From: ChelseaTractorMan on
On Fri, 21 May 2010 01:08:03 -0700 (PDT), Squashme
<squashme(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Yes, of course, when our grandparents and grandparents were alive,
>very few of them ever managed to get to work.

they worked locally, didn't they?
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Mike. .. .
Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: ChelseaTractorMan on
On Fri, 21 May 2010 02:00:59 -0700 (PDT), Derek C
<del.copeland(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

>> does anybody in the 21st century actually believe that anybody in the
>> labour party or anywhere sees cars as a class issue? The whole reason
>> politicians try to discourage car use is precisely because everybody
>> has one. The idea Blair and Brown did not know that is ridiculous.
>> --
>So the (Nu) Labour Party ignored the will of the people and lost an
>election. Serves them right!

if you think the Con Dems are going to reduce car taxes and take away
safety measures you will be largely dissapointed. If you think the
election was lost on motoring policies are sadly deluded.
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Mike. .. .
Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: ChelseaTractorMan on
On Fri, 21 May 2010 01:50:02 -0700 (PDT), Derek C
<del.copeland(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

>estate agents

"second hand house salesmen" please.
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Mike. .. .
Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: ChelseaTractorMan on
On Fri, 21 May 2010 02:12:57 -0700 (PDT), Derek C
<del.copeland(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

>The bailout of the banks (especially Scottish ones) with taxpayers'
>money was probably because many Labour voters would have lost most of
>their life savings if they had gone under.

you think the banks were rescued to save labour voters savings,
incredible.
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Mike. .. .
Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: ChelseaTractorMan on
On Fri, 21 May 2010 02:38:19 -0700 (PDT), Derek C
<del.copeland(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

>I could be even more cynical and suggest that the prudent 'Saviour of
>the World' lined himself up for a cushy and highly paid job in the
>banking sector

he probably will because the financial sectors of the world realize
he was a main architect of the rescue plan that abated what could have
been a 1930 style recession and bank total collapse. My guess is the
IMF.
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Mike. .. .
Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.