Every morning when I turn on the BBC Breakfast news, I listen to the headlines and try to guess which ones will be used as the basis of yet another thread of Dunce's tedious, childish, political jibes.
I think the staff numbers differ because the 'total' employed by HCC includes people such as school teachers and other such employees, who are ring fenced from the cuts, so HCC will only report the %age of those who might actually be affected.
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"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early"
I would wait to see the list of 'promises to be broken' in the manifestos, listen to what the parties had to say, and cast my vote according to my conscience.
There was a bit on Mark Thomas's 'Peoples Manifesto' on R4 that suggested that when a Government had reached 50 broken manifesto pledges then a new election was automatically triggered.
Why not go one step further and include long range reconnaissance, and then get the winning bidder to keep the Nimrods flying, thus also preserving private sector jobs in BAe.
This is, of course, nothing to do with your postings on the 'Shares' thread, where you are salivating over the opportunities that might arise in the event of an Ivorean civil war ?
So in the 1945 General Election, all those that voted for the landslide Labour victory didn't 'care for Britain' ? What exactly had they been doing for the previous 6 years ?
FYI, fruegal is a tautological reference to a female; 'frue' being old saxon for a wife or lady ( think of the more modern 'frau' ).
Just thought you ought to know.