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Previously on "The winter of discontent - Mk II"

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  • doodab
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    Originally posted by SupremeSpod View Post
    Having lived through a couple of cycles of this, yes.
    The last two cycles occurred completely under the tories. Or do you only count the ones where labour were in power?

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  • SupremeSpod
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    Originally posted by BolshieBastard View Post
    The biggest laugh is you believe that ******* tulip!
    Having lived through a couple of cycles of this, yes.

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Originally posted by gricerboy View Post
    I think I should bring it to your attention, doggy my old golfing buddy, that Hadley is a woman. She's also Jewish so careful with your final solution pun lol!
    Actually it was she who mentioned it first.

    BTW You up for 18 on Sunday at Dyrham Park?

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  • BolshieBastard
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    Originally posted by SupremeSpod View Post
    It's cyclic, Labour get voted in, drop us in the mire, the Tories dig us out, put us on a stable footing, it hurts us financially and so it begins again.
    The biggest laugh is you believe that ******* tulip!

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  • MrMark
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    Originally posted by SupremeSpod View Post
    It's cyclic, Labour get voted in, drop us in the mire, the Tories dig us out, put us on a stable footing, it hurts us financially and so it begins again.
    You'll find it's the Tory govt of 70-74 (more specifically the "Barber boom") that dropped us in the mire in the 70s. Two years later the IMF were called in...
    I suspect a similar scenario (with political parties swapped) is taking place now. Brown leaves a time bomb (ie uncontrolled spending, qe inflation etc) that will erupt next year or early 2012.

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  • SupremeSpod
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    Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
    You missed one out.

    Actually I'd quite like to go back to the 1970s. I had a stonking time.
    Thanks Bog!

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  • bogeyman
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    Originally posted by SupremeSpod View Post
    How the **** would she know? She's not old enough to remember. ******* big nosed, champagne socialist, lesbian, American bint.
    You missed one out.

    Actually I'd quite like to go back to the 1970s. I had a stonking time.

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  • SupremeSpod
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    Originally posted by Green Mango View Post
    I think there are some parallels with the 70's.

    I'm concerned about inflation taking off ...
    It's cyclic, Labour get voted in, drop us in the mire, the Tories dig us out, put us on a stable footing, it hurts us financially and so it begins again.

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  • Green Mango
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    Originally posted by SupremeSpod View Post
    How the **** would she know? She's not old enough to remember. ******* big nosed, champagne socialist, lesbian bint.
    I think there are some parallels with the 70's.

    I'm concerned about inflation taking off ...

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  • SupremeSpod
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    How the **** would she know? She's not old enough to remember. ******* big nosed, champagne socialist, lesbian bint.

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  • gricerboy
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    I was wrong as usual, the whole 70s.

    Anyway, he mentions an interesting Evening Standard headline about what to do about students protesting about university fees: The Finals Solution
    I think I should bring it to your attention, doggy my old golfing buddy, that Hadley is a woman. She's also Jewish so careful with your final solution pun lol!

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  • Doggy Styles
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    I was wrong as usual, the whole 70s.

    Anyway, he mentions an interesting Evening Standard headline about what to do about students protesting about university fees: The Finals Solution

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Don't tell me - it reminds him of Heath's Tory government.

    Right, now I'll check.

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  • scooterscot
    started a topic The winter of discontent - Mk II

    The winter of discontent - Mk II

    Is it upon us?

    Reading this article made me chuckle.

    Returning to England feels like journeying back to the 70s | Hadley Freeman | Comment is free | The Guardian

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