Reply to: Mandelson calls protests 'xenophobic'

[Sysman]

This is reminiscent of the 1970's.

Linky

It was recently put to me that the reason Thatcher hated the North so much was that was where unions were strong.

Funny thing about that though, the strikes which affected me in the 1970s and early '80s were all in either nationalised industries or the public sector (ambulances, buses, council workers, coal and steel come to mind, plus a few government departments). Ford, Vauxhall and the newspapers are the only examples of private industry on strike that I can remember, and they didn't cause me any grief that I recall.

Something doesn't add up.

[ratewhore]

It is the 1970s without Led Zep. Must be a change of govt coming soon?

This is reminiscent of the 1970's.

Linky

[Doggy Styles]

OK with me. But I have actually heard them on the radio a few times recently.

Oh, good point.

Who is not on the radio any more either? What about Hurricane Smith? No hold on, he wasn't a band. The Osmonds?

[expat]

What about Sweet then? The 1970s without Sweet?

OK with me. But I have actually heard them on the radio a few times recently.

[Doggy Styles]

What about Sweet then? The 1970s without Sweet?

[crimdon]

nope Led Zep reformed, remember...

It is the 1970's but without Deep Purple.

I was going to say UFO but just read the Wiki page and they have reformed too

[expat]

nope Led Zep reformed, remember...

It is the 1970's but without Deep Purple.

'Scuse me, but they did 1 gig. If you think that a reformed Zep without Plant is Zep, words fail jlkjl #+$$ XXX!!!

[expat]

Deep Purple are still going, but without Ritchie Blackmore. He has a band with his wife and they go around singing folk songs and wearing mediaeval clothing.

I saw Deep Purple in 2007 in NL; brilliant.

I saw them a year or two ago at Monsters Of Rock: good, but not a single band member that was on the first couple of Deep Purple albums I had bought.

[Mich the Tester]

nope Led Zep reformned, remember...

It is the 1970's but without Deep Purple.

Deep Purple are still going, but without Ritchie Blackmore. He has a band with his wife and they go around singing folk songs and wearing mediaeval clothing.

I saw Deep Purple in 2007 in NL; brilliant.

[BlasterBates]

nope Led Zep reformed, remember...

It is the 1970's but without Deep Purple.

[expat]

Workers at the Lindsey oil refinery in Lincolnshire are insisting that one British worker be employed for every Italian or Portuguese contractor.

Amid mounting confusion in the row over foreign workers, union members rejected a deal under which an additional 40 skilled and 20 unskilled jobs at the plant would have been allocated to British workers.

The refinery has been the scene of illegal industrial action since last Wednesday

It is the 1970s without Led Zep. Must be a change of govt coming soon?

[BlasterBates]

Under the bizarre EU rules I suppose it's OK for an Italian or a Portuguese to sh@g my wife now.

Oh well, it saves me the trouble. And I do overcharge.

Yes..indeed (presuming your wife consented), seems like your getting the hang of it.

[ratewhore]

Under the bizarre EU rules I suppose it's OK for an Italian or a Portuguese to sh@g my wife now.

Oh well, it saves me the trouble. And I do overcharge.

I think you misunderstand - it's you that has to bend over...

[Doggy Styles]

Under the bizarre EU rules I suppose it's OK for an Italian or a Portuguese to sh@g my wife now.

Oh well, it saves me the trouble. And I do overcharge.

[BlasterBates]

You give the Italians and Portugese British contracts, and then they're British. Tax rates are roughly the same. The only difference, when they're laid off they'll receive British benefits.

Storm in a tea-cup. Seems that the EU rules have been misunderstood.

It would be quite different if they were from outside the EU. Then they would have a point.

When you apply for a job you don't give them your nationality. The same applies in Germany. Applied for loads of jobs, never actually stating that I'm British.