Thursday 16th Nov- 7pm
St John Vianney Primary School
Inch
Edinburgh
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Edinburgh May Day
Sat 5th May, 11.30am, East Market Street
About Me
- Colin Fox MSP
- I am the Scottish Socialist Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Lothian region. I am also National Convenor of the SSP. I live in the Inch on the south side of Edinburgh with my partner Zillah and our two young children. A founder member of the SSP I have been an active socialist combatant for 25 years now.
for an independent socialist Scotland
Colin Fox and Rosie Kane with Tam Dean Burn as queen Lizzie at the declaration of Calton Hill
Contact Me
52 Clerk St, Edinburgh, EH8 9JB - Tel: 0131 668 4800 - Email: ssplothian@btconnect.com
Meeting Cindy Sheehan in 2006
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2 comments:
I remember the so called good old days when I was child Colin the 1950s.I remember watch with mother and the The Woodentops on the TV never thought I would see children going without a cooked meal some 50yrs on there again I never thought The Woodentops would end up running the country.
Thinking about free school meals has brought back many memories of my own childhood that I wish to share with you...
I remember three of us sharing one book at reading times because there weren`t enough books to go round in a class of well over 35 children.I remember being told to stand up and read allowed to the class from the book we had I couldn`t as some of the pages in the book were missing they were very old reading books and had been used by many children over the years.Then I remember being told to swap books with the table next to mine I sware before God that the pages were missing from that book too.I was not the only one this happen to.
I remember we had inkwells recessed into our desks and had to dip our pen nibs into them the pen nibs had seen better days thats for sure.I remember going up to the teacher and asking for a new nib as mine was broken all he did was to sort out all the broken nibs he had and gave me one that was worse then the one I already had.I also remember that some of our desks tops had broken hinges and came right away from the desk.
I remember some of my classmates not having any money to pay for school meals (same as today) they used to hang about in the school playground at dinner times.Fifty years on and this is the progress we have made did I say progress I think NOT.
I also remember we had a tory government as we have today.
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