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23-08-2012, 09:22
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Grand Wizard Of The Inner Clique
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Re: The Tories
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Only you could have a spare bucket of snot Less
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I got it out of that yellow sack you put out for waste bio hazards, the suprising thing is, as you are a lifelong tory I'm amazed you even give that stuff away!
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23-08-2012, 09:28
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Re: The Tories
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I got it out of that yellow sack you put out for waste bio hazards, the suprising thing is, as you are a lifelong tory I'm amazed you even give that stuff away!
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You must have been at the wrong address don't have any yellow sacks, mind you there is a socialist lives round the corner, anyway if you were in my area why did you call and have a stamp on my oxygen pipe
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23-08-2012, 09:35
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Grand Wizard Of The Inner Clique
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Re: The Tories
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You must have been at the wrong address don't have any yellow sacks, mind you there is a socialist lives round the corner, anyway if you were in my area why did you call and have a stamp on my oxygen pipe
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Yep you fell into the trap, too tight to even put a yellow sack out, as for your oxygen pipe, that is Micks job, I wouldn't dream of stealing another working man's only pleasure.
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23-08-2012, 09:42
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Re: The Tories
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Yep you fell into the trap, too tight to even put a yellow sack out, as for your oxygen pipe, that is Micks job, I wouldn't dream of stealing another working man's only pleasure.
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Na we're more up market Less our sacks are Orange mate
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23-08-2012, 09:53
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Grand Wizard Of The Inner Clique
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Re: The Tories
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Na we're more up market Less our sacks are Orange mate
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There you go extracting the urine just because I'm colour blind, typical Tory always picking on a peron's unfortunate weakness.
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23-08-2012, 09:58
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Re: The Tories
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There you go extracting the urine just because I'm colour blind, typical Tory always picking on a peron's unfortunate weakness.
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No Less was just taking the pee, thats yellow
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23-08-2012, 10:40
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Grand Wizard Of The Inner Clique
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Re: The Tories
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No Less was just taking the pee, thats yellow
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It looks black to me and I have this terrible pain in the kidneys, I thought at first it was from splitting my sides at your lifelong beliefs, but maybe it's something else...
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23-08-2012, 13:05
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Re: The Tories
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Ya can't call the blessed Margaret to me, but for her we would now live in a banana republic after Silly Billy and Sonny Jim's escapades in the 70s
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I do find that opinions about Thatcher tend to be divided and quite extreme but I don't think even the most blue-eyed Tory could deny that there was a great deal of "bad" going on at that time. Could I ask you though, do you, with hindsight, still agree with the privatisations? Do you think that people working hard to make a living and struggling to make ends meet as a result of those privatisations were a price worth paying for a bit of political dogma? Was the destruction of tens of thousands of peoples way of life really worth it just to prove a point?
Just for the record (in case I'm accused of bias) I have been driven away from the Labour party because of the slavish adherence to American foriegn policy. I may be back in the fold soon but at the last couple of elections I have voted (bizarely) UKIP out of desperation and partly because of my dislike/distrust of the EU.
Oh, by the way, in my last post I forgot to mention the 15% interest rates that were forcing people out of there homes and causing businesses to close in record numbers.
Come to think about it, can anyone come up with anything done in that period that worked out well for the ordinary man and woman on the street?
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23-08-2012, 15:10
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Re: The Tories
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Come to think about it, can anyone come up with anything done in that period that worked out well for the ordinary man and woman on the street?
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I've no great love for Margaret Thatcher and I agree with you that we are now paying the price of her "privatize everything" stance with electricity, gas, water, rail companies and many others routinely ripping us off.
However, she did one thing that worked out well for us - she faced down the French, Germans and their cronies to negotiate our EU rebate which has saved us billions over the years. Unfortunately, the odious and slimey war monger, Blair negotiated a large part of it away later on, in return for vague promises on CAP reform. It's estimated that Blair's spineless surrender will have cost us around £9.3billion between 2007 and 2013.
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23-08-2012, 15:38
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Re: The Tories
I suppose that selling the council houses to the tenants could be seen as benfitting the man in the street. Many of the people who bought the houses would never have been able to get on the property ladder any other way.......but while it might have been of benefit to those in the houses at the time, we are suffering now with a lack of affordable housing......and I guess this has to be put down to the selling off of this stock.
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23-08-2012, 15:43
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Re: The Tories
I was always under impression that council houses were fer folk who couldn't afford a mortgage? on that basis it was folly to flog em off cheap.
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23-08-2012, 17:40
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Re: The Tories
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I've no great love for Margaret Thatcher and I agree with you that we are now paying the price of her "privatize everything" stance with electricity, gas, water, rail companies and many others routinely ripping us off.
However, she did one thing that worked out well for us - she faced down the French, Germans and their cronies to negotiate our EU rebate which has saved us billions over the years. Unfortunately, the odious and slimey war monger, Blair negotiated a large part of it away later on, in return for vague promises on CAP reform. It's estimated that Blair's spineless surrender will have cost us around £9.3billion between 2007 and 2013.
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Don't forget that she also put the government of the day in charge of the country instead of the Unions, she put lunatics like Scargill in their place, which was a plus for every body in the country
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23-08-2012, 18:05
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Coffin Dodger.
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by jaysay
Don't forget that she also put the government of the day in charge of the country instead of the Unions, she put lunatics like Scargill in their place, which was a plus for every body in the country
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Oh yeh i remember, whilst Scargill was a balloon, it was a real plus fer all those villages/community's that the bloody minded bitch destroyed forever, whilst at the same time giving the police force licence to beat up women @ children, of which i was witness to that aftermath. It still makes me blood boil to this day, but i suppose to you that was another plus fer everybody.
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23-08-2012, 18:10
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Re: The Tories
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Oh yeah i remember, whilst Scargill was a balloon, it was a real plus fer all those villages/community's that the bloody minded bitch destroyed forever, whilst at the same time giving the police force licence to beat up women @ children, of which i was witness to that aftermath. It still makes me blood boil to this day, but i suppose to you that was another plus fer everybody.
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So you think Scargill was a great man, pity a lot of his trade union comrades didn't think the same
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23-08-2012, 18:13
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Coffin Dodger.
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Re: The Tories
Oh yeh i remember, whilst Scargill was a balloon,
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So you think Scargill was a great man, pity a lot of his trade union comrades didn't think the same
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Take yer blinkers off yeh blind get, I never said that. Mind you yer little mates online,so he will probably call me a liar again.
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Last edited by cashman; 23-08-2012 at 18:16.
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