Coalition loses support

[Tangled up in Blue]

http://gu.com/p/2m3z6

 

[Hotman]

If we wanted to see what's on the guardian website every two minutes we might go on there ourselves...

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

If we wanted to see what's on the guardian website every two minutes we might go on there ourselves...

Just thought I'd save you the bovver,MC.:winking:

 

[GrumpyBlue]

http://gu.com/p/2m3z6

Ho Ho Ho Ho - stuff Nick Clegg you know it makes sense :grinch:

 

[Benfleet A1]

Considering the opening paragraph is mis-leading in saying this is the first coalalition since the war which is clearly wrong then I would struggle to believe anything printed in The Guardian including the date at the top of the page.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Considering the opening paragraph is mis-leading in saying this is the first coalalition since the war which is clearly wrong then I would struggle to believe anything printed in The Guardian including the date at the top of the page.

GHG,
Why ,when you do better typos than the Grauniad itself?:winking:btw,if you're thinking of the Lab/Lib pact in the 70's that was (by definition)NOT a formal coalition as such.
Roll on the Oldham East byelection.Ho,Ho,Ho.:smiles:

 

[Benfleet A1]

GHG,
Why ,when you do better typos than the Grauniad itself?:winking:btw,if you're thinking of the Lab/Lib pact in the 70's that was (by definition)NOT a formal coalition as such.
Roll on the Oldham East byelection.Ho,Ho,Ho.:smiles:[/QUOTE


Your right, my mistake, it wasn't a full coalition just a final sorry attempt to stay in power.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

GHG,
Why ,when you do better typos than the Grauniad itself?:winking:btw,if you're thinking of the Lab/Lib pact in the 70's that was (by definition)NOT a formal coalition as such.
Roll on the Oldham East byelection.Ho,Ho,Ho.:smiles:[/QUOTE


Your right, my mistake, it wasn't a full coalition just a final sorry attempt to stay in power.

IIRC(and I do), Heath himself tried, for a couple of days, back in 1974 to make exacly the same kind of pact with the Lib/dems in what was as you say " a final sorry attempt to stay in power."

 

[Benfleet A1]

IIRC(and I do), Heath himself tried, for a couple of days, back in 1974 to make exacly the same kind of pact with the Lib/dems in what was as you say " a final sorry attempt to stay in power."

And Labour were considering forming one with the Lib/Dems before the 97 election so just what is your point. Coalitions are always being banded about and govenments lose popularity. Why must you relentlessly post left-wing supporting newspaper reports. No-one cares. Why don't you take more notice of your adopted home rather than the one you left.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Why must you relentlessly post left-wing supporting newspaper reports. No-one cares. Why don't you take more notice of your adopted home rather than the one you left.

Harry - I know that you have addressed this to BB, but the old boy is back home at the moment (and he may well be in The Spread today for a pre-match and to say HNY to his pals on the 'Zone too!) so won't be able to reply for a few days. I rarely post in support of his stances, but your post (like one from 'steveo' on another of his Guardian-citing threads) got me thinking about this issue, so perhaps you might permit this humble insight from a fellow exile in his absence ...

Though I moved far far away to the Celtic enclave many a year ago, I still have a great love of the home I have physically left. Circumstances at a particular time prompted me to move away and here I am, for better or worse. There's an old saying (you'll know) about how you can never go back, but unless you have a severe cognitive impairment or an aversion to issues from the past, your home from where you grew up and your upbringing never really leave you. I remember BB once saying to me that it's about your roots (cue ground name here) when we were having a family conflab about our old home and it was only when I had been down here for a few years that I got what he meant. It took co-writing a book (cf. signature below) to try to get some of this out of my system, but these issues about home can stay with you when you move to a strange place with a distinctive culture from where you grew up and what you know. I know BB always used to read The Guardian when he lived here, so maybe that's (part of) his way - along with coming on here - about connecting with what he still likes about the country he physically left. I say 'physically' because as I suggested above, you never really leave emotionally. :soapbox:over! :smiles:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

And Labour were considering forming one with the Lib/Dems before the 97 election so just what is your point. Coalitions are always being banded about and govenments lose popularity. Why must you relentlessly post left-wing supporting newspaper reports. No-one cares. Why don't you take more notice of your adopted home rather than the one you left.

You can always put my posts on ignore you know.:angel:
BTW, what makes you think I don't take notice of my "adopted home" (as you put it)?
FYI, I always vote here in local and European elections.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Harry - I know that you have addressed this to BB, but the old boy is back home at the moment (and he may well be in The Spread today for a pre-match and to say HNY to his pals on the 'Zone too!) so won't be able to reply for a few days. I rarely post in support of his stances, but your post (like one from 'steveo' on another of his Guardian-citing threads) got me thinking about this issue, so perhaps you might permit this humble insight from a fellow exile in his absence ...

Though I moved far far away to the Celtic enclave many a year ago, I still have a great love of the home I have physically left. Circumstances at a particular time prompted me to move away and here I am, for better or worse. There's an old saying (you'll know) about how you can never go back, but unless you have a severe cognitive impairment or an aversion to issues from the past, your home from where you grew up and your upbringing never really leave you. I remember BB once saying to me that it's about your roots (cue ground name here) when we were having a family conflab about our old home and it was only when I had been down here for a few years that I got what he meant. It took co-writing a book (cf. signature below) to try to get some of this out of my system, but these issues about home can stay with you when you move to a strange place with a distinctive culture from where you grew up and what you know. I know BB always used to read The Guardian when he lived here, so maybe that's (part of) his way - along with coming on here - about connecting with what he still likes about the country he physically left. I say 'physically' because as I suggested above, you never really leave emotionally. :soapbox:over! :smiles:

As it happens I saw our cousin, Richard,just as I was leaving the Spread.He really looks a lot like his father Cyril these days(as I told him)with that white hair and(well trimmed) beard.:cricko:
FWIW,he told me that after 36 years in the force,he's got no intentions of retiring.