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 Dec 15 2012, 02:44 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Dec 15 2012, 01:36 PM)  I don't know why the politics came in. you might even have a column built in your memory! "Sunday morning coming down, guess I'll have another beer."Kris Kristofferson. Played "Me and Bobbie" at my wife's funeral. Janis was perhaps not to all tastes. Still it is a good song. ce Sounds as if you've started celebrations already ce! Well done. Suspect there might have been a wry smile if she was looking down, so long as it was her taste; no other worries. -------------------- Know your place!
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Dec 15 2012, 07:59 PM
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Suspect there might have been a wry smile if she was looking down.
Well it woke up the audience at the end! There is a column in Trafalgar Sq. They almost got my name correct. NWN take note. I do try and keep off Newbury topics. WBC, NTC,Parkway,bollards, Mr Garvie et al.. I know nothing about. I just like the Newbury that I knew. But I wonder what happened to the youngster with coloured pens who scaled a mountain in Africa. I only ask because another group from Norfolk are doing the same. ce. |
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Dec 18 2012, 02:22 PM
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QUOTE (Squelchy @ Dec 14 2012, 04:50 PM) Please put a link up to the www.parliament.uk. you quote. www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN05745.pdf House of Commons library - Economic Policy & Statistics Section. It shows UK national debt in 1978/79 at £88.6 billion. Your unidentified newspaper source claims UK had no debt in 1979. In fact, Labour have made it an issue that Thatcher inherited debt at 44% of GDP and it was still 42% when the Tories left office! Can you please post a link to the newspaper article you quoted from. Cheers. |
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Dec 23 2012, 12:13 PM
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Can you please post a link to the newspaper article you quoted from. Cheers.
No reply from Squelchy to the above, so I Googled "At the end of his term, the British economy was intact and out of debt" and the text appears on Wikipedia. There is no proper citation given, but it appears it is the opinion of Denis Healey's former policy advisor in an article written for The Yorkshire Post !! |
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Dec 29 2012, 10:29 AM
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QUOTE (Squelchy @ Dec 11 2012, 12:30 PM) Would that be the Healy about whom one newspaper wrote: "As Chancellor, in 1974 he inherited an even worse picture. Oil prices had quintupled overnight (before Britain had any of her own). The world economy was in turmoil, Britain was on a three-day week and on the edge of hyper-inflation. All of these problems had to be faced by a minority Labour Government, in the face of a Labour Party haunted by memories of past "betrayal" and congenitally opposed to spending cuts imposed by foreign bankers. (Denis Healey envied Gordon Brown for his inheritance of a benign economy and a docile party). As Chancellor, he faced down five years of uninterrupted economic and political crisis. For good or ill, he made more policy decisions and introduced more economic measures and packages than any previous Chancellor. At the end of his term, the British economy was intact and out of debt, inflation contained, unemployment falling each month (without the aid of statistical manipulations) and living standards improving, especially for poor and disabled people." Funny how the old memory goes isn't it? As discovered above, your "quote from a newspaper" is in fact a piece written by Richard Heller, Denis Healey's former Chief Of Staff. Heller complains on his website that Labour do not listen to him anymore! I think you should research a little more before you post. What you quote is hardly fair and unbiased comment, is it? |
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