tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post3294428757673763418..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: SO THIS WEEK IT'S BACK TO MIDDLE CLASS ASPIRATIONSMunguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-36589395061067248072010-01-18T16:34:55.392+00:002010-01-18T16:34:55.392+00:00I'll look forward to it Bugger (the Panda)!!I'll look forward to it Bugger (the Panda)!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-32114202747315508992010-01-18T16:07:48.264+00:002010-01-18T16:07:48.264+00:00I have another wee post on Subrosa's blog toni...I have another wee post on Subrosa's blog tonight after 7pm or so.<br /><br />Bugger (the Panda)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-30868281069513633352010-01-18T12:22:58.346+00:002010-01-18T12:22:58.346+00:00Morning Bugger....
Yes, I think you're probab...Morning Bugger....<br /><br />Yes, I think you're probably right. Now, I wonder why I proposed it...... hummmmmmmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-65382145110379744952010-01-18T09:25:25.381+00:002010-01-18T09:25:25.381+00:00I suspect that if Brown ever did this and was ideb...I suspect that if Brown ever did this and was idebtified he would be lynched.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-36034477797609398912010-01-17T12:51:59.798+00:002010-01-17T12:51:59.798+00:00Rab o’Ruglen: Good morning. Nice to see you here, ...Rab o’Ruglen: Good morning. Nice to see you here, especially with a post so full of good common sense. I couldn’t disagree with a single word.<br /><br />Getting rid of our manufacturing base was stupidity incarnate. Having done that replacing it with an economy based largely on finance and insurance “invisibles” might have been more sensible if we hadn’t had the history of manufacturing behind us, and all the skills and the people.<br /><br />Thatcher, Major, and then Blair and Brown seem to be unaware of the fact that you can’t just move someone from mining coal and put him into a finance office and expect him to thrive. After Thatcher laid waste to the industrial base in the country that is what she tried to do. Put ex miners in call centres, send everyone to University, and provide “easy” options which are no earthly use to anyone... not employers, not graduates...<br /><br />So we have any number of unemployed or underemployed B.A.s but you can’t get your cistern fixed unless you call someone from Warsaw, where they only had Stalin, not Thatcher to mess with their economy.<br /><br />The idiotic lack of reality in their planning could be overlooked in the good years, but.... unfortunately for Brown, the good years didn’t go on forever. There had to come a time when we would “see through” the “king’s new clothes”, and discover that he was indeed in the altogether, and that it was a most disagreeable sight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-52667278570722420872010-01-17T12:38:01.259+00:002010-01-17T12:38:01.259+00:00It seems to me, Scunnert, that class has been at t...It seems to me, Scunnert, that class has been at the root of so many of Britain, and Scotland’s problems for far too long. It’s amazing how hard it is to shuffle off this deadweight that we carry, and that most other nations seem to avoid.<br /><br />As for Labour, yeah, I think that they are at a point where no one believes anything they say, and so they try out ideas as desperate attempts to get one more period in government, at the trough.<br /><br />It is a mark of very little confidence in Mr Cameron that the country doesn’t seem ready to sweep the Labour party out of power on a landslide.<br /><br />It’s a slightly different story in Scotland where Labour is the default party of government, but in England, it’s just amazing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-54410878589656408572010-01-17T10:13:18.567+00:002010-01-17T10:13:18.567+00:00Hi Tris,
Its all very well being aspirational but...Hi Tris,<br /><br />Its all very well being aspirational but the conditions have to be right. When I look back at the opportunities that were avaiable to me as a young man with a good educational attainment in the early 1970' and compare the current conditions, I realise how inreddibly lucky I have been. I had a choice of careers available to me in a variety of industries, commerce, and the Civil or Local Government Services most of which have been replaced either with nothing, downgraded jobs or plain old McJobs. Not that McJobs were not available then too, but there was usually an abundance of alternatives. Now there is much, much less so.<br /><br />I would hesitate to advise any youngster now to go to university unless they were absolutely brillant, fist class hons. material, as graduate numbers have increased to such an extent that getting fulfilling jobs for them all is an impossibility. Far better to get a trade such as plumbing, electrician or carpenter which will allow them the prospect of becoming self-employed than ending up as a clerk in a dead-end job in an office having student debt to manage and having had no, or very low, income for the duration of their course.<br /><br />As a nation GB is ****ed for a very long time and I blame the other GB and New Labour for their insane economic and foreign policies which have brought this condition about.<br /><br />Regards,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-55763497480144043072010-01-17T06:17:40.878+00:002010-01-17T06:17:40.878+00:00Labour have been all over the place trying to posi...Labour have been all over the place trying to position themselves for the coming election. <br /><br />- Race is no longer an issue it`s class. Especially if you`re white working class. But if you`re black working class then that`s a problem as well. Especially if you aspire to be middle class. -<br /><br />What a load of bollocks.McGonagallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14887321534801112949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-77529332247101218262010-01-16T19:57:54.544+00:002010-01-16T19:57:54.544+00:00Oh Lord no, QM. He absolutely doesn't want to ...Oh Lord no, QM. He absolutely doesn't want to know what we think. He's completely bonkers. He wants to hear what he wants to hear... the world according to Gordon Brown. It starts "Once upon a time...."<br /><br />I agree. I imagine that the real business of running the country is difficult and unpleasant. It's far easier to poke your nose into easy stuff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-82599026836001228742010-01-16T19:24:21.054+00:002010-01-16T19:24:21.054+00:00Tbh, I don't think he really wants to know wha...Tbh, I don't think he really wants to know what we're saying or thinking, he is (as usual) listeng to spads and their opinion polls as to what they believe we're thinking, which is of course filtered to what they think Gordon Brown wants them to say.<br />What people really want is the government off their backs and out of their wallets. But you'll never convince a mainstream politician of that. They're far too busy mucking around our lives trying to look important.Quiet_Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.com