Merle, Even when she's 6ft under, that woman and her policies will still be causing problems. Yeah, I remember little 'Honest John' Howard. Evil-weevil policies, but a brilliant politician (in a really, really, really evil way). I didn't know much about the current PM until after I'd left Oz. I know she's from Barry, which is 9 miles from where I live. I also heard she proclaimed herself as an atheist since serving as PM. What a different world to the US! Hey, did you know that in Britain, Charles Darwin is celebrated on the back of a £10 note? Estonia. Don't know much, I'm afraid. I have heard that when they were struggling for independence they formed an unbroken arm to arm link with people (2,000,000) from Lithuania and Latvia and sang. Must've been amazing! Yes, Wales is described as beautiful and mysterious. Celtic history is noticeable (castles, language, art) and permeates thru Welsh consciousness. A land of myth and legend... Mike
________________________________ From: Merle Lester <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 8 August 2012, 8:22 Subject: Re: [Zen] evil weevil mike... sorry... . thatcher was the model our former liberal p.m. howard used... the little pip squeak fascist australians voted in. .now we have julia gillard,,,welsh..migrated as a child...She is brilliant! she'll get turfed out by the liberal propaganda machine that all the "little people " listen to with ears wide shut yes i know about the falklands war..what would you expect from thatcher? no i do not know anything about wales..was dylan thomas welsh?...and richard burton? you's can sing well..that i know..and the country side is very beautiful so..you were over run by other tribes... bit like estonia..my heritage merle Merle, >mike..for christ sake..i know it was a free election... how much did rupert >murdoch have in manipulating the voters? jesus we all know that "free" ain't what it was or is do you honestly believe "joe blow" knows anything about politics? he is mass fed with bullshit and he swallows it hook line and sinker get real...< And then the classic, "mike do not lecture me". I dunno why, but something about a goose and a gander springs to mind. Anyway, .. >you rave about thatcher ..okay you are in wales..so you have >labour..right..why are you so bothered with Thatcherism then? Because it is personal. Did you miss the bit I said about dead soldiers in the Falklands? My community being destroyed? Or maybe you don't know much about UK politics (which is fair enough). Wales might send mostly Labour MPs to represent her, but the 30 we send kinda pales against the 580 England sends. Thatcher used this unevenness of numbers to fuck Wales over in a way not done before or since. >..good on you stick to your guns..why did you let the english run amok in >wales?. It took the Normans 1 day to beat the Saxons, but 200 years to get even close to conquering the Welsh. And try as they might they still haven't. Seen all those bilingual signs, seen the Welsh language TV stations, heard the Welsh only radio stations, read the UK government forms that are now legally required to be written in Welsh as well as English, heard about the English-owned holiday homes in Wales that are burnt down to prevent local Welsh people being unable to afford them, the vote for Devolution which gave us a National Assembly? Not one of these concessions were given out of the goodness of the UK government's heart, but was hard fought for by local Welsh people. And not one spot of blood was spilt in doing so. Do you also believe the Aborigines also "let" the early colonists "run amok" on their land? Don't lecture me on things you don't know. Yma o hyd. Cymru am byth! Mike
