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Webmaster. Does the web-site software have a "voting button" capability which you can switch on? With some of the threads going on at the moment it could be an interesting way to see how Dawlish.com compares with national polls results (e.g. a recent national opinion poll showed that only 25% were in favour of a ceremonial funeral for MT paid for by the state - I wonder how that would compare ...
A well-reasoned article
Final verse ..... Alone The rot had set. Her sun had set. And she now met her own demise. The lady hadn’t turned, she’d burned and fizzled out. Like her or loathe her, you wonder what drove her. Love her or hate her, there’s been nobody greater than Margaret Thatcher, well-practised milk-snatcher, at dividing the nation. OIP
Looks like over 470,000 people have signed the petition to get Ian Duncan Smith to live on £53 a week. Will he do it? https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/iain-duncan-smith-iain-duncan-smith-to-live-on-53-a-week?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=22096&alert_id=NgdsYnHrXj_vCdotIBKTb
Agree completely. History is being re-written through political eulogisation and if people don't speak up then that's what remains on the record.
The penultimate verse! Triumph and Tragedy Heady with the bloody scent of victory, blinded by its vanity, unmindful of humanity, she opened up her Eastern front, confronting now the people, the target of her next attack. Her poll-tax exocet was launched, warhead fully armed. The people blanched, rebelled, fought back. She had the country up in arms. The rioting could not be ...
@Brazilnut where did that come from?!
@burneside no, thousands didn't die in the conflict itself but thousands of lives were "gone" in one way or another. Fact. I don't think I said that we called the islands the Malvinas. When the Argentine invaded they proclaimed their right over the Malvinas, so the verse represents the balance of claims. When the Argentinians surrendered we then had recovered the "Malvinas" as the ...
@burneside = people died, both British and Argentinian, during the conflict and after the conflict and many were injured, some seriously and some scarred for life. That's a fact isn't it? (Note: I think the official figure of deaths during the conflict is over 900. In one single attack on the Galahad and Tristram there were also over 150 British troops injured or burned. And of course there ...
VC Remember those who die in foreign lands, who give their lives that liberty may thrive shedding blood in arid Afghan sands. Those who’ve stayed behind all understand; those shell-shocked souls who make it home alive remember those who die in foreign lands. James Ashworth had the guts to take command. He died so that his men survived, shedding blood in arid Afghan sands Sitting ...
