"Labour stole my money"

Workerdrone

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OldBeanz said:

Surprised there has been no mention of Margaret Thatcher. She is still being blamed for everything in Scotland 30 years after she left office.

Forget Scotland. I blame her for 90% of problems in Canada.  All the Scottish trade unionists became “Thatcher refugees” and are still causing trouble here. 

Haha, so true. My Grandfather (Such a lovely man), was a lifelong communist. At least until he had employees, then the power of the pound in his pocket changed his view toward employees.  Well I say that, he was still in his own mind a communist. I never discussed politics with him, by the time I became politically aware dementia had taken his faculties.  But to get back to the point. For most of his life he wanted to defect to Russia. then latterly he wanted to emigrate to Canada. P.S we aren't Scottish, were Northumbrian.

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Workerdrone said:

Deleted_User said:

OldBeanz said:

Surprised there has been no mention of Margaret Thatcher. She is still being blamed for everything in Scotland 30 years after she left office.

Forget Scotland. I blame her for 90% of problems in Canada.  All the Scottish trade unionists became “Thatcher refugees” and are still causing trouble here. 

Haha, so true. My Grandfather (Such a lovely man), was a lifelong communist. At least until he had employees, then the power of the pound in his pocket changed his view toward employees.  Well I say that, he was still in his own mind a communist. I never discussed politics with him, by the time I became politically aware dementia had taken his faculties.  But to get back to the point. For most of his life he wanted to defect to Russia. then latterly he wanted to emigrate to Canada. P.S we aren't Scottish, were Northumbrian.

There was a black American engineer who followed through in the 30th. Robert Robinson was his name.  Later on, for at least a couple of decades, he begged to be allowed to leave USSR. Robinson eventually made it back to the US and wrote memoirs. Entertaining read. 

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"Threads you didn't expect to see a Beowulf reference in" #52

IvanOpinion

Brown's raiding of pensions fits in the same category as Johnsons' bendy bananas

Workerdrone

IvanOpinion said:

Brown's raiding of pensions fits in the same category as Johnsons' bendy bananas

If we are going to clobber brown for anything, it at least has to be plausible. It's a toss up between selling off half the gold reserves at rock bottom and calling a woman bigoted when she asked about immigration.

Malthusian

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There was a black American engineer who followed through in the 30th. Robert Robinson was his name.  Later on, for at least a couple of decades, he begged to be allowed to leave USSR. Robinson eventually made it back to the US and wrote memoirs. Entertaining read. 

To be fair to Robinson, if Wikipedia's version is to be believed, he wasn't a believer in Communism. He went to the USSR because they offered him a contract that was significantly better than his pay in the US, and stayed mostly because the Great Depression was still in full swing back home. As soon as World War II ended he started his regular attempts to escape.

It shows how rare it is for people in capitalist hellholes to flee to socialist paradises when one of the only people known for doing so actually did it for... money.

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Malthusian said:

Deleted_User said:

There was a black American engineer who followed through in the 30th. Robert Robinson was his name.  Later on, for at least a couple of decades, he begged to be allowed to leave USSR. Robinson eventually made it back to the US and wrote memoirs. Entertaining read. 

To be fair to Robinson, if Wikipedia's version is to be believed, he wasn't a believer in Communism. He went to the USSR because they offered him a contract that was significantly better than his pay in the US, and stayed mostly because the Great Depression was still in full swing back home. As soon as World War II ended he started his regular attempts to escape.

It shows how rare it is for people in capitalist hellholes to flee to socialist paradises when one of the only people known for doing so actually did it for... money.

Put it this way… He believed that socialism was better than capitalism and life in the USSR was better than in the US, particularly for Blacks.  The move indeed happened because Soviets tempted him with money. He had a privileged life in the USSR and was used for propaganda but if his memoir to be believed, he figured it all out before the war. 

He says there were several US blacks who moved to USSR because they were marxists but none of them survived the purges.