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.

aneurin bevan and jimmy reid are more to the liking of fred

i can fully understand an admiration for the former, albeit that i would not agree with his views, but not much time for the latter

Tanker
That was NOT what Corbyn said. I saw the quote and he replied to the question by saying, "if he has committed war crimes then he should be prosecuted". That is very different from what you posted. His reply was a general one and applies to anyone.

Not so, Haystack.

Amazingly, but true, I fear Tanker is perfectly correct on this one:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11784095/Tony-Blair-should-stand-trial-for-war-crimes-over-Iraq-invasion-Jeremy-Corbyn-says.html

No. The Telegraph is spinnng the story. I saw the interview on BBC last night and viewed it again just now. You can see it in their web site.

Interviewer: Should he be tried for war crimes
Corbyn: If he has committed a war crime, yes. Everyone who has committed a war crime should be.

That is nothing like the Telegraph's article.

I, now realise where Exec and Manuel have obtained the political beliefs from!

uuuumh!

neither aneurin bevan nor jimmy reid that's for sure!

There is a difference between beliefs and understanding.

You seem to lack the ability to comprehend ot do the latter.

Mind you can always follow your past leaders.

I am surprised that Heath wasn't and old etonian!

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PS

Interesting perspective:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/a-very-british-coup-part-two-new-novel-in-pipeline-as-jeremy-corbyns-rise-inspires-sequel-10428313.html

i certainly wasn't, though would be very proud to have gone to that most excellent of schools .... no idea where ted heath went to school, and totally irrelevant of course

talking of education, the prog last night was very interesting ......
5 chinese teachers were seconded for a month to a high-performing comprehensive
the year was then split in two, with one half staying with the current system and the other being taught "chinese method"

the chinese method was strong on discipline - good - but was incredibly old-fashioned in the teaching method - teacher at the front preaches at the children and tells them what to memorise; questioning more than discouraged

this chinese system (12 hours a day in china) clearly produces great exam results, but totally stifles encouragement or the ability to think

however, another good side of the chinese system was the emphasis on physical exercise and sporting as well as classroom competition

Heath went togrammar school ramsgate, father carpenter, mother a maid. Then Oxford via county scholarship, war, civil service, MP.

hay I copied it from the press .

and I do not believe the scandal about ted rubbish some woman wanting attention and a brown envelope a liar and a lady of the night

rather like roy jenkins's background then

hay my view blair and yankee bot friend are war criminals and should be hung
they are guilty . had thousands killed for their lies weapons of mass destruction
non ever found . lies lies lies

It is interests me is how Cameron and Cameron can dish out cash to old boys in the city by selling the tax- payers’ property at a knock down price and hand out tax benefits to his paymasters and cronies, but not find money to tide over Kids Company.

The one thing that Cameron and his sycophantic neo-conservative followers have, is an abundance of Moral turpitude

excuse me, but Kids Company looks very suspect on examination

i must confess, it would be wonderful if just once in while you could get off that soapbox of yours ..... you are just so incredibly predictable, repetitive and boring

Manuel,

That is part of your problems.

What you absorb or introject in childhood comes on to haunt you and others laterl in life!

That is why you are what you are and others shouldn't be too hard on you!

so what made you into such a predictable, boring and repetitive drone then?

Dealing with the likes of you!