A few topics for Starmer to address in Liverpool...

[The Bedlington Terrier]

And yet Sub, I have heard it many times from Lefties that Grammar Schools had to go as they were 'elitist'. My mum was a dinner lady at the High School, my dad worked night shift in a factory. I don't think the parents of either of us would have claimed that either they, or their children, were part on an 'elite'.

I often wonder just which planet Lefties live on, it doesn't seem to be this one.

Pardon me for saying so but my recollection of Haslingden GS, BRGS & QEGS pupils was they were all stuck up little tw@ts with their noses perpetually in the air.

Me and my teammates at Haslingden County Secondary School took great delight in battering them at any sport we played them at, but especially football.

[sinkov]

Pardon me for saying so but my recollection of Haslingden GS, BRGS & QEGS pupils was they were all stuck up little tw@ts with their noses perpetually in the air.

Me and my teammates at Haslingden County Secondary School took great delight in battering them at any sport we played them at, but especially football.

When I was at Accy Grammar I remember playing a different set of stuck up little tw@ts at Rugby, Lancaster Royal Grammar, Sedburgh School, Arnold School, Blackpool and Ermysteds at Skipton. We rarely won against them, usually us working class Grammar School boys came off battered, bruised and well beaten. I think the problem was that these lads loved playing Rugby, they were brought up to play it, we weren't, most of our lads would much rather have been playing football, but we were told to play Rugby, and there was no arguing about it.

[Supersub6]

When I was at Accy Grammar I remember playing a different set of stuck up little tw@ts at Rugby, Lancaster Royal Grammar, Sedburgh School, Arnold School, Blackpool and Ermysteds at Skipton. We rarely won against them, usually us working class Grammar School boys came off battered, bruised and well beaten. I think the problem was that these lads loved playing Rugby, they were brought up to play it, we weren't, most of our lads would much rather have been playing football, but we were told to play Rugby, and there was no arguing about it.

Totally agree with that,sinkov. It was like lambs to the slaughter. Wasn't it Sam Wignall who started the "you will play rugby the first term and football after Christmas" ---I have a feeling that it only started around the time that we started at AGS ---could be wrong.

Strange how BT and his mates thought that GS lads were toffee nosed because I have never looked down on anyone in my lifetime ----I have always remembered where I came from and feel the better for it. I had nowt as a kid so it is no hardship to have nowt now!