Sir Keir Starmer...

Danllan

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That's the way, desk jockey life while young followed by more physical work as you age. The other way round is not so good.
Ahh but he escaped and used his brain so who says he's doing the physical
work himself.:censored:
Well, I'm pushing fifty but am in good health - for the moment - and do as much as I guess anyone else does. But, sadly, it does seem that cattle hurdles are now made more heavily than they used to be and yet, paradoxically, they don't seem to last as long as they used to... :unsure:
 

manhill

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Well, I'm pushing fifty but am in good health - for the moment - and do as much as I guess anyone else does. But, sadly, it does seem that cattle hurdles are now made more heavily than they used to be and yet, paradoxically, they don't seem to last as long as they used to... :unsure:

Bring back creosote! Can't even have a good wash with coal tar soap like the old days.
 

Danllan

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Sir Gar / Carms
Bring back creosote! Can't even have a good wash with coal tar soap like the old days.
You don't have any? We still get creosoted posts and always have a 40 gallon drum of it in a shed.

I was brought up using carbolic soap with my mamgu and Dettol soap with my mother, I don't know what coal tar soap is like. I still use Dettol soap, but haven't seen carbolic soap for years, is it still made?

Edit - I just googled carbolic soap and have found that it is not only still widely available but is in fact a type of coal tar soap. :facepalm: Sometimes my own ignorance astonishes me... :banghead:
 

lloyd

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Herefordshire
Well, I'm pushing fifty but am in good health - for the moment - and do as much as I guess anyone else does. But, sadly, it does seem that cattle hurdles are now made more heavily than they used to be and yet, paradoxically, they don't seem to last as long as they used to... :unsure:

You do realise unless your pushing 90 you wont get any
sympathy off farmers. ?
 

PSQ

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Arable Farmer
Back to Keir Starmer. The Labour hard left hate him with a passion. Which means he's alright by me ?

In terms of capability, Starmer is leagues ahead of the whinging brat he replaced. He's not perfect, he still has to 'suck up' to the NEC and the unions, but he'll do a cracking job as an opposition leader in keeping the Tories honest [as if... ?] and if he should win the 'red wall' back, he should be moderate enough to not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

The linked article above, the hard left threatening to take their ball away, that could be a game changer freeing the centre left from the infighting and "circular firing squads" that always dog Labour.
 
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manhill

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You don't have any? We still get creosoted posts and always have a 40 gallon drum of it in a shed.

I was brought up using carbolic soap with my mamgu and Dettol soap with my mother, I don't know what coal tar soap is like. I still use Dettol soap, but haven't seen carbolic soap for years, is it still made?

Edit - I just googled carbolic soap and have found that it is not only still widely available but is in fact a type of coal tar soap. :facepalm: Sometimes my own ignorance astonishes me... :banghead:

Wrights coal tar soap had to have the coal tar removed (EU). Smells the same though.
 

Swarfmonkey

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Several of the unions already own him, going by what's on the Register of Member's Interests. Pretty big donations to his leadership campaign from the likes of Unison and USDAW.

What will they want in return, I wonder.
 

PSQ

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Arable Farmer
@PSQ

Several of the unions already own him, going by what's on the Register of Member's Interests. Pretty big donations to his leadership campaign from the likes of Unison and USDAW.

What will they want in return, I wonder.

Starmers donations from Unison amount to about £20,000 worth of "printing of leaflets and posters" and "room hire", and USDAW gave him £25,000. That money buys them favour with Mr Starmer, and helped them get the 'best of the bunch' Labour prospect for Prime Minister.
One of his Barrister friends chipped in £105,000 to his fund.

Whereas Momentum donated £85,000 to RLB's campaign, ?⬇?.
 

Danllan

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Sir Gar / Carms
Well, he isn't going to try and regain the Northern voters that JC lost, Islington continued... nuff said. :ROFLMAO:

 

PSQ

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Arable Farmer
Between Momentum, the CWU, and Unite hundreds of thousands of pounds were chucked at the Continuity Corbyn candidate. They might as well have saved themselves the bother and just burnt it instead.
You could think of it as 'socialism in action': the redistribution of capital from hideously wealthy organisations (Momentum and the unions) to the (capitalist) 'proletariat' who did the printing, distribution and promotional work ?

Or, it might have been advantageous to Momentum and the Unions to loose some money before the end of the financial year, or in other words a good old fashioned capitalist 'tax avoidance' measure. Which makes me ponder the Labour pledge to remove charitable status from private schools; shouldn't the Unions be hung with the same rope and loose charitable status (if they have it) too? ?
 

Swarfmonkey

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Hampshire
I thought the normal way for a Trade Union to lose money for a while was to lend it's leader a huge amount of money to buy a very nice flat in London? *cough* Len McCluskey *cough*.
 

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