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Old 15-07-2011, 12:25   #426
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: Living off the fat of the land.

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss View Post
It smacks of envy, to be blunt.
That is my feeling too...and I commented as much, though not in those exact words, in my letter to the Observer.

PB can say what he would have done if he had got to Westminster, but it is never going to be tested...so the truth of the matter can never be ascertained....much like the protestations by the opposition(and I'm talking any opposition, not just the current one)......when in a sticky place, they slate the current government and say what they would do if they were in power....fully knowing that their pie in the sky(for that is often what they are) ideals are never going to be tested. By the time they come to power the political landscape has changed and the things they would have done, no longer fit the bill.
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