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There's a button on my latest washing machine, it's to self clean. Never had that before and have never used it. I've always bought a wee bottle of special liquid from Tesco for that, run the machine on 60deg and add the liquid. Works for me. 👍 🙂

    

He's a Scot. He won't have a good word for any British PM but I assume you are referring to his pit closures

Come to that I'm English and not that sure I do either. We are in a state of managed decline and they can't even manage that well

Quote from: klondike on November 05, 2026, 04:01:50 PMAsk crabby what he thinks. He was a miner.... 

Ask him what he thinks about Wilson in that respect?

Yes I won't forget the miner's strike or what she did to Liverpool.   Having said that and putting bias aside, she was a strong PM, something we've lacked for years and years.

Ethel put sparkly balls on her Christmas tree
She stood back and admired it - a real sight to see

Ask crabby what he thinks. He was a miner.... 

She moved us to become a service economy and pretty much buggered manufacturing. Of course net zero and associated high energy costs would have buggered them from the start rather than just finishing them off anyway.

Now if we still had coal fired power and steelmaking...