Remembering Sqad On His Birthday
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History?
Well in French, une histoire is a story, and it seems the original meaning is creeping in here.
A journalist, Babita Sharma, has currently got her book ‘The Corner Shop” on R4, in which she bangs on about life in England in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.
Now, as in 1970 I was in my twenties, I can claim some first-hand knowledge of all those decades, and unless I’m going senile, it weren’t like that!
Queues for paraffin at my local shop? Nah. The 70s, a decade plagued by power cuts? Not in London, anyway. The 80s, plunged into deep economic recession? Well, no worse than now.
Turns out Ms Sharma wasn’t born until 1977,
But it makes you wonder just how much history is bull.
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A journalist, Babita Sharma, has currently got her book ‘The Corner Shop” on R4, in which she bangs on about life in England in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.
Now, as in 1970 I was in my twenties, I can claim some first-hand knowledge of all those decades, and unless I’m going senile, it weren’t like that!
Queues for paraffin at my local shop? Nah. The 70s, a decade plagued by power cuts? Not in London, anyway. The 80s, plunged into deep economic recession? Well, no worse than now.
Turns out Ms Sharma wasn’t born until 1977,
But it makes you wonder just how much history is bull.
BB
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Remind us again which party instituted the National Health Service?
Remind us again of the Thatcher/Blair/Cameron extended debacle that culminated in the banker's crash a few years ago, leading to our current state of 'austerity'?
No, this doesn't matter one iota compared to the suffering only hinted at in the Chemo thread, but Naomi and her ilk really can't be allowed to get away with their inventions.
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Remind us again of the Thatcher/Blair/Cameron extended debacle that culminated in the banker's crash a few years ago, leading to our current state of 'austerity'?
No, this doesn't matter one iota compared to the suffering only hinted at in the Chemo thread, but Naomi and her ilk really can't be allowed to get away with their inventions.
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Naomi. Take a look at yourself, pal. “...never having received the courtesy of a reply...”! Is this just an act, or are you really turning into an elderly colonel from Tunbridge Wells? Don’t be so pompous!
And you’ll only get a reply from me if you stop trying to bully and hector.
Your ilk? We all have our ilks, even you!
I’d be interested in your alternative truth re the NHS not being something set up by a socialist government.
Alternative truth. What a joke.
And you’ll only get a reply from me if you stop trying to bully and hector.
Your ilk? We all have our ilks, even you!
I’d be interested in your alternative truth re the NHS not being something set up by a socialist government.
Alternative truth. What a joke.
//I’d be interested in your alternative truth re the NHS not being something set up by a socialist government. //
that's a fact, they won the 1945 election and got to implement it. but would any other party have done the same if they'd won the 1945 election? the answer isn't an unequivocal "no". the modern welfare state was the child of the Beveridge Report of 1942, and the necessity for change in its wake was acknowledged by all.
that's a fact, they won the 1945 election and got to implement it. but would any other party have done the same if they'd won the 1945 election? the answer isn't an unequivocal "no". the modern welfare state was the child of the Beveridge Report of 1942, and the necessity for change in its wake was acknowledged by all.
