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Ha !! Now there was something that was very much of its time. I can't imagine it working dramatically now.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Dec 12th, 2009 at 05:09:38 PM EST
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Well I have a hard time imagining Mel with his politics coming up with anything other than his daughter was a terrorist, and that they discover that the environmental bits were all a left wing conspiracy.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Dec 12th, 2009 at 05:23:06 PM EST
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"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sat Dec 12th, 2009 at 06:56:15 PM EST
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Dosn't his description of the type of socailists he likes sound so much like Blair et al.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Dec 12th, 2009 at 07:17:30 PM EST
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The last line is the one important to us.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Dec 13th, 2009 at 05:41:31 AM EST
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Don't forget I have ancestors too

[mental reservation]and not all of them were married[/mental reservation]

The ending of that was extremely affecting. What is doubly interesting is that, in the original book by Chris Mullins MP, Perkins simply resigned as PM and quietly left; the dark forces won. For once the happy ending of the filmed version was more dramatically powerful and satisfying.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Dec 13th, 2009 at 06:04:58 AM EST
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