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LeftishBrit

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2. Just shows that education isn't what it was in the Good Old Days...

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Fri Aug 2, 2013, 06:03 AM

Aug 2013

oh wait; he did go to school in the Good Old Days, didn't he?

It also shows what the Tories think of Up North. I've said for a long time that they show an anti-northern-ism quite as strong and dangerous as many other forms of bigotry (and I'm a southerner).

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Lord Howell apologises, says he meant 'north west', not 'north east', is desolate [View all] muriel_volestrangler Aug 2013 OP

This has caused great hilarity hereabouts .... non sociopath skin Aug 2013 #1

Just shows that education isn't what it was in the Good Old Days... LeftishBrit Aug 2013 #2

As a Northerner who's also lived in the South (well, the East Midlands anyway) ... non sociopath skin Aug 2013 #4

It's a strange one really T_i_B Aug 2013 #5

It reminds me of the Spitting Image Tory party atlas. oldironside Aug 2013 #3

ROFPMSL non sociopath skin Aug 2013 #6

Snort! LeftishBrit Aug 2013 #7

Reminds me of an old New Yorker cover from 1976 theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #9

In case anyone thinks he's just a confused Tory retiree, in May he became president of the EIC muriel_volestrangler Aug 2013 #8