Ooooh, I like a good funeral.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by cashman

How about "The Road To Hell" Chris Rea, eric? that seems very apt.

Na Half Way to Paradise would be more fitting

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by cashman

If yeh wonder that,then yer lights have gone out, It was the simple fact it was a "Woman" many many female Labour voters voted on that one fact,including me late Mum In Law, n lived to regret the fact afterwards, really i credited yeh wi a bit more common than that.

Its just a pity that the election in Question was the 1992 event when John Major was the PM, mind you our John had a way with women didn't he

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by annesingleton

We currently have a government which nobody elected.
And I do realise that a lot of people other than the upper classes vote Tory, although I personally completely fail to understand why, but I don't think we have a credible alternative at the moment.
Anyway we're all entitled to our own opinions and to vote for who we want, my main problem is with Mrs. Thatcher, I don't mind Mr. Cameron quite so much and I do agree with one or two of the current policies, the thought of him doesn't make my blood boil like the thought of Maggie does!

You don't know why the ordinary man in the street vote Tory, its quite easy really Herold (this won't effect the pound in your pocket)Wilson, Jim (Crisis what crisis)Callaghan, Tony (whiter than white government) Blair, Gordon(useless) Brown, were as much use as a one legged man at an arse kick contest, in terms of running the country

[annesingleton]

I think we need to agree to differ here Jaysay, I'm coming across as a far left wing socialist which I can assure you I'm not!
But I stand by my comments about Margaret Thatcher and her government.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Now please.......and don't be offering to dirty the clayton cut....I live right next to it....don't want such unpalatable debris floating about on the top, thanks!

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Now please.......and don't be offering to dirty the clayton cut....I live right next to it....don't want such unpalatable debris floating about on the top, thanks!

Sorry about that. You are right. And I suppose they cleaned up the River Stink ... no sense re-polluting it.

An aside: when I was at the University of Saskatchewan the authorities had problems with John Diefenbaker's grave on campus. Seems like after the usually friday nite beer fest at the Louis Riel pub, students were performing minor desecrations on his grave. I think that urinating, defecating, and vomiting sums it up They moved his mortal remains to a resting place in a more right-wing, red neck area.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Eric

And I suppose they cleaned up the River Stink ... no sense re-polluting it.

Showing your age, Eric . Wonder if anyone still calls it that?

[cashman]

Originally Posted by susie123

Showing your age, Eric . Wonder if anyone still calls it that?

yep most people i know,including me.

[susie123]

And I suppose they cleaned up the River Stink ...

Originally Posted by susie123

Showing your age, Eric . Wonder if anyone still calls it that?

Originally Posted by cashman

yep most people i know,including me.

No wonder our town's got such a wonderful image!

[cashman]

Originally Posted by susie123

No wonder our town's got such a wonderful image!

That don't make a blind bit of difference to that fact susie, was called that by near everyone when accy was a great little town.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by cashman

That don't make a blind bit of difference to that fact susie, was called that by near everyone when accy was a great little town.

True, Cashy, point taken.

[accyman]

hang on the river stink has been known by a different name ?

I wasnt aware they cleaned it up i thought they just relocated the sewage pipe lol

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by garinda

British Pathe - WORLD IN REMEMBRANCE

Churchill's funeral boat returns to Thames with £1m price tag | UK news | The Guardian

To get back on thread a moment - from The Guardian clip quoted above:

"The Queen had decided in 1963 - when Churchill was already too ill to attend the ceremony where President John F Kennedy made him the first honorary citizen of the United States - that it would be a state funeral, the most spectacular since the Duke of Wellington's more than a century earlier."

Who has decided now that Lady Thatcher should have a State funeral -is it still The Queen's choice or is it in the hands of politicians?

I would love to have been a fly on the wall back in their weekly meetings, somehow I can't imagine them getting on

[cashman]

Originally Posted by mobertol

To get back on thread a moment - from The Guardian clip quoted above:

"The Queen had decided in 1963 - when Churchill was already too ill to attend the ceremony where President John F Kennedy made him the first honorary citizen of the United States - that it would be a state funeral, the most spectacular since the Duke of Wellington's more than a century earlier."

Who has decided now that Lady Thatcher should have a State funeral -is it still The Queen's choice or is it in the hands of politicians?

I would love to have been a fly on the wall back in their weekly meetings, somehow I can't imagine them getting on

Thing wi Churchill, although a Tory n in peacetime wasn't a great leader, didn't hear many,if any, dissenting voices to his funeral. I wonder what the difference could be?

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by cashman

Thing wi Churchill, although a Tory n in peacetime wasn't a great leader, didn't hear many,if any, dissenting voices to his funeral. I wonder what the difference could be?

Well you have to admit cashy Churchill and Thatcher had something in common, they were both good at kicking the germans backside