Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

lol

patronage of one kind or another has been the way of the world throughout the world since time immemorial, whether it is of the arts, jobs, business, government or "reward in kind for services rendered" or anything else, so why be so priggish about it? ...... forgot why; how silly of me; you are a prig

Prig - had to get the dictionary out, lol more a pr---.

prig is a very exact description of fred on this and other occasions .... it's a very useful and descriptive word, along with miffed and spiffing

Still prefer 'Gobshite' much more succinct.

but far too coarse i'm afraid :-)
btw, prig is only a succinct 4 letters!

Patronage by private individuals, (for the arts, science, sports or "good" causes, when using their own private "wealth", would seem in general acceptable and useful to society as a whole.

But, using the public purse, or public position, to dole out positions of "grandeur", public office, or contracts to "mates", "cronies", or "benefactors" is a form of corruption.

You are entitled to your own “morality” and acceptance of different “codes of practice”, but I see the standards you appear to condone are partially responsible for the lack of trust in this government and the apathy which is pervading the UK.

Because previous governments were less that “honest” that does not mean that the present government should be equally debauched.

But that is the problem when a small elitist gang get into a powerful position.

PS.

I can see members of the public are cheering the Welfare changes. Once again, George looked uncomfortable and "out of touch" today.

I think Prig would be quite a suitable term for the conceited smug Dandy boys Cameron and Osborne.

Of course they seem to be friends of yours.

Do you have photos of them on the wall, or perhaps your bedside tables.

Forgot.

Complete tool, hmmmm

Gobshite = Stupid person. Or in your case Fred..... Gob (size large) shite.....( incessant excrement spills out of it.)

but of course he DOESN'T VOTE .... he thinks that all rather infra dig and prefers to sit on his backside in his cosy middle-class house pontificating as the resident armchair critic ... personally, i'ld much rather listen to "the oldest member" of pg wodehouse fame (even if pgw was a strong nazi supporter)

Cynic,

Then you are lucky that I write my postings, unless of course you have reached the stage of having somebody reading the messages out loud to you.

Perhaps, posting for you sometimes, as some of your inputs are better than others.

But I am glad my voting choices, which I believe I am still allowed under the present mob, is like a red rag to you.

I will have to remind you occasionally, in case senility takes an increasingly rapid course for you.

indeed you have a right or choice not to vote just as you have a right or choice to walk past someone lying injured in the road.

however, leaving aside the wider world, you would do well to remember that the right to vote in this country was a hard-fought battle through the centuries ..... in the relatively recent past, check out the chartist movement (around 1848), the right for any man over 21 to vote (1918 -hmm! surely no coincidence), and for women (1928 - a fight started in about 1872).

as you will readily see, a great deal of blood was spilled in that fight for enfranchisement, and even more has been spilled due to the sloth of people like you who, through not voting, allowed extremists of one hue or another to come to power, whether in gov't or the like of trades unions

THAT is why you and your ilk make me so cross, exacerbated in your case by your perpetual slew of priggish utterances when you have done absolutely NOTHING active to prevent same (or at least that is the way you see the present gov't) - e.g. voted even for the least worst option

a lot of blood was lost fighting for the uk i lost 4 of my family theyt died for nothing

they assuredly did not die for nothing, for if in WW2, then without such sacrifice, we would (probably) now be living under a jackboot dictatorship with (arguably) no right even to a (free) vote

Thank you for you brief history.

I will continue to register my dissent in the way I think fitting for myself.

But, what I observe at the moment in the tory party, which you support, is the emergence of a "ruling" right wing "fascist" leading elite, who think they have a "god" given right to rule at the expense of the majority.

Similar to what emerged in the 30s in parts of Europe where the picked on scapegoats to excuse their own failings.

The policy of divide and plunder is descriptive of their policies.

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I am looking around today for the next U-turn.

OH I forgot the penny of the pint.

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Bye the way, I do sit in an arm chair.

I think the cartoon summates this present government's policies, and if I remember the Fairy Tale the correctly the end result.

though history may (or may not) be bunk, you would do well to read, learn, dwell and inwardly digest it

and as i (and others) frequently tell you, save your pompous pontificating for your local stump, for you are but a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal and blatantly choose to walk past the allegorical injured with your nose in the air (as of course is your right)

Manuel,

I am glad you got that off you chest.

Be careful though, you seem to be falling off you stump.