Not really Joe.....you know that I look after the pennies and am quite happy to let super rich "plumbers" buy me a round....honest Joe if we ever meet up again the drinks are on me. PS.....Can't afford to buy my shirts at M&S (too dear)......Edinburgh Woollen Mills are top quality brands....(James Pringle.....PG Fields.....Colin Montgomery etc )....you can buy two at a discount for £39......so I bought four shirts and got the postage free as well (spend over £50 ). Only buy Clarks shoes as well....worn nothing else for the last 40 years.......like their sandals....especially with the magnate fixing strap that you can flick over without having to bend down....saves the old back.....trouble is they don't do socks with magnates.........................
Look forward to that Plym one day .. i am in london regular .. got back thursday this week as was up fpor a week as the lad was in Great ormond street having a procedure. all good .. been there 3 times now in last few years for surgery .. i have to say its amazing i have never been anywhere like that Bristol was good but this is so good . everyone looks after you from cleaner to the Surgeon., shame the NHS is not like that or i would not be having to do this .. never mind i will let you know once im up again. well im glad you shop wisely and use clarks.. i dont wear them just trainers .. sandals with socks is good for holidays on the sea front , hanky on the head also .. a top English look
Joe....I'll keep you to that and we'll arrange some time when it suits you.....in fact I might even buy you TWO drinks.....who knows.
I agree with you about Great Ormond Street Joe. My brother was there for a while and I visited with my parents a couple of times. That was over 60 years ago when I was 9 or 10. I think that anyone who has been there will always remember it and I still do even after all this time. The Staff then were such a happy bunch and made the place. I also remember the Ward he was on and it was full of kids some of whom would make anyone weep given how poorly they were. You seldom heard or saw tears though but there were lots of laughs. Incredible place. I also wear Clark shoes and never buy anything else. It's clearly the grey vote.
Great Ormond St Children's Hospital was Mrs Plyms first job as clerical staff when she left school at 18 yrs of age.
Nigel Farage answering a question about him damaging the Conservative Party.....replied..."They don't need me to do that...they've done that themselves....in fact I see no Conservative party ...all I see is two social democratic parties vying with each other". Love him or hate him he tells it as many see it at present...two parties with nothing different to offer the electorate.
I see an extremist right faction who have been allowed to fester and grow inside the Conservative party. If John Major had chucked the Brexit "bastards" out in the 1990's we wouldn't be in this mess. Farage is a self-seeking carpet-bagger who panders to the worst instincts of Grade D & E racists to the detriment of the country.
I listened to Farage this morning whilst choaking on my breakfast toast. The comment I made to her indoors (she seldom listens anyway) was that never mind Putin and his ilk, it is the right wing factions within a number of countries that we all have to worry about. France and Germany have their work cut out to repel them but it is growing here sadly. Braverman, Truss and the like would pull up the drawbridge quicker than blinking. Sadly though that thought process is growing within and I shudder to think what will be in 5 years time if it continues. In the 1930's it grew within Germany allowing Hitler to come to power but now it's spreading in numerous countries rather than just one. Have to say I don't like this current World we live in.
So if we had really good Tory and Labour leadership who united their parties and developed sound policies.... we would returned to good old fashion left and right wing politics. Extremists' would not fined fertile soil to grow in.....our present leaders are really to blame for the unrest that their weaknesses are allowing to fester and develop.
The 500 year old Royal Mail have agreed with Czech Billionaire Daniel Kretinsky a £5 Billion deal....including assumed debts for the company that employs more than 150,000 people. Will he just right them a Czech to complete the deal.........
No, Sensible is right. There's an undercurrent of right-wing extremism, funded by by a small number of shady financiers whose interests are served by Brexit and what's followed. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...es-robert-edmiston-crispin-odey-a7699046.html One of those, Jeremy Hosking, an everyday chap educated at Rugby and St Catherine's, Cambridge, a fund manager, has also been funding Reform. Decent politicians such as John Major, David Cameron, Theresa May, Rishi Sunak and possibly even Kier Starmer are not to blame. Our democracy is being destabilised by a well-funded right-wing cabal serving dubious business interests and the fools that follow them.
I understand what you're saying.....Major , May , Cameron (although he ran away from Brexit) , Starmer...I can take with a pinch of salt......but please never mention Thatcher in the same breath. This women got locked into a years battle with Scargill....and the rest of us in Trade Unions had to suffer for her to have her way. Skilled men....l was a well paid Instrument Technician in a firm that had good relationship with the unions . Even to the extent of having a well stocked and run medical centre with a full time nurse......a sports ground with a cricket pitch, football & rugby pitches also a well run bowling green....a social club and pavilion with a drinks bar (charging half price on drinks &food)....plus an athletic club and a very good cycling club.....on top.of all this we represented the firm in many sporting leagues and interacting with other local companies socially. After Thatcher all this disappeared....companies employed non-skilled workers with no qualifications and the skilled workers had to cover for them and put their work right. My wages HALVED and I was living on my savings to pay my mortgage....engineering started to die and stuff was bought from abroad. Thatcher in my opinion was the worse type of politician.....and she was no better than the scum of the earth.....that's my view. Many people after her death wanted to spit on her grave. PS......I wrote this on my mobile.....bleddy hard work.....wish I waited until I'd got home and used my desk top.
Easier on the mobile plym. use speak text messaging .. i use it in the vans just speak to the radio set up and your messages all send. my spelling is better also
I started with Major as he was the first to talk of the “Bastards” on his own back benches. That’s when the rot started to set in which turned into Brexit and now the potential demise of the Conservative Party. A vote for Reform is a vote for Labour and a vote for yet more polarisation. Typed on the while phone watching Dianne Abbot and Hackney leftists slagging off Kier Starmer!
Newsnight did drone on along time about Abbot and the whinging discarded other candidate (both Corbyn lovers)....who used the birth of her baby as the reason for everything. Not impressed with the new style shorter Newsnight....especially the loss of Mark Urban who I thought was excellent.....and pretty fed up with Victoria Derbyshire who just seems to want to start a fight all the time......she was better on the radio in the past.....the first time she came on the telly she was a total failure years back......have they got her on testosterone patches or something......
It’s all over the BBC I think. There’s been a drive for some while to get interviewees to answer the question they’ve been asked, which in itself is fine. However, the politicians have deployed countermeasures by not stopping their spiel when interruptions are attempted. It’s ends up with both parties talking at once and it all sounding confrontational. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s not. It’s often not on the morning news, which is more of a magazine programme with lightweight presenters. Better on the specialist political programmes with heavyweight presenters who know their stuff e.g Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday mornings. Also I wonder about the tradition of putting a random minister up each day for interviews. You get a second tier agricultural minister put up to discuss a new scheme to support the UK dairy industry getting asked about the war in Gaza or trade relations with China. which really doesn’t work. Why the BBC thought it was necessary to fiddle with Newsnight, widely regarded as THE flagship of UK current affairs programming, I have no idea. Neither do I know why they are cutting back on regional news programming and instead sending a reporter and news team out from London every time there’s a medium scale news story in the provinces. We’ve had the BBC’s “South of England Correspondent” down here (who knew there was one?) covering SWW’s attempt to give all the people of Brixham an upset tummy. Why? Where does “South England” begin and end? Birmingham? That’s a big area to become familiar with. I have to say I usually end up switching to Sky News in the morning when the BBC stop doing news and instead interview Rick Astley on his 17th come-back tour. That’s OK for 5 minutes but how many adverts for Emirates Airways can you watch in one sitting? PS Harry Styles this morning not Rick Aatley. Still off to Sky….
Sometimes the news does give you just what you want. Sky are taking a House of Commons bench around the country doing election voxpops. This morning, they’re in St Austell and Newquay, the constituency where I grew up. So the bench is on a Newquay beach and they interview a holidaymaker couple, a surf instructor and a pair of primary school teachers. One subject was a guy who’d obviously just come out of the sea as he had a towel around him. Sitting next to him was a beautiful golden curly haired spaniel type dog, staring right into the camera. After the interview is over, the guy gets up a starts to walk off. The interviewer says “Before you go, what’s the dog’s name?”. “Don’t know it’s not my dog”……. A moment to cherish.
