Names have always “escaped” my memory but I can recall and describe many happenings in my life.
Some things from the article touched a chord and others drew a blank.. so I reckon I’m just “odd” rather than falling under any particular label.
I have a favourite memory:
Heading for the beach, hearing a gate squeak, looking back over my shoulder and seeing a young boy about to go through a gate further down the road.. he turned and looked at me at the same moment… we both smiled.
I was 8 years old and I never saw him again until 12 years later, when we saw one another across a crowded room and… our eyes met and that was IT !
I think you’re OK with this one, as it’s focused entirely on the process rather than any ideology.
I think the argument in the article about multi party politics is quite correct and fragmentation can only gt worse. It really is time to move to some form of PR as FPTP is creaking at the seams. With PR, we wont get single party dominance in the Commons any where near as easily, and partys with similar aims will have to work together.
Hear hear. The argument against multi-party politics and PR is that it results in unstable coalition governments and “behind closed doors” horse-trading between parties - but at least each party has to establish a clear identity and set out what it stands for at each election.
With the FPTP system we have had two major parties that are in themselves hidden coalitions, and the jockeying for position within those parties is even less ransparent.
The 2010 Coalition Government worked reasonably well for a time, wth Tory excesses somewhat tamed, until Cameron realised that the Lib Dems were too keen to stay in power and he could browbeat them into going along with “austerity”.
There was ONE I liked (just about, though that beam is horrible feng shui) - the rest … what is the matter with these people, how can they live in those spaces?
It also has an article about drunk monkeys, basically a jokey variant of the one I posted near the top.
My favourite bit from the original article is the researcher who had to spend nights in the lower branches of the trees where the monleys slept so he could collect urine samples as the monkeys urinated at night and it rained down on him. He had to use an umbrella to stop himself getting soaked . That’s dedication.
Well, after reading the article, I say “Good Riddance” - though the beer was good, I didn’t have a clue about the 2 guys and their attitudes to their employees etc, and of course now the staff suffer while they’re still rolling in the cash!
It was an accident waiting to happen. They made huge mistakes taking so much money from TSG and not realising the consequences of some of the deals terms. TSG conned them with onerous growth terms and penalties and the people running it made dumb decisions. It was destroyed by greed and dumb decisions on all sides.
Thoughts for all the small people who put in money at the start around £400 - £3000 who are all wiped out - they had already (or going to be) been cut out when whatever recent deal was going down.
Yes it’s about time warnings were put on investment reminding people it’s just gambling and the house always wins. Like the chancellor (is that term acceptable to SF as it’s apparently wrong to use her first name) winding down the amount you can put into cash ISA’s but continuing to allow gambling with stocks and shares ISA’s, not suitable for the risk averse and again the house always wins no matter what and that’s the ultra rich as per normal, strange action for a labour chancellor
. That’s dedication.