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Post subject: Re: Is health and safety big business the further North you

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 12:56 pm

Mintball

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DaveO wrote:I just looked him up on Wikipedia and while I always knew he was a Lloyds Name I didn't know he was a founder member of the Anti-Nazi league. A Lloyds Name yet associated with an organisation with its roots in the socialist workers party!

Just shows to go, doesn't it?

Here's one for you: did you know that James Robertson Justice fought in Spain with the International Brigades?

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Post subject: Re: Is health and safety big business the further North you

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 1:30 pm

Dally

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DaveO wrote: No doubt any southern based legal companies ambulance chasing are driving the UK economy as well eh?

They all seem to be in the NW - Blackburn, Cheshire, etc

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Post subject: Re: Is health and safety big business the further North you

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 4:11 pm

DaveO

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Mintball wrote:Just shows to go, doesn't it?

Here's one for you: did you know that James Robertson Justice fought in Spain with the International Brigades?

Didn't know he was once a Labour MP either!

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Post subject: Re: Is health and safety big business the further North you

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 4:14 pm

DaveO

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Dally wrote:They all seem to be in the NW - Blackburn, Cheshire, etc

If you say so. In which case I guess you ought to be happy these canny northern solicitors have found a way to invigorate the private sector up here.

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Post subject: Re: Is health and safety big business the further North you

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 5:52 pm

WIZEB

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Joined: Nov 23 2009
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Location: The Hamptons of East Yorkshire

DaveO wrote:Didn't know he was once a Labour MP either!

Don't think he ever was just reading his wiki.
Stood for election but was unsuccessful.
Just reading that he contested an old Angus constituency where I was born.