disgrace.
Re: By God, this is the last straw!
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GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.
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Re: By God, this is the last straw!
In fact I am so
I am fuming, bad times ahead.
Last edited by Ser Clegane; 12-16-2008 at 17:43. Reason: make daisies not f-bombs
GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.
Jean Paul Sartre - No Exit 1944
Re: By God, this is the last straw!
Another brilliant analysis of privatization.Originally Posted by JAG
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
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Re: By God, this is the last straw!
It's not a proper sale - the government takes all responsibility for the pension deficit - running at £7 BILLION and then sells off part of the rest for something to look good on the balance sheet.
I'm sure it's not the most efficient service, and IMO if it is to be privitised it should be done as BT was with strict rules to ensure no loss of service (although in BT's case their phone boxes are fnally being reduced) - the company makes savings from efficiency and not just from loosing the debt burden / ruining services.
An enemy that wishes to die for their country is the best sort to face - you both have the same aim in mind.
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Indeed, that sounds pretty short-sighted to me. If fixed rates, 'universal' collection and delivery, and citizen/customer/taxpayer input are all seen as desireable, a gov't-run (or semi-gov't-run, as is the US) would seem desireable, even with the inevitable shortcomings of gov't enterprise.
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Ha!
Labour will be squirming under this kind of pressure, Mandey's attempt to "reassure" backbenchers will hopefully fail and have him cowering behind the PM, who is fast looking like Swiss cheese!
If this does not end Labour then the next revolt surely will, I hope Brown backs down over this. I expect a stand down will have to wait.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle5361526.ece
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Because of the various things that have happened Brown cannot get things through in the same way Blair could, this is mostly good in terms of individual policys but bad looking at a long term view of it, this can only make labour look bad and make a tory victory more likely... lose lose...
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Perhaps the Liberals could win by playing one off agin the other?
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