Tony Blair..good bloke

Mancie · 06-03-2007, 21:12

Just caught the end of a programme on BBC2 about what sort of Prime Minister he has been... apart from Iraq, he's not been to bad eh?

West Ender · 06-03-2007, 21:19

Tell that to my 24,999 hard-working, underpaid Civil Service colleagues who are to lose their jobs within the next 5 years. It's not just their loss - it's yours too.

Mancie · 06-03-2007, 21:41

Ok.. apart from Iraq and Civil Service job cuts.. not too bad... better than having 3 million unemployed and people working for 50p an hour, I worked in the Civil Service when John Major was in power and my job was privatised!

lancsdave · 06-03-2007, 22:04

I think you need some better bait on your fishing line Mancie

Mancie · 06-03-2007, 22:07

Yep.. your right lancsdave...ummmmm let me think

accymel · 06-03-2007, 22:17

< Tony Blair ...good bloke... >

You are 'aving a laff!!!!!!!!...... errrrr no not really

couldnt run a pee up in a brewery without spilling beer all over place like he done with this country!!

grannyclaret · 06-03-2007, 22:31

well i liked him... better than maggie thatcher

Mancie · 06-03-2007, 22:31

Like I said accymel it could have been (and was) worse...Maggie Thatch and John Major did a kak job..massive riots and strikes, 3 million on the dole..Ah the good old days!

cashman · 06-03-2007, 22:31

got to agree mancie, apart from the holocost Hitler wern,t to bad either.

entwisi · 07-03-2007, 07:29

isn't there more Civil servants now than there has ever been though west ender? Perhaps its just coming down to a sensible level. with regard to underpaid, there was an article recently that looked at teh whole package including pensions etc and found that public sector was way ahead of those whe worked in teh private sector.

CusCus · 07-03-2007, 07:56

threats to cut civil service jobs is mainly gallery-politics.

In fact the state employs over 20% of the working population and the numbers of people employed by the government has risen consistently since 1997.

These jobs are of course paid for by the rest of us who do not have the same entitlements to final salary pensions, long holidays and so on.

The civil service is a gravy train for idlers who could not hack it out in the real world, no surprise they cry so much at the thought of having to work like the rest of us.

Goverment employees, on average, have better pay and conditions than the private sector, except in that there London .

CusCus · 07-03-2007, 08:01

No Tony is not a good bloke.

The tax man is srcewing us more than ever before

and the government is borrowing more than ever before (hence our mortgages cost more than most other parts of the developed world)

and still the tit is spending more and more without any sort of control over how it's spent (you a doctor? have 250,000 a year!!!!!) than has been raised in tax and borrowed.

storing up trouble for the future.

garinda · 07-03-2007, 11:02

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Originally Posted by grannyclaret

well i liked him... better than maggie thatcher

I'm with you Granny C.

grego · 07-03-2007, 11:34

Although he better than Maggie, I dont think he's that great he would benefit from a backbone!

Wynonie Harris · 07-03-2007, 13:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mancie

Like I said accymel it could have been (and was) worse...Maggie Thatch and John Major did a kak job..massive riots and strikes, 3 million on the dole..Ah the good old days!

That's right, Mancie, let's ignore Blair's many shortcomings and talk about what happened 20 years ago. Nowt like living in the past, is there?