Comments on: Back to the 1970s with William Hague

By: Jimmy Glesga

Jimmy Glesga — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:59:35 +0000

SueR. Obviously I am not dead yet in my patch. You should go back to the seventies Sue and dream of the fifties while the rest of us move on you old slapper.

By: Bill Corr

Bill Corr — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:10:29 +0000

Dunno about the bald Yorkie being on another planet when starts going on about Trade Union Power, O KevB.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/rachel_sylvester/article7054580.ece

He might be right, after all.

The union trying to destroy dear old BA is Labour’s paymaster.

Don’t get me started on the subject of Lord Ashcroft of Belize or the Libyan money that found its way to the HealyTrots and the IRA.

By: KevB

KevB — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:04:42 +0000

“Trade Union power”,”Left-Wing Labour” – what f***ing planet is Hague living on? He’s having a laugh – isn’t he?

By: Bill Corr

Bill Corr — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:44:44 +0000

There’s ONE enormous big difference between the seventies and now, of course.

Communism as a living political force is one with the teachings of Madame Blavatsky and the cause of bimetallism, except for the
unswerving loyalists over on SOCIALIST UNITY.

As an issue, Communism might be dead but something far nastier from the archaic past has slid under the crypt door into the sunlight and refuses to go away:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/mar/11/muslims-know-value-democratic-engagement

One never expected to say it but one genuinely misses the Brezhnev Doctrine …

By: Sue R

Sue R — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:10:46 +0000

Is Jimmy Glesga a ghost writer? He says that he wanted to be buried in his rhubarb patch, which means he must be dead. Explains a lot. I wish we could go back to the 1970′s to a time when my bones didn’t creak and my eyesight and hearing were still razor sharp, but as it hasn’t happened, I must assume that we have not fallen through a timewarp.

Jimmy the Hack: From what you have said in the past, I don’t think you were alive in the 1970s, certainly not in a position to be politically conscious, so you are talking shite. it was teh shopfloor militancy of the 1970s that led Labour to hobble the labour movement.

By: Jimmy Glesga

Jimmy Glesga — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:43:23 +0000

Les Abbey. You are right about the bankers and the old Labour cronies. The militancy as you suggest did not exist. A few strikes here and there do not ammount to revolution. As from the from the shop floor up you are wishfull thinking.

By: Les Abbey

Les Abbey — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:50:22 +0000

Those of us ancients who actually remember the picket lines…

Some of us do remember, obviously better than Bill Corr, when the government was trying to hold wages below inflation as they kowtowed to the international bankers. The militancy was led from the shop floor, not from the top down, and this went against the grain of the then Labour leadership. The fault lay with Callaghan, Healey and Foot.

By: Jimmy Glesga

Jimmy Glesga — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:52:27 +0000

paul fauvet. Not much change paul. The Tories are still with us. The Africans are still slaughtering each other and the US have been doing military exchanges with Vietnam for over a decade. And it goes on and on.

By: Jimmy Glesga

Jimmy Glesga — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:35:50 +0000

Boilermaker. The unburied dead was a cracker of publicity for the Tories. Not that the Tories give a fuck for the dead but it does appeal to the public most of whom did not know the dead. The Tories managed to get away with not caring about the living.
Humans are fickle. I wanted to get buried in my rhubarb patch which is legal but apparantly it is difficult for the house to be sold because of superstition.

By: modernity

modernity — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:16:04 +0000

The 1970s were damn interesting time and naturally the Tories are using a Daily Mail Kaleidoscope to look back in time.

The rubbish collection issue and non-burial of the dead, were, as I remember, fairly minor instances and then only temporary.

The British Left was a lot better in the 1970s, there was still an active antifascist, antiracist movement. The NF were kept in their place, and often intimidated off the streets.

There was still plenty of feminists around, and that had quite an effect on male socialists, bringing home the reality of the women’s existence

Big Flame was a good read as well

Oh, not forgetting the equal pay disputes!

And in the 1970s, William Hague was even more annoying as a spotty young youth.

Who can forget Grunwicks? and Mrs. Desai?