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At my local station Labour was giving out leaflets stating that if we vote for them they will make it Zone 5 giving us all a MASSIVE WHOOOPING savings of £190 per year. I was gonna vote for them right there and then.
(Cheers for the translation Beansey.)
Our tractor driving chum clearly had no experience of the glory days of pre-privatisation. Anyone else remember waiting 2-3 months to get a phone line installed? Or the last time we flirted with real socialism - power cuts and unions holding the country to ransom?
He must be a youngster. Bless.
It used to take weeks to get a line transferred well after privatisation, i.e. within the last 10 years. It's not reasonable to compare the technology either... today it can be done with a mouse-click and surely it wasn't that way before.
Luckily I post-date the tribulations of which you speak but seem to recall getting your bins emptied under Thatcher was quite hard and she was no socialist.
Is it at all concerning that the PM said there would be stringent checks on the sale of national infrastructure to foreign investment, but has approved the sale of the majority of the National Grid to a consortium from China and Qatar?
Early indicators are showing that Labour are surging ahead in the election.
Tories expected to catch up later this evening when their voters get home from work.
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”
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