Leader of The Labour Party - Page 6

jaysay · 23-09-2010, 10:14

Is he taking in the Grand Old Opry in Nashville too cashy

cashman · 23-09-2010, 14:46

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Is he taking in the Grand Old Opry in Nashville too cashy

Dunno, i told him how we did it from yon.

Barrie Yates · 23-09-2010, 15:51

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Is he taking in the Grand Old Opry in Nashville too cashy

Too much to hope that he will get a different song sheet??????????

JCB · 23-09-2010, 18:07

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Originally Posted by Mancie

Maybe we are saying the same...I'd say the real socialism that created the NHS, national pensions, child benifit has gone when talking about winning a General election.. mainly because the tories have always opposed them ..and the right have total control of the media.... but I don't think the idea of socialism is dead.

Yes the idea of socialism is still around , but there's not the slightest evidence that the people of this country want it .

There was a degree of socialism in the Attlee led Labour government , but none in the Labour gvernments led by Wilson , Callaghan , Blair , and Brown .

jaysay · 23-09-2010, 18:35

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Originally Posted by JCB

Yes the idea of socialism is still around , but there's not the slightest evidence that the people of this country want it .

There was a degree of socialism in the Attlee led Labour government , but none in the Labour gvernments led by Wilson , Callaghan , Blair , and Brown .

Watched an interview with Tony Benn not long ago JCB, he was asked if it was time for Socialism to make a return, his answer, NO

cashman · 23-09-2010, 18:41

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Watched an interview with Tony Benn not long ago JCB, he was asked if it was time for Socialism to make a return, his answer, NO

Sadly Tony Benn is correct, society has changed far too much (fer the worse) fer it to return.

JCB · 23-09-2010, 18:58

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Watched an interview with Tony Benn not long ago JCB, he was asked if it was time for Socialism to make a return, his answer, NO

Despite his helping to cause chaos in the Labour Party in the 1980s , thus bringing about New Labour , I do like to listen to Tony Benn . He speaks good English and refuses to indulge in personality assassination .

jaysay · 24-09-2010, 09:35

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Originally Posted by JCB

Despite his helping to cause chaos in the Labour Party in the 1980s , thus bringing about New Labour , I do like to listen to Tony Benn . He speaks good English and refuses to indulge in personality assassination .

Funny enough JCB I like listening to him speak, don't agree with a lot he says, but at least he sticks to his principles and he's also a great orator. Unlike the modern day Labour party who sold their principles for electability, then tried to distance themselves when it all went tits up.

Wynonie Harris · 25-09-2010, 00:12

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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

Too much to hope that he will get a different song sheet??????????

Oi, Mr Yates, I may be sitting in the lobby of the Holiday Inn, downtown Memphis (four blocks away from Sun records, Cashy), but I've got my eye on you! So, have you given up being a plastic Manc and started supporting Stanley or what??

Anyway I'm off to Beale Street to have a few beers and watch James Govan and the Boogie Blues Band. Bye, y'all.

jaysay · 25-09-2010, 08:40

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Oi, Mr Yates, I may be sitting in the lobby of the Holiday Inn, downtown Memphis (four blocks away from Sun records, Cashy), but I've got my eye on you! So, have you given up being a plastic Manc and started supporting Stanley or what??

Anyway I'm off to Beale Street to have a few beers and watch James Govan and the Boogie Blues Band. Bye, y'all.

You should be so lucky

Tealeaf · 25-09-2010, 08:45

Anyway, the new Labour leader will be announced at quarter to five this afternoon. I bet those clowns at the BBC interupt the footy results to let us know who's won.

jaysay · 25-09-2010, 09:03

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Anyway, the new Labour leader will be announced at quarter to five this afternoon. I bet those clowns at the BBC interupt the footy results to let us know who's won.

Its on BBC 2 Tealeaf, from 4-30, I will be watching the footy results on BBC 1

Tealeaf · 25-09-2010, 15:51

It's Ed then......19 years of wilderness for Labour.

Boeing Guy · 25-09-2010, 16:26

Mancie should be happy, socialist Ed won.
So Labour is back to the 70's and 80's then.

Barrie Yates · 25-09-2010, 16:38

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Oi, Mr Yates, I may be sitting in the lobby of the Holiday Inn, downtown Memphis (four blocks away from Sun records, Cashy), but I've got my eye on you! So, have you given up being a plastic Manc and started supporting Stanley or what??

Anyway I'm off to Beale Street to have a few beers and watch James Govan and the Boogie Blues Band. Bye, y'all.

Pretty obvious you are having a great time Wyn - good on you. Never got to Memphis, S.C./Al/Az/Md/Ut and California were the only places I worked or visited.
Stephen Fry in America last night brought back some memories - Monument Valley to Tucson, including the mothballed aircraft at Davis-Monthan Airbase and Old Tucson the film town.
"A few beers" you need more than a few of their Gnat Urine