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Dunham Massey Brewing Company first brewed their first batch of bitters in 2007. What was the name of either of the two bitters called?
The Closing date for entries is 29 February 2012.
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For the times they are a-changin'
For the times they are a-changin'.
The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast
The slow one now will later be fast
As the present now will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.
Bob Dylan, 1964
How well this describes the current face of British politics. If these inspired lyrics had been hailed as a prophesy before the recent general election we would have laughed the speaker out of court, or had him/her committed; whichever is handier and legal within the murky obscurity of Anti-Terrorist legislation.
Prophetic it is, though. The Conservative Liberal alliance are settling in and playing nicely together. No toys have been thrown out of the pram – yet!
Nick Clegg, the LibDem Deputy Prime Minister gets to be Prime Minister whilst David Cameron goes off on his jollies. He will be the first Liberal Prime Minister since David Lloyd George in 1922. Now what odds would you have got at the bookies on that one?
The country has resigned itself to the fact we have been living beyond our means and a period of re-adjustment is required. However, no major plans have been rolled out yet and the financial proof is still in the economic pudding so we must wait for it to be served.
What we are seeing is the dissolution of tiers of expensive, bureaucratic management in the public sector and the dismantling of Quangos, an acronym for Quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation, of which there are 1,000 who spend more £24bn between them.
Three former Labour Cabinet ministers have joined the coalition. John Hutton, who will be leading a review into public sector pensions and advising on pay differentials.
Frank Field, the Labour member for Birkenhead and former welfare minster, has joined the government as Poverty Tsar leading a review into tackling poverty.
Alan Milburn has joined the government in the role of social mobility tsar, advising the government on how to break down social barriers for people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
John Prescott, former Labour Deputy Prime Minister, twittered, ‘So after Field & Hutton, Milburn becomes the 3rd collaborator. They collaborated to get Brown OUT. Now collaborating to keep Cameron IN.’ No teaching this old dog new tricks, then. I’m surprised he can manage to twitter.
We now have representatives of all of the major political parties are working together. It usually takes a war Cabinet, to engender this level of cooperation.
Many are surprisingly pleased how well this has gone so far. Now they must all play nicely together or it will end in tears.
Bob, how right you were, ‘For the times they are a-changin'.