Recent content by Yorkieguy

I did think about it before I posted it. No, I'm not ashamed, but Angela Rayner should be And no - it isn't sexist - I'd have made the same comment had it been a male substituting 'boy' for 'girl'. All of the epithets that you ascribe to me are those which apply to Angela Rayner for her...

The point I was trying to make, but seemingly failing, is that no-one is entitled to ‘summat for nowt’. Rather too many people (it seems to me), seem to wholly blame their predicament on the state, taking no personal responsibility to try to lift themselves above their station in life. They are...

Like the would-be shadow Deputy Prime Minister using the term 'Tory Scum' then expecting Tory voters (including former life-long Labour Voters who switched at the last election), to vote Labour in the General Election. (You can take the girl out of the gutter, but you can't always take the...

He'd fit seamlessly into this thread. :)

When it comes to 'plutocrats' and people earning high salaries for doing ‘non-jobs’ it would be hard to beat (mostly) Labour run Councils who invariably blame any deficits in services or finances on ‘Tory Cuts’. That doesn’t stand close examination. Take Lambeth Council: It has debts of £1...

Of course not - I didn't say or infer that. You said after WW2 'the economy was booming'. It very clearly wasn't, and I made the point that the country was bankrupt and spending money that it didn't have, rather than creating wealth to help fund such activities by productive revenue-earning...

Labour have said they wish to impose VAT of private school fees. That will probably make some less well-off parents not send their children to private schools, so they won't be paying VAT on fees that they won't be paying. Instead, their children will be being educated in a state schools at...

I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion. It's true that 'activity' was booming, and there was pretty much full employment, but it was all on borrowed money. Economically at the end of WW2, Britain was bankrupt, but there were totally unrealistic sky-high expectations that it would...

Until the late 1800s, only landowners had the right to vote. After the Third Reform Act in 1884, 60% of male householders over the age of 21 had the vote. This left 40% who did not – including the poorest in society. Thus millions of soldiers returning from World War I would still not have been...

Not just 'common practice', but required by the Highway Code, Rule 252: "If you park on a hill you should: park close to the kerb and apply the handbrake firmly. select a forward gear and turn your steering wheel away from the kerb when facing uphill. select reverse gear and turn your steering...