I would struggle to vote for a Bernard even if he was labour.
I'm actually friends with my MP on facebook 
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and I remember always buying some extra tins & bread when my mum did the weekly shop, to give to the miners family collection that was outside Asda.
awww, that was really kind... we got that stuff, so thank you 
We also used to get food parcels from miners abroad 
http://www.conservatives.com/P...Hancock_Matthew.aspx
Here's mine...he's a newbie cos the old one retired this year...this guy is 4yrs YOUNGER than me......now I feel really old....how can an MP be younger than me????
Here's mine...he's a newbie cos the old one retired this year...this guy is 4yrs YOUNGER than me......now I feel really old....how can an MP be younger than me????
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My Dad had the bad luck good sense to be seriously injured in a pit collapse so he was out of the mines at that point.
My granda did that too 
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Oooh yeah, great idea..... lets share Tory MP's !!! Here's mine Ditty
nice open collar.. no tie... 
denimISH shirt!
Definitely had a bit of Grecian 2000 activity.... the eyebrows are not matching up!
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I would struggle to vote for a Bernard even if he was labour
innit!He is the main reason Mr Ditty is not going to be voting Conservative for the first time ever!!! Normally I have to vote labour... cos I feel that I imported Mr Ditty to the village... I am obliged to cancel out his vote...
this year we agree on yellow!
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ere's mine...he's a newbie cos the old one retired this year...this guy is 4yrs YOUNGER than me......now I feel really old....how can an MP be younger than me????
oooh Mrs B - he is actually quite nice
MrsB ..... he's still in short trousers! 
You just wait..... Duds is heading for a political career, I swear! One day there will be a duckling in No.10.
You just wait..... Duds is heading for a political career, I swear! One day there will be a duckling in No.10.
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awww, that was really kind... we got that stuff, so thank you We also used to get food parcels from miners abroad
Seriously? were you from a striking miners family? Everybody bought food for them...
My mum bought the miners chocolate digestives.... we never got the chocolate ones!
I was Ditty Dad wasn't a miner, but he worked for the Coal Board so they were all out on strike too... for about a year I think
Mam mentioned food parcels, but I never thought about where they were coming from. I'm proper touched at how kind ordinary folk were
Dad wasn't a miner, but he worked for the Coal Board so they were all out on strike too... for about a year I think Mam mentioned food parcels, but I never thought about where they were coming from. I'm proper touched at how kind ordinary folk were
MrsB has a baby tory
still..nice to see a candidate without nasal hair for once!
still..nice to see a candidate without nasal hair for once!
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Mam mentioned food parcels, but I never thought about where they were coming from. I'm proper touched at how kind ordinary folk were
We all knew you had no money coming in...... bizarre when I look back on it... cos at the time it was just what you did.... there were people in trouble... so everybody gave a bit I dunno if that would happen now you know? I am fairly sure it wouldn't happen down here
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I'm proper touched at how kind ordinary folk were
It's lovely 
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I dunno if that would happen now you know?
I wonder? I'm not sure I want to know the answer.... it may be too depressing.
Aww Sazza
I've told you before about my Mam with her pies and vats of broth and panackelty for the neighbours kids
I've told you before about my Mam with her pies and vats of broth and panackelty for the neighbours kids
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I dunno if that would happen now you know?
I was just wondering that too 
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I've told you before about my Mam with her pies and vats of broth and panackelty for the neighbours kids
I dont remember that! I'm not surprised though, mammy Leccy is ace
You know though... it probably would happen.....
cos remember how high emotions were... it was them & us...
yes.. I think it would happen now
cos remember how high emotions were... it was them & us...
yes.. I think it would happen now
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Here's mine...he's a newbie cos the old one retired this year...this guy is 4yrs YOUNGER than me......now I feel really old....how can an MP be younger than me????
Bugger!! Just checked and mine is for years younger than me too
One time I remember she made Sunday Dinner and she told me to go knock next door and invite them all in coz she'd "made too much dinner"....wasn't till I got older I realised why she'd said that.
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Bugger!! Just checked and mine is for years younger than me too
I'm just not going to look 
I'm feckin' furious about our local campaign! 
Simply because there wasn't one! And after much surfing and confusion, I finally discovered on Monday night I was in a new constituency because of the boundary commission! And clearly, because no-one who was campaigning knew this also, we had no information about the candidates!
Oh! And after even more hunting the interwub, I discover I'm now in a new critical 3-way marginal!
And to add insult to injury, I discover we will also be voting for a new local Council no thanks to any campaigning from the Council candidates either!!!
How democratic has all this been for me I hear you ask?
Simply because there wasn't one! And after much surfing and confusion, I finally discovered on Monday night I was in a new constituency because of the boundary commission! And clearly, because no-one who was campaigning knew this also, we had no information about the candidates!Oh! And after even more hunting the interwub, I discover I'm now in a new critical 3-way marginal!
And to add insult to injury, I discover we will also be voting for a new local Council no thanks to any campaigning from the Council candidates either!!!
How democratic has all this been for me I hear you ask?
aw.... bless mummyleccy....
we didn't have any direct contact with the families... I was in Leeds....
the "Support the Miners" stall thing outside Asda did used to recruit the odd kid sometimes though... to sit & look pitiful Only the kids never did look pitiful on account of the shit loads of chocolates & comics and stuff people bought them!
they were over the moon!
we didn't have any direct contact with the families... I was in Leeds....
the "Support the Miners" stall thing outside Asda did used to recruit the odd kid sometimes though... to sit & look pitiful
Only the kids never did look pitiful on account of the shit loads of chocolates & comics and stuff people bought them! they were over the moon!
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I'm feckin' furious about our local campaign!
my local choices are abysmal too Xoch!as I said in another thread... if it wasn't such a tight run thing I would be spoiling my ballot with "No suitable candidate"... but as it's not a foregone conclusion I will vote.
for a wet lettuce of a man
I was discussing this elsewhere.. I am and always have lived 'in the south'. Clearly where you lived casts a differing shadow over how the 80's and 90's affected you.
Frankly, how the traditional heavy industries of mining, steel, shipbuilding etc faired under a Conservative government it is hardly surprising at the degree of enmity held, and understandably so. The fact that, by now, all these industries would have slowly bled to China and India due to cheaper labour costs does not relieve long held feelings of resentment.
Put simply though we cannot expect to paid a 'living' wage for just manual labour as you can buy that for bugger all elsewhere in the world. It would have always come down to this. We need to be educated, trained and skilled and that is the only thing that will stop us all going tits up as a nation
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Frankly, how the traditional heavy industries of mining, steel, shipbuilding etc faired under a Conservative government it is hardly surprising at the degree of enmity held, and understandably so. The fact that, by now, all these industries would have slowly bled to China and India due to cheaper labour costs does not relieve long held feelings of resentment.
Put simply though we cannot expect to paid a 'living' wage for just manual labour as you can buy that for bugger all elsewhere in the world. It would have always come down to this. We need to be educated, trained and skilled and that is the only thing that will stop us all going tits up as a nation
Z.
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my local choices are abysmal too Xoch!
Oh, I don't even KNOW if they're abysmal Ditty! Makes it a bit easier in that respect. I can vote with my heart rather than my head now rather than stumble into oblivion with some foreseen knowledge about the candidates!Reference:
We need to be educated, trained and skilled and that is the only thing that will stop us all going tits up as a nation
I might write that on my whiteboard tomorrow when I have to convince thirty 16 year olds that there is a point to algebra!
Tomorrow's front pages, if any of you are interested.
http://www.politicshome.com/uk...sday_6_may_2010.html
If that Daily Mail headline doesn't out Daily Mail any headline recently then I dunno what does. All that's missing is "Voting Labour causes Cancer"
Oh and the Sun! Spectacular. Hahahahahahaha! It's sooooo naff.
http://www.politicshome.com/uk...sday_6_may_2010.html
If that Daily Mail headline doesn't out Daily Mail any headline recently then I dunno what does. All that's missing is "Voting Labour causes Cancer"
Oh and the Sun! Spectacular. Hahahahahahaha! It's sooooo naff.
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for a wet lettuce of a man
Thats what an MP should be like!!!Any different and you'd expect them to be working for a living
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I was discussing this elsewhere.. I am and always have lived 'in the south'. Clearly where you lived casts a differing shadow over how the 80's and 90's affected you.
Yep! Same here Z... and I've found it quite significant how much all the leaders have been concentrating their efforts in the north of England in that respect.Reference:
vote with my heart rather than my head
I am having to do that... with the aid of a blindfold so I don't have to actually look at the wimp I am voting for.
Oh that's brilliant Leccy! "Or the forces of Hell shall be unleashed upon Ye!"
"Or the forces of Hell shall be unleashed upon Ye!"
Z.... I hear what you are saying... but I think the lack of compassion... the feeling that the north was "on its own" during that time will never go away.
However hard I try to look at it objectively... deep down I always feel there is a lack of love in Tory politics!
There you go.... girly politics!
However hard I try to look at it objectively... deep down I always feel there is a lack of love in Tory politics!
There you go.... girly politics!
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I can vote with my heart rather than my head now rather than stumble into oblivion with some foreseen knowledge about the candidates!
No one knows what they stand for Xochi cos they won't tell us!! They're tooooo busy saying how scary it'd be if you vote for the other lot!!
My biggest issue with the whole thing Z, was that it wasn't replaced with anything.
Right we've shut everything down...kthxbye. There was no thought put into how to help the communities adjust and as bonkers as it must seem to people from down South, we still haven't adjusted, even after all this time.
Something should have been done at the time to retrain and reorganise...some kind of action plan.
Right we've shut everything down...kthxbye. There was no thought put into how to help the communities adjust and as bonkers as it must seem to people from down South, we still haven't adjusted, even after all this time.
Something should have been done at the time to retrain and reorganise...some kind of action plan.
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"Or the forces of Hell shall be unleashed upon Ye!"
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deep down I always feel there is a lack of love in Tory politics!
You tell 'em girly! 
Night all...... need my sleep....got an budding evil empire to foil tomorrow.
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Something should have been done at the time to retrain and reorganise...some kind of action plan.
Leccy, very many of us down south were fully aware of how the north were sold down the river, don't worry. It is still at the root of our lack of manufacturing and production industries to this day.Kind of reminds you of the planning for an exit strategy for Iraq though, doesn't it?
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Night all...... need my sleep....got an evil empire to foil tomorrow
Nanite Duckster.... see you tomorrow for yet another night of watching votes come in.... and trying to keep a brave face as our chosen one comes in third or perhaps second!