Post by johnofgwent on Sept 13, 2024 12:19:37 GMT
In 1973 a lifelong Tory and nuclear engineer instinctively acted to launch Margaret Thatcher's political career but probably didn't realise it at the time
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32830379
A family on holiday in the Scilly Isles noticed an empty rubber dinghy scouting across the waves near a harbour in one of the larger islands.
The father of the children who first noticed the boat then thought he'd heard a cry for help.
Off he went in a rowing boat from the harbour and some time later returned to short with a very cold, very wet, and very near the point of death ex prime minister. Harold Wilson was the owner of the rubber boat and he misjudged the transfer to his motor boat moored offshore. He fell in the cold water and was very quickly in trouble.
This chap arrived pretty much in the nick of time to save him from a miserable end, although his press secretary apparently tried to make light of the situation several times, possibly at the expense of smearing the character of Wilson's rescuer
But here's the thing
Knowing as I do as a former professional diver permitted to give instruction and training to all but the utterly untrained, that the UK has no 'good Samaritan'laws like France, so unless you have paid for my services I owe you NO duty of care whatsoever and can watch you drown with impunity ...
Would you, knowing Starmer said cutting the winter fuel payment would condemn many to death when it was a Tory lan, but seems keen to do it now...
If you found Starmer in the same predicament...
Would YOU haul him out, or leave him to hypothermia ??
I know what I'd do. And it applies to almost every one of the 650 worthless scum in SW1A and the entire contingent of Cardiff Bay's shit pit.
I'd make sure they knew I'd seen them
Then I'd turn round and go and have a pint, or a coffee, and leave them to their fate.
And I think it is important they know I hate them that much I'd cheer from the harbour as they sunk under the waves
Ok I admit I ought perhaps to raise the alarm with the authorities
So if I found a post office I'd buy a postcard and a second class stamp.
Oh yeah. The thatcher connection
Quizzed on this many years later Healey admitted Wilson's demise in the sea would have been an interesting Kickstarter. Wilson went on to win the next election, faced a leadership challenge that saw Sunny Jim Callaghan screw the country and see no crisis, which of course paved the way for thatchers first term.
In the absence of Wilson in 1974 how might things have panned out ??
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32830379
A family on holiday in the Scilly Isles noticed an empty rubber dinghy scouting across the waves near a harbour in one of the larger islands.
The father of the children who first noticed the boat then thought he'd heard a cry for help.
Off he went in a rowing boat from the harbour and some time later returned to short with a very cold, very wet, and very near the point of death ex prime minister. Harold Wilson was the owner of the rubber boat and he misjudged the transfer to his motor boat moored offshore. He fell in the cold water and was very quickly in trouble.
This chap arrived pretty much in the nick of time to save him from a miserable end, although his press secretary apparently tried to make light of the situation several times, possibly at the expense of smearing the character of Wilson's rescuer
But here's the thing
Knowing as I do as a former professional diver permitted to give instruction and training to all but the utterly untrained, that the UK has no 'good Samaritan'laws like France, so unless you have paid for my services I owe you NO duty of care whatsoever and can watch you drown with impunity ...
Would you, knowing Starmer said cutting the winter fuel payment would condemn many to death when it was a Tory lan, but seems keen to do it now...
If you found Starmer in the same predicament...
Would YOU haul him out, or leave him to hypothermia ??
I know what I'd do. And it applies to almost every one of the 650 worthless scum in SW1A and the entire contingent of Cardiff Bay's shit pit.
I'd make sure they knew I'd seen them
Then I'd turn round and go and have a pint, or a coffee, and leave them to their fate.
And I think it is important they know I hate them that much I'd cheer from the harbour as they sunk under the waves
Ok I admit I ought perhaps to raise the alarm with the authorities
So if I found a post office I'd buy a postcard and a second class stamp.
Oh yeah. The thatcher connection
Quizzed on this many years later Healey admitted Wilson's demise in the sea would have been an interesting Kickstarter. Wilson went on to win the next election, faced a leadership challenge that saw Sunny Jim Callaghan screw the country and see no crisis, which of course paved the way for thatchers first term.
In the absence of Wilson in 1974 how might things have panned out ??
