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5th June 2017, 10:59 AM
#51
Re: Seaman pows by the french in africa

Originally Posted by
Keith at Tregenna
.. The argument that a strike would let our soldiers down was countered by men who had brothers and sons in the forces who, so they claimed, had urged them to fight and maintain their customs or privileges. They argued that they must retain something for those absent ones to come back to, while the suggestion that we should wait for further negotiations was swamped by the reply that we had already waited a long while...”
In fact the Government was compelled to intervene, restored differentials, and the miners won the highest minimum wage in Britain. Their average earnings ranked 81st in 1938, but rose to 14th after the strikes.
##what absolute rubbish statements you make in your furtherance of a more for less ideology ...pull yor neck in .....live in the real world...and get a life
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5th June 2017, 11:05 AM
#52
Re: Seaman pows by the french in africa
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5th June 2017, 11:11 AM
#53
Re: Seaman pows by the french in africa
my views are my views any statement you make is not taken personally but i have lived a life dealing in reality ...not in the pinky coloured idealist world of make believe which is never to become a reality......the best statement i have seen in months was the children going to school hungry and the price of a 36 packet of weetabix.....but the left bellows that children are in poverty ......lefty bullshit any poverty is the fault of parents who want all even at the expense of there children eating ....am i expected to pay more from my hard earned pensions to keep more of this crap ....so they can breed more ...no thankyou ...enough is enough...cappy
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5th June 2017, 11:20 AM
#54
Re: Seaman pows by the french in africa

Originally Posted by
cappy
my views are my views any statement you make is not taken personally but i have lived a life dealing in reality ...not in the pinky coloured idealist world of make believe which is never to become a reality......the best statement i have seen in months was the children going to school hungry and the price of a 36 packet of weetabix.....but the left bellows that children are in poverty ......lefty bullshit any poverty is the fault of parents who want all even at the expense of there children eating ....am i expected to pay more from my hard earned pensions to keep more of this crap ....so they can breed more ...no thankyou ...enough is enough...cappy
So why would Submarine May want to take away School lunches when kids are hungry and give them breakfast when they have had porridge already ?
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5th June 2017, 11:29 AM
#55
Re: Seaman pows by the french in africa

Originally Posted by
Keith at Tregenna
So why would Submarine May want to take away School lunches when kids are hungry and give them breakfast when they have had porridge already ?
#####because when the rabble cant look after there children..and put themselves ist sadly any government must step in ...and again the workers must pay for the bums and scroungers
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5th June 2017, 11:37 AM
#56
Re: Seaman pows by the french in africa
So they have had Weetabix and then the Gmen want to give them breakfast? No lunch when hungry ?
Thousands of jobless Catering Staff etc.
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5th June 2017, 11:50 AM
#57
Re: Seaman pows by the french in africa
So why would Submarine May want to take away School lunches when kids are hungry and give them breakfast when they have had porridge already ? K at T
KEITH WHAT ARE YOU????
People have Sex, then Kids come along, if they cannot afford to feed kids, then Do Not Have Any. Simple,. Stick something on the end of it.
Why should I , a Pensioner, who is Taxed on my Pension, pay for some ones Sex Life and Kids.
We pay enough in Taxes to give £20 a week to feed a child.
If a Child goes Hungry then Charge the Parents with Child Cruelty. they have enough money, Tax Free Benefits, better off than people who have worked all their lives.
In the 1930s I never went hungry, because my Parents cared, a simple Jam Butty was enough. in WW2 we had enough on a ration book,
NO Benefits then , No child allowance then.
shipped out to stay with other families after our home was used for slum clearance by Adolf Hitler,
We did NOT Go hungry.
I see a lot of fat OBESE kids today, HUNGRY????? Load of Crap Keith, We were built like racing snakes, fit and healthy in those Terrible days,
The problems you have and the rest is, You have NEVER Experienced any kind of Hardship.
All we ever hear from the Labour supporters is whinging and whining, of how terrible it is to be on £26,000 a year free for not working, and also Tax Free and free housing , and they cannot feed kids.
Please Do Not Insult the Intelligence of People who have experienced REAL Hardship without whining.
Whatever happened to the Strong Honest, Hard working People of this once great Nation??
BRIAN
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5th June 2017, 11:54 AM
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Re: Seaman pows by the french in africa
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5th June 2017, 11:58 AM
#59
Re: Seaman pows by the french in africa
Keith, let us know what you are taking and give us the name of your supplier, I could do with some of that must be better than the dope I am taking.
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5th June 2017, 12:00 PM
#60
Re: Seaman pows by the french in africa

Originally Posted by
Captain Kong
Keith, let us know what you are taking and give us the name of your supplier, I could do with some of that must be better than the dope I am taking.
Your on dope ?
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