Odd how we had so much jubilation when Mrs Thatcher died, yet nobody seems to have a bad word to say about an old style union leader who worked only for the benefit of his members, often to the detriment of the poor people forced to use the services he took out on strike.
Admitted there is the added sadness of his relative youth.
Moggy
By: John Green - 25th March 2014 at 12:45
Snafu
Here’s your homework or, some of it.
Re 5. My respectful defence of B.C. Re 7.
Re 30 Quote: “Thatcher’s era? Her grave when found is destined to become the most popular public convenience in Britain”.
Re 36
Re 41 Quote: “Jubilation at Lady T’s death”
Read carefully. If there is anything you don’t understand, get back to me.
Second thoughts. Don’t bother, this correspondence is closed.
By: Edgar Brooks - 25th March 2014 at 00:39
“Dueto de los Gatos,” by Rossini; Google it, then listen to it, you’ll find it totally apposite.
By: snafu - 24th March 2014 at 23:12
My comment?
You first mentioned her if we get back to playground ethics…remember? Hint – you mentioned that Bob Crow damned himself to many for his remarks about Thatchers demise. Not me, you. You you you you.
If you are in the playground maybe you should be using chalks instead…?
Balls!
By: John Green - 24th March 2014 at 21:58
It was your original un-necessary comment about Lady T that started it !
Leave me alone ! I’m happy with my crayons in my playground.
By: snafu - 24th March 2014 at 21:15
Re 105
You started it !
Biters don’t like being bit – do they ?
Started what? Come on, drop your crayons and move up from the playground.
And I’m not biting, merely pointing out that you b!tched about my comments about Thatchers funeral/grave but when I point out you doing the same I’m apparently not happy with being bit.
Balls in your court.
By: silver fox - 24th March 2014 at 20:03
The picket line was just to stop the Con-Dems from privatising it and flogging the show to some off shore venture capitalist.
By: John Green - 24th March 2014 at 16:59
Re 103
Great comment Tony – I enjoyed that !
By: John Green - 24th March 2014 at 16:58
Re 105
You started it !
Biters don’t like being bit – do they ?
By: snafu - 24th March 2014 at 16:48
Rumour has it they are in all night negotiaitions after the cortege refused to cross the picket line :p
You moan about me being disrespectful when I make fun of the deceased ex prime minister, but when you do the same you don’t think about respect for a dead person then, do you.
Not that I am bothered – except for your misspelling of negotiations…;o)
By: charliehunt - 24th March 2014 at 15:58
Ah, of course!! I had forgotten what this thread was about….!:highly_amused:
By: TonyT - 24th March 2014 at 15:41
Rumour has it they are in all night negotiaitions after the cortege refused to cross the picket line :p
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By: John Green - 22nd March 2014 at 11:12
Re 100
CD
That’s a very graceful acknowledgement and culturally correct !
By: Creaking Door - 22nd March 2014 at 02:16
Ah yes, this would refer to the ‘prudence’ of selling off our gold reserves at just about the lowest point in the market…
It wouldn’t have really mattered at what point in the market the gold was sold (although in hindsight it certainly wasn’t a good time); so much gold was unloaded onto the market over such a short period it actually depressed the world price of gold and so the country got even less than the gold was actually worth.
By: Creaking Door - 22nd March 2014 at 02:04
Plain English please, not French measurements…
I hope you’ll be pleased to know that I thought ‘ten feet from where I am sitting’ (it even sounds better, don’t you think, to make a point) but then I converted it (in my head) to metres…
…ten feet is one-hundred-and-twenty inches, multiply that by 25.4mm per inch, or (near as damn it) multiply by one hundred and divide by four, to give about 3000mm.
Ten feet still sounds better.
By: charliehunt - 21st March 2014 at 22:32
And perhaps we should add that Blair/Brown inherited a strong fiscal economic situation. The legacy of Black Wednesday although unplanned!
By: John Green - 21st March 2014 at 21:02
Re 96
Silver Fox
We’re in agreement. Wow ! At least on one point. My working life too was spent on your ‘roller coaster’ no matter the colour of the Govt. Boom or bust, for many years that was the nature of the economy and I was deeply affected by it.
Gordon Broon ? Here we part company. There wasn’t a good feeling, there was an excellent feeling ! It was party time – on borrowed money. Stable and affordable interest rates ? Certainly sir ! Pay back ? Whenever you feel you can afford it.
Crikey, that must have been an expensive meal, look at the size of the bill.
We’ll be paying that bill for many a year to come while, for exammple, we look at the wreck that is our Armed Forces and decide what we can afford and what will have to go. All down to Gordon’s excessively mad spending on social welfare, creating additional layers of welfare dependants.
Oh yes !
By: Moggy C - 21st March 2014 at 20:54
Brown
I am not trying to say he got everything right, he certainly didn’t, but he had a better record than most.
Ah yes, this would refer to the ‘prudence’ of selling off our gold reserves at just about the lowest point in the market to fund the million or so extra public servants?
But you have to hand it to him, his (or rather Ed Balls’s) memorable ‘an end to boom and bust’ was prophetic, even if it didn’t quite turn out the way we all expected.
.. may i enquire as to how well the Tories did in the same eras ,fairs fair.
By comparison pretty well
We have to consider ‘Black Wednesday’ though, so let’s call the score 3-1
Moggy
By: silver fox - 21st March 2014 at 20:27
For an amazing chunk of my working life this country financially rode a roller coaster whichever political party held the reins, now I know some of you will have the voodoo dolls out at this, but the longest period of stability with living wages, affordable interest rates and a reasonably good feeling about the place was during Gordon Brown’s time both as Chancellor and even as PM until the crash.
I am not trying to say he got everything right, he certainly didn’t, but he had a better record than most.
I won’t mention the worst period IMO, have no wish to cause heart attacks, stress or raised blood pressure.
By: trumper - 21st March 2014 at 19:59
I wasn’t only referring to 2008. Labour have a plentiful record of incompetence in matters financial stretching back to way before Callaghan and the IMF bailout and Wilson’s “Pound in your pocket”
Moggy
That was all before my times,may i enquire as to how well the Tories did in the same eras ,fairs fair.
By: snafu - 21st March 2014 at 19:49
I wasn’t only referring to 2008. Labour have a plentiful record of incompetence in matters financial stretching back to way before Callaghan and the IMF bailout and Wilson’s “Pound in your pocket”
Pushing no cart for any party personnally, but none of them have a great record as far as fiscal competence is concerned; we always seem to take the brunt of the hits whilst the chancellor sits there, smugly commending his own policies.
Funny, but you never see a poor ex-chancellor. And when did an ex-MP die a pauper?
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