How the other half see things.........

[Mellor]

I feel pretty much the same about Kate Bush as you do about Agas.

[Spiderman]

I've been reading The Observer for 40 years

Slow reader then?

[Mellor]

I've been reading The Observer for 40 years

Slow reader then?

Have the miners returned to work?

[Deleted User 2747]

Some may find this funny or some may want to cry, it comes from the Guardian comments page (where I comment sometimes) regarding the cost of living and living standards.

I used to get the Grauniad every day, Frankie. Then I just got the Saturday edition, and now...? It has become a horrible mixture of a politics I believe in and an acquisitive culture that makes me sick. It is clearly pandering to the guilty middle-class, people that have money but have a "social conscience". The Saturday supplements are full of holidays you or I couldn't even dream about and clothes the cost of which would give a Yorkshireman a heart seizure.

I know what you mean.

[Deleted User 2747]

For me, it is bad enough that the rich get richer at everyone else's expense, but then to blame those who aren't so fortunate/greedy for their own predicament is just ! - Makes me spit feathers!

[Deleted User 2]

For me, it is bad enough that the rich get richer at everyone else's expense, but then to blame those who aren't so fortunate/greedy for their own predicament is just ! - Makes me spit feathers!

Is that an interpretation of my post?

[Deleted User 2747]

For me, it is bad enough that the rich get richer at everyone else's expense, but then to blame those who aren't so fortunate/greedy for their own predicament is just ! - Makes me spit feathers!

Is that an interpretation of my post?

Not sure what you mean, but no, I am not referring to your post, just to my own feelings.

[Aces]

I think it annoys most Frankie, the rich getting richer, most of the working class men and women haven't had a pay rise for 5 years, Cameron said, "We are all in this together" he then cut the top rate of tax by 5% and then gave MPs an 11% pay rise! Yeah Right Dave.

[Mellor]

Some may find this funny or some may want to cry, it comes from the Guardian comments page (where I comment sometimes) regarding the cost of living and living standards.

I used to get the Grauniad every day, Frankie. Then I just got the Saturday edition, and now...? It has become a horrible mixture of a politics I believe in and an acquisitive culture that makes me sick. It is clearly pandering to the guilty middle-class, people that have money but have a "social conscience". The Saturday supplements are full of holidays you or I couldn't even dream about and clothes the cost of which would give a Yorkshireman a heart seizure.

I know what you mean.

I'm confused now. Are people better off or not has turned into folk who read the Guardian are guilty middle class individuals with pots of money to spend on things like range cookers, fancy holidays and posh clothes they have no business to be spending their money on? Aga of course is a long established British firm I think with cookers in farm houses the length and breadth of the country. Personally I favour the induction hob which presumably places me somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan

Tell you what I do find strange, generalisation. We're all individuals. There's all sorts own Agas, like a decent suit or save up for the holiday of a lifetime. The Guardian, the middle class are not the enemy. Judgement rather than understanding would however be high up on my list of bad stuff along with simplification of complex problems (i.e if we leave Europe everything will be alright).

[Aces]

Mellor, don't you think if immigration was controlled, cut down to say about 20,000 skilled workers coming in per year and Europe stopped interfering with us, telling our government what they can and can't do, then not many would be wanting to actually leave?

Why don't they just sort this out? Shouldn't be that hard to do.