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Tories decide against 'gay tax'...

 
 
Bill Posters
12:25 / 26.01.02
Well bugger me! I never thought I'd see the day.

What's even better is that if you check
here, you will be pleased to be informed that Maggie T has had a stroke. It must however be said that the two events are not (as I initially suspected!) connected, 'cos she had a stroke ages ago.

But it's two bits of good news all the same.



[ 26-01-2002: Message edited by: Bill Posters ]
 
 
Shortfatdyke
14:27 / 26.01.02
well, life ain't so bad after all! tho i can't see grassroots tories going for this.

saying that, i remember a union meeting where equal pension rights were being discussed for the teachers' pension scheme. one bloke said that co-habiting couples, straight and gay, were on their agenda but that they would 'concentrate on getting pension rights for the heterosexual couples first' at which point someone else called out 'hear hear'. i wrote the remarks in the report, but strangely enough the were edited out....
 
 
Ganesh
15:49 / 27.01.02
I'd certainly give Lord Ali a stroke...
 
 
The Knowledge +1
16:23 / 27.01.02
Anyone see question time last thursday? They had a good old sing-song about this at the end.
 
 
Ganesh
16:33 / 27.01.02
I missed it. Was it very controversial or what? The retired colonels and assorted blue-rinses can't have liked it much...
 
 
The Knowledge +1
19:01 / 27.01.02
Some old fart was harping on about how marriage was a fundamental cornerstone of society and that it was right that it should be considered higher up than same-sex marriages, etc, and viable for special stuff like tax-breaks, etc.

He was quite endearing though, in an old person sort of way.
 
  
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