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Theres always Norf London, a place of kind and gentle souls, where the wine flows like beer, and the the tropical breeze blows gently through the palm trees, wouldnt know myself, never been.

Why thank you BBW good to be here

ah yes the famed english reserve, which also applies to not discussing what people earn thus making it pitifully easy for people to be shafted in employment negotiations. makes a mockery of equal pay for equal work. Reminds me of either a smallish bank or insurance company in the early 90's, whose name eludes me, for some reason employees started chatting about it at lunch one day with the end result that the entire staff at the head office downed tools, well.. pens, and walked out. Nice.

Really? it strikes me as a very peculiarly English thing, in the States, Aus, NZ, actually pretty much everywhere I've been people are pretty up front with it.

Er.... the Tories against centralisation? They were the ones that dismembered Local Government and initiated the Internal market in the NHS greatly increasing the bureacratic load. True Labor have continued to whiteant the founding principles of the NHS as well as the slavish devotion of the City that have lead us to the current shitstorm, same polices by both parties in my book, for which the only effective remedy is PR. Even if just to get away from the stale 'Etonians vs Union hacks' clubhouse mentality, neither groups can be said to have their finger on the pulse of what reality is like for many people. PR of course taking many forms, to my mind the most effective is the Mixed Member variety, whereby there are both electorate MPs and List MPs thus accurately reflecting the voting intentions of the entire populace.

Saw Nirvana when they were supporting the Violent Femmes at Fishermans Wharf in Aus circa 91, awesome.

my destiny there can be only one

Abolition of 'first past the post'is unlikely for Westminster unless there is a hung parliment after the next election, which now seems unlikely as Labor is as popular as a pederast in daycare.

would have to be the popcorn and softdrink pusher at a themepark in Australia, Didnt think it sounded too bad but spending 12hrs a day during a freakishly hot summer slinging warm coke at legions of snot nosed kids began to pale. Then there was the uniform: candystripe shirt, beige trousers, red braces, bow tie and panama hat, very popular with the ladies it wasnt.

Great song of indifference - Bob Geldof

Am a newbie to the EDF but shall be along for the next fine installment!

pish and vinegar that and a vague sense of foreboding