Comments on Scarfolk Council: Poverty & 1970s Pelican Books

All these books got a good review in the Guardian....

2020-05-05T21:37:41.232+01:00

All these books got a good review in the Guardian.

Booork! Why you republish these disgusting and has...

2015-12-25T10:51:24.384+00:00

Booork! Why you republish these disgusting and hasteful propaganda. Are you mad? Do you want to live back in the horrible 1930's? How could these wastebooks be distributed to children?

I stand corrected. It's being dead - sometimes...

2015-07-22T20:02:21.506+01:00

I stand corrected. It's being dead - sometimes I get a bit out of touch. I prefer mediums to social media. And as to your new-fangled internet malarkey ... Nonetheless, I will endeavour to join a Beyond Silver Surfers evening class and try to pop in more often. Yours apologetically, Mr J Swift.

Mr J Swift: Perhaps you have forgotten the book yo...

2015-07-22T17:45:05.186+01:00

Mr J Swift: Perhaps you have forgotten the book you wrote for us in 1972: http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/02/eating-children.html

Some fine reading suggestions. But Scarfield Counc...

2015-07-22T10:10:50.807+01:00

Some fine reading suggestions. But Scarfield Council's improvements don't go far enough for me. I refer them to my Modest Proposal of 1729 which while suggested as a means of ridding Ireland of the burden its poor children and thereby poverty in general, could easily have been rolled out in the UK in the 1970s. I am glad to see, however, that your current government is moving in the right direction and the poor are gradually being dealt with in a manner which befits their selfish neediness. - Mr J Swift.

My Goodness, these fine Text books take me back. I...

2015-07-19T20:06:58.668+01:00

My Goodness, these fine Text books take me back.
I remember our course Tutor said these were essential reading, for our Undergarduate Sociology Degree (in the Diversity of Charcoal Wobbling).

Essential reading for that lot.

2015-07-19T09:41:17.744+01:00

Essential reading for that lot.

Brilliant.

2015-07-17T17:24:25.089+01:00

Brilliant.

I can remember the Children's Penance Director...

2015-07-17T13:22:37.370+01:00

I can remember the Children's Penance Directorate armoured van bringing boxes of these books to our school. The books smelled of charred chicken and petrol.

Three months? The world's food problems are so...

2015-07-16T19:07:45.436+01:00

Three months? The world's food problems are solved!

Although,to be fair,( in a cookery book in the so...

2015-07-15T18:45:00.290+01:00

Although,to be fair,( in a cookery book in the some series ), they can make for a simple & tasty "Shepherd's Pie" .

All looks perfectly good to me, even though I only...

2015-07-15T18:19:18.533+01:00

All looks perfectly good to me, even though I only went to a minor public school.

I'm pretty sure they still have copies of all ...

2015-07-15T17:49:11.824+01:00

I'm pretty sure they still have copies of all of these in the Eton library. It would explain a lot.