Re: Is health and safety big business the further North you : Tue Dec 10, 2013 12:56 pm  

DaveO wrote:

I just looked him up on Wikipedia and while I always knew he was a Lloyds Name I didn't know he was a founder member of the Anti-Nazi league. A Lloyds Name yet associated with an organisation with its roots in the socialist workers party!

Just shows to go, doesn't it?

Here's one for you: did you know that James Robertson Justice fought in Spain with the International Brigades?

Re: Is health and safety big business the further North you : Tue Dec 10, 2013 1:30 pm  

DaveO wrote:

No doubt any southern based legal companies ambulance chasing are driving the UK economy as well eh?

They all seem to be in the NW - Blackburn, Cheshire, etc

[DaveO]

Re: Is health and safety big business the further North you : Tue Dec 10, 2013 4:11 pm  

Mintball wrote:

Just shows to go, doesn't it?

Here's one for you: did you know that James Robertson Justice fought in Spain with the International Brigades?

Didn't know he was once a Labour MP either!

[DaveO]

Re: Is health and safety big business the further North you : Tue Dec 10, 2013 4:14 pm  

Dally wrote:

They all seem to be in the NW - Blackburn, Cheshire, etc

If you say so. In which case I guess you ought to be happy these canny northern solicitors have found a way to invigorate the private sector up here.

Re: Is health and safety big business the further North you : Tue Dec 10, 2013 5:52 pm  

DaveO wrote:

Didn't know he was once a Labour MP either!

Don't think he ever was just reading his wiki.
Stood for election but was unsuccessful.
Just reading that he contested an old Angus constituency where I was born.

Re: Is health and safety big business the further North you : Wed Dec 11, 2013 1:04 pm  

Dally wrote:

They all seem to be in the NW - Blackburn, Cheshire, etc

Google

"personal injury claims London"
produced
About 19,400,000 results (0.23 seconds)

Re: Is health and safety big business the further North you : Wed Dec 11, 2013 6:51 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

Are Hertfordshire girls still as fooking thick as the the three me and my two mates met in Ibiza in the late 80's Dally?

Quite a few Londoners would see Hertfordshire as up north, as a lot of it is outside the M25...

Re: Is health and safety big business the further North you : Wed Dec 11, 2013 10:24 pm  

Dally have you ever been on the Tube in London, if you go remotely near the yellow lines Robocop comes shouting at you with a loudspeaker.