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What do you remember of the last 30 years of conservative misrule?

I think the defining moment for me was when I was about 19 years of age, I had been working in the same company for about a year, which was the longest job I have ever held.

I was talking to my manager and we were chatting, he had 4 kids and a wife that lived in a big house outside London.

Between him and his wife, and for their four kids, they paid less in "poll tax" then I did living in a bedsit in Newham, which was all I could afford on the wages I earnt at the time.

Less then I paid living in a bedsit.

So I quit my job that day and as far as I am concerned, stopped playing any role that society expected of me. I have not worked since then and don't plan on working in the future as I don't think anything has changed.

That is the legacy of 30 years of Conservativism in this country for me.
 
big footed fred said:
So we let every tin pot dicatorship do as they like.

During the junta's rule, parliament was suspended, unions, political parties and provincial governments were banned, and in what became known as the "Dirty War" between 9000 and 30,000 people deemed left-wing "subversives" were disappeared from society.

In July 2002 new civil charges were brought concerning the kidnapping and disappearance of 18 leftist sympathizers in the late 1970s (while Galtieri was commander of the Second Army Corps), and the disappearance or death of three Spanish citizens at about the same time. Galtieri was placed under house-arrest. With his health declining, he was admitted to hospital in Buenos Aires to be treated for cancer of the pancreas, where he died of a heart attack at the age of 76.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldo_Fortunato_Galtieri

It's ironic that he appears to have followed a smilar political line as your good self.
 
big footed fred said:
So we let every tin pot dicatorship do as they like. They fuck up their own country and try to divert their own public's attention by invading British islands.
Would you have just let them carry on and do as they wish or do what maggie did and give the bastards a bloody nose.
Bet you were one of the wankers that moaned about the General Belgrano.

No good starting a war and moaning when you loose your ships. Kept the bastards out of the water didn't it ?
We also lost ships including the Sheffield. Did you consider those who we lost as heros or treat them as criminals out to kill poor Argies who deserved to die for their crimes ?

Your comments are offensive.
If you don't want to be British fuck off to Argentina.

Bleedin heck......
I dont want to be popular on urban 75........
But the falklands was not worth the lives of anyone... The people on both sides who died i regard as victims of 2 power crazy politicians..
We could have made all the Islanders double millionaires with the money spent and saved all those wasted lives..
If you think the Falklands is so good why dont you go and live there...
 
Fong said:
I think the defining moment for me was when I was about 19 years of age, I had been working in the same company for about a year, which was the longest job I have ever held.

I was talking to my manager and we were chatting, he had 4 kids and a wife that lived in a big house outside London.

Between him and his wife, and for their four kids, they paid less in "poll tax" then I did living in a bedsit in Newham, which was all I could afford on the wages I earnt at the time.

Less then I paid living in a bedsit.

So I quit my job that day and as far as I am concerned, stopped playing any role that society expected of me. I have not worked since then and don't plan on working in the future as I don't think anything has changed.

That is the legacy of 30 years of Conservativism in this country for me.

LAZY GIT
 
MC5 said:
During the junta's rule, parliament was suspended, unions, political parties and provincial governments were banned, and in what became known as the "Dirty War" between 9000 and 30,000 people deemed left-wing "subversives" were disappeared from society.

In July 2002 new civil charges were brought concerning the kidnapping and disappearance of 18 leftist sympathizers in the late 1970s (while Galtieri was commander of the Second Army Corps), and the disappearance or death of three Spanish citizens at about the same time. Galtieri was placed under house-arrest. With his health declining, he was admitted to hospital in Buenos Aires to be treated for cancer of the pancreas, where he died of a heart attack at the age of 76.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldo_Fortunato_Galtieri

It's ironic that he appears to have followed a smilar political line as your good self.

So they had a good side as well :p
 
My union is responsible for ensuring health and safety regs are adhered to in my workplace.

How evil of them.
 
JTG said:
My union is responsible for ensuring health and safety regs are adhered to in my workplace.

How evil of them.

Truly evil, by enforcing such overly tight regulations you steal profits from share holders who then can't go out and spend their money on new furniture and cars and other commodity goods, in doing so you harm the economy and you harm us all since we don't get to see the trickle that finally gets to us so we can buy some week old bread.

Can't you suffer a few accidents for the good of the economy?
 
I prefer decent employment conditions to rich cunts getting richer :o

I'm so bad.
 
big footed fred said:
Thanks. I guess you are a union supporter.
Don't think as a pack. Try to develop your own ideas and you will soon learn to become a tory. :D

Oh the irony.
 
It was an ugly thing, the Falklands war. The papers were full of a nasty xenophobia too many people found attractive.

The war itself possibly seems a little quaint now but it was a shocking waste of life. Something like 250 British troops & 650 Argentinian, teenage boys, really, died in it.
 
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