10 Years...

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue May 01, 2007 3:53 pm

So it's a decade today since Tony Blair and New Labour came to power.

Do you remember what you were doing 10 years ago?

Post by **snarl** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:12 pm

Yes, it was my last day of secondary school!

I tried to get into some meat market in Romford called Hollywood. Not being in the ownership of fake ID, I watched the majority of my mates walk in then got told to jog on. So I went and got pissed at a snooker club, then went home to watch the landslide of that **** Blair.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:32 pm

I was drinking a steady supply of Snakebite and Black in my Student Union...
infact i did that for most of the second half of the nineties...

Hot Shot · Post by **Hot Shot** » Tue May 01, 2007 6:33 pm

Watching Barney and Sesame Street. Playing with my Thomas trains. Wood and everything, not that cheap plastic I've seen them using lately.

Ah, my years of innocence...

Post by **Best First** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:53 am

It was my Mate Russ's birthday (in my first tear at uni at Sheffield) and we went to an Ale festival at the Octogon, which is a building shaped like a... octogon.

We all got nicely bubbled and then got back to Ranmoor halls of residence to watch the results roll in.

Labour looked pretty safe as i went to bed, and i remember being full of optimisim.

Ah, my young fool.

I think my biggest issues with his reign arenot so much thathe has been hampered by the reality of political life in this country, which is wlays going to put a dent in campaing promises, but his deliberate ditching of ideology in politics, his reliance on spin rather than the truth and, of course, the disgusting murderous farce that is the Iraq war.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Wed May 02, 2007 8:02 am

I remember reading the issues of Wolverine where he was turning more animalistic, and the first murmurs that would lead to Onslaught.

Am I the only one that liked that Crossover?

Post by **Best First** » Wed May 02, 2007 9:30 am

i quite liked the cross over itself (although it meandered a bit in places) but the outcome, i.e Heroes reborn, was pony.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:47 am

Best First wrote:i quite liked the cross over itself (although it meandered a bit in places) but the outcome, i.e Heroes reborn, was pony.

Yes, I suppose that was it's major flaw. But the general concept in itself, a fusion of the darkest sides of Magneto and Xavier, is quite sound.

Especially when he souped up with world-shattering telekinesis (x-man) & reality-altering ( PsiLord)

I'm a bit gutted by the handling of the concept in Onslaught Reborn... it was a perfect opportunity to actually turn Onslaught into one of the best villains of the MU, but instead... alas...

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:20 pm

cant quite recall what I was doing.

Ive always liked what Labour has done. Iraq was a mistake, the decsion to attack was made in good faith I expect but its a mistake Tony will have to live with.
The rest of his **** has made our country rich, dropped crime etc, brought our hospitals back upto date after the tories ****** em. we actually have an econemy once more, less pppl are unemployed etc...
My education rocks aswell, thank you Tony.

Yup, I dont have any issue with T.B but would I have chosen someone else? - no, Tony actually looks like a PM, and i think English politics is in a sorry state because since T.B there hasnt been anyone else even remotely decent to replace him.

At the next election im sure we will get David.C in power, great, hes just an utter joke in every department, that will be fun.

10 years ago, college I think...

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:39 pm

Around 10 and a half years ago Clinton was reelected. I didn't give a bloody stool who won that election.

Lessee... 10 years ago.... probably mooning over my latest high school crush and trying to start a band. Lots of wandering around in the California desert, trying to find my inner Jesus lizard.

Post by **Best First** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:21 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:Iraq was a mistake, the decsion to attack was made in good faith

You are having a laugh, surely?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:03 pm

I said goodbye to my life as a teenager...

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Fri May 04, 2007 8:52 am

10 years ago I voted Labour. It was a sunny day, I was full of optimism and bought some new shoes.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Fri May 04, 2007 9:06 am

Haha, what a cute story!

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Fri May 04, 2007 12:32 pm

I was still at Uni and it was the first time I'd been able to vote, so I travelled all the way 'home' to Hull to pop my democratic cherry!

I didn't vote Labour, cos I didn't trust the smirking git then, and, christ, after living in Hull for 20 years I knew what Prescott was (in)capable of. Nice to be right about something for once anyhow....

As the results came in I popped a special bottle of beer I 'd been saving for a special occasion.....Micheal Portillo loosing his seat seemed very appropriate!! I laughed my tits off! Strange, but actually quite like the bloke these days.

So, I remember being happy to see the back of the Torys, but ambivelant about labour. And by 1998, when I worked for a company delivering the New Deal, I saw what bull***t it all was. I've never trusted a government statistic since. Not even the ones I now help produce as part a government agency. But I'm not bitter