy for the management of the parks? for treasure island? >> i haven't gone back to some of the board conversations and actions. the open space plan and they left it as an open question but that doesn't necessarily, you know, kind of catch the nuances of conversation that was happening at the board when the open phase plan was discussed here. >> it's just one of the options discussed but i remember having a very thorough discussion, it was before your time i believe, bob. and we have flushed that out and we thought that it was a great idea not to have re

conservatives are going to look at that and they are going to say but no. leaving everything to go its own way is eroding ability of our society to flourish and we have to do something about it. think we are at a place in our country where that is happening in is in one way to understand what happened in 2016 is that donald trump despite not being a libertarian or conservative necessarily jammed his bomb right into that time and a lot of what we are grappling with ideologically is what to do at this point. obviously the debate about who is libertarian or conservatives is much broader to recognize how we feel about something like labor market outcomes we disagree with them the right and some take for granted that we would agree on it. a second interesting conceptual point is pluralism matters. what i propose an oak as an alternative to this economic piety is what i call protective pluralism part of which is the productive peace this point that getting to be productive contributors important. this idea pluralism that we need to preserve options and not too mu

very conservative, i don't use this term, ideologically. people who believe something very specific. how to interpret the constitution, how to view issues and the mantra was, no more suitors. that is the mantra for republicans and that is why -- it's not any secret that president trump's farmed out his choices to the federal society. that's where that list came from. so when you have that kind of political pressure and presidents who are inclined to accept that pressure, that's it. that's the answer to the wife. >> one more question. put on a piece of paper, i see you waiting are hand. [laughter] >> i didn't have a chance to read it on. thank you so much for the wonderful conversation. i wonder, given your perspective on the court, whether you have an opinion about legal education in the u.s.? whether there is something more, better, different in law schools that the u.s. should be doing and given all the issues that are facing us right now. >> since i didn't go to law school, not sure i'm the best person to answer that. that's number one.

this is the conservative state lawsuit against the aca that would strip key parts of the aca like the individual mandate. house democrats are taking a position saying the u.s. justice department would be the one to step in and fight conservative cds but the trump administration has sided with the conservative 80's and house democrats are saying if trump's department of justice will not do anything, we are going to intervene. stephanie: mention a couple of the top priorities for these new house democrats. where are they going to head in the coming years? ella nilsen: there is a lot they have on their plates. in the coming weeks, hr one -- nancy pelosi also announced the creation of a committee to tackle climate change. expect committee hearings on climate change and the environment. we will see if there is tangible legislation that comes out of that. one of the things that was mentioned today, there's going to be a universal background check introduced next week for something that deals with gun control. a wide range of things democrats are looking at tackling early. stephanie: we will

there is a conservative whatsapp group in which pretty much most of the conservative party of all viewst night with the desire to come together. and i think this is the main bit for the government to take away. ordinary backbenchers said, "we can compromise around this agreement." revoke article 50. yes, tuesday at westminster is onlyjust getting going. chris mason, bbc news, at westminster. we will bring you all the events live from westminster. there are seven amendments in total. lots of them are hanging in the balance. conversations going on in the corridors of the palace of westminster, each side trying to bring more mps onto their side. so, our chief political correspondent, vicki young, will be with us this evening. what is an alternative arrangement? that is the question many have been asking. in some ways it is deliberately vague. certain alternatives they are considering, won a unilateral exit from the backstop, one is a time limit and the other is this rather vague alternative arrangement. they are looking at the idea of something which has been put forward by conservative mp

the conservative government says nothing about investing into those communities.nd issue that caused people to vote, the conservative party have said nothing about it. let's work it out for a moment. i know you are not so keen on polling evidence but a lot of evidence suggests that one of the key reasons that the uk voted to leave the eu was that they were worried about migration. so you are saying that the tories are offering a ring on that, what does labour of a? labour offers labour market reform a is. when we come out of europe, the free movement of labour.. however, it will be replaced by another ability of labour. if you are negotiating access to a tariff free market then you have to develop one of the other fundamentals of the eu, the free movement of labour. : mobility of labour but it would be based on labour market regulations. at the moment. it is not migrant workers who are to blame, they are like you and me, they want to make a better life of themselves and their family. it is the greedy bosses who use migrant labour to undercut pay and conditions and

where he would rather a general election the conservative party perhaps divides and trying to conserve refused to sort of actually to get rid of mrs may and there's a collapse of the government because if there's a referendum and the revote were to remain it would cause a huge dilemma because people say well what about another a friend best of three but also he will be pressed to pursue policies that he's never really liked to party or opinion in there are some things of course that he likes but i think it's fair to say that he's lou queen to put it mildly so here's a better chance of becoming a prime minister able to implement the kind of policy agenda that he would like if rick. wasn't circumscribe a key european by those six principles of how you would our society the economy of the tax system saw which individual states have to abide by. so you have this i was able to see it in the debate in the house of commons today mrs may didn't get too many cheers from the soldiers would recall but hardly any from the reporter and his deputy who spoke at the end of the be very cool for people

henry hyde has a a wonderful term and that's how they see the conservative movement. >> is cnn conservative? . >> no. when tom johnson was running it he was a liberal democrat in the "miami herald" i think it was but tom johnson was committed to news. there could be. problems. and they did a lot of wrong things but but that was not the norm it was the exception. cnn is there to do nothing but anti- trump. i was going on a fox show a few months ago and i looked on my phone and i looked at the app on cnn they had 15 storiesey on their app and 13 attacked trump over something he had said the day before the 14th attacked trump on something else 15 the story was like a world war or something that 14 out of 15 were attacks on donald trump and variations of the same attackd. it is so over-the-top and so obvious. they don't report news how many news programs do they even have? they are all talk shows. >> do you know, the difference anyway? so when we come back the government shutdown is it? as most of the government shutdown? whathe percent how does the media report this? why is it that there is a

lastly, i do think although the president has made some and some very distinguished conservatives to the bench, there is a lot of others who would never would have passed muster in any administration ever before. that is partly due to humane have to put that at mitch mcconnell. >> i know that you covered, and recently, we have seen the lack of a confirmation hearing for president obama's appointee judge garland and the contentious confirmation of judge kavanaugh. what you think we will see as a long-term ramifications of these events? >> i do think that the confirmation hearings should look into somebody's back row completely, and when they are rushed, that makes it much more difficult to do with any propriety or respect for the nominee and the privacy in any way. this was true partly in the confirmation hearings of justice thomas and even more true in the cavanaugh hearings were they was just basic, the time schedule was on a speed train from japan somewhere and nobody was going to interrupt that. that is not to say that the democrats performed admirably either. they do not seem to

jenner and the american unity fund, a conservative lgbtq-advocacy organization of which i am the president. caitlyn jenner... >> yay! >> ...welcome to "firing line." >> margaret is the best. >> [ laughs ] you're very nice. >> we met two, two and a half years ago, something like that. >> i reached out to you because when you came out not just as a trans woman but as a republican... >> [ inhales sharply ] you don't do that. >> ...i, in my work in the lgbt-advocacy organization, recognized immediately that you were suddenly the most famous republican in the world... >> [ laughs ] >> ...but that also you might have a unique value proposition when it came to our advocacy issues. but before we get to that, the first thing i want to ask you about is, since 2015 and your amazingly public transition -- the most high-profile transition of any trans person in history. >> right. >> so, i think what people would like to know to begin with is, now that you've been caitlyn for three years, are you happy? >> [ laughing ] oh, my god. there's nothing better in life -- to wake up in the morning and just be y

jim is editor of the american conservative. previously he was politics editor for the washington examiner. he was managing editor of the daily caller and he was associate editor of the american spectator. antle is the offer of "devouring freedom, can big government ever be stopped." seated next to him as part of the american conservative team is helen andrews. helen is a writer and editor whose work has appears in spectator usa, the claremont review and american affairs among many others. helen andrews was a 2017 robert novak journalism fellow. we welcome all four of them. it's going to be a lively discussion. just a few words before we begin. we want to get a sense of what you in the audience and any of you who are following beyond this room think about the subject of immigration, about whether america needs more immigrants. so we're going to ask you to cast a vote and you have two ways to do that. one is to text. normally people tell you to put away your smart phone. we're asking you to take it out and to text the numbers 223

you can count the conservatives on one hand. you can count about 40 of them that will act like conservatives when they need to. thorne hatch, the lindsey graham's, the corcoran, all of them have behaved like conservatives to win elections but then they have the agenda in washington. romney's no different but that fact that trump went out and endorsed him he took that endorsement and he was so grateful and help them get elected. i think it's disgraceful. could someone who just takes advantage of the situation. >> the democrats and the media in many respects are one and the same. they talk about impeachment from day one, every time some of the else's charge with something somehow it's the shoe that's going to fall on trump. personally like mitt romney who ran for president of the united states. does he not see the battle this president is facing. you must really be an ego maniac in order to promote yourself to the opposition press. >> i think he's a politician. i'll think he cares about anything you just said. he cares about getti

the trump administration has sided with these conservative agencies. house democrats are basically saying if the department of justice will not do anything, we will intervene. announcer: mention a couple of the top priorities for these new house democrats. where are they going to head in these coming years? >> there's a lot they have on their plate. in the coming weeks, obviously hr one --h.r. 1, in the rules committee, nancy pelosi announced a select committee to tackle climate change. expect committee hearings on climate change and the environment. we will see if there's tangible legislation that comes out of that. one of the things mentioned today, there was going to be a universal background check bill introduced next week. something that deals with gun control, as well. a wide range of things democrats are looking at tackling early. announcer: as we follow this news conference, we will find best new congress, we will find you on twitter. you are reporting atvox.com. thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. announcer: over 100 new membe

i am joined by conservative party. i am joined by conservative mp maria miller.roblem for the prime minister, heard deal doesn't have support so how can she get it through? yesterday the house of commons was clear about what they didn't support but not about what they would support and we saw that in the range ofamendments, support and we saw that in the range of amendments, there was little consistency about what was put forward by both parties, so the next step has to be to assess what clarification would be needed to bring most people on board and that's the next step for her to make. but it will not be simply about the backstop but something more fundamental, possibly as we heard from david gauke, a customs union, and that will upset some of your colleagues but might bring in the labour party. i don't think it's just about what brings in labour or conservative backbenchers but what is negotiable with the eu, so given that they have said the agreement on the table will not be changed, one conversation the prime minister has to have is, is that the same, given

>> conservative, you want to comment? >> well, the problem with the caravan is not that we are not taking enough refugees. the problems are not equal to a refugee style system. those we took after the vietnam war was 300,000. from el salvador was 7 million. 100% are effected by the ongoing violence. it's not a small minority but everybody has a situation. that's not the problem they can solve or was intended to solve. the fact that they are trying to immigrate on the bases of asylum is an abuse of the system. i don't by leav believe it's ho. >> on the refugee policy. canada has a different system driven by private sponsorship. if we turnover our whole system to a private sponsorship it's a larger question for what our social and welfare state will do. is it. go it governed by law. it would be much larger. that's an interesting question. you might say it might be a more lenient system butles but less regulated one. so, just putting that aside, the issue about who qualifies for asylum is definitely an issue of public policy

everyone from senior members to junior members of the conservative party you can briefing very strongly that she wouldn't get anything like that through parliament. and it's somewhat frustrating that she has chosen to ignore us advice on numerous occasions and sort of smashed the conservative party in the government into a brick wall time and time again not seeming to understand the reality of the situation i think the reason that we called for to resign made to go few months ago was so that we could explore the possibility of an alternative deal something that has often been referred to as a canada trickle plus model as that time is now passed it seems clear that the only scenario that the government can really. in staying within the article fifty timeline is what is often been called a no deal. or a w t o terms. which whilst there probably isn't supports. that to pass through parliament it is the default position and what happens on the twenty ninth of march if no other alternative deal has been passed so i think that is now the most likely scenario but recently i will probably go to

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the reagan administration has gradually become more and more conservative. i think in large part because for republicans at least, especially about social issues, a substantial part of the party base cares so adamantly about it and therefore whether the president say so, there are limits. there are many tests for republican candidates, they would be hard-pressed to imagine a democrat would nominate someone pro-life to the court. it's not that i don't think democrats have tests as well, but there is no center of the court right now except for potentially the chief justice and he is pretty conservative. it's not that he will never vote or that the vote won't be scrambled in other ways and in other cases, but on the cases people care about so passionately in both parties, the political pressure has been to nominate the people who would be with them and that is more true for republicans because there is a greater number of issues they care about so passionately. i don't think the court will ever reverse itself on same-sex marriage but it's entirely possible and

the surprise star of conservative conference was the attorney general, geoffrey cox.ntroduction to the prime minister. music: dancing queen by abba. theresa may danced her way onto the stage to abba's dancing queen. after last year's speech, where everything seemed to go wrong, it could only be an improvement. she told her party that better days were ahead, and that austerity was coming to an end. because, a decade after the financial crash, people need to know that the austerity it led to is over, and that their hard work has paid off. but brexit was about to shatter theresa may's post—conference high. the dup, on whom she relies for votes in parliament, threatened to vote against the budget if extra checks were imposed on trade between northern ireland and the rest of the uk. we have been telling people about our red line. so what is important for us is to say to her very clearly that any impediment on the two—way access in the uk single market would not be good for the union, and would not be good for the economy of northern ireland. tensions were also rising in th

the prospects of getting a number of conservatives to back this is bleak.eagues did a big survey of party members and absolutely right, in majority if i remember rightly of conservative party members are very relaxed about no deal. notjust the withdrawal dilbert falling out of the eu with no deal at all. most expert organisations have looked at this and say this might be very disruptive indeed. i bet you're finding to george freeman, the member of parliament earlier, he says your numbers are not sensitive because there are lots of conservatives who don't know they can speak about this who are very afraid of no deal and think it is going to lead to chaos, is this ever preventative one? it is a representative of mps, it carries all the surveys and warnings. it is not all mp5, we don't know if they we re not all mp5, we don't know if they were telling the truth, but ought we can say is we have done this over time and so what has been interesting for us is the way that numbers have changed over time, one interesting fact of members was that the numberof labourm