No Respect

[Dave Cooper please]

 Selective reading DC.

How was it selective? I replied exactly to what you wrote.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

 I can never understand this "pining" for the mining communities.Who wants their children to go down the mines, certainly not the patronizing left who kept supporting the miners from afar.

 Where was this support, when the far greater economic disaster of Rover being closed down happened?How many jobs in the midlands depended on its existence . Oh that happened under a Labour govt........does'nt count then.

 Fasht is right, hypocrisy rules ok.

I don't describe myself as a leftie and I find the wishes of death on an admittedly horrible old bag distasteful, but I did go on the Rover march and I did give money to the miners.
Nothing is as black and white as you think, I was joined by two staunch Tories on that Rover march.

You're right on one thing though, the lack of help from the Labour Government to help Rover was a disgrace, they didn't show the same reticence to the fucking banks when they came calling.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Rover made shit cars of low quality

Have to disagree there ads.
We've had our 25 for 10 years, still going strong and barely had any trouble with it.
They're well known for their reliability.
I won't get rid of it till it ceases up.

Longbridge suffered their fate due to shit, greedy management and a Government who refused to help.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

How the fuck did this thread end up being about politics?

[Ads]

This is what you've done to us Villa!

My first car was a Rover 200, not a fan.

[danlanza]

Rover made shit cars of low quality

Have to disagree there ads.
We've had our 25 for 10 years, still going strong and barely had any trouble with it.
They're well known for their reliability.
I won't get rid of it till it ceases up.

Longbridge suffered their fate due to shit, greedy management and a Government who refused to help.

We have a bloke over here that used to work at Rover. He had the foresight to move over here, buy loads of cars and a shite load of spare parts for them aswell. UK Car Autos, and they are bloody good. Once our astra has died of death we will be buying a Rover of this bloke.

[cdbearsfan]

How the fuck did this thread end up being about politics?

It's a lot more enjoyable than talking about football at the moment!

[Rip Van We Go Again]

My first car was a Rover 200, not a fan.

Very sensible ads, you'd never have got your family in a fan, even if it was one of those stand up ones that oscillate.

[cdbearsfan]

I assume it was a misprint and he meant to type "van".

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I assume it was a misprint and he meant to type "van".

As in Van Morrison?
I can't imagine that fat, grumpy bastard putting up with kids playing up on his back and having luggage shoved into his ample arse.

[Dave Clark Five]

Bloody Spill Chock.

[danlanza]

I assume it was a misprint and he meant to type "van".

As in Van Morrison?
I can't imagine that fat, grumpy bastard putting up with kids playing up on his back and having luggage shoved into his ample arse.

Bloody shite live aswell. Albums are good though.

[Vancouver]

Can you imagine what would have happened should the government bail out the miners like they did with the banks recently? A lot of money there. Call it a sort of 'parachute' payment to help northerner communities back on their feet

[Des Little]

Thank you and goodnight from Question Time

[pestria]

Everyone has a choice I agree but if you can't applaud for sixty seconds to show your support for one of our own it's a bit of a poor show.

The OP and my post a couple of days ago simply made the point that no one should be made to join in - villa or opposition fans alike. 

I respect other people's wish to applaud even though I clearly don't agree with it, so I just let them get on with it.  I don't understand why other's didn't show the same 'respect' to me.

Who, what, how and for how long we choose to show respect/support is up to the individual.  This was the reason for citing Terraces (which is not arty bollocks) is that many of our fans are acting as if straight out of the play and might learn something if they watched or read it.

For what it's worth I would be happy to clap if it was to show support for everyone suffering from cancer/leukaemia, the people caring for them, the medics and the scientists working for a cure.

I am not happy supporting any individual in the current way because there is no clear end to it.  Do we clap until he's cured (notionally 5 years), do we stop if he were to die? Etc.