Not really. Makes a change tho. Oh and he actually mentioned Mental Health which is also rare as hell.
Definitely need to look into mental health care...not fashionable, doesn't involve babies and kittens, but devastating for those affected (and their families).
Dear Fran WOW just about disagree with everything you just said! A looney and a dupe? When he is asking those questions that need answering? Obviously life won’t be so comfortable now but I don’t think that will put him off. Mr. Cameron has had it easy all his life and isn’t trying to change things so his life is still easy! Peoples’ view of communism is blighted by the Soviet Union. Very little is ever written about where it did work. In Yugoslavia Tito was expelled by the Cominform (Russian communists) in 1948. He went on to transform Yugoslavia with the national health service, pensions, education. Universities, motorways, railways, industry etc etc. Ask anyone who lived there from 1948 – 1980. There were no very poor, everyone had a job or a piece of land and a pension. Everyone could afford a holiday. With a Yugoslav passport you could travel the world. My father-in-law was one of Tito’s elite architects and earned maybe 3 times what the builders earned. Not saying some of Tito’s cronies probably had a lot of money but in general the wealth was spread far more evenly. It can work! Now, when I look outside my window I see educated people rummaging through my bin to find some stale bread to eat and graduates queuing to get a job in the corner shop for 200 Euros a month. All the state industries have been sold off to foreigners who have stripped them and buggered off with the profits and the mafia has taken control of all the building projects. Ask my 81 year old mother-in-law - which is best? Communism or capitalism? Just saying!
Just watched Reggie Yeates program on Ferguson riots and race issues in US following shooting of Michael Brown last year. Very interesting program. BBC 3 if anyone fancies catching it up.
I find it fascinating that Labour's best leader electorally is hated by most of his party's members. Had he not invaded Iraq, people's views on him would be quite different.
I visited Yugoslavia (just on a holiday) whilst Tito was alive and was told it was one of the better communist countries....so good in fact that Russians holidayed there. It was certainly lovely. One clear memory was of a large TV room showing a communist conference on the only set....empty apart from our guide watching dutifully. She had been involved in the resistance and was very anti-German (for obvious reasons). I bow to your greater knowledge in this area. The reason that I said Corbyn was a dupe is that I don't believe anyone thinks he is electable....apart from to head Labour. He is being used to split the Labour Party.
I've just caught up with the latest masterpiece from the BBC: the latest adaptation of Laurie Lee's wonderful Cider With Rosie, which is the best I've ever seen by some distance. Archie Cox was great as the teenage Loll, and June Whitfield and Annette Crosbie were perfectly cast as the warring Grannies Wallon and Trill. But the real star was the beautiful Cotswold countryside, especially the Slad valley where Laurie grew up. A slow, loving, tribute to a vanished world, and I urge anyone with an hour and a half to spare to catch it on the iPlayer.
Well it was watch that or watch Interstellar, and I fancied a bit of space travel this evening. Tomorrow, if I get the 90 minutes, I'll give it a go. Cheers
Did you enjoy Interstellar? Thought it was pretty good myself, even if my head was a little bent out of shape afterwards. Watching Bloodline on Netflix now (having finished the excellent Narcos). Enjoying that too.
I loved it. It's an emotional 2001-A Space Odyssey, in a sense. Emotionally, it pulls you all over the shop, I find. The sense of loss and found is palpable. Yes, it is a little uneven in places, but it is a good story. So, for me, it's a very good film indeed, very well acted and very well made.
As mentioned the other day, all the subsidiaries of VW have had to cough up their percentage of vehicles fitted with the diesel cheat device. Here's an interview with a VW board member, Mr Olaf Lies. VW have to hope that he'll be believed, but with a name like that it would be ironical either way: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34397426 Look at the bottom of the article and you'll get some numbers on the brands. VW says it will take some weeks to begin retrofitting proper non-cheat devices. But then that throws up another problem. Suppose those new engine management devices don't change the performance and emissions for testing, but actually have the vehicle in a state where it passes the emissions test and leaves the vehicle without its accustomed performance.? The owners aren't going to be pleased about that. And what about those that remove the particulates filters in order to boost performance and/or economy.? They'll be in the pooh unless they've kept their filters for each MOT. This is going to be messy and VW are going to come out of it smelling of diesel. It's just how bad the smell will get.
Get ready for BBC's Game of Thrones/ Vikings knock off coming out this year. It's called The Last Kingdom.
