tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post9139523084417917228..comments2024-03-29T05:13:18.992+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: ShameLabanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-29691470402220164342007-09-04T16:31:00.000+00:002007-09-04T16:31:00.000+00:00Why, and when, did undergraduates start dole-bludg...Why, and when, did undergraduates start dole-bludging? In my day (1964-8) we all worked in the vacations, except perhaps at Easter when jobs were harder to find. That plus your grant kept you ticking along comfortably. Within a few - but how few? - years, the buggers were all claiming benefits. What happened? Whenever it was, that plus the miners' strikes and the Winter of Discontent seem to me to constitute the undeniable evidence of the rot that's usually blamed on the Thatcher years. But she was elected as a reaction to them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-40347895589631134752007-09-03T07:27:00.000+00:002007-09-03T07:27:00.000+00:00"I was hugely impressed and moved by the sad delic...<I>"I was hugely impressed and moved by the sad delicacy of his recreation of his mother, the regret that she should have been a victim of his newly adopted radical disapproval."</I><BR/><BR/>She's his mother, she'll forgive him. Let's hope history can too. At least he's seen the light now...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com