> Alistair Gunn wrote:

>> Only scum would heave concrete blocks off of bridges onto moving taxis,
>> and then dash back to their union HQ to burn the maps from the walls
>> which showed what routes said taxis where taking ...

> Now you SURELY don't expect me to shed many tears over scabs do you?

> Brian Robertson" ntlworld.com> wrote
>
> Being on duty AND it

>> being paid for by the railways meant the beer was the elixier of the Gods.

>
> Don't doubt it. Ironically I imagine you must have made history as the first
> train driver ever to drink beer while on duty and then *not* driven a train.
> ;-)
>

> I am not suggesting that unemployment alone turns some elements of
> society to crime and drugs. I am suggesting the the cumulative effect of
> 18 years of Tory rule turned those elements towards crime and drugs.
>

>> Don't doubt it. Ironically I imagine you must have made history as the
>> first train driver ever to drink beer while on duty and then *not*
>> driven a train. ;-)

> Ha ha ha ha. You could be right. :-)
> Brian.

> Even if it was obtained through fraud?

>>> Don't doubt it. Ironically I imagine you must have made history as
>>> the first train driver ever to drink beer while on duty and then
>>> *not* driven a train. ;-)

>

>> Ha ha ha ha. You could be right. :-)
>> Brian.

>
> Nice to read your thread, Brian and Vince, which rambled on in quite an
> aggressive tone at times, sort itself out peacefully, and remained
> interesting too. It is Christmas after all! ;-)
> Van.

> Steve Firth wrote:

>> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:05:01 +0000, Bruce wrote:
>>

>>> A bit like Viscount Stansgate who became Anthony Wedgewood Benn who
>>> became Tony Benn.

>>
>> But who remained a champagne socialist throughout.

>
> Is there any reason that socialists shouldn't consume champagne?

> "Tony Polson" nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:0hrqo2tivuiaoj5i9u0ujkm8t0bd25tpdd@4ax.com...

>> Stimpy yahoo.com> wrote:
>>

>>> On 23/12/06 09:21, "Brian Robertson" wrote:
>>>

>>>> asdf wrote:
>>>>

>>>>> Even if it was obtained through fraud?

>>>> I don't think my little snout stuck in the trough would have been
>>>> noticed amongst the many other FAR more greedy pigs.
>>>>
>>>> Don't forget that this was the era of Thatcher, when everyone was on the
>>>> make.
>>>>
>>>> Brian.

>>> Oops... Looks like you've changed your 'from' address, presumably to try
>>> and
>>> escape from the many killfiles in which you reside. ...

> asdf wrote:
>

>> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:16:11 GMT, Brian Robertson
>> ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>

>>>> Yes of course you do, and I hope no-one ever throws a concrete block through
>>>> your windscreen at you simply because he has an ideological grievance with
>>>> one of *your* passengers.

>>> Been there, read the book, worn the bruises.
>>>
>>> It worked out quite well really though. Got out of the rest of my duty,
>>> got a taxi to the nearest pub once discharged from hospital, stayed with
>>> some friends in Todmorden and got the nice taxi driver to give me a
>>> receipt for as if I had gone all the way to Manchester in the taxi. Beer
>>> partaken of whilst on duty always tasted sweeter. Being on duty AND it
>>> being paid for by the railways meant the beer was the elixier of the Gods.

>> Even if it was obtained through fraud?

>
> ...

> In uk.railway Brian Robertson twisted the electrons to say:
>

>>Alistair Gunn wrote:
>>

>>>Only scum would heave concrete blocks off of bridges onto moving taxis,
>>>and then dash back to their union HQ to burn the maps from the walls
>>>which showed what routes said taxis where taking ...

>>
>>Now you SURELY don't expect me to shed many tears over scabs do you?

>
>
> Did the taxi driver deserve murdering as well then? How about if they'd
> miss timed things and wiped out a family of 4 in a following car, would
> that have been "acceptable collatoral damage, since they probably voted
> tory"???