Are our views always entrenched?

Now your"e talking AKA , i love a rabbit stew , but as DD who is coming over tonight for supper , has a pet rabbit i think she would be mortally offended if I had one.

{grin]

I'm sorry I broke the guidelines but have no idea what I did wrong, please someone enlighten me.

It appears that it is OK to twist what I say but not for me to challenge why the person who did it failed to respond when asked to.

I didn't swear or anything

It's difficult to get your hands on decent rabbit these days... I mus thave got through several hutchfuls during the war - lovely!

I didn't respond because I wasn't here and I have no idea what message what deleted.

Feetle ,

move i read your post an it it seemed okay to me, wonder who objected ?

Why should it go against my left wing principles to enjoy working for a self made man who had provided employment for over 5,000 people? You also live in a tax haven - does that not go against the principles that you used to hold?
I went out with some public school boys precisely because I am not prejudiced - as you say, some of them are very nice.
You have not commented on most of our suggestions - for example, there are many under-used second homes which could be requisitioned.

moved t'wasnt me either! Did you write something rude about my rabbit stew perhaps? I only went to make a cup of tea.

Nonu cooked all night in an Aga...yummy! Feetle not sure about the decent rabbit bit...please explain? Where you alive and rabbiting during the war then?

Were not where.

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Can you imagine the furoré if second homes were 'requisitioned'? For a start, as soon as such a proposal was mooted, those homes would be offloaded asap.

No Aka I just wanted Greatnan to respond to my post. Don't know anything about your rabbit stew but will come and taste it if invited. I used to love rabbit stew.

Crikey AKA , you are a bit posh with AGA , it will be half a crown to speak to you next.

I've been watching this thread and I don't think it's all that unpleasant. I thought Greatnan and Granjura were good friends but is that no longer the case or have I got it all wrong?

We had a discussion on another thread (I know, I'm breaking the rules)
where quite a few gransnetters expressed dismay at 'running to teacher' by certain members.

Do we HAVE to be treated like children?

I carry no banner for Old Etonians or for the Bullingdon Club - an excuse for rich young men to behave like yobs - but anyone brought up in a solid Labour area, who isn't totally blinkered, must be aware that the old boys' network operated in more than one social milieu. As for the latest NHS scandal, it looks as though the existing monitoring bodies (the Royal medical and nursing colleges) were finding too many things wrong with the way the service operated so the Labour government took the responsibility off them and set up the CQC. Everyone now seems agreed that the CQC had neither the expertise nor resources to do the job but that was OK because what it was set up to do was a whitewash. The Tories have no monopoly on corruption, whatever kind of tie they wear.

Surely the 'several gransnetters' who complained don't have to read threads they don't like?

And to go so far as to ask a whole thread to be deleted is a bit high-handed!

Sadly I don't have room for an Aga in my new downsized accommodation though I do have a spare bedroom! Nonu that was sheer nostalgia., for the 'old days' when I had to wear white gloves to church and a liberty bodice.
Nor do I have access to any nice plump bunny rabbits any more Moved

On the money , Ana .

AKA .

Greatnan I simply asked you to explain how you managed to turn

"I don't find talk of 'toffs' or 'Old Etonians' particularly helpful. Presumably such people were elected because the voters in their constituencies thought they were the best candidates and any of them promoted to the cabinet be there because their leader believed they would do the job better than any of the others. On the whole we get the government we deserve."

into;

"I am glad you think all the cabinet are doing a good job, Moved"

This seems to be how you react to all my posts. You attribute thoughts to me which I have not expressed.

The CQC has been 'not fit for task' for a long time. There have been several cases over the last two years where they have been found wanting.

I was out ordering my evening meal at reception, so I certainly did not report it or even see it.
I quite agree that there has been little to choose between all three major parties for several years. Like many other former socialists, I lost faith after 1997 and now I feel disenfranchised.

Any private matters between Juragran and myself are just that. I would prefer it if no reference was made to exchanges made between us, especially when they give only one side of the story.

And toffs was not an expression I used either, and to suggest I did is dishonest.