tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post3586727528679109201..comments2024-03-28T18:41:31.221+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: Deus Nobis Haec Otia FecitDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-87229780798479416062012-01-01T16:59:51.280+00:002012-01-01T16:59:51.280+00:00It certainly is, as is everything that you say. Th...It certainly is, as is everything that you say. Thank you.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-50479766542335238602012-01-01T16:26:25.123+00:002012-01-01T16:26:25.123+00:00Harold Wilson made great play of being a Yorkshire...Harold Wilson made great play of being a Yorkshireman, but he was a Merseyside MP.<br /><br />You are right that Welsh devolution could not have been attempted while there was a Merseyside MP in Number 10. It is shocking that Scottish devolution was enacted while there was a North East MP there.<br /><br />Didn't Heseltine start out as a National Liberal? I think that that is important, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-71025444179838390192011-12-31T23:33:18.584+00:002011-12-31T23:33:18.584+00:00All right, so Geordie Shore and Geordie Finishing ...All right, so <em>Geordie Shore</em> and <em>Geordie Finishing School</em> were not exactly aimed at me. In any case, people from County Durham are not Geordies, as Geordies would be the first to tell you. But the latter, since it was made at public expense, was still the most pig ignorant BBC depiction of the North East since it sent some Jolly Hockey Sticks reporter to walk around upmarket Tynemouth, which always had a Tory MP until 1997, and marvel that the Conservative Party had managed to win a few council seats anywhere so improbable. The question should have been how it ever managed to lose them. Even last year, it still did not managed to win back the seat in Parliament. Have you ever been to Tynemouth?<br /><br />Until this year, Newcastle had had a Lib Dem council for some years. That authority was under Tory control for much of the post-War period, and the city regularly returned Tory MPs for certain seats. There is still a strikingly high number of privately schooled children, a posh university with Princess Eugenie at it, a thriving arts scene that is certainly not reminiscent of the pitmen painters, several gentlemen’s clubs, a racecourse of some importance, and no shortage of the swankier sorts of shops, restaurants, bars, and the like. There are poor places around it (as well as several very rich ones), but there are very few poor areas in it, although the ones that there are, are undeniably very poor indeed.<br /><br />Any chance of a programme in which the products of somewhere like the Central High are sent to somewhere like the South Coast or numerous parts of London in order to learn how the other half live?David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-36500470425261183542011-12-31T16:41:16.455+00:002011-12-31T16:41:16.455+00:00The North East is certainly misunderstood. Just th...The North East is certainly misunderstood. Just the other day, I listened as I was told again how hard it must have been for Cheryl Cole to have grown up in rough, poor Newcastle. You know, the city of department stores, with the largest city centre shopping centre in the UK and the most profitable M&S footcourt anywhere (how middle class is that?), where 50,000 people can afford to watch one of the most overpriced sports teams in the world EVERY FORTNIGHT and the same proportion of children attend private schools as in large parts of the Home Counties. Then again, she is from North Shields.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-45622378990316174312011-12-30T20:26:45.452+00:002011-12-30T20:26:45.452+00:00Not entirely by either, and they are not the same ...Not entirely by either, and they are not the same thing.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-27955873040065758692011-12-30T20:25:27.841+00:002011-12-30T20:25:27.841+00:00You are still not entirely convinced by Ed Miliban...You are still not entirely convinced by Ed Miliband's Blue Labour, then?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com