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lancashirelove Posts: 1987 Joined: 18th Feb 2009 Location: UK | quotePosted at 11:03 on 4th November 2010 Hi Ron, sorry I was unaware of Anna's situation when I posted this. hope everything went ok for her. |
Ron Brind Posts: 19044 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England | quotePosted at 11:19 on 4th November 2010 No problem Mike.....Anna has just arrived home! By the way our Electricity has gone also!! What else can you, or anybody else think of that we no longer own? |
| lancashirelove Posts: 1987 Joined: 18th Feb 2009 Location: UK | quotePosted at 13:26 on 5th November 2010 Government just sold the High Speed Rail line from St Pancras to the south coast (including the stations) to a Canadian consortium. |
James Prescott Posts: 25953 Joined: 11th Jan 2010 Location: UK | quotePosted at 13:34 on 5th November 2010 pilkingtons glass is now owned by the japanese. |
| lancashirelove Posts: 1987 Joined: 18th Feb 2009 Location: UK | quotePosted at 13:41 on 5th November 2010 Queen has cancelled staff Christmas party (However she is still going up to Balmaral (Scotland) for her Christmas season) |
| lancashirelove Posts: 1987 Joined: 18th Feb 2009 Location: UK | quotePosted at 14:01 on 5th November 2010 Jaguar, Landrover, and RollsRoyce cars all now owned by foriegn companies. Not Sure about Rollsroyce air engines but after the recent super-jumbo Quantas Airline engine failure, shares have today fallen. Cadbury's Chocolate now owned by American company. Premier league football teams (Founder members of the Football Leagues) mostly owned by foriegn investors. The national football team run by a foriegn Manager. Its OK having foriegn investors owning our successful British businesses but any profit they make is not pumped back into our ecomy meaning that we have to reley on the 'greedy' banks to lend us even more money at high interest rates Students will have to borrow more in order to pay their way as unis increase their fee's so a young couple graduating will owe possibly£50,000 between them before setting up home together. |
| James Prescott Posts: 25953 Joined: 11th Jan 2010 Location: UK | quotePosted at 14:05 on 5th November 2010 do you think poe will be sold lol i'll get mi coat. |
cathyml Posts: 23275 Joined: 25th Jan 2010 Location: South Africa | quotePosted at 14:18 on 5th November 2010 Don't bother with the coat James - just start running!! lol Theoretically a global village sounds like a great thing to have, but I have serious doubts that it will work in the long term. Who would ever think of putting bees, wasps and hornets in the same nest and expect them to live, eat, sleep & work together! And I seriously doubt there would be any honey produced!!! |
| James Prescott Posts: 25953 Joined: 11th Jan 2010 Location: UK | quotePosted at 14:36 on 5th November 2010 mmmm good -we could always try though. lol |
| lancashirelove Posts: 1987 Joined: 18th Feb 2009 Location: UK | quotePosted at 15:04 on 5th November 2010 just as a magnet always will have a positive AND a negative, a top and a bottom, a left and a right, an up and a down, so must society, Hopefully the centre will be the equalibrium, balancing out the extreme left and extreme right. I remember in the late 60's a record by a 'black' girl in the English charts, i think she was named Madeline Bell, and the song 'Melting Pot' 'What we need is a great big melting pot, big enough to take the world and all its got. Keep it stiring for an hundred years or more and turn out coffee coloured people by the score.' To some extent it is working, just about 6o more years to go I think.
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