From: Phineas T Puddleduck on
In article <45699A20.50447C1D(a)hotmail.com>,
Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> And of course politicians too.
>
> The classic one here is blaming the other party for the shortcomings of the
> NHS
> as if they all hadn't played their part in it. It gets very shallow very
> quickly.

Its also common to see an opposition attacking the party in government
for pushing change "A" when the opposition made it part of the election
manifesto/were about to do it themselves.

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From: unsettled on
Phineas T Puddleduck wrote:

> In article <ekc2lv$8ss_003(a)s963.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>
>
>>In article <phineaspuddleduck-6E5882.14501825112006(a)free.teranews.com>,
>> Phineas T Puddleduck <phineaspuddleduck(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>In article <ek9kq1$8qk_003(a)s1007.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I wish you hadn't snipped what "this" referred to.
>>>>
>>>>/BAH
>>>
>>>Brevity.
>>>
>>
>>Some posters do it for slyness.
>>
>>/BAH
>
>
> I don't believe in reading ten ton of prelude to get to the point.. Plus
> I have a cap on my usenet.


Not set low enough.....

From: Phineas T Puddleduck on
In article <ekc3qu$8ss_007(a)s963.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>,
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> There is something more important here. He cannot conceive
> of a medical distriubtion system that isn't completely
> controlled by the national government. This means that
> he doesn't require chocies and is willing to allow a few
> politicians make all this decisions for him. This means
> that when his politicians do screw him, he has no means
> to save himself.

Our Health Service is NOT completely controlled by Govt. Funded by not
equal to controlled by. Are contractors controlled by their funders?

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From: Phineas T Puddleduck on
In article <ydWdnRXxfrDqB_TYnZ2dnUVZ8tidnZ2d(a)pipex.net>,
"T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:

> Sadly, the time was ideal for her to prosper and then by a miracle enough
> people seem to have a blinkered opinion of the period that the other "bad"
> things seem to have been brushed over.
>
> Her economic policies caused all manner of turmoil and took the best part of
> a decade to ty and rectify, yet now people seem to have some weird flashback
> about how great things were.

I remember the miners strikes vividly due to the utter turmoil they
caused in the communities here.

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From: Phineas T Puddleduck on
In article <oa5jm2p1ot7fseogrnu0kke1jhnak6ob0b(a)4ax.com>,
John Fields <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote:

> We've had almost 250 years of self-determination since we declared
> ourselves independent, while you still have a queen. A figurehead,
> of course, but still...

The only difference is you choose your head of state, ours is born. They
have a veto which has never been used, because they know it will bring
on a republic. As a result, its a non-seqiteur.

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