tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post8349505404756100240..comments2023-06-10T16:05:04.411+01:00Comments on Thanet Press Releases: My Article in The Times this week on FoodMichael Childhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post-18412113455601502162013-02-17T22:26:24.457+00:002013-02-17T22:26:24.457+00:00In an attempt to reduce the overnight spam and ina...In an attempt to reduce the overnight spam and inappropriate comment I have changed the comment settings stopping anonymous comment I will allow them again in the morning once I have had an adequate breakfast. Michael Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post-27591572440404916062013-02-17T20:17:30.191+00:002013-02-17T20:17:30.191+00:00Think I have the worst of it now Tom, I am relucta...Think I have the worst of it now Tom, I am reluctant to change the way comment is allowed on both blogs as it feels like caving in but I think I am going to have to set comments to signed on blogger members only when I go out. Michael Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post-7206636306407106262013-02-17T20:07:07.850+00:002013-02-17T20:07:07.850+00:00My pleasure, Michael, whilst elsewhere back on Tha...My pleasure, Michael, whilst elsewhere back on Thanetonline on an earlier Royal Sands posting, MOP, alias you know who, is back to naming councillors in an alleged perjury case. Latest comment on your side bar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post-87416093867111071892013-02-17T19:56:18.380+00:002013-02-17T19:56:18.380+00:00Thanks Tom, missed that one, perhaps you can imagi...Thanks Tom, missed that one, perhaps you can imagine the difficulties associated with managing this sort of thing along with about 100 advertising spam comments a day, using your mobile phone. Michael Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09499435016469020417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post-20342779295964018512013-02-17T19:28:44.625+00:002013-02-17T19:28:44.625+00:00A discussion on food gets hijacked by the banned f...A discussion on food gets hijacked by the banned flights person. Michael, someone is determined to screw your blogsites so maybe he thinks you overcharged him for a book. More likely you deleted some of his naming comments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post-9858096092278385412013-02-17T16:30:18.244+00:002013-02-17T16:30:18.244+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post-50101435184526603392013-02-17T07:31:10.748+00:002013-02-17T07:31:10.748+00:00You're right it is unfair, just like no vote a...You're right it is unfair, just like no vote at 16 yet. Things like the Minimum Living Wage will improve the minimum wages structure and should be from 16 upwards, even a 4 day working week and minimum pension. Removing free education is similarly anti-youth: the old folks had the benefits of a free education, libraries, playing fields etc etc but are now denying it to the next generation. <br /><br />While on this food topic you can imagine the horsemeat muck that's put into school dinners etc. I can't understand why the lips, eyes, sinews etc are not banned from meat products. And through Ramsgate every few weeks we've live animal exports with them confined in lorries for days, scratching each other etc etc before eventually ending up on your plate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post-64017221454901450512013-02-16T21:12:41.966+00:002013-02-16T21:12:41.966+00:00Very funny, but do you think it's fair? The a...Very funny, but do you think it's fair? The arguments I'm always hearing are that (a) they're not as good at doing the job as older people, & (b) to encourage people to employ them, but couldn't we use the same arguments for pensioners and the disabled? It's discrimination, which no politician is interested in fighting as there's no votes in it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post-35623358663784434392013-02-16T20:42:37.476+00:002013-02-16T20:42:37.476+00:00To encourage them to buy up the horsemeat burgers....To encourage them to buy up the horsemeat burgers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post-23403228521279486812013-02-16T20:31:20.168+00:002013-02-16T20:31:20.168+00:00And why do workers under 21 still have a lower min...And why do workers under 21 still have a lower minimum wage?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post-3951877836178052722013-02-16T20:14:25.160+00:002013-02-16T20:14:25.160+00:00Agree with much of this - although you don't c...Agree with much of this - although you don't choose as such at local or national level. Most people just don't vote. And that really worries the parties because they have no popular mandate. In effect 50-70% of the electorate have voted no. And no wonder when in the deepest recession Lords reform and gay marriages are somehow seen as important. Or in thanet petty bickering or citing national policies for inaction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post-12416276870807908702013-02-16T19:28:48.580+00:002013-02-16T19:28:48.580+00:00That is as maybe, 18:42, but will it change anythi...That is as maybe, 18:42, but will it change anything. There used to be a contributor to the Thanet blogs who talked about the people waking up and seeing through the establishment. He claimed their days were numbered yet, sadly it would seem, he did not last long enough to see the new dawn. Look at the USA, the land of the free, an economic power house and they produce a 'yes we can' democrat who doesn't and a gaff prone republican as their best candidates for president.<br /><br />The decline of this country over my lifetime has been headlong and frightening yet has any government arrested that slide even for a moment, no. Yet, we the people, theoretically the ones with the power to choose, wage our endless petty party war, loosing sight of the attributes of the individuals in the process. Thus we choose, on party lines, between 'Ego trip' Hart and 'Bumbling' Bayford in Thanet or huggy Dave and plasticine man Ed at national. Scary really!George Hubernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post-26520501998318857012013-02-16T18:42:46.108+00:002013-02-16T18:42:46.108+00:00We're agreed George. Laura is the same sort of...We're agreed George. Laura is the same sort of party nonentity as Ladyman. If there's a minimum wage why is there not a minimum pension? Governemnts don't create economies they jsut tax them and add civil servants to tax them some more. At least FOI now should detail the costs of bureaucracy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post-62781255043504039592013-02-16T18:32:56.020+00:002013-02-16T18:32:56.020+00:00What did her predecessor, Ladyman do, apart from d...What did her predecessor, Ladyman do, apart from disappearing as soon as he lost his seat. So much for Ladyman's Thanet that we had to suffer weekly in the Gazette like he cared about us. Get real 18:21 you are talking about politicians here and all they do is soundbites. Blair was good at it, Cameron is good at it, Obama is good at it, but what do they actually achieve for you and I apart from screw things up. Everytime I think I have got my retirement plans in place along comes a Brown to mess up my private pension fund, then an Osborne to delay my state pension, then I need five more years contributions than I thought and my endowment is f****d because both Major's and Blair's governments managed to create adverse investment conditions such that it will not pay off the mortgage. They are all the same, my friend, incompetent, but none of them finish up poor. Just the likes of you and I do.George Hubernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1491979293469345296.post-26040133002985237282013-02-16T18:21:01.639+00:002013-02-16T18:21:01.639+00:00A statement of the bleedin' obvious from Laura...A statement of the bleedin' obvious from Laura with not one idea on improving things. After nearly 3 years what has she done?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com