Something positive about this government

Ha ha ha

Well, Mandelson did say he was intensely relaxed about people becoming filthy rich. Blair must have been listening and learning.

Well, out of interest does anyone have anything to say about positive achievements of the Blair / Brown governments?

Is it worth trying to post anything on this thread?

For what it's worth:

it was rarely that unskilled workers moved from country to country looking for work.
That is not true. How many £10 'POMS' emigrated - went out to conditions worse than at home but made a success of their lives in a country where hard work and enterprise count for something. Many emigrated to other countries around the world for work.
People have always emigrated, moved, tried to find work and look for a better life despite the upset of leaving their roots for generations.
anniebach was it you who mentioned the Cornish tin miners? Well, they didn't just go to South Wales - they went all over the world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_diaspora
And it was a couple of hundred years ago!

We had to move from an area I loved to an area I hated at first (or be on benefits until the perfect job materialised for DH) yes, we had four months on benefits . When we moved we had no family near, no social connections, but we made social connections and settled down to a certain extent although the mortgage and bills were crippling with young children. Then redundancy again and another move to an unknown area because that is where the work was; in the end we stayed put while DH lived away all week for years and years just to give the children some stability instead of moving from school to school.

And I think, although this government has to rein in the burgeoning welfare bill, GO went about it in a most stupid and crass manner in this Budget and could well have scuppered any ambition he has of becoming PM and, together with other moves by this Government (Academies), of winning the next GE.
So who do the moderate, taxpaying, compassionate (yes) middle ground vote for in the next GE? Even staunch, lifelong Labour voters who I know are shuddering at the thought of Jeremy, John and Emily taking charge of the country.

Please will someone come forward who is not an extremist of either right or left to lead us into the future.
(and I do not mean Tim Farron.)

ana truly I did it out of mischievousness initially, but was totally unprepared for the paucity of the replies, that is absolutely genuine and quite honestly saddening and somewhat alarming

Well I tried to find a positive , if Ken Clarke was in it I would have found something positive

Surely not, whitewave - isn't that why you started the thread in the first place?

I think it is absolutely astounding that none of us have come up with a light bulb moment. There is nothing - I am really genuinly amazed.

11 pages and little or nothing positive about the government- must indicate something.

Well not all have apologised but hey ho, good to get back on topic

Well now we have all apologised including me. Back to normal hopefully!

Thanks, Annie. Shame, really. Do you realise how many posts there have been on this - and no, I haven't counted them.
Much more important to discuss the government's problems and the fact they are taking money away from the disabled.

Jen I would not have kept rabbiting on about it if I had known, you never post sbusive posts anyway

I have just been through this whole thread for the second time. The only post which has been shown as deleted was one by 'durhamjen'. Do the mods delete post without declaring that they've deleted them? What I have seen is some posters who appear to have misunderstood posts or to have some kind of victim syndrome. I'm a relatively new poster (not a troll, as somebody called me) and it seems that sniping and snide, personal remarks are quite common, which is a pity.

Shame you've gone, Nonnie. I am none the wiser about your parents or your sense of humour.

SO, anybody care to summarise the thread so far? I've been distracted from the 'positives' (I guess there were some...errrmmm...gay marriage, plastic bags, tampons...that'll go down well in future history books).

Jen, I didn't know, I am sorry, thank you for clearing it up, it could have been settled if Nonnie had just said it wasn't me. Oh well here goes

Nonnie I apologise that I made an error in thinking you were referring to me having a post removed. No more to say to you.

To save anyone looking any further, it might have been one of mine on page three. I do not know why Nonnie could not just say so; perhaps she cannot bring herself to mention my name. Although she obviously reported it to HQ.
I was probably very rude because she had asked if anybody knew any disabled people who had had money taken off them.
I cannot remember my exact words but I am not going to apologise for them, because they were true.
The two posts following the deletion have been kept on so obviously the links to disability websites showing that people have had money taken away from them, and have died because of it, are acceptable to HQ.
Thank heavens for that.
Haven't had any notification from HQ to say why it was deleted. The last time that happened it was reinstated on the Monday.

I have had an enjoyable afternoon watching my youngest granddaughter dancing, and am now revived enough to get back to the fray.
Pleased to see that I am not the only one who dislikes veiled comments.

I said we didn't share the same sense of humour, has that been removed? That wasn't abusive

Your knowledge of post being removed is greater than mine.

Are you also going to ask them about my parents and my missing sense of humour or just fess up and apologise for the first and answer the question about the second?

Plenty of time, I'm off now.

I will ask the moderators, I am not looking a third time, I thought if a post was removed the poster received a notice from HQ

AB, then you clearly haven't looked properly, attention to detail is needed.

Dear god, I have looked twice Nonnie, no post has been removed

Nonnie, I haven't the foggiest what I said that has upset you, if I ever cause upset I always apologise

Actually AB, no I won't, you look back over the thread and find it yourself, why should I do it for you when you can do it as easily as I can?

AB, yes I will when you retract the things you have made up about me.

daphne a post has been removed and everything else I have said is also true.

I'm sorry you think I have been rude, I have simply made it clear that what someone has claimed about me is untrue. Someone said I should stand up for my points and that is exactly what I am doing rather than lying down and accepting false claims. If standing up to such things is rude then I am guilty but I have been asked to apologise for telling the truth and I have been told to obey, don't you think that is rude? If not then I think it possible you are as blinkered as AB.

My iPad has developed a gremlin , I am sorry