Recent content by David Gwilliam

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    Last Post Dean Hammond and my lack of street cred.

    Thank you everyone for your kind words.
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    Last Post Dean Hammond and my lack of street cred.

    This will probably be my last post Twice recently I have come close to joining the great football forum in the sky. I have on each occasion asked people to contact the forum to say how much I enjoyed being a member. I realised that when the time came they would forget. So here goes. One...
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    Mary Elizabeth Truss

    I am reminded of Jeremy Thorpe's comment on Harold Macmillan having sacked a third of his cabinet "Greater love hath no man than that he lay down his friends to save himself." Liz Truss will probably survive in the next few weeks. However, the real test will come with a byelection in the...
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    Mary Elizabeth Truss

    I think BM has been proved right. I cannot think of a Prime Minister who lost credibility so quickly. Fox Fan criticises my use of History but I feel it useful to ask how the party of Churchill and Macmillan came up with Boris Johnson. How did the party of Wilson and Callaghan end up with Jeremy...
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    Mary Elizabeth Truss

    In retrospect my comments on Parafox post went too far and were unduly harsh. I was going to send him a private message but since my comments were made in public I think it right to apologise to Parafox in public.
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    Mary Elizabeth Truss

    I rather enjoyed Blue Maniac's response. I had made what I felt was a serious comment on Liz Truss and Blue Maniac gave what I felt was a serious response about Liz Truss. I have not asked BM or anybody else for a better response. "Condescending supercilious oneupmanship were your words and...
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    Mary Elizabeth Truss

    The discussion has got off track which is partly my fault. I was diverted by Parafox attempts at punctuation. I would have left out the passage on Sir Anthony Eden if I had realised that Foxfan finds History difficult . My point is a simple one. Since at the time of writing Liz Truss was not yet...
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    Mary Elizabeth Truss

    Sorry but I will not be taking your advice Fox Fan I will continue to read Parafox I would guess you are reacting to his adolescent language. However, I found his use of three question marks in one sentence amusing though his English teacher may feel differently. It is important to read his...
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    Mary Elizabeth Truss

    Parfox all they have in common is my contempt for them. I have contempt for Thatcher because of her divisiveness, I believe leaders should aim to bring people together. I cannot imagine Churchill. Attlee or Wilson saying that "there is no such thing as society". As for Corbyn he has consistently...
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    Mary Elizabeth Truss

    So it is goodbye Boris. For me the most contemptable leaders of recent years have been Margaret Thatcher and Jeremy Corbyn. To be fair to them neither would have partied while the country was in lockdown. There was the poignant image of the Queen sitting alone at the funeral of her husband and...
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    The RIP Thread

    Rest in Peace Mikhail Gorbachev and thank you. . He was surely the greatest leader since Churchill. Obviously Nelson Mandela was a great leader but apartheid was already fragile and would have soon ended without him Mandela liberated one country. Gorbachev brought freedom to over a dozen...
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    Wagatha Christie

    Edmund Burke on Mrs Vardy I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of Leeds United supporters has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever
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    Pre Match Roma v Leicester

    How sad to be a modern footballer. All that money and yet they will not see four of the tern best churches in the world (IMO) They will not eat bruschetta and sip frascati. Perhaps it is best they will not see that no WAG can compete with the women of Rome - second only to the women of Aylestone...
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    Pre Match Leicester v Roma

    Twenty years ago I was in a Roman taxi with a friend who supported West Ham. To my friends delight the taxi driver had heard of West Ham but had not heard of Leicester City. Well the Roman taxi drivers have heard of Leicester City now. I love Rome and believe it is the greatest city in the...
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    Post Match Leicester 0 Aston Villa 0

    Enjoy it while you can Lako. For the first time since 1968 health issues have prevented me going this season. When it is being shown I enjoy it at a friendly pub with beer and a cheese and onion cob But it is not the same. It may have been a poor game but Lako I would have loved to be there.
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