Nick Clegg's Small Beer.

sandyRoe | 21:33 Sun 05th Oct 2014 | ChatterBank

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On BBC news tonight he was shown enjoying a beer with some party colleagues. I couldn't help but notice how small the glasses were. They looked as though they'd hold no more than a quarter pint. Is that a standard measure in English pubs?
If contrasted with William Hague's 14 pints a day when he worked as a drayman's helper it makes Clegg look a bit wimpish.

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sandyRoe

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Anneasquith, it was something we could aspire to, like having an indoor toilet and a bath. Few then achieved either the Gannex or the bathroom but it was a dream.

anneasquith

a bath....................... my God, you were posh .

sandyRoe

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It was only a zinc thing that was pulled out in front of the fire when everybody else had gone to bed.
Plumbed in baths were a luxury beyond even our dreams.

anneasquith

I suppose next, you will be telling us you had shoes to go to school . ?

sandyRoe

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WE did indeed. But my brother and I had to share a pair between us. To this day the sole of my left foot is as tough as old boots.

BlackadderV

I always remember the remark of Sir Alec-Douglas Home, then PM, commenting on a claim by Harold Wilson that he had no boots to go to school in; "If Mr. Wilson had no boots it was merely that he was too big for them!"

sandyRoe

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It wasn't til years later I realised if we'd swapped shoes every other day we'd have grown up to have normal feet. :-(

anneasquith

titter x

sandyRoe

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In the 60s Sir Alec Douglas Home seemed like a hangover from a bygone age as far as politics went.

BlackadderV

...but he damn near well won the 64 election and had it not been for Profumo he probably would have done.

sandyRoe

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True enough. Maybe the time for grouse-shooting aristos had passed. I remember a Tory on a chat show around that time, Halisham I think, remarking that he couldn't afford to buy cheap suits. He meant, of course, that a decent one would last for years but it didn't come across like that. That was a time when I had one pair of jeans to my name.

BlackadderV

There is a lot of truth in that. I remember a woman who saved up for ages to buy an expensive winter coat because, "I'm too poor to afford a cheap one"