Tankus Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 BBCGood man ..... but good PM ...?........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdy Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 The man was a fool.'Crisis, what crisis?' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 Yes a good man who perhaps didn't predict they way things were going to go too well. But then if we were all blessed with hindsight I'm sure we would all do things differently.He will be sadly missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 An honest man and a good MPTodays MPs could learn much from him, but they like the gravy train too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devanski Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 Tory leader Michael Howard said he would be remembered with "affection and respect".More than will be said for Michael I would imagine...but true of Callaghan I feel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdy Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 I can't abide false sentimentality.I remember the power cuts, stand pipes in the street for water, rubbish piling up etc. Also no bread in the shops and it may sound laughable but no toilet paper either.A grim time indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devanski Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 Not called the winter of discontent for nothing then :P There was always that Izal paper left :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdy Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 Newspaper was better than Izal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted March 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 hmmm...... power cuts ....... full bins .....never ran out of but wipe though ...my dad stocked up......Then along came Maggie to save us ....!Popes on final countdown too ...methinks ..... the ol' puff of white smoke soon ....!whats "Izal"....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popeye Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 hmmm...... power cuts ....... full bins .....never ran out of but wipe though ...my dad stocked up......Then along came Maggie to save us ....!Popes on final countdown too ...methinks ..... the ol' puff of white smoke soon ....!whats "Izal"....?If you've never used Izal you must have the softest BUM in the world. :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdy Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 Then along came Maggie to save us ....!Thought so too...at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted March 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 ah ...ok...... the hard medicated stuff .....? ...... At least I know what its called now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted March 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 Thought so too...at the time.but she did ....... ! .......just went past her sell by date ...thats all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdy Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 It still sticks in my throat the sight of the police waving their payslips at the striking miners.Up until then I was an unquestioning subject - that was the moment when the state turned against the people.The time of PC49, Z Cars, Dixon of Dock Green etc etc was gone forever.If you look at local government, district government, and national government these days it's us against them as opposed to them being responsible to us.From parking to council tax to anything.The country has become a madhouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted March 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 but wasnt it madder then ......?flip side ..... a marxist led union telling an elected government how it should run the country.... or else ....we will bring it to its knees .....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdy Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 There has to be a balance.Thatcher was as extreme as Blair is today.Yet where are the protests?Why aren't the students out on the streets?Blair is leading Britain - like a farmer leads a donkey - into totalitarianism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuces wild Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 Popes on final countdown too ...methinks ..... the ol' puff of white smoke soon ....!I think so also. Black smoke, white smoke. gold challises, renowned art work, priceless sculptures, silk garments, priests molesting children....increase your donation to the Church.Sad to see the Pope go soon...long live the Pope.I was born and raised a Catholic. Even spent some time in a Seminary. Scandals tore me away from the Church, including the Michael Jacko Priests who had a life of molesting young boys.http://tinyurl.com/6l8vl :angry: Have you ever seen the riches of the Vatican?http://www.christusrex.org/www1/vaticano/0-Musei.htmlhttp://www.go-star.com/antiquing/vatican.htmhttp://www.sacredartcreations.org/collections_vatican.htmlAnd the Pope recently warned us ordinary folks about accumulating material riches.http://www.asthma-drsprecace.com/pope.html :blink: Confusing?You bet. :blink:BTW: Sorry to hear about your ex-PM passing away. And I did not mean to sidetrack the thread....just had to get some things off my chest.... :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 Callaghan may not have been the greatest prime minister ever. He was however a damned sight more honest than all of todays lot put together. What a sorry bunch they are. I am not a socialist, but had to feel sorry for him at the time. He had Marxist unions etc to contend with. Who knows, had he started his career a few years later, and was PM today, things might have been different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted March 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 Let's go to your room Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted March 28, 2005 Report Share Posted March 28, 2005 Interesting that. FAR more interesting than so called celebrities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuces wild Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 hmmm...... power cuts ....... full bins .....never ran out of but wipe though ...my dad stocked up......Then along came Maggie to save us ....!Popes on final countdown too ...methinks ..... the ol' puff of white smoke soon ....!whats "Izal"....?It looks like he may pass away sometime tomorrow (Rome time). :( Regardless of my opinion of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope John was indeed a great man and was very instrumental in many changes, including the downfall of communism in the former USSR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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