Subjects on which you've changed your mind

Ed Milliband.  I thought he'd be a poor leader, but he has won me round over time.  Shame about those around him though.

The opposite with Osbourne.  Thought he'd be a strong chancellor but I think he is weak.  Perhaps not weak in terms of vision, but weak in being able to make Cameron and Clegg see sense.

I've also converted to brunettes over blondes over the years.

A few changes of heart will just be down to maturation.

I slagged off T20 cricket when it first came about.  Saw a little bit of it on telly a couple of weeks ago: it's not cricket, but it is watchable sport - I take it back.

I once thought Tony Blair was a blast of fresh air instead of a rancid odour.

If memory serves me well, I have never back tracked on anything.
The trick is not to come to absolute conclusions until you’ve studied & thought in lengthy detail about all the evidence. Also taking into account all the implications & future possible political social & economic changes -  quantum effects. So I rarely come to an absolute conclusion about anything.
Bookies are rich through people who do.

The last time I did come to an absolute conclusion - that the pending War on Iraq was based on a completely false premise and that the war would be a disaster, most disagreed & said that they
had to invade. I of course was proved right.

As for the lottery being a tax. Taxes have to be paid, lottery tickets don't have to be bought & for some poor that are now millionaires, I bet they wish all taxes were so beneficial.

I used to think Thatcher was a despicable human being. With the benefit of hindsight, I now know she was much worse than that.

I used to think lefties were to be pitied as 'special needs' cases - now I think they should be despatched out of their misery.

I used to think MPs should be paid more (honestly).  I worked in a job where I came into contact with many of them and believed most of them worked hard and were often unfairly characterised as lazy, attention seeking know-it-alls.  (For example I used to feel sorry for them when the press presented each recess as a holiday when in fact the vast majority continued to work hard in their constituencies).

However, I don't do the same job anymore and have a bit more distance from the political process.  I now despair when I hear 99% of politicians in the media spouting the party lines, squabbling and generally behaving with almost complete contempt from 'ordinary people'.  I've come to the conclusion there is at least 100 too many of them, they get incredible pensions and benefits and they don't deserve a pay rise at all.

I also despair that so few of them have done a proper job in their lives - not least when they rise to the highest office in all three major parties.  It has been noticeable during these hard times just how lightweight and inadequate our politicians have become over the past 15\20 years.  They are without principle or honour and are merely opportunists without any original ideas or conviction.  Deeply depressing.  I've joined the sceptics.

i used to think politicans of all partys,public figures deserved our respect and had our hears,
now i think they are a bunch of cluless chancers who no as much as the average man in the street and in some cases less,and no absolutly nothing about the real world where most people live

I used to think Frankel was over rated, ffs that's as wrong as one can get

I used to think GP`s new what they were talking about.

I am now convinced they gamble with peoples lives.

Yeah, they're all uneducated guessers who don't give a phuck.

You need a rethink Gabriel, it's getting ridiculous

Right on que Blackbutt

I used to think that you was predictable.

Yeah, they're all uneducated guessers who don't give a phuck.

A bit harsh.

So you agree with me a little bit.

I can't think of a single thing I agree with you on

Apart from

Yeah, they're all uneducated guessers who don't give a phuck.

obviously i worded mine with more caution,

do you think you nailed it?

I used to think the Police were here to help the public.

Now i realise they have a licence to kill.

Ian Tomlinson would agree.

No I nailed the fact you're a plank for making such a ridiculous statement

No you agreed with my statement

but your style is much harsher

I signed up on Betfair in 2003 and thought it was a great idea, a brave new world, how wrong i was

I didn't agree with Shanelee in 2003 - I do now

Betfair is AMAZING.  i still love it.  and i mean LOVE IT.

I used to be a Tory.
I used to believe in superstring theory.
I used to believe the EEC/EU was a good idea.
I used to believe we somehow had the right to interfere in others' lives.

Betfair has cost me almost as much as my divorce Ronnie

Shanelee

Was your divorce as entertaining as this place.

I almost touched on that, nooo ... never, money well spent.

The highs have been amazing and the lows ... well pretty awful, i`m still standing.

a poor workman blames his tools shanelee.

is appears not to be betfair you have a real problem with, just your sporting selections.

i wish you had managed to lose your woman and keep your money, wouldnt that be nirvana.  but we live on earth and it is a sad place.  just when you think you win and the harpie is out, the correct horses dont win to screw your new freedom up.

i used to think it was important to watch / listen to the news and 'current affairs' programmes ... i demand a refund of the hours / weeks / quite possibly years i wasted

I used to believe that the media reported the news.

I believed the ex missus when she said she could cook

Bet she said she'd love you forever too!

Not a precise subject but i've been a member of Parti Socialiste in my youth and then became gradually right-side (this year i voted Sarkozy for president of France and Johnson for mayor of London). My experiences in the world of work is what have changed my mind, i realized some people deserve to be rewarded more than others.

At the time, I thought John Major was a weak PM.
He was the best PM of his generation.

Agree entirely sib, he was a fool for getting involved with the ghastly Currie which tarnished a very understated time as PM.

He spoke at a cricket lunch I was at a couple of years ago, very funny and entertaining with great anecdotes, especially about Yeltsin, a million miles away from the image conscious college kids we're stuck with now.

great man.

but he got nowhere near Currie when PM.

it was an on-off sex thing 1984 to 1988.

people have this image of him at it with grey hair in No 10, not true at all.

how long have you got?

i did not believe trillion dollar bailouts would be "praised" as a good solution, that they would look to impose socialism to "cure" capitalism.

i did not believe people would give an American president continuing with military occupations a peace prize.

i thought Herman Cain would get the Republican nomination.  i discounted Mitt Romney totally.


i thought people would react in a right wing way to the crisis, realise the problem was too much tax harming production, and too much spending imposing such a burden on the worker.  i fear now that the left will win the debate, the rich will be taxed, as will the middle and the poor, and that industry will be nationalised to try and fund the government spending machine.

Is that right?

His wife conducted herself with real dignity, none of the public wailing and attention seeking we've come to expect

defo on the years.  he ended it when he got his first post in government, it was when he was a junior whip.  currie wasnt even an MP for the first 3 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2286008.stm

currie was probably a decent runner in those days, he obviously likes those sort of brunettes, norma had that look.  picture of younger currie could be norma.

He was a real champion of the Korma.

like northernlad  I have never back tracked on anything

and like northernlad I am a liar

let's see

the olympics were a qualified success
the coalition has lasted
been wrong about the economy lots of times
europe struggles on - thought at least the euro would collapse
VOTED TO JOIN IT(the common market)  oh how I wish I did not have to own up to that
quite liked Ted Heath
and many many more

I WAS RIGHT ABOUT BLAIR AND BEING LEADER OF THE LABOUR PARTY AND WHAT HE WOULD TURN OUT TO BE!!!!!

John Major was pathetic europhile establishment @rse licker

I couldn't have been more wrong about the Olympics.  They were spectacular.

Spectacularly expensive.

I thought Tony Blair was a regular kind of guy in 1997 and voted for him then even posted that Gordy would be a welcome change of PM in 2007 as Dr J and I both believed Gordy when he intended to stop all the spin rubbish !!Embarrassed of treetop towers !!