Archived UK newspaper page from October 1979. Does the rhetoric sound strangely familiar? Click to enlarge by the way. Enjoy.
What Politicians Say (1979)
Chocolate Protectionism
I’m no great defender of Brit chocolate as the pinnacle of the confectionery art (especially as Cadbury were bought a while back by Kraft) but this sounds like good old fashioned protectionism albeit of the chocolate variety. I suppose an exclusive deal is an exclusive deal but this is a little hard on Brits abroad looking for a small taste of home.
Judgin’ In The UK
“I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin’. I never had it, so I’d had it, as far as being a judge was concerned… I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal”.
Peter Cook
An Endless Economic Crisis
Interesting comments from shopkeepers in Rome in this news story. Worrying how the feeling that politicians and politics are disconnected from reality is increasing globally. Easy to say it’s time for a new politics but if politics isn’t seen as an answer then all kinds of dangerous alternatives might seem attractive and fill the vacuum. It’s a great shame that people themselves feel powerless.
Proactive Pop
The Beeb has a heartwarming story about a Sunderland band who decided to set up a record shop because there was increasingly no where else to sell their product.
“We’re a band with not much money… and we’ve put what money we have into this project just to show bands can take a stand,” …
“If we can do it on a street level, why can’t people further up in the music business be as proactive as us?
Er…because you clearly care about music. The Industry these days contains very few actual music lovers.
Forgive me for smiling about this comment of the redundancy of the former Sunderland tourist office…
“There’s no call for it any more, for various reasons,”
Smack my wrists but that made me smile. Sorry.
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There’s cheap coal in them thar hills. Well out there somewhere. Probably imported. Apparently it’s undermining our pollution and climate change targets (what? They haven’t abolished them yet in the name of the great economic recovery?) as cheap coal means higher electricity generation profits or at least commercial viability in the short term. So Britain’s share of electricity generated by coal has risen to 40%.
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Shed Flat Shed
The Northampton Chronicle and Echo
Apr 11 2013
It would seem that Northampton council have been using a council flat to store tools for eight years. Makes a mockery of the bedroom tax somewhat. Only discovered due to a freedom of information request seeming.
Up the hill backwards 