We're All In This Together .....

[Flosshilde]

Anyone else noticed how topics involving trains frequently go off-track? :whistle:

Now we have the splendid sight of a senior Tory bewailing his rotten luck at having to pay his own legal expensdes as the result of the Coalition's pernicious attack on the Legal Aid budget- step forward Chris Grayling.

http://theconversation.com/evans-and-allies-complain-about-cps-as-coalition-wrecks-justice-25619?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+15+April+2014&utm_content=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+15+April+2014+CID_51d1097042c17c58ac7d43b48e5b916b&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Evans%20and%20allies%20complain%20about%20CPS%20as%20coalition%20wrecks%20justice

It's all too easy to wallow in political schadenfreude but this is really serious

YEs - he has the gall to say that now he would oppose the reduction in legal aid, rather than support as he did. Typical Tory - doesn't care about anyone else, but when he's affected ...

[teamsaint]

YEs - he has the gall to say that now he would oppose the reduction in legal aid, rather than support as he did. Typical Politician- doesn't care about anyone else, but when he's affected ...

I have corrected that for you, Floss................ winkeysmileything

[Ferretfancy]

Does anybody remember a certain Professor Joad ? He was a regular broadcaster and academic who appeared on radio in the popular Brains Trust programme.

After being caught without paying a rail ticket, he never appeared on the BBC again.

A bit extreme perhaps, but that was when people resigned on a pint of honour. Sadly the days when a revolver was left on the table in the next room are no longer with us.

[teamsaint]

Does anybody remember a certain Professor Joad ? He was a regular broadcaster and academic who appeared on radio in the popular Brains Trust programme.

After being caught without paying a rail ticket, he never appeared on the BBC again.

A bit extreme perhaps, but that was when people resigned on a pint of honour. Sadly the days when a revolver was left on the table in the next room are no longer with us.

interesting chap !!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._E._M._Joad

[french frank]

interesting chap !!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._E._M._Joad

In case people didn't look up the reference in 'Find a Grave' (!):

"In 1948, however, Joad pleaded guilty at Tower Bridge Magistrates Court to fare evasion on the railways, and was fined two pounds plus costs of 25 guineas. It emerged that, so far from being an isolated incident, Joad had an obsession about trying to defraud the railways, and he used to carry pocketfuls of penny tickets, lie about which station he had boarded the train, and even scramble over hedges and fields to avoid ticket collectors. He was replaced on the next edition of the programme and never appeared on it again. "

[amateur51]

YEs - he has the gall to say that now he would oppose the reduction in legal aid, rather than support as he did. Typical Tory - doesn't care about anyone else, but when he's affected ...

Useful case history, Flossie.

I wonder what Nige would say ....

[amateur51]

Does anybody remember a certain Professor Joad ? He was a regular broadcaster and academic who appeared on radio in the popular Brains Trust programme.

After being caught without paying a rail ticket, he never appeared on the BBC again.

A bit extreme perhaps, but that was when people resigned on a pint of honour. Sadly the days when a revolver was left on the table in the next room are no longer with us.

Speaking of which have you seen this fillum Ferret?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089716/?ref_=ttpl_ql

[Ferretfancy]

[QUOTE=amateur51;393299]Speaking of which have you seen this fillum Ferret?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089716/?ref_=ttpl_ql[/QUOTE

Ams, you've done it again! I'll have to do an Amazon one click!

I expect you also know Szabo's wonderful film Mephisto, it's a moving demonstration of the way that small compromises with political evil can lead to despair and annihilation.

There was also John Osborne's play which was bases on the Colonel Redl affair, was it Inadmissible evidence ?

[amateur51]

[QUOTE=Ferretfancy;393384]

Speaking of which have you seen this fillum Ferret?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089716/?ref_=ttpl_ql[/QUOTE

Ams, you've done it again! I'll have to do an Amazon one click!

I expect you also know Szabo's wonderful film Mephisto, it's a moving demonstration of the way that small compromises with political evil can lead to despair and annihilation.

There was also John Osborne's play which was bases on the Colonel Redl affair, was it Inadmissible evidence ?

Yes Ferret Mephisto is another stunning film, and the Osborne play was A Patriot for Me I think. Another play in the same vein was Good by C.P.Taylor which I saw I think at the Aldwych theatre with the remarkable Alan Howard.

I feel a few evenings with the DVD player coming on.

[Flosshilde]

Splendid programme on the MAria Miller afair just finished on R4 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040lpgx

[MrGongGong]

http://eveningharold.com/2014/04/18/i-stung-pm-not-to-punish-but-to-enable-says-jellyfish/

[mercia]

Joad

....... it all depends what you mean by a train ticket ....

[teamsaint]

do you need a ticket for a gravy train?

[Serial_Apologist]

do you need a ticket for a gravy train?

Saucy!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

brilliant exposition!