tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post1115869631849370328..comments2024-03-28T22:45:51.014+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: The Third ManCityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-11426500366485113712010-07-26T02:07:12.448+01:002010-07-26T02:07:12.448+01:00funny? try startingfunny? try startingbaby scrobblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-64480237356157335152010-07-12T23:39:41.339+01:002010-07-12T23:39:41.339+01:00Mandelson wears cardigans.Mandelson wears cardigans.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-49797228079325111362010-07-12T11:19:46.979+01:002010-07-12T11:19:46.979+01:00What they claimed: whiter than white; no more boom...What they claimed: whiter than white; no more boom and bust; I'm a straight kinda guy; no more Tory sleaze; fairness; equality; the Belgrano was moving away; prudence; ban it; tough on crime; we are controlling immigration; lessons will be learned; crime has gone down; economic stability; inflation is under control; stable house prices; education, education, education; etc, etc, etc.<br /><br />What we got: worst bust since the 1930s; more sleaze than the Tories; cash for peerages (and almost anything else); fiddled figures; worse crime; devalued education; bullying; loss of civil liberties; soaring house prices; spend, spend, spend using borrowed money; gold sold at the bottom; pensions raided; massive (denied) increases in immigration; wars less necessary and less legal than the Falklands; fraud; deceits; lies; etc, etc.Budgienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-76062755051012576702010-07-11T22:44:02.186+01:002010-07-11T22:44:02.186+01:00Do you think Peter has ever actually seen the film...<i>Do you think Peter has ever actually seen the film?</i><br /><br />I think he is so desperate to lodge in every form of register, conscious and subconscious, written and unwritten, the single idea <br /><br /><b>"there were 3 of us, we were all EQUALLY IMPORTANT do you hear me THREE OF US did I mention 3 ?!?"</b><br /><br />that he doesn't mind the connotations<br /><br />and these things mutate - who now recalls that 'Meritocracy' was coined as a condemnatory term ?Nick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.com