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I am saving all the cardboard boxes I can. Do people know what for?
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Clearly an upgrade. Best thing to come out of Birmingham? The M6. |
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It could be argued that mankind is just going back to how it always was - wealth in the hands of the elite and the masses being the peasants living on the breadline. If one accepts the above, life seems not too bad at the moment. What's that line from The Life of Brian? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DXyRsOQ9Is |
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You ask if we should accept the downsides and the status quo (good band by the way but a little repetitive on chords/beat)? Well, the situation is ever changing. We are constellations away from what was the situation in the 20's (the era my parents were born) and my generation (50's) is quids better than my parents. Should I rail and rant against this? Compare this to the utopia of communism up to the 90's . Those countries never got to the heights we did and we never got to the heights of the USA and Germany. Those downsides are poorer governance and accountability. A Civil Service (once considered the best and least corrupt in the world) is now woeful. No longer willing to do their duties in the provided offices and thus they cannot provide a decent service. We could go on and on with instances and no administration would be able to sort every one of them out. We often change governments in the hope things improve. My first government was Harold Wilson onwards to Boris. All of them are seen, by me, to be flawed but I know that this is the best that can be achieved so resignedly accept. Kev |
Your last paragraph.Flawed? I lived through the last war. The thrifty fifties. The raving 60s. The mundane 70s and so forth.Started work 1955 as an apprentice .Apart from two instances of long absence from work because of illness, 2 and a half years in all, I have managed to keep my head above water, so not to bad. Throughout my life, I have noticed that some people work, and others chose to be unemployed. Those that have decided on the later, seem to have not fared to badly. They seem to achieve TVs, cars , latest mobile phones, computers for the children, holidays abroad, and two I knew of managed caravans to tow around the country with their children. The state now provides almost everything these people want. Now as a pensioner, they are as well off, and in some instances, better off than I am after working almost all my life, and many hours of overtime when I could.Those are the people who are now holding back this country from doing better.Another thing is that it seems to me that over the last thirty years or so, everything my generation, and before, achieved in negotiation at work for better conditions and wages, has been renaged on.I am afraid that until the ‘working classes’ get their act together, things will only get worse. A saying my grandmother used, was:- The working class will always be working class because the will not stick together. Over a lifetime that saying has proved to be very true.
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In the mid 1980's there was a lot of demolition of old buildings around Wigan, many of them from that dismal era of Orwell, he lodged in an upstairs room that overlooked the mill area and the miserable coal fired housing surrounding the mills. I was able to be in the rooms he lodged in before they were knocked down in the name of progress? I saw that bleak landscape as it would have been in his day, it was bleak in the 80's. I was able to see what he saw but without the smog of factory chimney's that he looked out upon, his view was downwards toward the grime and he wouldn't know the town today. |
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