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[Rita_Poon]

pm pension, 45 days in the job.

scorching.

 

[Old Blue 2]

It wasn't reference to your good self.

What were you doing going on stage at half ten in the bad old days?

Gigging with my rock band in the night clubs of Liverpool from the late '60s onwards (including the original Cavern).

Here's a photo taken at the Babalou in November '71. I'm the guitarist on the left.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Gigging with my rock band in the night clubs of Liverpool from the late '60s onwards (including the original Cavern).

Here's a photo taken at the Babalou in November '71. I'm the guitarist on the left.
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Very nice, what halcyon days they were. I was being a little clever but it backfired. More often the case.
Couple of lookers in there though, wonder where they are now...

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Again Bruce, I'm not going to repeat the above, but your argument seems to be statutory bodies can't think long term. I'm not sure this really bears out. Singapore who have a lot of state involvement take long term decisions. So have Saudi. So have the Norwegian Wealth fund. So too does the Chinese state. They all take longer term decisions.

I didn't say that they couldn't, merely that we can't assume that they will just because they're the government. We see with much of the Tories behaviour a lack of long term planning.

 

[Old Blue 2]

Very nice, what halcyon days they were. I was being a little clever but it backfired. More often the case.
Couple of lookers in there though, wonder where they are now...

And playing a reunion gig at the new Cavern in November 2006.

Splinter's roadie was a car mechanic, and he made the name plate in front of the drum kit. He promised it to me when the band split, so it now hangs on the wall of my study.

Paul McCartney played on that stage in 1999 when he played at the Cavern. I'm standing (left) where Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd) stood at that gig...

 

[davek]

The Tories were in power when the Grenfell fire happened. Once again you’ve shown yourself as an awful person that will use anything to get your silly little points across. Just like your horrible post on the Southport thread, this is not something to try and win points on.

Why are you fuming all the time?

Speak to us. We can help.

 

[Rita_Poon]

 

[Wizard]

Why are you fuming all the time?

Speak to us. We can help.

I’m not fuming all the time. Just find it pretty disgusting that you keep on using tragedies to further your weird agendas when they are completely unrelated.

 

[StDomingosGringo]

That pension figure for Spain can't be right, surely. That figure's way above the average national salary. Way, way above.

Very dodgy. They used a very limited early redundancy pension scheme for Spanish coal miners as their figure.

Bloody unions getting good deals for pensioners. Pete’s going to have an existential crisis.

 

[catcherintherye]

I didn't say that they couldn't, merely that we can't assume that they will just because they're the government. We see with much of the Tories behaviour a lack of long term planning.

Yes very true.

I'm on the fence with this stuff, but like I think it's easier for public sector bodies to do longer term plans. I think it's harder for them to innovate, as there's often too much consensus. The market is better at that.

But having worked in both, many of the same traits that say Smith/Ricardo would say about the state, are also true of big companies now. That's just how capitalism has developed.

 

[catcherintherye]

…or those who spent all their lives working, paying taxes, and are now pensioners…..

Some have. They are currently not working though. I can barely afford heating myself, working a couple of jobs, but I'm taxed and expected to pay for a millionaire pensioner extra money so they can put the heating on. I can see why people wonder why that's a fair system.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Special K gone and done it now, alt right in meltdown.

 

[davek]

Labour’s decision to cut winter fuel payments is mean and politically inept | Larry Elliott

Means-testing will hit up to 2 million people. Rachel Reeves would be wise to admit she was wrong, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott

www.theguardian.com

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Labour pushing on with the removal of hereditary peers from the House of Lords which means, beginning of the end of heredity head of state.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ans-to-remove-all-hereditary-peers-from-lords

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Labour’s decision to cut winter fuel payments is mean and politically inept | Larry Elliott

Means-testing will hit up to 2 million people. Rachel Reeves would be wise to admit she was wrong, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott

www.theguardian.com

Larry Elliot, kin Brexiteer that one. Brexit is the elephant in economic room too.


Edit, At 68 has vested interest id say.