tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post6602881430253248534..comments2023-05-08T10:46:34.371+01:00Comments on Y Cneifiwr: Back to the futureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-7641328148083199312014-05-10T06:29:37.838+01:002014-05-10T06:29:37.838+01:00Thank you Richard. Memory can play tricks, and per...Thank you Richard. Memory can play tricks, and perhaps it wasn't the Cuban missile crisis, but I can clearly remember some scare or other which had us tots worrying that there was going to be a war and we would all be killed.<br /><br />I know you are right about the final abolition of exchange controls - was it really as late as 1979 when they stopped recording foreign exchange transactions in passports?<br /><br />Thank God smallpox has been eradicated. The fact that there were still outbreaks in Wales as late as 1962 despite the availability of a vaccine speaks volumes.<br /><br /><br /><br />Cneifiwrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08767078276794410524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-80757724909400754512014-05-10T00:00:01.465+01:002014-05-10T00:00:01.465+01:00Great post Cneifiwr. It resonates with me. I'...Great post Cneifiwr. It resonates with me. I'm a year younger than you and grew up just outside Llanelli. A few comments:<br /><br />- Exchange controls were abolished on 24 November 1979, so nearly six years after the UK joined the European Communities, as they then were. (EEC, ECSC and EURATOM). They were an early fruit of Thatcherism. <br /><br />- Lady Isobel Barnet was indeed a regular on Any Questions? She later committed suicide after a shoplifting charge. <br /><br />- Did you really follow the Cuban Missile Crisis at the age of four years and three months? That's what I call precocious. I've always regarded myself as reasonably politically aware but the first major event where I understood what was happening was the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, when I was nearly nine. <br /><br />- Sorry about your great-granny, but smallpox vaccination was compulsory under a series of Acts of Parliament, easily Googleable at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_Act. Presumably your great-great-grandparents either ignored the law, or sought an exemption. <br /><br />- You must tell us more about your encounter with Edward Heath at some point. Richard Powellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-64001020260754463662014-05-09T21:43:14.769+01:002014-05-09T21:43:14.769+01:00Excellent post Cneifiwr, I agree with Tessa, very ...Excellent post Cneifiwr, I agree with Tessa, very evocative. <br />Jacqui (nearly 52)caebrwynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17233902574832152764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-22232826562242730882014-05-09T21:32:14.915+01:002014-05-09T21:32:14.915+01:00There are no political heroes today, that is unfor...There are no political heroes today, that is unfortunately a thing of the past.<br />Our current governing politicians are completely out of touch with the electorate, there is a LOT of fiddling going on for which the punishment is "say you're sorry and it will be OK".<br />All promises are to be fulfilled "after" the next election.<br />Our Government system badly needs a good shaking and that is why UKIP will do well in the European Election.Wavellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-53396740700016982362014-05-09T20:03:40.374+01:002014-05-09T20:03:40.374+01:00This may give a different perspective
http://www....This may give a different perspective<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYVDcQtaPOsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-70835538725944648722014-05-09T16:24:25.237+01:002014-05-09T16:24:25.237+01:00When you think of the courageous things that polit...When you think of the courageous things that politicians have done: e.g. Bevan creating the NHS in spite of all the opposition he faced from the medical establishment, the massive social housing building in the new towns after the war, the freecuniversity education we were able to have, etc you wonder what went wrong.<br /><br />Where are the political heroes for today?Redheadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-56083852120247548752014-05-09T10:10:31.551+01:002014-05-09T10:10:31.551+01:00Excellent and evocative post, thank you.
Tessa (Ag...Excellent and evocative post, thank you.<br />Tessa (Age 49 and a half. Former schoolchild of St Mary's RC, then QE Grammar, Carmarthen).Tessanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-33151786571938225222014-05-09T09:26:46.583+01:002014-05-09T09:26:46.583+01:00Cneifiwr so much of this resonates with me too.......Cneifiwr so much of this resonates with me too....we must be of a similar age.<br />I too remember the horror of Aberfan and the considerable empathy and sympathy felt by my family for the people of the village, my Nana also died in what was once the red brick workhouse but became the hospital for elderly dementia sufferers, I went to see and listen to Bernadette Devlin even though I was a teenager living at home and my Mum and Dad thought I would become a dangerous radical! She was speaking in a small room in Bolton Town Hall.<br />I was born and brought up Lancashire and I am hugely proud of that.<br />Experiences and a willingness to look past the given message is what shaped many of us in the four nations. <br />I am not personally heavily pro Europe but Farage and the other posh boys - your Osbourne's, Cameron's and, yes, your Ed Millibands - who want to run our countries and lives piss me off more. They have no comprehension of what makes many of us who we are and the decency that underpins and motivates us whether English, Welsh, Scottish or Irish. <br />I will go to vote -how could I not when my aforementioned Nana was one of the working class suffragettes? - but I will be writing None of the Above on my ballot paper.<br />Maybe a pointless thing to do in a way, but for me it makes a point and I think my Nana would approve! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com