Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I hope it is as Happy and Peaceful as it can be for you all in these strange circumstances in which we find ourselves.

Mid A 15 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 3:56 pm I hope it is as Happy and Peaceful as it can be for you all in these strange circumstances in which we find ourselves.

Very well said, I agree, may we all find something to smile about, or at, in the next few days.

My best wishes to everyone as well; please safe in these turbulent times

The virus is still there a hoverin'
But with Brexit our shores will be sovereign.
The trucks are all stranded
But to be very candid:
"Happy new year?" It's hardly worth botherin'!

In these difficult times it's good to have around us a few elements of certainty and continuity. Four days ago it was 60 years from my leaving CH, just before Christmas 1960. I feel it's remarkable that we can maintain such links for so long.

The Old Blues on-line Carol Concert of 18 Dec is well worth viewing if you've not seen it yet - great to hear the sound of the CH full organ again.

Best wishes to everybody.

It was 55 years for me a few days ago, my Leavers Bible says December 24th but I know it wasn’t then! I think it was 21st. I don’t know what went wrong preparing my Bible, it doesn’t have the charge in it!

I wish I could be as cheerful as you guys. I don't wish to be a party pooper but when I left CH in 1960 I think that we all felt that things were getting better. But after Mrs Thatcher came in they got worse, and they continue to get worse. I worry about the prospects for my daughters and grandchildren. We left school when politicians (even Tory ones) seemed to run the country, by their lights, for the benefit of the majority. Jobs, housing, training schemes, NHS, affordable public transport, etc etc. No politician would have said "there is no such thing as society" and survived the following election.

Whatever EU deal we get it's not going to match staying in the EU. We are run by cynical, posturing, well-heeled, free market charlatans in the sway of corporate and financial vested interests. Please try and see beyond the cosy freemasonry of Christ's Hospital and its seductive and grandiose traditions. Peace, love and Christian charity is not about to break out.

rockfreak wrote: ↑Thu Dec 24, 2020 9:10 pm We are run by cynical, posturing, well-heeled, free market charlatans in the sway of corporate and financial vested interests.

Without those so called vested interests you would have no employers, no houses to live in, no drugs to make you better, no food to eat ..........,

If you want to argue just look back at Russia under the socialists; queues for food - if you could get it, gross mayhem, minimal health service for the peons, imprisonment in the area you lived in .....

At least you can have a choice in the supermarket and if they don't have brand X then either choose brand Y or go down the road. Subject to current covid restrictions you can travel where and when you want - even to foreign countries. You are extremely unlikely to get arrested and imprisoned for negative comments about the political system - we don't have slave labour in gulags.

Just travel to Hungary, the Czech republic and talk to the older people about being under socialist control. You just don't know how good you have got it in Britain; I have seen far far worse even in France where we had 30%+ unemployment and state payments to those who reported their neighbours for transgressions.


Oh, and whilst I remember, your hero Blair has demanded that nobody gets the second covid jab and that all the innoculations must be for the young because they are more likely to spread the disease. This is the man who supports a violent dictator

I don't understand what people mean when they start throwing this term Socialism around as a pejorative. It can mean anything from the heavy handed state-organised systems of the old Eastern Europe Communist bloc countries to the social democratic set-ups in Scandinavia. It's very popular as an insult in Trumpist America. And I don't support Tony Blair. His New Labour project merely tried to ameliorate things for the very worst off. He failed to roll back the structural weaknesses of Thatcherism which caused two of the worst recessions since the 1930s although he had parliamentary majorities that Harold Wilson would have died for.

Mid A 15 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 3:56 pm I hope it is as Happy and Peaceful as it can be for you all in these strange circumstances in which we find ourselves.

Just to bring us back on topic I hope everyone had as good a day yesterday as possible and, for those who moved into Tier 4 this morning, things are not too painful. There are glimmers of hope for 2021; the Government is slowly rolling out the Covid-19 vaccination programme and we seem to have some sort of a deal with the EU which may not be great but is a lot better than leaving with no deal! Let us all hope for a happy, peaceful, healthy and prosperous new year.