I've always been fascinated at how much stuff there is in the UK, all the actors and banks and industrial concerns and rail transit systems and political associations and overbearing police state infrastructures that have been rearing their condescendingly carnivorous heads since Peterloo. It's an intriguing place, although all I can truly say for certain is that you can get excellent cookies at Ben's in London.
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It is a wonderful microcosm, and especially in those days when there were even more of same because, for example, British-owned industry still existed. I can also recommend a succession of bakeries in Bristol (my old haunt at uni), and in London there's the Maids of Honour tea room out in Kew where it's still 1962 but only in the very, very best sort of ways.
[/QUOTE]Actual Ace Icon Ted Heath.
Ted Heath to any LGBTQIA+ readers who follow along, nodding: "I am not a role model. No, really."
[/QUOTE]Reform? In the Home Office? Funny.
Bless their hearts, the Libs mean well. Mostly.
[/QUOTE]*stares in Bethlehem Steel*
This. This is a true thing that you have said and observed here. This.
[/QUOTE]A bit of proxy warfare that might deserve more discourse in due time.
One might think, certainly...
[/QUOTE]You can't see it, but I'm presently sporting a grin wider than the M25. The only queen I'd kneel to.
Oor Bahbruh was quite a lady. Quite a lady.
[/QUOTE]And so, a Second Great Heathen Army descends upon England from the shores of the far north. This time, not of reavers and settlers fit to transform Northumbria, but of responsible long-term policy planning fit to transform incomes from old Wessex to Wolverhampton. I'd also be curious to see how this scheme might ripple out long-term. One would imagine that a certain RT host's arguments would fall flatter than they otherwise did if the North Sea was managed in a different fashion.
It's really quite a decent-sized stone to chuck in the stream and see how it ripples. Yes re: that RT host. All sorts of potential ripples here, if they can pull it off.
[/QUOTE]There are only two classes of strikers whom I'll likely never sympathize with: cops and doctors. And sometimes it's hard to tell the difference, with their pay scales. Mouths stuffed with gold indeed.
Certainly not the most telegenic examples of economic disadvantage. Barbara proceeded to lay about her with a political axe handle.
[/QUOTE]An encapsulation of Benn's career if ever there was one.
One certainly could make that argument.
To quote one of the high water marks of British political drama, "you might think that; I couldn't possibly comment."Holy shit, is this actually going to happen?
I would though like to point out that no dogs were harmed in the making of ... this chapter. And that we reach its end with the first Official McGoverning Cliffhanger! Interesting times. Or, rather, "interesting."