Does anybody here take the Greens seriously?

[AndyRM]

The finest/worst example of disrespecting this county's history is blaming immigrants for everything, but we'll gloss over that...

 

[monkers]

Shows a lack of respect for this country's history.

I doubt you know the history of Churchill, or the UK especially in relation to its exploitation of the Iranian people.

 

[Ian H]

 

[CXRAndy]

Anti imperialism left supporting author

 

[Psamathe]

Shows a lack of respect for this country's history.

Country = lines on a map often set by military action (and civilian deaths).

Why would I respect the UK's history? Should I be "respecting" the genocide of the Aboriginal Tasmanians (Black War), or our colonialism in Burma (still regarded by Burmese as a disaster and the cause of their current troubles and some certainly confronted me about it when I was travelling there), etc., etc.

 

[briantrumpet]

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I ought to read Otto English's 'Fake Heroes' - I suspect it would be up your street.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

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I thought Tariq Ali was a Pakistani leg spinner.

 

[CXRAndy]

You wonder why the trans brigade love the tit whisperer


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[Ian H]

I thought Tariq Ali was a Pakistani leg spinner.

I imagine he was crap at cricket, though I might be wrong.
Here he is being interviewed by Gyles Brandreth (they're both past presidents of the Oxford Union) -
https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7Drrvdq/

 

[bobzmyunkle]

'If you aren't familiar with Tariq Ali's story, this is really worth listening to for a fascinating insight into the radical and optimistic days of the late 60s and early 70s, when anything seemed possible.'

Nah, the 70s was a dull and dreary time. I read it on here only yesterday.

 

[Ian H]

'If you aren't familiar with Tariq Ali's story, this is really worth listening to for a fascinating insight into the radical and optimistic days of the late 60s and early 70s, when anything seemed possible.'

Nah, the 70s was a dull and dreary time. I read it on here only yesterday.

1970s: Lost a close friend to suicide, left university, moved around the country, ended up in Devon, endured the drought year (the well dried up), bought my first house, my first son was born, saw Bob Dylan and others at Blackbushe, had a couple of small exhibitions, refused an offer to train as a sommelier, etc. It was mostly fun in retrospect.

 

[Rusty Nails]

I can double that having gone through my teens and twenties in those decades

 

[Shortfall]

'If you aren't familiar with Tariq Ali's story, this is really worth listening to for a fascinating insight into the radical and optimistic days of the late 60s and early 70s, when anything seemed possible.'

Nah, the 70s was a dull and dreary time. I read it on here only yesterday.

If you're referring to my comments then they were in response to a discussion about Boomers and how good they'd had it. My reply was intended to agree that whilst they had indeed had it good that there were also plenty of downsides to living through the 60s and 70s. Like you I lived through those times so my lived experience is real, even if it's different to yours. I don't pretend that it was all bad or that the Thatcherism of the 80s and 90s was a period of unalloyed good.

 

[TailWindHome]

If you're referring to my comments then they were in response to a discussion about Boomers and how good they'd had it. My reply was intended to agree that whilst they had indeed had it good that there were also plenty of downsides to living through the 60s and 70s. Like you I lived through those times so my lived experience is real, even if it's different to yours. I don't pretend that it was all bad or that the Thatcherism of the 80s and 90s was a period of unalloyed good.

I think it's a fair *generalisation* that if you were born between 1955 and 1975, while there are *some* things you may envy about your parents generation or your childrens generation, you wouldn't swap with either.

 

[BoldonLad]

I think it's a fair *generalisation* that if you were born between 1955 and 1975, while there are *some* things you may envy about your parents generation or your childrens generation, you wouldn't swap with either.

That’s neat, 1947, does that give me a free pass to whinge?