On Neil Kinnock's "Speech of a lifetime"

[_pyromancer_]

A friend linked to this: http://planetpmc.blogspot.com/2011/10/neil-kinnock-speech-of-lifetime.html - Neil Kinnock's 1983 "Speech of a lifetime

Comments

[anonymous]

ホテルに法外なお金をいっぱい支払うことを考えると、
Lanikuhonuaでゴージャスなdecorationにする
のも悪くないのかもしれない。。。。

[_pyromancer_]

Google Translate gives this as:

"Given the exorbitant pay at the hotel full of money,
You Lanikuhonua gorgeous decoration
Perhaps worse than. . . ."

Which I assume is a reference to the 90s / 21st Century housing bubble? Agreed that was a disaster, but the early 80s parties can't really be blamed for it. Thatcher believed in small borrowing and sound money, not the "spend like there's no tomorrow" that came later.

[kev36663]

See... I'm trying not to be seen to side with Tories here. But

[technophobe1975]

My dad was a sales rep in the 80s and thus had a succession of British company cars, from the Morris Marina, the Austin Maxi, Austin Allegro, Austin Princess and Morris Ital.
They were all rubbish (and in the Princess's case handled like a supertanker).