The beginning of the end was when the government separated the Royal Mail from the Post Office ...successive governments have since then pushed further down the road to privatisation of the mail and closure of post were once a profitable business and (in the case of post offices)a crucial local service,but since a profitable publicly owned industry cannot be allowed to exist under the current political ethos they just have to go
Do .... avoid stabby dave
Don't .... have anything to do with stabby dave
To my knowledge dyslexia does not render one incapable of seeing that a word is underlined in red.
A brief history....
Age 5/6 remedial reading ... me being slapped by the headmistress for being an "idiot child"
Age 9/10 me stood up in front of the class being berated by the teacher for my writing,spelling and persistent mistake of writing b instead of d and mirroring many other letters (most frequently s and 5)
Age 16 passed my 'o' level English
I don't hold myself superior to any one, I am not and will not play the victim,the trick you see is to learn what it is that you do wrong and correct it.
Star you can play the bullied victim as much as you like but it is bollocks ... I posted in this thread not to criticise or condemn any one ,I deliberately chose as my example someone who no longer posted here .... that you have obviously decided I was attacking you speaks volumes of your mindset and says nothing about me ..... as I said earlier get over it and get on with it ...I did
No joke Steve ... it will HAVE to happen eventually.. the supply of fossil fuel is after all finite
Rob,further to the unions holding us to ransom,What's the difference between that and the current situation where hauliers, unions and oil companies are all in a position to stop our fuel supplies ??
I fully agree with our need to be rescued from the modern trend of grammar fascism .... however the constant repeated misspelling of certain certain words does sometimes begin to grate .... I give you our Ken and 'ammount' as the exemplar,it begins to look like stubborn bloody mindedness rather than a genuine mistake after a while
Blue given that 26 Bishops sit in the house of Lords they do have a say in this whether we like it or not .... I don't
Unless of course you happen own a large estate in Dorset .... then of course you can build a large mock tudor monstrosity with impunity
This whole argument is of course a red herring .... the question should be ,why do we not have a national, integrated, subsidised public transport system that renders private vehicle ownership unnecessary
The phrase is 'give 'em enough rope' .....