Reply to: Just in case you missed it

[Churchill]

Like Doris in the Ipcress file with 4 inches of ash on a fag hanging out of her mouth...

Doris wasn't always big, fat, old and ugly...

[OwlHoot]

God! That's a feckin big boat that!

It's an expensive mausoleum - Any time an organization moves into a flash new building you can be fairly sure their best days are behind them. Happens over and over again, and they never seem to learn.

MI6 was probably a damn sight more efficient when it was run by ex-forces officers (not all wimmin, like these days) and based in Mayfair, card indexed filing systems, and creaky old staircases and all.

[OwlHoot]

My old man was - Under Twatchers government.

I get it - You're Hilary Benn, and your pop Tony Benn was "on the bench" (or rather _not_ on the front bench!) throughout the Tory years.

[bogeyman]

God! That's a feckin big boat that!

[Hart-floot]

Don't you mean when the collapse of "Gordons Miracle Economy" becomes obvious to even the lowest prole.

don't forget that period of time unemployment has been increasing has not been seen since the recession of 90-91.

We shouldn't have long to wait before even the "lowest prole" starts to worry. I reckon late summer.

Currently unemployment, on the wider measure (as opposed to the dubious claimant count) is increasing by 80,000+ per month so give it another 7 months and another half a million people. Perhaps by then Brown will be prime minister thus avoiding the shame! Cynical moi!

[zathras]

The ERM fiasco will seem like a minor financial hiccup when "Gordons Miracle Economy" finally collapses.

Don't you mean when the collapse of "Gordons Miracle Economy" becomes obvious to even the lowest prole.

don't forget that period of time unemployment has been increasing has not been seen since the recession of 90-91.

[eternalnomad]

Dont worry mate, i haven't forgiven Major for the ERM fiasco.

The ERM fiasco will seem like a minor financial hiccup when "Gordons Miracle Economy" finally collapses.

[Hart-floot]

Sorry mate, Mr Major is far too busy as European chairman of the shady USA company (Carlyle Group) which has kindly shafted the UK taxpayer big style.

Brown and Blair need to explain in a public enquiry why they have allowed the UK taxpayer to be shafted this way.......I wonder where Mr Bliar will be "working" when he finally hands over the No. 10 keys to fat lad.

QinetQ anyone ?

Dont worry mate, i haven't forgiven Major for the ERM fiasco.

[Churchill]

Sorry mate, Mr Major is far too busy as European chairman of the shady USA company (Carlyle Group) which has kindly shafted the UK taxpayer big style.

Brown and Blair need to explain in a public enquiry why they have allowed the UK taxpayer to be shafted this way.......I wonder where Mr Bliar will be "working" when he finally hands over the No. 10 keys to fat lad.

QinetQ anyone ?

It's no surprise that Mr Major lives next to...

[eternalnomad]

On the dole.....

once under Twatcher
never under Major
twice under Bliar
??? under Brown

Come back John Major all is forgiven!

Sorry mate, Mr Major is far too busy as European chairman of the shady USA company (Carlyle Group) which has kindly shafted the UK taxpayer big style.

Brown and Blair need to explain in a public enquiry why they have allowed the UK taxpayer to be shafted this way.......I wonder where Mr Bliar will be "working" when he finally hands over the No. 10 keys to fat lad.

QinetQ anyone ?

[Hart-floot]

On the dole.....

once under Twatcher
never under Major
twice under Bliar
??? under Brown

Come back John Major all is forgiven!

[BoredBloke]

Why was thatcher at fault for Benno's dad losing his job. What did he do? was he a Labour politician?

[wendigo100]

My old man was - Under Twatchers government.

I was too, in the late eighties when the government pulled the plug on a big defence project. I hadn't been married long and had a mortgage like most other people in my position. It was my first job too, and I'd been there for several years, so I knew nothing about job-hunting.

But the difference between you and me, benn0, is that I didn't moan, or get all bitter and twisted with Thatcher's government. It took me several months, but I went out and found another job. I call it self-reliance.

What I do object to are those who seem to think that self-reliance is a dirty concept, and that those who have should pool it for those who have not.

[Mordac]

>And Maggie - Hurry up and ******* die.

You still here, gimp boy?

[benn0]

Yadder Yadder Yadder.

It's not fair.

Moan moan ******* moan.

And Maggie - Hurry up and ******* die.