Sammy G
Ex-Bluelighter
Are you suggesting that the Blair administration was corrupt? 

#At the same time, there's a knee-jerk default 'leftist' reaction to such news items which is often just as distorted as the picture presented by mainstream media. The Robotic Left, they're called, and you can read them even more easily than the 'general public'.
In any case, what was mentioned in passing as part of a wider moan about the absurdity of NHS beaureaucracy seems to have become the crux of the issue, which is something I can't really be arsed with.
Just off to sell my data round the corner.
Are you suggesting that the Blair administration was corrupt?![]()
Claire Short alsoPrescott is about the only politician of the last 15 years or so that i have liked, the last of the breed of politicians that seemed to have any noticeable personality about them. Im sure he must have 'had something' on Tony Blair, they way Blair was allways so loyal to him, and Prescott allways kept his deputy PM job despite all his gaffs. He only finally lost his job on the same day that Gordon Brown defeated Blair for the prime ministership.
Claire Short also
she still did the right thing tho, let's grant her with that at least?Its a shame she made a mess of her resignation over Iraq. Had she not fudged the whole thing herself and Robin Cook (IIRC) could have been the 2 to walk out with their heads held high. They still could, as they were right all along, just a shame that Claire Short somehow fucked up on resigning properly and quickly enough. No doubt there was a lot of behind the scenes pressure a la House of Cards for her not to do so, but somehow because she was seen to dither for too long over it her stance and reputation as a politician with principles was diminished.
she still did the right thing tho, let's grant her with that at least?
U got any pirate radio ? up north like this
Ive no doubt there must be, or must have been something simillar coming from Moss Side etc at some point. The closest i got to pirate radio was John Peel (haha) so i cant really answer properly im sorry. He did play the full range of 'underground music' though, you have to give him that ?
There are a few pirate stations around, I'm pretty sure.
I used to listen to Irie FM regularly when I lived in Old Trafford. Played mostly reggae (you'd never guess from the name).
It's dying out though. You've got a generation of kids who wouldn't know their way around an FM dial.