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Forum: The Maple Leaf
Jun 24th 2019, 4:10 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

Plus ca change...
My sister died young. For much of that time in the early fifties she was treated in a hospital in Sydenham, SE London.
I passed it every day on my way to school.
It pronounced...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 14th 2019, 3:22 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

And...
We queued and we queued, begged and borrowed to find the cash to buy those privatised stocks that Sid, remember him?, tempted us with.
How we queued... to pay for stuff we already owned and...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Apr 5th 2019, 7:36 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

last item is 'Pre-Decimal Currency', ain't that the same?
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 21st 2017, 4:08 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

I don't know whether US corporate attitudes have changed in the past 20 years or so but years ago, they were a joke where I worked.

As a design engineer we maintained a database of relevant...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 19th 2017, 9:10 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

Unlike many, I make no claim to be right, but every now and again I might be, although as you so rightly say, I have often been entirely wrong. However, I do take the trouble to make an argument...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 19th 2017, 8:42 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

I did say that logic and common sense wins most of the time. By win I mean that decision making process that generates the most advantageous outcome for the common good.

The examples you quote...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 19th 2017, 3:16 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

Hmmm... Let us consider a hypothetical problem requiring a decision to be made.

Now we can use logic and/or common sense or we can look at tea leaves or toss a coin. I suspect that logic and...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 19th 2017, 2:04 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

If more statutary holidays were a good thing that benefitted the economy etc. then all and sundry would be clammering to have more of them but it doesn't happen.

In 2017 there were 260 working...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 18th 2017, 10:50 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

You have to ask yourselves why any government would seek to introduce a minimum wage.

The snap answer would be that they hope to attract votes from those who'll benefit, but this may not be true...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 17th 2017, 12:13 am
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

Methinks I detect a little deliberate Trump-like misdirection here. Criticising Thatcher for her terrible policies does not automatically indicate that the critic is a Corbyn lover. The one does not...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 15th 2017, 10:09 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

I suspect you have a point. Elevating the police to become an arm of political policy, as it was during the miner's strike, will become, if it hasn't already, a necessary feature of governing a...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 15th 2017, 5:36 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

She must never be named....
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Dec 15th 2017, 4:31 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

I suggest that you try to read "The ragged trousered philanthropist", a book so bleak in it's description of working people and their struggles that I was unable to finish it.

We live in an age...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 18th 2017, 5:06 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

Yep, I've read the Woman's Own interview and agree that nonsense could be a valid description and 'no change there' I hear you say. But I think I might have included an odd grain of truth somewhere....
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 18th 2017, 3:50 am
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

It is difficult because people are by their nature selfish. What Thatcher was doing was to encourage a culture of state sponsored self with the inevitable results that we see today where the pay for...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 17th 2017, 5:47 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

Agreed, and she did it by recognising that individuals, as well as politicians, were adicted to greed.

The 'right to buy' at ridiculous discounts removed, at a stroke, the ability of local...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 17th 2017, 4:42 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

When I lived in the UK I voted in every election, local and general. I voted for Thatcher and I voted for Blair and I was wrong to do so.

My personal involvement with MPs has instructed me how...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 17th 2017, 4:17 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

Cloud cuckoo land I'm afraid. If Corbyn and the labour party were elected today, nothing would change tomorrow. The thought that one politician, who may just may have a little integrity, could change...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Nov 16th 2017, 3:16 pm
Replies: 322
Views: 37,394
Posted By dave_j

Re: The country we left behind

The welfare state costs money, it costs a lot of money. How often have you seen reports that this new drug or that new treatment is available or that this little girl will die unless....

People's...
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