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Post by patman post on Mar 11, 2023 19:21:14 GMT
All credit to you if you made good. It’s not a life or area that appealed to me. But I guess, having grown to adult hood in the military not having any other choice, you’ve no alternative to judge your subsequent life against.
Me? I’ve never had to enter or face violence on behalf of anyone else but myself and mine, so all my opinions are arrived at from the comfort of North London and the East End. The history of the area assails me from many sides and badly treated cultures…
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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 11, 2023 20:39:05 GMT
All credit to you if you made good. It’s not a life or area that appealed to me. But I guess, having grown to adult hood in the military not having any other choice, you’ve no alternative to judge your subsequent life against. Me? I’ve never had to enter or face violence on behalf of anyone else but myself and mine, so all my opinions are arrived at from the comfort of North London and the East End. The history of the area assails me from many sides and badly treated cultures… Whether I made good or not is debatable I suppose. Carty seemed to think a 22 year Sgt wasn't very good (He was a Major) and I know what he means, very few of the lads I joined up with in 1977 were still in after 22 years, and the very few who were all did better than me and I don't mind that, regrets are pointless. I had a great time. I know it's very cliche to say this but it's true, they were the best days (even the bad days and there were a few, but only a few) of my life, and I wouldn't change a thing. And I'll tell you something else, in my day no one was black brown or white. We were all green. |
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Post by bancroft on Mar 14, 2023 19:33:43 GMT
My old man grew up in a Corporation of London flat and now owns his own house with the mortgage paid. Progress of sort I guess.
He wasn't keen on me and my brother going to university though and maybe that has held us back.
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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 14, 2023 23:14:04 GMT
My old man grew up in a Corporation of London flat and now owns his own house with the mortgage paid. Progress of sort I guess. He wasn't keen on me and my brother going to university though and maybe that has held us back. What is a Corporation of London flat? If your dad lives lives rent and mortgage free he is in my opinion successful, he has succeeded. Surely owning your own home is an indication of success. I sense I may be missing the point. As for university, Christ I failed the 11+, so Grammar & University weren't even on the horizon for me. Did that have an adverse affect on my life? Not as far as I can tell, we live debt free and I could afford to retire early. Going back to University for a moment. It seems to me that kids today are encouraged to think university is a right of passage regardless of ability, whereas in my day only the brightest kids went to university and I absolutely agree with that. I'm not suggesting you're not bright btw. I have four kids, well they're not kids now. Two boys two girls. Both girls went to University, the boys did college followed by apprenticeships and I'm pleased to say that in spite of the crap start in life I gave them, they are all doing well. |
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Post by bancroft on Mar 15, 2023 11:50:02 GMT
@red The corporation of London flat is probably now a Lambeth council flat.
He decided in late 70s to move to a bigger house and paid 14k for a three bedroomed house with a garden with a rear entrance.
It was the most run-down house on the street and he worked night shift to pay for it and worked on it in his free time.
Four years later Mum went back to office work as she wanted to go on holidays and not just to Devon. Within five years she was earning more than he was doing night shift.
Sold it for about £450k ten years ago and he moved with Mum to a bungalow as Mum's health was deteriorating.
With the move we went to a slightly better school, funnily enough I wanted to go in the army yet one injury too many in mid-teens so I did A-levels and then went into Banking as old man didn't want us going to uni. Funny really he got us into a better area yet wanted us to get jobs early on.
Neither of us now have our own places and are renting in our early 50's.
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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Apr 19, 2023 19:01:05 GMT
Back in the 90s Portillo said that the rich should not have to pay taxes to support the poor. The poor should be suppported by charitable contributions from the rich. His logic seemed to be that the rich are more likely to provide support to those who really deserve/need it than governments do with state-funded benefits. The then New Zealand Conservative government actually tried to implement such a system. State benefits were, at stroke, drastically reduced.
In the 1992 election Portillo won his seat by 15,563 votes. In the run up to the 1997 election he was being considered as a candidate for Prime Minister if the Conservatives won the election ... he lost his seat by 1,433 votes. The announcement of this loss went down in history as "The Portillo Moment".
Portillo had also proposed that plain clothes inspectors should hang around outside Job Centres when people sign on and challenge people who had just signed-on to prove that they were actively seeking work. If they couldn't satisfy the inspectors that they were their benefits should be immediately stopped. The idea was that as they left the Job Centre they would be approached in the street and told that they had to go back and be interviewed.
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Post by johnofgwent on Apr 22, 2023 15:51:09 GMT
Wasn’t Portillo one of Thatcher’s minor vegetables….? As secretary of state to the Treasury he had the delightful task of explaining that his lord and master Norman The Eyebrows Lamont did not actually mean, when he said in his budget speech that defence prime contractors were to be required to pay subcontractor invoices in 30 days, that they were in reality required to do so where ‘custom snd practice’ was to do otherwise. Prick (I still have his letter telling me this. I wrote to my MP the day after Lamont’s speech asking how they proposed to force Ferranti who now owed me for more than 135 days to pay up those and adhere to the new promises … |
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Post by bancroft on Apr 22, 2023 20:03:51 GMT
Portillo had also proposed that plain clothes inspectors should hang around outside Job Centres when people sign on and challenge people who had just signed-on to prove that they were actively seeking work. If they couldn't satisfy the inspectors that they were their benefits should be immediately stopped. The idea was that as they left the Job Centre they would be approached in the street and told that they had to go back and be interviewed. If he tried that these days he might be in trouble loads are moaning about things going on and are angry about it from outsourcing of jobs too subsidised housing being taken by drug gangs. They are also angry about positive discrimination used against the English. |
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Post by distant on Jul 12, 2023 7:20:29 GMT
I haven't seen any of those boring TV programmes, which purport to be about train journeys, in the BBC TV listings over the last few days.
Just saying.
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