From: Phineas T Puddleduck on 26 Nov 2006 08:53 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. -- Just \int_0^\infty du it! -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
From: unsettled on 26 Nov 2006 08:53 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 26 Nov 2006 08:55 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? -- Just \int_0^\infty du it! -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
From: Phineas T Puddleduck on 26 Nov 2006 08:56 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. -- Just \int_0^\infty du it! -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
From: Phineas T Puddleduck on 26 Nov 2006 08:57
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. -- Just \int_0^\infty du it! -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |