Milliband speaks to Durham Miners.
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Arginald Valleywater
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Milliband speaks to Durham Miners.
Shock horror Labor politician speaks to common northern folk.....Millibland at today's Durham Miners Gala....first Labor chief since the Welsh Windbag to attend this annual gathering of deluded souls who think Labor MPs still come from industrial backgrounds, keep pigeons and drink in the local club....
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LOL, was he wearing a flat cap and pit boots?
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I suppose it's better than nothing. Blair's band of Champagne Socialists wouldn't have pissed on a miner if he was on fire! I mean imagine having to drag yourself out of the Ivy to travel up t'smoke to meet a bunch of smelly miners, perish the thought! lol
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Arginald Valleywater
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Re: Milliband speaks to Durham Miners.
Remember where VP Tony's patch was? Yep County Durham and he never attended once....too busy sniffing out dollars and buying mansions.
Picture the scene, if you will.............
So Mr Miner, how is work? Pit was shut 15 years ago Mr Millibland..have you visited planet earth recently?? So do you still keep whippets? No I restore vintage Ferraris thou daft apeth. And so will you be voting for me....of course (doffs cap and sings Keep the Red Flag Flying) I always vote for Oxbridge and Harvard boys like you. How is your string of Arab stallions comrade? Good but I have to go now, got a meeting at Heston's place .....Tony is telling what to do when we invade Iran and shoot their children....then off to a lesbian council managers meeting in Lambeth....
Picture the scene, if you will.............
So Mr Miner, how is work? Pit was shut 15 years ago Mr Millibland..have you visited planet earth recently?? So do you still keep whippets? No I restore vintage Ferraris thou daft apeth. And so will you be voting for me....of course (doffs cap and sings Keep the Red Flag Flying) I always vote for Oxbridge and Harvard boys like you. How is your string of Arab stallions comrade? Good but I have to go now, got a meeting at Heston's place .....Tony is telling what to do when we invade Iran and shoot their children....then off to a lesbian council managers meeting in Lambeth....
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max_tranmere
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You'll notice that Ed also used this as a platform to attack Dave and Nick, knowing that his words would be replayed on the TV news, therefore alot of what he 'said to the miners' wasn't for them but for the TV cameras to relay to the nation about Westminster issues. He was, basically, patronising those standing in front of him therefore. I suspect the tokenism of him turning up there today had a lot to do with keeping the Union's sweet - it was them who secured him the Labour leader's job after all.
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David Johnson
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Arginald
Arginald quote 1
"first Labor chief since the Welsh Windbag to attend this annual gathering of deluded souls who think Labor MPs still come from industrial backgrounds, keep pigeons and drink in the local club...".
Arginald quote 2
"My parents lived in a Council House for 15 years while they saved hard to build their own place. My dad ran a successful business and my mother was an NHS manager. They were bordeline middle class. Their neighbours worked for the MOD, drove ambulances and not one person in a cul-de-sac of 44 homes was claiming benefits.....you earned your way in life.
Arginald,
The people who go to the Durham Miners Gala fit into two groups, not mutually exclusive:
1. People who want to get pissed and get their leg over.
2. People who want to celebrate the history and culture of the Durham mines which was the overwhelming provider of good quality jobs in the area and because it completely dominated many towns and villages it created a strong working class culture around sport and clubs. That culture is so strong that even though the last pit closed in Durham in '93, up to 100,000 people turn up every year to celebrate the working class history and culture of mines and to walk behind the pit banners that represented the mines in their home villages and towns.
Hey, my guess is that there is no equivalent for people like you who work in housing associations. Am I right?
You obviously hate and despise this, sneering at the attitude of the people who attend the Miners Gala.
The rest of this post is about why I suspect you hate and despise not only the mining community but other groups such as the Hillsborough group who in your opinion, are just whining on endlessly about their dead children and other relatives. Bunch of useless tossers, eh Arginald?
The first thing to say to you, Arginald, despite your apparent sense of innate superiority to blue collar, unionised workers is that you have very much in common. You just dont see it. You are just a bog standard worker. The only difference is that you probably wear a shirt and tie, an increasingly shiny black pair of trousers and stare at a computer screen.
In many ways the miners you sneer at had a much better working life than a worker like you. They had relatively good pay; a union that helped to defend their standard of living; a culture borne out of almost an entire community working in one place.
On the other hand, you appear to have nothing, Arginald. You hate your job. You hate the company you work for because they are PC i.e. treat their customers with some respect. I guess you are not in a union. You hate the people, your customers who you are supposed to help - the people who largely you regard as despicable scroungers looking for social housing. In fact, you give the impression that your working life is a living nightmare.
So then why do you sneer and hate blue collar unionised workers who worked in nationalised industries so much? Maybe you hate and despise your mother who worked in the NHS? Do you? DId you sneer at her and her public sector pension?
The answer is in the second quote about your parents "they were borderline middle class". Arginald you are like the middle one in the Monty Python sketch about class. I look down on him etc etc. YOu do a shit job and the only thing you have to keep your sanity is thinking you are superior to all these working class types.
Pathetic!
Maybe it is time for a change of job. It appears to be destroying you.
"first Labor chief since the Welsh Windbag to attend this annual gathering of deluded souls who think Labor MPs still come from industrial backgrounds, keep pigeons and drink in the local club...".
Arginald quote 2
"My parents lived in a Council House for 15 years while they saved hard to build their own place. My dad ran a successful business and my mother was an NHS manager. They were bordeline middle class. Their neighbours worked for the MOD, drove ambulances and not one person in a cul-de-sac of 44 homes was claiming benefits.....you earned your way in life.
Arginald,
The people who go to the Durham Miners Gala fit into two groups, not mutually exclusive:
1. People who want to get pissed and get their leg over.
2. People who want to celebrate the history and culture of the Durham mines which was the overwhelming provider of good quality jobs in the area and because it completely dominated many towns and villages it created a strong working class culture around sport and clubs. That culture is so strong that even though the last pit closed in Durham in '93, up to 100,000 people turn up every year to celebrate the working class history and culture of mines and to walk behind the pit banners that represented the mines in their home villages and towns.
Hey, my guess is that there is no equivalent for people like you who work in housing associations. Am I right?
You obviously hate and despise this, sneering at the attitude of the people who attend the Miners Gala.
The rest of this post is about why I suspect you hate and despise not only the mining community but other groups such as the Hillsborough group who in your opinion, are just whining on endlessly about their dead children and other relatives. Bunch of useless tossers, eh Arginald?
The first thing to say to you, Arginald, despite your apparent sense of innate superiority to blue collar, unionised workers is that you have very much in common. You just dont see it. You are just a bog standard worker. The only difference is that you probably wear a shirt and tie, an increasingly shiny black pair of trousers and stare at a computer screen.
In many ways the miners you sneer at had a much better working life than a worker like you. They had relatively good pay; a union that helped to defend their standard of living; a culture borne out of almost an entire community working in one place.
On the other hand, you appear to have nothing, Arginald. You hate your job. You hate the company you work for because they are PC i.e. treat their customers with some respect. I guess you are not in a union. You hate the people, your customers who you are supposed to help - the people who largely you regard as despicable scroungers looking for social housing. In fact, you give the impression that your working life is a living nightmare.
So then why do you sneer and hate blue collar unionised workers who worked in nationalised industries so much? Maybe you hate and despise your mother who worked in the NHS? Do you? DId you sneer at her and her public sector pension?
The answer is in the second quote about your parents "they were borderline middle class". Arginald you are like the middle one in the Monty Python sketch about class. I look down on him etc etc. YOu do a shit job and the only thing you have to keep your sanity is thinking you are superior to all these working class types.
Pathetic!
Maybe it is time for a change of job. It appears to be destroying you.
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David Johnson wrote:
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aka "living in the past" !laugh! !laugh!
- Eric
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aka "living in the past" !laugh! !laugh!
- Eric
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David Johnson
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Eric
What? Like Remembrance Sunday, you mean? That's living in the past, isn't it?
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David Johnson
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Dick
You are wrong on a number of levels.
First, the Durham Miners Gala remembers and honours the past just as Remembrance Sunday remembers and honours the past.
Secondly, many miners died during the Second World War in supporting the war effort and in 2007 it was announced that the thousands of conscripts who worked down mines during the Second World War would receive an honour. They were given a Veterans Badge ? similar to the HM Armed Forces Badge awarded by the Ministry of Defence.[
First, the Durham Miners Gala remembers and honours the past just as Remembrance Sunday remembers and honours the past.
Secondly, many miners died during the Second World War in supporting the war effort and in 2007 it was announced that the thousands of conscripts who worked down mines during the Second World War would receive an honour. They were given a Veterans Badge ? similar to the HM Armed Forces Badge awarded by the Ministry of Defence.[