Badenoch's (Lack Of) Vision Quest

[Rusty Nails]

Not for a couple of years. The drinks are cheap I'll give them that. I think our local ones have also suffered from the move towards fancy party venues. People used to have weddings/anniversary parties and 21sts in our local ones but small local venues are out of favour for those things now.

We had our wedding reception in our local Labour Club, my mother was a cleaner there, my grandfather managed the betting shop attached to the club, and my father and all my uncles virtually lived there. Until it closed a few years back I used to pop into there from time to time for a drink with my cousin when I visited my home town. I also meet up with a couple of old school friends in the Con club in the town centre... the local pubs are all for kids or as rough as hell.

 

[Rusty Nails]

A Tory councillor (a friend of mine despite our very different political views) was at pains to point out that the Con Club here* is a separate organisation, not funded by the Tories. In fact, it appears to function more as a slightly seedy pub.

*and possibly across the country.

We all called the Conservative club the Con Club even though that title more accurately referred to the Constitutional Club a couple of miles away. They were setup as a sort of gentleman's club for "lower-middle class" voters aligned with the Conservative Party, and the one still remaining in my old home town is extremely shabby, and not Tory at all as you would imagine for a valley town in South Wales.

 

[Pross]

We all called the Conservative club the Con Club even though that title more accurately referred to the Constitutional Club a couple of miles away. They were setup as a sort of gentleman's club for "lower-middle class" voters aligned with the Conservative Party, and the one still remaining in my old home town is extremely shabby, and not Tory at all as you would imagine for a valley town in South Wales.

I might have choir rehearsal there. It’s certainly in a shabby Con Club in a South Wales valley town, complete with leaking roof over the corner we store the piano and an annoying buzz coming from a faulty starter in a light that hasn’t been fixed despite being reported months ago (it’s less annoying than the noises usually coming from the baritones though). Post rehearsal drinks are dirt cheap though.

 

[Rusty Nails]

I might have choir rehearsal there. It’s certainly in a shabby Con Club in a South Wales valley town, complete with leaking roof over the corner we store the piano and an annoying buzz coming from a faulty starter in a light that hasn’t been fixed despite being reported months ago (it’s less annoying than the noises usually coming from the baritones though). Post rehearsal drinks are dirt cheap though.

Dowlais.

I must admit that I just checked, and it closed a few years back, around the time the Labour club closed.

Sad fact: there had been around 210 pubs in the area between the late 19th century and the mid 20th century, now there are around half a dozen.

 

[Pross]

Not a million miles away though.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Dowlais.

I must admit that I just checked, and it closed a few years back, around the time the Labour club closed.

Sad fact: there had been around 210 pubs in the area between the late 19th century and the mid 20th century, now there are around half a dozen.

I am surprised that there wasn’t 210 pubs in Dowlais alone!🤣

 

[Rusty Nails]

I am surprised that there wasn’t 210 pubs in Dowlais alone!🤣

That was Dowlais and Top Dowlais.

It's a sad fact that all the generations above me in my family are now gone. I remember going through an old map of Dowlais in the early 20th century with my father and he could name and point out way more than fifty of them.

 

[BoldonLad]

That was Dowlais and Top Dowlais.

It's a sad fact that all the generations above me in my family are now gone. I remember going through an old map of Dowlais in the early 20th century with my father and he could name and point out way more than fifty of them.

I am not familiar with Dowlais or Top Dewlaps, but, my "home town" (South Shields), had 350 pubs in 1900.

It is now down to less that 50. I cannot find exact figures, and, I have not visited ALL of them, although, I do try. 😊

 

[briantrumpet]

Hmm, an interesting couple of views... seems quite a stretch of a claim from Badenoch, given Starmer's 'reticence' in condemning anything that Israel does.

 

[All uphill]

Hmm, an interesting couple of views... seems quite a stretch of a claim from Badenoch, given Starmer's 'reticence' in condemning anything that Israel does.

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I suppose she feels she has to say something to her dozens of party members.

 

[briantrumpet]

I suppose she feels she has to say something to her dozens of party members.

You're forgetting the millions of racists on X - I think she thinks they are her real party supporters.

 

[TailWindHome]

Stupidest person ever to lead the Conversative Party

 

[Pross]

Stupidest person ever to lead the Conversative Party

Have you forgotten Truss or have you gone for the ultimate insult?

 

[TailWindHome]

Have you forgotten Truss or have you gone for the ultimate insult?

I have not forgotten Truss

 

[All uphill]

I have not forgotten Truss

I'm not sure either of them are stupid. More blinded by their own arrogance.