Certainly very topical in UK. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl1jPqqTdNo
Although I don't think many people are aware that in 2 years time there won't be an NHS in this country. No-one seems to be bothered and we've just let it happen.
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Well if the cuts in education and arts grants are anything to go by the only instrumentalists we'll be producing are those from families with the means and the where with all, or those from musical families tied into a broader musical network of friends and associates.
Still, the first bit of rap that I've enjoyed, thanks.
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This country is going downhill. Makes me almost want to return to the States. Except that's going downhill as well, only with more right wing yahoos. Bollox. Fancy buying an island somewhere and starting our own country?
Re: Is this the folk music of today...or tomorrow?
Maybe. It's still pants being less than a year away from job-hunting at a time when they don't seem keen on foreigners. Or the arts and humanities. Or universities. Or people who want jobs.
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@silverspear
"fancy buying an island somewhere and starting our own country?"
Well it's too expensive to buy any more, but there's always
good old Australia. We have a great national health system.
Our Liberal party (an oxymoron for sure) would like to kill it off,
but the people like it too much.
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Not to forget restoring privelege to education while making mealy-mouthed, toothless, unenforceable "agreements" with the bankers who contributed so heavily to the crisis while lining their own pockets.
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Hup, people like the NHS here too. But unfortunately by not getting rid of Gordon Brown, our Labour Party allowed an unelectable leader to stand in the last elections enabling the tories and libdems to sneak in as a coalition. They then have sneakily been working to dismantle the NHS, and they will succeed, you wait and see. If this model "works" you bet the right-wingers in Oz and NZ etc will follow the example.
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"Maybe. It's still pants being less than a year away from job-hunting at a time when they don't seem keen on foreigners. Or the arts and humanities. Or universities. Or people who want jobs."
Look on the bright side - you've only got 40 odd years to kill until you reach retirement age, and then you'll get the best care in the world (providing the Tories don't stay in power too long).
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"Lets take Mull. There can't be that many there..." (Eosaph)
I've been there. You can't see the mountains for the rain and the midges. That's probably why there are not many there!
"Antarctica" (Whiddler) - Getting very crowded these days, I think, though if the ice *really* starts to go, one might get a place as a convict...
"Something in the Mediterranean near Crete" (John Culhane) - There's nothing in the Med very near Crete except migrant boats and the odd very rare turtle. But Crete's an okay place.
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Maybe it could, but it probably won't.
The idea of taking one with us to a place with a congenial climate where the midge is unknown, has its appeal.
HM Government itself aspired to do this, namely by dynamiting either an island or a promontory of Harris (I think) and shipping it down to make hardcore for the South-East. I think this was under Major - it could have been under Blair.
The locals and others went BALLISTIC. The idea was dropped.
Is this the folk music of today...or tomorrow?
Is this the folk music of today...or tomorrow?
Certainly very topical in UK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl1jPqqTdNo
Although I don't think many people are aware that in 2 years time there won't be an NHS in this country. No-one seems to be bothered and we've just let it happen.
# Posted on March 31st 2011 by Rudall the time
Re: Is this the folk music of today...or tomorrow?
Well if the cuts in education and arts grants are anything to go by the only instrumentalists we'll be producing are those from families with the means and the where with all, or those from musical families tied into a broader musical network of friends and associates.
Still, the first bit of rap that I've enjoyed, thanks.
# Posted on March 31st 2011 by Solidmahog
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Not my type of music either, Solid, but I liked that one.
# Posted on March 31st 2011 by Rudall the time
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Another thing, it isn't so much cuts, as just a total butchering of the NHS, cuts or no cuts.
# Posted on March 31st 2011 by Rudall the time
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I don't normally like rap, but at least that had a good point to make.
"RIP NHS 1948-2011".
# Posted on March 31st 2011 by Tom.M
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You know the Tories have been dying to do it for YEARS.
# Posted on March 31st 2011 by DrSilverSpear
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What's NHS?
# Posted on March 31st 2011 by Bob himself
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Its the thing we don't have in this country, Bob -- National Health Service.
# Posted on March 31st 2011 by John Culhane
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Another case of American exceptionalism?
# Posted on March 31st 2011 by Bob himself
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# Posted on March 31st 2011 by John Culhane
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"Another thing, it isn't so much cuts, as just a total butchering of the NHS, cuts or no cuts." Rudall the time
"you don't know what you got till it's gone.." Joni Michell
# Posted on March 31st 2011 by Solidmahog
Re: Is this the folk music of today...or tomorrow?
This country is going downhill. Makes me almost want to return to the States. Except that's going downhill as well, only with more right wing yahoos. Bollox. Fancy buying an island somewhere and starting our own country?
# Posted on March 31st 2011 by DrSilverSpear
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"This country is going downhill" TSS
It does that periodically here........
# Posted on March 31st 2011 by Solidmahog
Re: Is this the folk music of today...or tomorrow?
Maybe. It's still pants being less than a year away from job-hunting at a time when they don't seem keen on foreigners. Or the arts and humanities. Or universities. Or people who want jobs.
# Posted on March 31st 2011 by DrSilverSpear
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Lets take Mull. There can't be that many there -
# Posted on March 31st 2011 by Eòsaph
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Antarctica might be a good investment at the rate we're going
# Posted on April 1st 2011 by Whiddler
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I'd go for someplace warm -- maybe something in the Mediterranean near Crete? Probably some great bouzouki players in that area.
# Posted on April 1st 2011 by John Culhane
Re: Is this the folk music of today...or tomorrow?
@silverspear
"fancy buying an island somewhere and starting our own country?"
Well it's too expensive to buy any more, but there's always
good old Australia. We have a great national health system.
Our Liberal party (an oxymoron for sure) would like to kill it off,
but the people like it too much.
# Posted on April 1st 2011 by Hup
Re: Is this the folk music of today...or tomorrow?
Not to forget restoring privelege to education while making mealy-mouthed, toothless, unenforceable "agreements" with the bankers who contributed so heavily to the crisis while lining their own pockets.
# Posted on April 1st 2011 by Alex Wilding
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Hup, people like the NHS here too. But unfortunately by not getting rid of Gordon Brown, our Labour Party allowed an unelectable leader to stand in the last elections enabling the tories and libdems to sneak in as a coalition. They then have sneakily been working to dismantle the NHS, and they will succeed, you wait and see. If this model "works" you bet the right-wingers in Oz and NZ etc will follow the example.
# Posted on April 1st 2011 by Rudall the time
Re: Is this the folk music of today...or tomorrow?
"Maybe. It's still pants being less than a year away from job-hunting at a time when they don't seem keen on foreigners. Or the arts and humanities. Or universities. Or people who want jobs."
Look on the bright side - you've only got 40 odd years to kill until you reach retirement age, and then you'll get the best care in the world (providing the Tories don't stay in power too long).
# Posted on April 1st 2011 by skreech
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"It's still pants being less than a year away from job-hunting at a time when they don't seem keen on foreigners..."
Don't worry, The SilverSpear, you've got English.
Like the rest of us you probably don't speak it as well as the Poles and the Scandinavians, but it must still count for *something*...
# Posted on April 1st 2011 by nicholas
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"Lets take Mull. There can't be that many there..." (Eosaph)
I've been there. You can't see the mountains for the rain and the midges. That's probably why there are not many there!
"Antarctica" (Whiddler) - Getting very crowded these days, I think, though if the ice *really* starts to go, one might get a place as a convict...
"Something in the Mediterranean near Crete" (John Culhane) - There's nothing in the Med very near Crete except migrant boats and the odd very rare turtle. But Crete's an okay place.
# Posted on April 1st 2011 by nicholas
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In that case, who would argue with us taking it. Scotland has lots of islands. It can spare one.
# Posted on April 1st 2011 by DrSilverSpear
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Maybe it could, but it probably won't.
The idea of taking one with us to a place with a congenial climate where the midge is unknown, has its appeal.
HM Government itself aspired to do this, namely by dynamiting either an island or a promontory of Harris (I think) and shipping it down to make hardcore for the South-East. I think this was under Major - it could have been under Blair.
The locals and others went BALLISTIC. The idea was dropped.
So they'll be watching their islands like hawks.
# Posted on April 1st 2011 by nicholas