Well done Paul:
I think the best political year I can recall was probably 1977, the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. It was a period of benign and enlightened government under Jim Callaghan and David Steel…
Idiot Lefty Statement of the Day
January 30th, 2008 · 9 Comments
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1 Matthew // Jan 30, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I was unware you were an expert on the 1977 government?
2 Ian Bennett // Jan 30, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Matthew, one doesn’t need to be an expert in anything to know that the Callaghan government was neither benign nor enlightened, one merely needs to be either a) over the age of 40 or so or b) reasonably well-read.
3 Matthew // Jan 30, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Well Oliver Kamm maintains that it was.
4 Chris // Jan 30, 2008 at 11:56 pm
And I maintain that it wasn’t, so na-na-na-na-na. Can we progress beyond the argument from authority, please?
5 Randy // Jan 30, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Well Oliver Kamm maintains that it was.
I was tempted to key a sharp retort but, IIRC, Kamm is litigious as well, so I won’t.
Be that as it may, some maintain that 1957 was a delightful year in the United States of America. The Republicans wish they could live there and the Deomcrats want to work there. Unfortunately, 1958 was inevitable, and its seeds sown in 1957 (and earlier), so it turns out it wasn’t all that wonderful after all. Rather like 1928, or, say, August, 1929.
6 Matthew // Jan 31, 2008 at 12:11 am
Chris – Well Ian said anyone over 40 or reasonably well read, and I believe Oliver meets both.
7 Peter Spence // Jan 31, 2008 at 1:09 am
It was a delightful year, I was earning well, driving an MGB roadster and there was Maggie… There’s never been anyone better (but don’t tell the wife). The sex was marvellous, the beer cheap and the Summer long and hot.
8 Letters From A Tory // Jan 31, 2008 at 9:06 am
I am shocked, horrified and generally dumbstruck by anyone suggesting that the late 1970′s were the ‘glory days’.
http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com
9 Ian Bennett // Jan 31, 2008 at 9:24 am
Matthew: for certain values of ‘benign’ and ‘enlightened’.
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