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Forum: General Chat 02-03-2014, 12:32
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Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

No Less, it isn't that the questions are too hard, it is just that the answers are unpalatable and show him to be blinkered.
For all his protestations, he didn't post anything like this volume...
Forum: General Chat 01-03-2014, 15:53
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

too late my other half put the numbers on yesterday.
Anyway if you were so good at predicting you would be a millionaire by now.
Aah, it all falls into place - you get into the cabinet...
Forum: General Chat 01-03-2014, 05:25
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

I can see nothing in that article that refers to a postage stamp being a quid!
Oh, I forgot....you have friends in high places...so you must be in the know!
Forum: General Chat 01-03-2014, 05:21
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

As you seem to be so good at predictions, can you predict the winning numbers for the lottery tonight?
Forum: General Chat 13-01-2014, 21:45
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

The last government were in power for......erm, what was it now?
Thirteen years or something like that.......you didn't see them rush to nationalise any industries did you?
In fact now that they...
Forum: General Chat 15-10-2013, 19:22
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

I suppose facts are a bit like the truth...there's your version, the government version and then the facts from Brussels......and I can't think of any plausible reason why Brussels would overstate...
Forum: General Chat 15-10-2013, 19:18
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

This information isn't from any of our government sources, but from sources in Brussels....it seems they might know more about the movements of EU migrants than you or our illustrious government.
Forum: General Chat 15-10-2013, 17:19
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

Now John, isn't that a little cruel.....he might have got hurt.
Forum: General Chat 15-10-2013, 11:32
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

So that's alright then. Labour didn't spend any more than any other government - yeah right!
They are spending more on welfare....? Thought they had cut the welfare bill.
Isn't that what you want?...
Forum: General Chat 15-10-2013, 06:33
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

you might have done...many people did...but did you tell us you disagreed with it?

You said very little critical about the government which was presided over by Bliar(not a typo) and Brown....the...
Forum: General Chat 14-10-2013, 20:18
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

I do not recall you ever saying anything critical about the Blair government......so I reckon you are being economical with the truth. You have proved you posted something criticising the Labour...
Forum: General Chat 14-10-2013, 19:15
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

That's what you are saying now......pity you didn't say it back then as well.
Forum: General Chat 13-10-2013, 14:38
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

and governments can make them care? How exactly is that done?
Caring is an emotion, there are no friends, no emotions in business...business exists simply to make a profit.......what companies do...
Forum: General Chat 13-10-2013, 13:16
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

Again some interesting points....and I know that the reason goods are cheaper from these foreign countries is more complex...but if we had not sold the machines and th skills in the first place then...
Forum: General Chat 12-10-2013, 20:48
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

Guinness as always, you have highlighted some interesting points.
Alas, in the current situation many of these options are no longer available to us.
Hindsight is 20/20.
And you are right about...
Forum: General Chat 12-10-2013, 18:38
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

I would bet he knows much more about the Singaporean Govt than you do.
Forum: General Chat 12-10-2013, 18:34
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

Yes, but apparently the vans will lose the 'Royal' prefix.

And c'mon, you didn't bother to answer my question...again.
Forum: General Chat 12-10-2013, 16:59
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

This sell off is no different to GB selling the gold reserves at rock bottom prices.

The Royal Mail needs investment which the government are loath to commit to.
As a business it has been losing...
Forum: General Chat 17-09-2013, 06:38
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

Let me sit dowm.......I am seeing things is this our 'blind faith' New Labour supporter actually admitting that any of this revered party got something wrong?

Pass me the smelling salts......I'm...
Forum: General Chat 16-09-2013, 20:40
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

Less, Cashy has a very good saying......it goes like this...'you can't put sense where there is none'
It is very true in the case of this member.

He remembers all of the things he can lay at the...
Forum: General Chat 15-09-2013, 13:26
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

Many people who start out as HCA's go on to become qualified nurses.
The NHS has a duty to maximise the potential of every member of staff(that is what a big part of appraisal is about). In this...
Forum: General Chat 15-09-2013, 10:26
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

Mog, thank you for your vote of confidence.
I am no longer in the profession, having retired quite a while ago.
The Matron thing gets my goat too.....once upon a day, a very long time ago...the...
Forum: General Chat 15-09-2013, 09:09
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

That is spot on...except the hospital pays more for an agency nurse that the figure you have quoted.
Whe I was senior sister of my unit, I would juggle staff around rather than having to bring in...
Forum: General Chat 15-09-2013, 09:02
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

Of course nursing has evolved...it has been evolving since the days of Florence Nightingale....it has had to do this to keep up with modern technology processes and procedures.

And the university...
Forum: General Chat 14-09-2013, 15:39
Replies: 255
Views: 11,192
Posted By Margaret Pilkington
Re: Post Office Sell Off - Welcome To Tory Britain

I have been at the sharp end of nursing for more years that I care to remember...and though I am now retired, I still have friends who were my colleagues. I know exactly what they do......they work...
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