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Socialism is like sex.
Sounds like a great idea but usually ends up being very messy and you can end up paying the cost of it for many years.
It doesn’t matter who the Labour leader is – the party is, thankfully, unelectable.
Whoever the leader is is not relevant – it’s their fundamental principles and beliefs that are flawed and most people see that.
The only reason Bliar did so well is he and his policies were not, traditional Labour policies and his slick PR skills showed the value of appearance over substance.
Corbyn shone a light on the true colours of Labour and for me it was a sad day when he lost the leadership.
The party lives in the past, moreso when it bangs on about it’s “working class” roots which is a ridiculous concept in the 21st century.
The trouble is the party needs people to be in poverty and repressed because that’s its raison d’être for existence – therefore it has no interest in people bettering themselves, it is more interested in dragging people down to the lowest common denominator.
The party is pure evil.
Ha ha, I’ve reached the stage in life where nothing offends me – when people spout BS I just ignore them.
I’ve also reached the stage in life where if something I say offends anyone, the problem is theirs, not mine.
Curmudgeons of the world unite
Ian – I suspect the “pull your head out of the sand” comment was directed at me rather than you.
Ian, I agree about Eddie’s dry sense of humour, the only drier sense of humour in the press room would have been Barty.
Eddie certainly knows his stuff but equally not one to blow his own trumpet, if it wasn’t for his height he wouldn’t stand out anywhere and that’s probably the way he would want it.
Ian ….. I think she prefers galloping gobs
Apparently this Megan (sic) woman is some publicity shy, American c-list actress who had a hissy fit when she married a Prince and then discovered it wouldn’t mean she became a Princess.
She’s apparently under the impression that everything that goes against her is because she is of mixed race, whereas most people who are against her are so because there see her for what she is – a gold digger.
However despite the initial setbacks she will end up well sorted as her share of the inevitable divorce, once the Ginger one has served his purpose, should see her financially set up for life, a couple of sprogs will help boost the settlement.
Interestingly her first husband was quickly ditched once he was no longer able to further her career.
In my day they used to be called turf accounts ….. now they’re just run by no risk general accountants
Glad to hear ITV were using Ken …. he’s a very good paddock observer, one of the best
Didn’t get you discounts into Warwickshire cricket matches and Hall Green dogs as well?
You did, although I think quite a few courses seem to offer cricket benefits as well.
Ffos Las is part of the ARC group – Thirsk is an independent!!!!!!
Maybe British racecourses might like to consider if their ridiculous admission prices might have something to do with low attendances!
You’ve hit the nail on the head there CAS.
In the old days, when I was just a regular punter and had to pay to go racing, my strategy was to buy a couple of annual memberships but the criteria for choosing which ones to buy was the number of “reciprocal” meetings available as part of the membership.
Buying Warwick and Huntingdon memberships gave reciprocals covering most UK and some Irish courses. It certainly made racing more affordable.
Cymro, if I recall correctly the convoluted “official” directions to Ffos Las are a deliberate ploy to reduce traffic through Trimsaran – not that I ever followed the official signs – I always used the route you suggested.
The trouble with Ffos Las is, unless you are a local it is a bugger to get to – like Fakenham it always seems to take ages to get there. Most of my visits there coincided with trips to Ireland so it was a stop off on the way to / from Fishguard.
Thanks Jac and Seaing Stars,
To be honest almost any other ambulance crew would do the same and it helps that even control, who obviously want us to do as many jobs as possible, cut us a lot of slack with those sort of jobs and leave us to get on with it without hassling us. Obviously if a patient wanted a 120 mile trip to the seaside we would be pushing our luck but provided it was reasonable we had no issues.
Normally if we spent more than 45 mins at a job they would radio us with a “welfare check” ostensibly to check we were OK but in reality to find out why we were taking so long.
Interesting to see the Wolverhampton Monday afternoon numbers were still averaging the 340 mark – we used to joke we could be on first name terms with all the punters at Wolves on a Monday afternoon.
Wolves was always a schizophrenic course for me ….. Monday afternoons used to be a lively as a morgue yet the Saturday evening meetings used to have an amazing atmosphere.
I always take attendance figures with a massive pinch of salt …… having spent some afternoons and evenings working in control rooms at football / rugby stadia I know for a fact the published “attendance” figures are always higher than the real figures, sometimes by a couple of thousand. One reason is all season ticket holders are included in the figures, whether they actually attend the game or not, even the number of staff working on site is included in the figures. I had to give the number of ambulance crews / first aiders at each game and they were included in the numbers …. maybe technically correct but still ambiguous when you consider the number of catering / security staff on site at larger stadia.
A very moving story.
It would have been special and emotional for the ambulance crew as well.
I remember another Australian case where a patient was being taken to a hospice for their final days and the patient wanted to go to the beach one last time, so they took him to the beach and he spent an hour on the promenade, with his family, watching the world go by.
I’ve only done two “final transfers” and both times we asked if they wanted to go anywhere on the way.
One didn’t want to go anywhere but she said she wouldn’t mind some heavy rock music playing but said she realised it probably wasn’t possible.
Nothing’s impossible if you really want it, so we found an online rock radio station and linked our phone to the cab radio with bluetooth and drove to the hospice with the music playing full blast, the ambulance was rocking literally and she got a full concert as it was a 45 minute journey. Bless her as well, when we got there she insisted she was going to walk in and not go in on the stretcher, we tried to persuade her otherwise but she was adamant and she walked in with us both holding a hand each, much to the disgust of the receiving sister but the patient told her not to blame us as she had insisted.
Despite our smiles throughout out time with her, once we were back in the cab there were two grown men with tears running down their cheeks ……. she was only in her early forties, with three children.
The other wanted a last drive in the country, so we sat them up, opened the blinds and took a “pretty route” to the hospice.
It was a privilege to take patients on their final trips and not something we normally got to do as “front line” crews – so it was really special when we did get such transfers.
Remember the days there used to be a dozen meetings on a Bank Holiday Monday, with an average field size of 4 or 5 runners at many of them.
Similar to you Ian
The only drama I’ve seen recently was the Van Der Valk reboot as I really enjoyed the original. I only initially watched out of curiosity, expecting to turn off after 10 minutes but actually found it to be quite gripping, although nothing like the original.
My TV watching tends to be documentaries, news and limited sport.
I refuse to pay for any streaming services, although having recently switched internet providers I now have one years free Apple TV+ which I took advantage of to watch Long Way Up and have now been catching up and revisiting Long Way Down and Long Way Round.
I have access to Amazon Prime but only because I use the fast delivery a lot but generally only watch it when they show rugby, but will watch the occasional Grand Tour special if my brain needs something simple and easy to digest.
95% of my sports viewing now is Rugby Union, I watch four or five games most weekends (can’t wait for stadia to re-open so I can watch some real live action). I have barely watched any racing since ITV took over. I think Arc weekend was the last time I watched and even then I turned it off before the big race because of the gobshite Chapman was winding me up so much.
Mrs O likes things like Downton Abbey and Call The Midwife but I’ll just leave her to watch that stuff on her own.
