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[k38] 22/10/2019 10:37

So..labour admit, if they win the next election they will renegotiate to stay in Single custom union single market .

[grahamite2] 22/10/2019 10:35

1carus 22 Oct '19 - 10:12 - 280019 of 280027
... although the 60s and 70s were not that long ago. Every day living conditions alluded to by mm2 above was the norm for the majority of the population. It was bordering on abject poverty for the masses

Well no, it wasn't. McMillan had said in the 50s that most people had never had it so good and he was right, even if he did get a lot of flak for it. Living standards in the 50s and 60s were incomparably better than they had been before the war.

[mikemichael2] 22/10/2019 10:34

Enter vision of my mini cooper with front wheels on pavement and engine/gearbox in mums kitchen!!!

[alphorn] 22/10/2019 10:30

Minerve #026. Some truth in that. My experience was that, as mm2 says, we had plenty of mates and were often outside doing something.
We could strip bikes and cars totally and repair them ourselves. A necessity because there were no funds to do otherwise.

We could visit Pride and Shark for used spares - enter Jacko. ;))

[gotnorolex] 22/10/2019 10:27

No food banks! Didn't need them! Paid on Friday, broke on Tuesday without luncheon vouchers, never mind just ask your Italian café maid for a free glass of piping hot water, sit in a dark corner, add 4 squirts of ketchup, salt and pepper, stir and sip!
Better than their minestrone soup!

[poikka] 22/10/2019 10:21

Alps - " When I used to travel to Central London in the 60's my shirt collars were always black in the evening."

Ditto - but school in Waterloo, and with separate cuffs and collars.

Quiet on the political front. Calm before the gathering storm - again.

[mikemichael2] 22/10/2019 10:18

I'm feeling a bit sad now after that......time for a coffee.

[poikka] 22/10/2019 10:17

Quite so, Alps, but it gets there eventually. As I recall, evs take about 18 months - happy to be corrected, as always.

[mikemichael2] 22/10/2019 10:15

I also seem to remember being quite happy and having fun, with lots of mates.

[1carus] 22/10/2019 10:14

Time to bring back some national service if you ask me.

[minerve 2] 22/10/2019 10:13

Pierre

One of the largest power stations in Europe generates base load frequency, it is based in Yorkshire and uses wooden pellets. The company is called Drax. The wood pellets come from by-product of sustainable timber manufacture in the US. Before you band on about shipping emissions, holistic studies have shown that if those timber mills were not there the land would most likely be used for cattle. Also, Drax have a natural energy storage facility using water. During heightened solar and wind generation water is pumped up to the top of the mountain ready to be released when green generation is low and/or when pricing arbitrage benefits.

As with regards to nuclear, nothing wrong with that. If the Tory party stopped chasing its rainbow ideology of trying to ascertain zero state funding/subsidy we would be getting a few more nuclear power stations in addition to Hinkley. You would think our governments (Labour and Tory) wouldn't blink to build these things considering they have moved much of their capital investment elsewhere using PFI contracts. This is just another indicator that tax revenue is too low or is getting squandered elsewhere.

I think your comment therefore about green energy is deliberately disingenuous, you seem to know enough but if that was the case you have omitted some important detail.

[1carus] 22/10/2019 10:12

Interesting to reminisce about the good old days... although the 60s and 70s were not that long ago. Every day living conditions alluded to by mm2 above was the norm for the majority of the population. It was bordering on abject poverty for the masses, and would be way below the relative poverty level set by today's standard. But at least we were not fat, lazy and entitled, grew up with a set of values and aspired to improve ourselves. Far less wasteful than the generations after us owning to the fact that we had sweet fa.

[pierre oreilly] 22/10/2019 10:08

When i were a lad

[gotnorolex] 22/10/2019 10:08

I remember two tone blondies with sooty ponytails on the crowded Bakerloo line! They would squeeze head and shoulders in, invariably leaving tails jammed half out!

[maxk] 22/10/2019 10:04

When I were a lad..

[philanderer] 22/10/2019 10:02

++ CITIGROUP CUTS LLOYDS BANKING TO 'NEUTRAL' (BUY) ++

[mikemichael2] 22/10/2019 10:01

We did have frost on the inside of our windows, and little piles of blown in snow,settee 5 foot from the little electric fire, and could only have 'one bar on'

Not a shoe box, just little 2 up 2 down terrace,however have fond memories of great family gatherings, and caravan holidays in Cornwall that took us 2 days to get there!!!

[alphorn] 22/10/2019 09:59

Pierre - I don't disagree with you. It is a difficult subject and the sooty collars was just a small personal experience. I am no expert in this field and support what I can.

[pierre oreilly] 22/10/2019 09:55

ALP, re your sooty collars.

I think your post illustrates the conflation of completely different topics.

One is the global warming co2 hypothesis, resulting ultimately in solar panels and a multitude of other guff. Many are sceptical of this.

The second is proper environmental considerations, like pollution of the air, rivers and seas, which ,afaiia, no one disagrees with. In fact, that is the true environmentalism onto which the co2 hypothesis lot have attached. So now, if you say you are sceptical of some cagw claims, the usual response is something like 'so you agree we should dump plastics into the ocean and kill all our fish, you denier'.

I used to sponsor greenpeace, mainly because they used to care for the environment. I left when its founder left, for exactly the same reasons. It moved from being concerned about the environment to an extreme political supporter of co2 global warming hypothesises.

[pal44] 22/10/2019 09:53

M5 when I were little milkman delivered milk and bread in the morning and I walked to school in t'cold with bad shoes ..

[alphorn] 22/10/2019 09:52

Just out: The budget deficit in the UK widened to GBP 8.7 billion in September 2019.

Highlights just how much more borrowing BoJo will need to fund his freebies. Not even going to talk about Corbyn.

[xxxxxy] 22/10/2019 09:49

Remainers are damaging and killing Democracy.Let's give Freedom and Democracy a chance.LEAVE LEAVE LEAVE