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Can anyone remember when we had a good government? I can’t and I’m 54.
We are still living with the adverse effects of some of the policies of the Thatcher government and even the Wilson government. For instance, in Thatcher’s case, the abandonment of manufacturing industry in favour of service industry and the bad behaviour of some of the privatised utilities. In the case of the Wilson government, the long shadow of a culture of continuous public sector empire-building is still cast over us.
The thing is, government is to do with solving problems. They can never please everyone and as time goes by there more and more people become displeased with any particular government.
I call it Bassingbourne’s Theory of Inevitable Unpopularity.
Pubs were closing down long before the smoking ban came in. And the recession has seen off a good many pubs too.
My guess is that a lot of pub trade has been lost to people drinking at home while watching TV, or increasingly spending time on the net. We’ve heard very little about the extent of the collapse in real-world social activity caused by more and more people becoming addicted to Facebook, MSN, World of Warcraft and other online pursuits.
Cyberdating and cybersex is probably a whole lot more fun than propping up the bar listening to some guy droning on about football or something! (Not that I do cybersex and people get the negative vibes from me the instant they start talking about football!)
Merrydown cider – so much better than scrumpy………AND I live in Somerset!!!!!
I once saw, out of the corner of my eye, a shadowy black cat run across our landing. We did have a black cat at the time but he was definitely asleep downstairs with my wife when I saw this and it couldn’t have been another cat as doors and windows were shut. Some other people on our estate say they have seen ghostly black cats in their house.
Perhaps the furthest east that a Welsh place name survives is Kings’ Lynn in Norfolk (llyn = lake in Welsh) Of course, the Iceni tribe of East Anglia, Boudicca’s people, were ancient Britons (or celts) who would have spoken the Brithonic language, from which Welsh came.
We’ve had a lot of Polish workers in our area. I haven’t heard of any problems with them. In general the only major issue has been with a minority of Polish HGV and bus drivers who have turned out to be less skilled or experienced than employers were led to believe.
Riding as a passenger round the full-length Le Mans circuit in the back of a 1927 Bentley 4.5 Litre that actually competed in the 24 Heures du Mans when it was new. The car touched 90 mph on the Mulsanne straight and the wire wheels creaked a bit in the chicanes.
In the back of an old open car like that you have no protection and the exhaust noise from the thumping great 4-cylinder engine was very loud
At the time, the full circuit was closed to normal road traffic in readiness for the main Le Mans race that was due to start later that day.But…what I really want to do is a driving day at one of the preserved railways on a mainline diesel locomotive.
I always thought devolution was good, but independence bad. But the SNP-led Scottish govenrment has brought shame on Scotland and embarrassment to Great Britain. If the Westminster government has the power to dismiss the current Scottish government, which is really a glorified form of local government that we, in England, are denied, then it should do so.
Anyone who isn’t on their MSN is “not welcome” on JC and thus must be abused, hounded and bullied until they stop expressing their opinions, stop posting and/or leave.
I’ve been on JC for years and I’m not on anyone’s MSN or any other messaging and I’m not in a clique and I’ve never had any problems. A few battles, yes, but that’s to be expected here!!!!
I believe Richard Hammond was driving a Morgan Aeromax, a car so ugly that it probably looked no worse after being involved in the accident than it did beforehand!
http://www.clivesutton.co.uk/images/Morgan/Aeromax/Morgan-Aeromax-leadbig1.jpg
