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Old 25th Jan 2007, 09:11
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Groundloop
 
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Originally Posted by Shaggy Sheep Driver
Groundloop - it may come as a surprise to you, but there were Labour governments before BLiar's one. Their track record is why those of us old enough to remember them cried into our beer when BLiar's lot were elected by an electrorate largely too young to remember.....
SSD
SSD, I hate to admit it but I CAN remember the Wilson Government being elected and the TSR-2 decision. The point of my post is the seemingly incredible blaming of Labour for the end of Concorde.
In fact, it was actually a Labour Government, principally through a certain Anthony Wedgewood-Benn (anyone else remember his pre "Tony Benn" days) who actually saved Concorde from cancellation. It did help that Benn's constituency covered a large part of Bristol, I suppose!!
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