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Author: Roland PerryRoland Perry Date: Jan 7, 2008 14:31
In message <87ir25ztof.fsf@ newton.gmurray.org.uk>, at 12:50:08 on Mon, 7
Jan 2008, Graham Murray gmurray.org.uk> remarked:>> Quite soon I do expect to have problems, though. New rules will
>> apparently forbid having your bins out except on collection day. Mine
>> are collected at 7am, and there's no way I'm dragging them to the
>> kerbside at that hour of the morning.
>
>The 'old-fashioned' dustmen used to collect the metal bin[1] from the
>resident's property, empty it into the dustcart, and return the bin to
>where they found it. So why do the modern refuse collectors seem
>incapable of the considerably less strenuous task of fetching/returning
>the wheelybin from/to the residents premises?
It's one of those great mysteries of the wheely-bin.
Make it easier for them to get it to their cart, and they demand that
it's on the kerbside rather than in your back garden. Perverse, I agree!
--
Roland Perry
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Author: The Good DoctorThe Good Doctor Date: Jan 7, 2008 14:53
>Much as it pains me to defend, in any small way, evil, lying, Tory scumbags,
>I do not remember them making any such promise
On the contrary, there were statements in Parliament and in writing to
that effect. It was a major U-turn when Railtrack was offered for
sale (should that be a Major U-turn?)
I remember it very well because I had an offer of a senior post at the
public sector Railtrack and was mulling over whether to accept it. The
announcement of Railtrack's sale came at that time, and as a result of
that announcement, I did not hesitate to turn it down because there
was no way a private sector Railtrack could have worked.
Unfortunately I cannot remember the date and would have to go back
through my files to find it.
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Author: The Good DoctorThe Good Doctor Date: Jan 7, 2008 14:56
>On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 13:52:44 -0800 (PST), 826
> btinternet.com> wrote:
>>>Glad I'm not the only one! If RM have a parcel and I'm out they leave
>>a card and I can collect it the following morning from the local
>>office which opens at 0500 hrs.
>
>At least yours opens at 0500. Mine opens at 0700, which as I get the
>0711 train to work is pretty useless, and closes at 1900, which as I
>arrive back at the station at 1912 is also fairly useless.
>
>The idea of collection from a local post office for a fee is a good
>one, but they should strike a deal with another organisation with
>longer opening hours for that.
>
>Or maybe there's a business opportunity there for charging to have an
>item delivered somewhere where one can then collect for a fee?
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Author: The Good DoctorThe Good Doctor Date: Jan 7, 2008 14:59
"Recliner" clara.co_dot_uk> wrote:>
>And Cuba also demonstrates how communism *creates* poverty-stricken
>nations. It may spread the (limited) wealth a little more fairly, but it
>also diminishes that wealth significantly.
Ask people from former East Germany what they would prefer - West
German capitalism or East German socialism, and most of them would go
for the East German system. Unification has severely damaged the
happy communities of the former East Germany.
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Author: The Good DoctorThe Good Doctor Date: Jan 7, 2008 15:04
>On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 12:48:18 -0800 (PST), JP dodgeit.com>
>wrote:
>>>On Jan 6, 10:50=A0am, MM yahoo.co.uk> wrote:>>> I would like to have a "British Railways" back.
>>>
>>> MM
>>
>>Along with a municipal owned bus service please.
>
>I'm a little unsure of that one, given that bus services in the UK
>have *never* been up to scratch, even before deregulation.
Perhaps that depends where you live. I found the bus services in
Liverpool uniformly excellent, and I was a very heavy user of them
across a wide area of the city for many years.
I spent a whole summer travelling by bus across Devon and Cornwall
back in the 1970s, and found the bus services outstanding. Reliable,
punctual and clean. I could not have asked for more.
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Author: The Good DoctorThe Good Doctor Date: Jan 7, 2008 15:07
Andrew Clarke cts.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
>b) it should be a government-owned corporation free of political
>interference
BR always was. It was run by its own senior management with the
British Railways Board taking care of annual budgets and negotiating
the same with the Government. It was left to its own devices as long
as it worked within its cash limits.
The level of political interference in the "privatised" railway is
intense by comparison.
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Author: MMMM Date: Jan 7, 2008 15:25
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:59:14 +0000, The Good Doctor
nospam.gmail.com> wrote:
>"Recliner" clara.co_dot_uk> wrote:>>
>>And Cuba also demonstrates how communism *creates* poverty-stricken
>>nations. It may spread the (limited) wealth a little more fairly, but it
>>also diminishes that wealth significantly.
>
>
>Ask people from former East Germany what they would prefer - West
>German capitalism or East German socialism, and most of them would go
>for the East German system. Unification has severely damaged the
>happy communities of the former East Germany.
So you haven't yet watched The Life of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)?
Happy communities, my Arsenal! More like: communities who lived in
constant fear under wall-to-wall surveillance, waited 8 years for...
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Author: Roland PerryRoland Perry Date: Jan 7, 2008 15:23
In message 4ax.com>, at 13:59:14 on
Mon, 7 Jan 2008, The Good Doctor nospam.gmail.com>
remarked:>Ask people from former East Germany what they would prefer - West
>German capitalism or East German socialism, and most of them would go
>for the East German system. Unification has severely damaged the
>happy communities of the former East Germany.
Where is David Hansen when you need him? He'd approve of turning the UK
into East Germany.
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Roland Perry
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Author: MMMM Date: Jan 7, 2008 15:28
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 02:42:06 -0800 (PST), JP dodgeit.com>
wrote:
>> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 12:48:18 -0800 (PST), JP dodgeit.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>>On Jan 6, 10:50=A0am, MM
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