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🦃 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XIX 🦃

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Currently the standard way to test that the phone line coming into the property is OK is to plug an analogue phone into the master socket.  That ain't going to work if they go entirely digital.

  • Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    When have Tories ever given a toss about poor people?
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    At election time mostly
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited December 2021
    B3 said:
    At election time mostly
    they just PRETEND then.
    "levelling up" really means making everyone within the M25 richer. Bollox to the rest of the country
    Devon.
  • They pretend right up until the moment the Returning Officer announces the results …. then they ignore them until the next election is due ….

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    They pretend right up until the moment the Returning Officer announces the results …. then they ignore them until the next election is due ….
    Correct
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Those who managed to slither through the cracks in the red wall will genuinely give a toss about poor voters for a week or so before the next election
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    Those who managed to slither through the cracks in the red wall will genuinely give a toss about poor voters for a week or so before the next election

    Time will tell.  Many of those who won seats for the Conversatives in the 'Red Wall' areas are new, or newish, MPs who may have a very different outlook to the traditional mob who generally don't seem to give a damn about anything north of the M25.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Only if anyone watched.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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