tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post1564918570815976575..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: 韋鳴恩. POOR MAN THOUGHT HE WAS TO BE PAID, BUT HE'S WORKING FOR FREE AS A GOOD EXAMPLE TO US ALLMunguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-29135372785919567012011-02-02T20:24:57.365+00:002011-02-02T20:24:57.365+00:00Was trying to be funny Tris - I know what a run in...Was trying to be funny Tris - I know what a run in the car was. What I was to mean was that I was driving and the pensioners were running in our wee run alongside the car.Billy Carlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09898259422411934272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-20029234065285118942011-02-02T18:57:03.095+00:002011-02-02T18:57:03.095+00:00Political legacies, Munguin, seem to me to be, alm...Political legacies, Munguin, seem to me to be, almost invariably, bad!<br /><br />Does the country think fondly of Brown, Blair, Major, Thatcher, Callaghan, Wilson, Heath...?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-38118849187146502412011-02-02T14:24:43.129+00:002011-02-02T14:24:43.129+00:00Just wait “call me” will make a success of the Big...Just wait “call me” will make a success of the Big Society (big damp squib) by making it a compulsory voluntary thing for the unemployed and the sick. <br /><br /><br />As you so rightly say those who want to volunteer to do charity work are already doing it! “call me” and his Tory chums are not going to fix broke Britain by asking for volunteers, how many blue rinses from the shires are going to want to go and mop up sick in a rehab unit in the sink estates of the inner cities? No, their idea of volunteering is arranging the flowers for the church social or manning the tombola for a new set of church bells. The dirty filthy jobs will be done by the “volunteers” while all the money from dead bank accounts is siphoned off to replace the lead on church roofs! <br /><br /><br />This is a total white elephant! I am frankly amazed that after only 7 months in harness “call me”, wee Wullie, Gideon, the pickled egg, basil brush, Baroness whatshername, Lord Baldermort and cleggums the pet poodle are already fretting about their legacy. Is that not something you are supposed to do at the end of a Government, you know when you have actually already created the half-baked mess that results from these peoples jaundiced agendas?Munguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-65886638698539125972011-02-02T13:41:44.894+00:002011-02-02T13:41:44.894+00:00Yeah North Briton, I can see that argument, as a g...Yeah North Briton, I can see that argument, as a good example to all of us. Maybe we should all pop into our employers and tell them that we are going to work for nothing from now on... but of course we will all need to be made lords, so we can lay our hands on the booty that that involves.<br /><br />Apparently Mr Heseltine works for the government for no payment.<br /><br />But Mr Wei has no money of his own, whereas Mr Heseltine is a multi millionaire (and an OAP, so he has the state pension too, which will make all the difference to his life, and of course his pension from being an MP and Deputy Prime Minister, which is probably more than most people earn in a lifetime, along with his £300 a day from the pensioners’ club).<br /><br />As I say, Nat Wei can't have much about him if he didn't ask about salary (even if it's not quite the done thing in Eton circles to talk about money), but I would have thought that Cameron would have made it clear to him that he wasn't getting a brass bean, but instead he could have one of these titles for the superannuated, and a passport to £300 a day for the rest of his life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-35556973890272464782011-02-02T13:32:23.141+00:002011-02-02T13:32:23.141+00:00Probably a linguistic difference between your part...Probably a linguistic difference between your part of the country and mine Billy...<br /><br />We go for a 'run' in the car... in some places people go for a 'run out' in the car...<br /><br />In the Queen's English I suppose what I'm saying is that some people take older people, who otherwise would not get out and see the countryside... you know, spring and the lambs, and the new leaves, autumn and the turning leaves, forests of gold and red... out in the car for a trip.<br /><br />We call that a 'run' in the car.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-58225895370975340762011-02-02T13:22:31.681+00:002011-02-02T13:22:31.681+00:00To be fair, it was perhaps expected that the "...To be fair, it was perhaps expected that the "tsar" (a loathesome recent addition to the political lexicon) for Mr Cameron's "Big Society" would set an example for the rest of us by working voluntarily himself, rather than being just another fully paid-up apparatchik with a vested interest.The North Britonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05621391831710843797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-3309954667744972482011-02-02T13:06:47.695+00:002011-02-02T13:06:47.695+00:00Oh Dear! So you are meant to go a run with the eld...Oh Dear! So you are meant to go a run with the elderly IN the car. Oops!Billy Carlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09898259422411934272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-64311146975568210032011-02-02T12:49:24.354+00:002011-02-02T12:49:24.354+00:00LOL... Off you go then...remember to wash your han...LOL... Off you go then...remember to wash your hands like a good boy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-58211818974999534422011-02-02T12:19:36.846+00:002011-02-02T12:19:36.846+00:00Think I'll go for a wee weiThink I'll go for a wee weiMontynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-56576597714019894472011-02-02T11:30:34.568+00:002011-02-02T11:30:34.568+00:00Monty, I wish that we could say oui, but that woul...Monty, I wish that we could say oui, but that would be a wee bit of a lie because what you're talking about there is a wii, not a Wei.<br /><br />Do get with the programme...<br /><br /><br />WeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-89577894421378936982011-02-02T11:29:01.408+00:002011-02-02T11:29:01.408+00:00I know someone who knows him SR. (How posh am I?) ...I know someone who knows him SR. (How posh am I?) He says that Nat Wei is a really nice bloke.<br /><br />But I think he must be a bit of a tube if he didn't sort out a salary beforehand.<br /><br />I'm not much into whistling for the moon much myself, and certainly not with my neighbours. That's how you turn into a werewolf, isn't it? I think some of them are at it already.<br /><br />I think, to be serious for a moment, that those who do charity, and volutary things, do them...for whatever reason (and in my experience, that is not always for good).<br /><br />Those who don't, don't.... and won't just because Mr Cameron says so.<br /><br />The only way that there will be an increase is if the councils stop providing services, and those of us who are strong enough to take over, do so to help out those of our neighbours who are not.<br /><br />But then I'll expect a big reduction in my taxes. That's what we pay all the money for. If it's not paying for services, then what are they doing with it?<br /><br />I hear that number ten has a superb wine cellar though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-74214734172239628702011-02-02T08:27:19.990+00:002011-02-02T08:27:19.990+00:00Is that Lord anything to do with the computer game...Is that Lord anything to do with the computer game console thingy ?Montynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-48112799876752878192011-02-02T01:11:35.380+00:002011-02-02T01:11:35.380+00:00I'd never heard of the noble lord until now Tr...I'd never heard of the noble lord until now Tris. Now I feel so much more informed. :)<br /><br />No matter what anyone says, 'doing good' can cost money. It's not all about gathering your neighbours in your garden some starry night to link hands and stare at the moon.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.com