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The only things we know about her, are the few things posted on her website, besides what's been uncovered by helpful posters in this thread. As she heads into the last month or so of campaigning, let's hope she'll become more visible, and vocal. So we can then make up our own minds up, and decide whether she's worthy of our votes. |
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You can't keep spending money you haven't got, its a recipe for disaster, if your in a hole stop digging, but as usual Labour never have to clear up their own mess, if Brown actually won the election he would be biting his fingernails if not chewing his finger off altogether, because he firmly believes he'll walk of into the sunset and be forgotten
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You live and learn. |
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Just remind your loved ones not to take sweets from strangers. :rolleyes: |
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Did you place a bet on Karen Buckley being the successful Conservative candidate? You must be laughing all the way to the bank, as you probably got very good odds. :rolleyes: |
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"Yuh not from round these parts are yuh, boy?" (Cue: banjos) Incidentally, I'm as much "from Cheshire" as your mate, Councillor Britcliffe is "from Ossy". ;) |
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For those of us worried about this thread not being reverential enough, I thought we'd pack away the Spitting Image puppets back into the toy cupboard, for a suitable period of time. Which would give some people time to ponder their less than deferential tone, and I'd then pretty the thread up with a lovely floral display, just in case Ms. Buckley happens to pop by.
http://img4.realsimple.com/images/09...boquet_300.jpg (I've even given the whole thread a good spray with Fabreeze, so it's smelling sweetly floral, and without a whiff of ironic satire left.) ;) |
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Not much point though really, if she appeared on my doorstep and I invited her in she probably wouldn't know how to drink tea out of a mug. |
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Just because you can't actually see, or physically hear someone, doesn't mean that they're not here. He works in mysterious ways. His disciples might similarly follow His way. '...the ever-vain Cllr Britcliffe Googles his own name on a regular basis.' Peter Britcliffe | Political Scrapbook |
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However, sadly, in the 'good old days' it wasn't possible for everyone to go onto the Music Hall stage, and make a good living, whilst performing as the Cutie Pie Clog Dancin' Cripples. ;) :D |
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;) :D |
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Oh I see what you're trying to do now, make a political point! Doh. ;) If you wanted a political history, rather than a personal one, you just had to say, then we needn't go down the wrong cobbled street. ;) The rise of the traditional Victorian seaside resorts. This boom started in the 1870's. One of the reasons was the passing of the 1871 Bank Holiday Act, which gave workers a few days paid holidays off each year. This was introduced by Liberal politican, Sir John Lubbock. The pre-industrial revolution Wakes Week festival was incorportated into the working year by the mill owners, as a time when machines could be cleaned and overhauled. Mill workers had a week, or two weeks unpaid holiday. Each town had differing weeks off, giving rise to a summer 'season' for the Lancashire resorts. By the 1870's there was of course a reliable, regular, and relatively affordable railway service. Though the hotels that were newly opened mainly served the white collar workers. Conclusion. If someone needs everything to be viewed through party political eyes, workers lives were affected, and in some case bettered, before the foundation of the Labour party. Now don't break that poor donkey's back, when you get on him. You're a big lad now. ;) |
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On a personal note, I know as fact none of my sixteen great grandparents, all textile workers from this area, took their Wakes holidays in the new resort's hotels. Though some did have occasional days out to the coast, organised by the church Sunday schools.
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I was trying to work out when the majority of that generation of my family would be of working age. |
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