Greatest political blunders of all time.

[Sam Slater]

You ARE PH. I just told the truth. And for anyone who doubts you're PH need only look at our conversations and what irritates you most. I've called you a weasel and a thick cunt over the past few days and it's calling you 'PH' that you want an apology for. You're living in your own little bubble if you think anybody would buy that bull!

The mods even addressed you as 'formally known as PH' and you never questioned it. Most would if it wasn't true. Why is it only when I address you as PH that you get cranky?

You're embarrassing yourself now and me making it worse is making me uncomfortable so I'll leave you to your own little world, where you play charlie and nobody knows! Tee-hee.

Toodle-pip, Charlie*



*nudge-nudge, wink-wink.

[RoddersUK]

But I aint. I see Civil Servants a lot in my job and I despise every one of them. Always moaning about something instead of getting on and doing the job they are paid for. At the end of the day they are only in the job for their own means, accepting a not stupendous salary for an easy cushy office job and an early retirement. I am afraid that reallity has to kick in sometime and they have to come into line with the private sector.
I never considered myself public sector as a soldier. As for paying more for an index linked pension I don't have a problem with it, nor does my soldier son.
I served 22 years and 'retired' in 1986, so I've happily been drawing my index linked pension for 25 years now, and if you or anyone has a problem with that then I couldn't give a toss!

[Deuce Bigolo]

When i first saw them standing together i couldnt help thinking they could swap sides and no one would know the difference

I was speaking to a UK student last year and the democrats were going to make it all good

She'll most likely be sticking her left & right boot up Cleggs cakehole a few dozen times come the election...that was their core voter

No hope

The sad fact is that means its back to a 2 party system
Upper class capitalist state or socialist welfare state

I vote for non-compulsory voting

[David Johnson]

"I never considered myself public sector as a soldier. As for paying more for an index linked pension I don't have a problem with it, nor does my soldier son."

People like yourself who have worked in the armed forces have been in the public sector. I can understand why you hate being called a public sector worker because 90% of the Tory press, like you, equate public sector workers such as civil servants with lazy, good for nothings who are overpaid.

But public sector worker you were when you were in the armed forces! No different in employment terms than the civil servants you clearly despise

[url]http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/ ... 003112[url]

Get over it!

Cheers
D

[RoddersUK]

I am over it. I just despise the Civil Servants I have to deal with.
I still do not regard myself as have been in the public sector no matter how you want to explain it, and I doubt any member of the Armed Forces regard themselves as public sector workers.
Public sector workers fuck things up and the Armed Forces sort it out.

[beutelwolf]

Leo X financing St. Peter's in Rome with indulgences - leading indirectly to the reformation.

President Hindenburg appointing Hitler as Reichskanzler.

G?nter Schabowski accidentally terminating the GDR with a press conference blunder of epic proportions.


...just to put things a little bit into perspective...

[Bob Singleton]

David Johnson wrote:

> Jimbo
>
> Pales into insignificance with Thatcher's nationalisation
> programme.
>
> In this stunning wheeze, the nation's family silver, water,
> gas, sewage, railways, steel etc etc which we all owned was
> sold off to private investors at a knockdown price in order to
> make sure that the sale went with a zing.
>
> Since then every time we all open a utility bill (20% gas price
> rises this year, 8% train price rise coming up) or get on a
> train we will remember what a fantastic deal Thatcher did for
> the nation. And this will be for ever more that we and our
> children and their children's children will get ripped off
> because unless they get nationalised without compensation, no
> government could afford the hugely inflated prices these
> privatised licenses to print money now go for.
>
> Cost to the nation? Incalculable.
>
> CHeers
> D


Add to which most of these utilities etc. are foreign owned... EDF was the NATIONALISED power company in France who were allowed to buy parts of the UK power industry for relatively peanuts! The French government still retain an 85% stake in the company after it was partially floated about 7/8 years ago, and is now the biggest utility company in the world.

Thames Water is part of the Australian Macquarie Group. E.On is a German company. Arriva will soon be owned by Deutsche Bahn, who already own Chiltern Railways and part of the London Overground. SITA (waste management etc) is a French company. Veolia (trains and buses) is a French company. The list goes on!

Talk about selling off the family silver... we didn't even sell it back to ourselves, we sold it to companies who don't give a fuck about whether we get a decent service so long as the profits get forever bigger.

Makes Gordon Browns sales of gold at a low price pale into insignificance.