General Election

[NellieMay]

Perhaps the right time to do a poll on how we would vote? Personally I dont think canvassing or csmpsigns will make any difference. We are all pretty sure of our intentions!

[naomi24]

//Actually the "winter of discontent" was quite fun. //

Yes indeed. How they all laughed at the piles of uncollected stinking rubbish in the streets - and even more at the unburied dead bodies. Such fun!

[diddlydo]

Naomi - you're talking rubbish as usual. I was living in a large city at the time and there were no stinking piles of rubbish or unburied bodies. Please tell it as it was.

[naomi24]

Take a breath - and do your homework, diddly .... do.

[Khandro]

n. I don't recall any uncollected "stinking" rubbish - I think the left-wing press made the most of it & any unburied bodies would be refrigerated in morgues.
There were small inconveniences, but being without television and eating & talking by candle-light for a few hours, actually was enjoyable.

[dannyk13]

Diddly. No rubbish piled high?
https://www.google.com/search?ei=Zq-5XZ2dOdiQ8gLIso34CQ&q=winter+of+discontent+uk&oq=winter+oif+discontent+&;gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i13l10.59208737.59215278..5922008

[naomi24]

Khandro, you're another one with a short memory.

[dannyk13]

Khando, //I don't recall any uncollected "stinking" rubbish//
Check the photos in my link.

[10ClarionSt]

Vote Tory - and you'll get the privatisation of the NHS. They've privatised everything else. Only the NHS remains.
Vote Tory - and you'll get a PM who can't deliver on his promises.
Vote Tory - and you'll get a PM who presumes everything and delivers nothing.

[10ClarionSt]

I agree with Khandro. There was no rubbish lying round the streets here in North Manchester either. The media did everything they could to help secure a victory for the Tories in the coming election. And when they got in power? Remember the ad campaign? Labour isn't working? 1m unemployed? Within 3 years of Twatchers first term, the unemployment figures were up to 3m and the Tories were massively behind in the opinion polls. Only the Falklands Factor saved them. What a joke! Kill a few Argies; save a few thousand sheep and get yourself re-elected.

[dannyk13]

10cs, There was plenty of rubbish piled high in the streets of Bradford and Leeds.Maybe you should check the photos in my link.

[diddlydo]

Goodness me - 2 other sensible people on this single page! Makes a change from the army of right-wing Brexiteers.

[10ClarionSt]

Danny, you don't believe those photos to be real do you? They've been photo-shopped. The first one, top left, has the same building in the background as the photo 4th down in the right hand column. A grid cover has appeared in the 4th one down that isn't there in the top left hand one. And all the "rubbish" is different in both photos.

[dannyk13]

diddly, nothing to do with Brexiteers. More to do with people like you with selective memories.

[naomi24]

//There was no rubbish lying round the streets here in North Manchester either. //

North Manchester was lucky then because there was elsewhere.

[dannyk13]

10cs. In that Winter of discontent I was walking a beat and I did not imagine the piles of rubbish I had to negotiate.

[10ClarionSt]

Where, Naomi? Don't put a link on, like Danny did, because those pics have been photo-shopped.

[naomi24]

google //the winter of discontent uncollected rubbish images//

All photoshopped? Right....

[10ClarionSt]

Danny, your link makes your statement less credible. Naughty naughty for a former police officer, sarge!

[10ClarionSt]

Look at them closely, Naomi.