@YesterdaysBrit1 Started working for myself 1985, things were very tight but no problem running around in a £300 car, occasional pub, bus to south of France… all peanuts
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Tom and his dog
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Tom and his dog
@thomasthomas_10
Eastern England, so inbred…countryside, springer spaniels,meat based, no nonsense at all thank you
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It's 1985 and I've just started work. My first month's salary was £160.
I worked shifts in a freight office in Dover. A few months later I passed my driving test and bought a cheap car for a few hundred pounds. I put some money to one side and went on holiday for a week. I'd occasionally buy games for my ZX Spectrum and go to the pub with my mates, to have a good night with just £20.
Then, one day, I left my job and got another one. It paid more and now I worked regular office hours. I upgraded my car and went on holiday again.
Exciting times. Carefree times. And I've only got 2 'O' Levels - grade D!
I'm glad to have been part of that era, for it was the best. I wouldn't want to be young today, and looking for a job.
And what we had then is gone for good.
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@joncoupland Cars… or collection of parts…
I just say 7…
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Broke Tayyiba at 1st Central this morning when she offered me a Multicar discount ...
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@IrkthePurists Never once watched it, at work , but it’s gone hasn’t it
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I was never a fan, but people are right that this is a totally lost world. Nothing looks and feels like this any more.
UK Back in the Day@UKBackintheDay2
Once upon a time, breakfast television was worth watching…
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@anon_opin Mortgage application… car on finance?
Er no
Blimey
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Think we've reached the point where it's more of a flex to have a crappy old car than a shiny new one. Shows you have your priorities straight. I work in car insurance and can confirm that the vast, vast majority of people with fancy cars have them on ludicrous finance deals
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@BorisJohnson What kind of maniac puts a country under house arrest for 2 years on the strength of lie while simultaneously flooding it with millions of foreign invaders?
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Shabana Mahmood set to offer France extra £500 MILLION to stop the boats but demands 'more bang for our buck'
gbnews.com/news/migrant-c…
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It was the Conservatives who enshrined the Net Zero by 2050 in law. No other country was stupid enough.
It is welcome that the Tories have realised it is madness for a major economy to pursue rapid decarbonisation when our competitors still use fossil fuels.
Claire Coutinho@ClaireCoutinho
It is a difficult thing to say your party has got it wrong. We all care about the environment but making our people poor while the world watches is making us a warning not an example. Kudos to @TufnellHenry for his bravery today.
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Once upon a time, breakfast television was worth watching…
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@WorldByWolf Yep, Nigel’s been in touch…
Didn’t pick up 😬
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Reform are emailing, texting, and cold calling members asking them to stand as council candidates.
They’re relaxing vetting standards and openly saying they’ll take paper candidates.
They’re worried they won’t be able to stand a full suite of candidates. We’re past peak Reform.
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@MotoNutJob They’ll have the last laugh when using it as a sail…
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🚨NEW: The IFS has warned that the Middle East energy crisis has left Rachel Reeves with a shortfall of £20bn in her spending plans
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🚨Banned - Pot Noodle “The Slag Of All Snacks” 2002
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@Landeur Bull just admitted there was a decision taken, by someone, to keep me off GB News.
Then deleted it. Remarkable.
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@FUDdaily Local meeting due this week, already some “ consultants “ have pocketed cash…
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This will go bankrupt.
Anneliese Dodds@AnnelieseDodds
Are you in an Oxford energy or low-carbon group? Want community-owned energy to benefit you and your neighbours? Labour's Local Power Plan is delivering £1billion of funding for community-owned projects. You can log your expression of interest, here: gbe.gov.uk/express-your-i…
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@DickDelingpole It’s a club we’re not members of…
Collars felt surely
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I could have not built that tunnel for half that. And in a fraction of the time.
Ben Graham@BenGrahamUK
The A303 Stonehenge tunnel has been scrapped after years of planning. £180 million. Gone. Not a single mile built. Not a single benefit delivered. Just taxpayer money burned. Who is actually held accountable for this?
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@KingBobIIV Soros coined it but for many businesses it was golden Wednesday as we escaped the clutches of the ERM the £ finding its true level with booming exports following- look at the growth figures for that period
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I have never seen this before, but I have long suspected, and posted that I believe John Major was a Fabian plant to get rid of her.
Major has an elusive background, with fee qualifications, but was steamrolled, beyond his qualifications and abilities in to the position of Chancellor. He orchestrated her downfall, and when she was gone he crashed the economy on Black Wednesday, making LSE Fabian, George Soros a billionaire, and helped usher in Fabian New Labour Under Blair and Mandleson.
Seeing this video, only confirms she knew how dangerous they were. Therefore, she had to go.
Margaret Thatcher@realmrsthatcher
Freedom can also be lost little by little, by what the Fabians call the doctrine of gradualness. A little more taxation here, a little more government expenditure there, year after year until the people are no longer the masters of the state but its servants. There are always, it seems, good reasons advanced for the state to have more power. But rarely for the state to divest itself of power. Each new problem becomes an excuse for more government intervention and less individual responsibility.
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🚨 NEW: The proposed names the Government is considering calling its new towns
- Elizabethtown (after the Queen)
- Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline)
- Attleeton (after ex-PM)
- Athelstan (first King of England)
- Seacole (after nurse Mary)
[@thetimes]
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