Remember Working Men's Clubs? Whatever happened to them?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Some of them were called Conservative Clubs, too.

[Pat Vegas]

[Classic Jorge]

[contractual]

There's one not far from me called The Idle Working Men's Club

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

"I'm off down the Legion", chaps used to say.

We're a benighted generation really, aren't we?

['Neg]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Pat Vegas]

almost like a little village.

I've posted photos of the weird abandoned shop on here recently.

http://www.peterberthoud.co.uk/2012/02/most-interesting-unde rpants-london/ (http://www.peterberthoud.co.uk/2012/02/most-interesting-underpants-london/)

[Luis Anaconda]

which was weird and Polish people were in Poland then

[Berni]

stripper of dubious vintage and hygiene.

Other than that, it was a dreadful evening.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[PSRB]

their Sky subscription

[PSRB]

[Classic Jorge]

I'm sure they could give me the skinny on whose racist dog that was

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It was full of bloody Paddies :-(

[Supermac1976]

[Monty91]

[Berni]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Snin]

they have a meat raffle still....proper old geezar tbh

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Fedor]

[Berni]

Good god. Our female forebears must have been almost rotten with yeast infection. :cry:

['Neg]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

And a man with a basket containing pots of jellied eels and cockles and so on. And a fruit machine. And The Big Match on Sunday afternoons. (But that was in the bar bit.)

[The JBear]

thing.

[Luis Anaconda]

or Dublin as they insist we call it

[The JBear]

[Berni]

I was hoping for drunken, down-at-heel colonels on half pay and such, but it was mostly cabbies and newsagents.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Fedor]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

that these 'Conservative Clubs' were 'Working Men's Clubs'. I suppose the truth is that you wouldn't catch a socialist working to save his life, so there's logic in the matter really.

[Berni]

You simply can't move in a golf club for them, you know?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Like in Liverpool?

[Snin]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Fedor]

We had them back in the soviet days. Lectures on the evils of capitalism followed by a movie and dances.

[Berni]

people there. It's leafy Surrey, ffs! Alright, it's near Redhill, which is full of mutants, but even so.

[Snin]

[Snin]

right wing types...

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

On the up? Under this punitive tax regime? Are you quite sane?

[Snin]

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[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It's the poor bloody conservatives who do the work to pay for your free doctors and housing benefits.

[Free SL]

great places for a cheap beer, and if you want to chat old blokes with nothing else to do but drink cheap beer.

[Snin]

the far east and the country just shufffled money about for the city and had battery farm telesales factories the working man was ALWAYS labour..but Thatcher did indeed do a good job of destroying that and them and the Chinks are still very happy about it..well done cons!

[Fedor]

food card system, same games kids played, men in uni wearing uniform, footy stadiums packed, empires to run.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Snin]

bloody conservatives teaching people to want more and move up social ladder..keep up with jones etc..its best when everyone was happy down the bottom imo

[Ashberto]

[Berni]

If so, may I ask if you're an actual grown-up?

The idea that the Conservative party 'destroyed the mines and factories' is particularly funny. The market destroyed them. The Conservative party simply realised the futility of trying to stop nature taking its course.

[Fedor]

[Snin]

d bandy about insults much like Cameron does in the commons..typical conservative bluster and bull****e...yes thatcher did take it personally to destroy the mines on a persoanl level. The mines would be profitable and ruinning fine if they had been dealt with properly..scargill was also a cnut in general both left and right were cnuts in the 70's , one side destroying our base and farming it out the other trying to make it a perosnal thing to keep it and be the strong man. you and them were all cnuts B..things could have been very different as neither path was the right one..and its you who arent grown up if you think anything different

[The JBear]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

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[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Snin]

wore shocking clothes and bad hair..not even the same colour back then,...cnuts i tell ye

[Snin]

though i have little to back up this thesis tbh

[stargooner]