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Motions

At Tilbury House we discuss all kinds of motions. Currently we focus on more political motions. However, we discuss light hearted and funny motions as well. The focus of Tilbury House has been on this kind of motions for many years. Find a list of motions already discussed in Tilbury House below:

This House believes that Germans can make anything work, even Communism.

This House believes that Tony Blair ain't no poodle.

This House proposes to despatch gender advisers to Iraq.

This House believes that democracy doesn't need voters.

This House believes that M. Chirac is a rascal.

This House believes that conspiracy theories are a repellent form of intellectual low-life.

This House believes that there are no trees in Canada.

This House believes that only German students can get a free lunch.

 

This House believes that the Old World is too old.

This House believes that mice eat holes in cheese.

This House is convinced that one party is always right and the others are usually wrong.

This House would fight socialism wherever it rears its ugly head.

This House believes that nature cannot sin.

This House believes that Margaret Thatcher climbed to the top of the mountain and looked down.

 

This House will not fight for King and country.

This House would like to know why God throws dice.

This House will not consider defeat.

This House believes that no taxation is the best policy.

This House believes that there were no gays at the Last Supper.

This House would repatriate Karl Marx's body and give him a worthy funeral.

This House believes that the Devil is a good debater.

This House believes that the Stone Age did not end for lack of stone.

This House believes that Russia will always have to choose between stability and democracy.

 

This House believes that when you are in doubt, you should mumble.

This House believes that the sun will never rise again.

This House believes that life in the fast lane is too fast for Socialists.

This House demands the overthrow of evil governments everywhere.

This House believes that the Germans should reimburse the Cubans for all of the bad policies inspired by Karl Marx.

 

This House believes that Holy Wars never end.

This House believes that happy is the man that hath his quiver full of arrows.

This House swears to renounce and abjure allegiance to all foreign princes and potentates.

This House would make all students go to 7 a.m. Mass.

This House believes that rugged individualism is the only answer.

This House holds it head high on St. Crispin's Day.

This House believes that there is only one word for terrorist.

This House votes to adjourn.

 

This House believes that taxation is the only answer.

This House thinks that candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.

This House refuses to stick its head in the sand.

This House believes that the best leaders are always charismatic.

This House is divided.

This House is debauched.

This House believes that it is possible to persevere without hope.

This House will never again dispatch tea to unruly colonials.

This House believes that the economy will either go up or it will go down.

This House celebrates the Boston tea Party.

This House would introduce school uniforms.

This House believes that the end justifies the means.

This House believes that bagpipe music is an acquired taste.

This House would hang crucifixes in all of the classrooms at the University of Cologne.

This House believes that children should only be fed rabbit meat.

 

This House believes that the Queen should write the Queen's speeches.

This House believes that there are no chimneysweeps in Hell.

This House finds Russian music bombastic.

This House fiddled while Rome was burning.

This House believes that the opposite is also true.

This House abhors platitudes.

This House believes that clear thinking is a moral imperative.

This House has met its match.

This House believes that political battles are really about language.

This House believes that wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

This House says that the show must go on.

This House resolves to live free or die.

This House believes that Noah built his ark before the floods came.

This House believes that witches fly on brooms.

This House believes that condoms should be tax deductible.

This House believes that the Miss World Pageant is an insult to Christian values.

This House believes that Northern Ireland is England's Chechnya.

This House believes that you are acting in self-defense if you strangle people who smoke

in subway stations.

 

This House believes that we are who we think we are.

This House believes that destiny begins with a choice.

This House finds the impious and nefarious traitorous.

This House believes that silence is eloquent.

This House would return the Elgin Marbles to Greece.

This House celebrates Rudi Völler.

This House votes unanimously to return Helgoland to England.

This House believes that it was God who created the death penalty.

This House believes that Her Majesty's Government is guilty of treason.

This House believes that men would be cowards if they had courage enough.

This House believes that the past is imperfect and the future tense.

This House believes that it is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

 

This House believes that stability is the enemy of liberty.

This House believes that the Germans are the world's leading Luddites.

This House believes that every day is a good day.

This House believes that there will always be a Belfast.

This House is convinced that there is no effect without a cause.

This House suspects that elves have bad teeth.

This House applauds the early bird who gets the worm.

This House believes that students should not be taught more than they can think about.