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I don't agree abut the left / right swings. As I see it all we have had since Bliar is a drift towards centre--right. Bliar was the last right wing PM as far as I am concerned. All those who followed including Labour, Conservative and the Lib-Dems have tried to capture what is called the middle ground. UKIP were classed as Right Wing, but they only had one policy so don't really count. Left / Right politics is finished. It is all about capturing the popular vote without straying too far from the middle of the road.
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Every year the EU receives around €40 billion directly or indirectly from the UK. That money is dispersed throughout the EU, mainly to poor countries such as Romania and Slovenia where grants are given to build factories to create jobs. These factories are then operated by French and German companies to manufacture goods using cheap labour and EU subsidies. The Renault Dacia car factory and German Cathago motorhome companies are examples of this. These EU grants and subsidies entail that France and German industries are being subsidised by money from the UK that could be spent on roads, educat
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Corbyn represents everything that made old Labour unelectable, and so allowed new Labour, basically Tories wearing red ties, to come in. He is still unelectable and never will be. The voters who put old Labour in power are no longer there. The unions who paid for and supported old Labour are no longer there. To try and go back to privatised industries that were failing in every aspect is frankly laughable even if it could be done at no cost. To try and restore successful private companies, many owned by overseas investors is impossible. Corbyn is living in a dream world.
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I've just had a look and the nearest League 1 team to us is at Bordeaux which is a lovely city to spend a weekend away in. If Wilf signs for Toulouse you could fly over for the weekend with Ryanair and cheer him on. You might recognise one of their defenders as well. He used to play over the river from your gaff ?
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Not much point out here Wilf. It is a poor agricultural area. There are few if any worthwhile antiques to purchase. I keep trawling the vide greniers (car boot sales) and brocantes (second hand shops) in the hope of finding an old Hardy or Pezon et Michel cane fishing rod or Leica camera, but 99.9% of the stuff is just junk. If it wasn't for the British run charity shops I'd never find a bargain.
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Add to that the drug companies.
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I think what you are missing is that the French do not automatically get a full state pension of the figures bandied about. They have to earn it via their contributions. If you were employed as a council manager you would have you full quota of contributions and a relatively high salary to base the pension amount on. If you were an agricultural worker or worked on a building site you might miss some or many of the quarterly contribution targets and have a lower average salary to base the calculations on. There is no easy way to compare UK with French pensions.
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I agree. But when you have a major governmental policy change that has a sudden impact on society then that government has to take the blame.
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In off the post. How ironic.
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It is a big rugby area out here. I couldn't even name the nearest League 1 team. From what I gather PSG and Monaco are sponsored by the sort of people behind City and the rest of the league wouldn't be regarded as Premier League material. But I don't follow French football so I could be wrong. We sponsor the village side every year as does almost every resident by buying their calendar. It is a traditional thing out here that you buy a calendar from the post man, the fire brigade and the local football team. We never use the calendars but it we still buy them annually. I mainly follow the
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They need something to contribute to the EU Armed Forces. Talking of wealth; out here in rural France the most common vehicle outside people's houses are Berlingo / Partner vans and there is a higher desire to own an Iveco 3.5t tipper than a Teslar. In fact, most of my neighbours wouldn't know what a Teslar was. Wealth is not apparent here. That however brings its own pressures on life. On my travels I regularly see octogenarians hauling wood into their houses many of which won't have any hot water. Some of the houses that have been put on the freeads after the old inhabitant has died are
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Boredom? ? Seriously, when I last looked at this it was Finland, Iceland and some of the Russian countries were top of the European lists. When I was in Sweden I got talking to a couple of school teachers who were guiding my mate and myself on a motorbike tour of the Baltic coast. They put the high suicide rates of Scandinavian countries down to the long winter evenings and too much home made spirits. Plus having nothing to do. Some of the former Russian states now have no employment and no social services or health care that they enjoyed under communism and that is thought to have the
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https://www.expatica.com/fr/finance/retirement/french-pension-guide-the-french-pension-system-for-expats-830117/#frenchpension In short; "retirees have to work for at least 42 years before being entitled to a full French state pension (or 40 if born before 1952). This will rise to 43 years by 2035 for those born from 1973 onwards. Otherwise, a pro-rata French pension can be claimed after working at least 10 years in France. The state French pension scheme then entitles retirees to draw a maximum of 50% of their annual average earnings up to a limit of €39,732 per year. For those
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That is right. It is one of those subjects that nobody will tackle. One of the problems with the NHS and this is shared by the police too, is that when local councils cut services to save money it creates a burden on other agencies like the police and NHS. Example: Social worker numbers are cut so today's fragile generation aren't getting the support they need and some resort to self harm or addictions. These people then clog up police cells and hospital beds causing more expenditure by police and NHS workers than has been saved by cutting the number of social workers. It is shifting
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No, I'll hopefully get the UK pension I have contributed towards for almost 40 years. I might also get a very small French pension based on the few years I've been self employed over here though. French pensions are less than UK ones and the French have to contribute to their health service. It isn't free like the NHS. I don't know of any other country that has free health care so perhaps it isn't a good idea. It is certainly being abused by free loaders and it must be said, by NHS staff creating long waiting lists to boost their private work. Basically the NHS is now unfit for purpose a
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He put the gun to his head and wasn't even sweating
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There was more than one occasion when they fought and had to be separated. Usually when they were drunk. They needed each other. Like a husband and wife in a marriage marred with domestic violence. Google might be OK for confirming dates and the like, but charity shops are better for the books that tell the stories in detail ?
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I'm not doubting that. But Taylor didn't leave Brighton until July 1976. Clough had been sacked from Leeds two years previously in August 1974. During the time Clough was at Leeds he begged Taylor to join him and wouldn't speak to him for months after the sacking blaming Taylor for not joining him. It took nearly two years before they made up.
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Could that be the GDP was higher under the Tories and therefore the same amount spent on the health service appears to be a lower amount when compared against it? I think that Corbyn's vision of Britain is pretty close to communism and way beyond socialism as we know it. And have you seen the amount Nordic countries levy in taxes against their citizens? No wonder they can spend so much on social welfare.
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They fell out when Taylor wouldn't join him at Leeds, preferring to remain at Brighton and were never as close again. Clough cheated Tayor all through their early days; he was never straight with him about their wages and bonuses and when Taylor found out he never really trusted Clough in the same way again. They only got together grudgingly as each knew that they were not as good on their own. For all Clough's bluster about Leeds being cheats, and I have no doubt that they were, he himself wasn't squeaky clean. He was dipping into gate receipts, taking cash for himself and admitted in h
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I think that you will find that it was Labour politicians under the Bliar /Brown governments who accelerated the privatisation of the NHS with their Public Private Partnerships and that is one of the reasons why the NHS hasn't got enough money to treat the sick. They also meddled in the railways creating today's problems for commuters and in Meddlesome's own words went to places like Afghanistan recruiting illegal immigrants to come over to the UK to fill black market jobs. Those three Bliar /Brown governments carried on what Thatcher started. As for the unions; I remember them creating t
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I've read a lot about Clough and whilst I can't knock his results, they are facts, when you look behind the headlines there are other things to consider. The most important one was Peter Taylor. Without him Clough was average at best. Taylor on his own was no better. But together, with the right Chairman, they worked brilliantly. The problem was that Cloughie, like Mourinho made too many enemies of his friends. He was his own worst enemy and when Taylor finally had enough of him Clough was finished. He could never have made England manager. He had no diplomacy.
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It could so easily go the other way. Some of the Spurs players who are refusing to sign extensions could get higher wages elsewhere. There is a lot of money sloshing around football at the moment and Levy is notoriously tight with the purse strings. Mou's history at ManU won't be repeated. He won't be able to buy 2 or 3 defenders, try them a few games then ask the chairman for some more. Poch' had been unhappy for 18 months with Spurs' lack of investment.
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I don't support anybody Gnasher. I used to follow and watch Leeds in the Revie era as that was where we were living when I discovered football. I ripped the badge off my denim jacket the day Clough was appointed and never got close to any club again. I admire clubs like Leicester & Bournemouth for punching above their weight whilst playing attractive football, and clubs like Liverpool who have consistently played good football come what may. There were periods when I admired Arsenal under the young Wenger and West Ham under Bilic. I am warming to Chelsea under Lampard too. I don't like ch
