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“We are a parliamentary as opposed to a presidential system. That means that actually there is probably less room for a thorough-going populist to capture both his or her or her party — and, indeed, the country — in the United Kingdom than there is in the United States,” said Tim Bale, a political science professor at Queen Mary University of London.

“Areas favourable for scattering leaflets against the South will open on the whole front line and our people’s drive for scattering leaflets will be guaranteed militarily and thorough-going security measures will be taken,” he said.

A thorough-going con artist whose grifting takes place in a variety of settings, Roy is always acting, always playing a part for an audience.

Geoff Shepard, the former domestic policy aide to Nixon who would not talk on the record, recently cited a line from a mafioso to encapsulate his and his fellow loyalists’ thorough-going loathing for Dean: “That guy would steal the silver dollars off his dead mother’s eyes.”

Against that background, Hamilton says, "The government gives every impression that this is going to be a thorough-going review leading to major changes."