Tristan Jones - Fraudster

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Perhaps you like a country where no longer official, commercial and personal pronouncements can no longer be taken at face value, I don't - I was brought up in a country where there was still honesty and integrity and one did not expect many of the MPs to have their snouts in the trough. There was a time when the motto of the Stock Exchange was ' My word is my bond' and our standards were the envy of Europe - now our leaders are often cosying up to well known European fraudstersand their undertakings are worthless eg. Brown's promise of a referendum on Europe.

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The really strtling thing about your post is that you clearly believe that Englands green and pleasant land existed in your youth. But it didnt. The difference between then and now is that now is a teeny bit more open and the sins are a teeny bit more obvious.

Remember Harold Wilson and the "pound in your pocket"? Remember T Dan Smith and Poulson? And as for honesty and integrity in the City - I have a filing cabinet drawer full of duff share certs, companies that went spectacularly bust. Mining companies aptly described as a "hole in the ground with a liar sat on top". Remember the GLC? And Liverpool / Hatton. When Sheffiled council flew the red flag over the town hall every day. Upper Clyde Shipbuilders and Red Robbo at Longbridge.

Fond memories but no way do they match your idyllic England..
 
The Odyssey would be so much duller without Polyphemus, Penelope's weaving and endless other asides from the true point of the story. To take veracity as the only method by which a story can be told is to loose much of the richness of literature. There are millions of people with a literal interpretation of the Bible for example, but the thought that it is meant as anything but an allegory is strange to me. Tristan Jones writes with a flair and acerbity which is exciting, exilarating and finely crafted. I find it exhausting worrying about whether a book called 'Yarns' * is fully factually correct or not. Just enjoy or don't read it.
Nicki
* Yarn: Informal. A long or rambling story, esp. one that is implausible.
 
That was not in my youth! These were largely the successors of the 'spiv' culture- of course there have always been the con merchants and sharp practice by unscrupulous employers, but now we expect it in every walk of life.
NB Chamberlain, like many others remembered the carnage of the 'Great War' and tried to avoid facing the inevitable - he did at least give us a little time to do some preparation and we did - a year earlier and we would not have stood a chance; I remember his pronouncement in '38 and his broadcast on 3-9-39 - he certainly never had the stomach to be a war leader.
 
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can't abide all that old boy, and wot wot nonsense /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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Comes with the Military Cross and Bar I suppose.

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Sorry.......but I don't see the connection?
 
I dont give a tinkers fart what he wrote about sailing, but his stories of the RN were unforgiveable, lots of men died in the incidents he told about as if he were one of them and suffered along with them. He then defended his stories in print and on radio/tv as true! Degrades the suffering and heroism of the folk who actually went through those times, a damn liar and cheat, I have no time for him alive or dead or his damn lies.
Story telling is a completely different thing, exaggeration is also just embellishment of facts, not complete fabrication!
 
With you all the way Englander.
Being ex-RN and father and one uncle also, with other uncles and grandfather all seagoing, we need such bull sh'tters as him like a hole in the head, irrespective of their writing abilities.
 
Well, Englander, Moody Jim, and Reginaldon..............You are of course entitled to your opinion, pity it sounds so bitter and twisted!........

Still a lot of folks have and do enjoy his writing so I suppose you will just have to fester in your vitriol and bitterness.

Toodle Pip Old Boys! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
<span style="color:red">I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!!!!! </span>

I 've come to this item rather late and I can scarcely believe that some people are getting so steamed up.
It's only a book!!
What bothers me more are some pilot books (non Imray) where you can scarecly believe that the author has ever been into the port.
Its LITERATURE you know, like Jeffry Archer, Ian Fleming , the Bible etc.. Why proclaim your gullibility on the Forum? <span style="color:red"> </span>
 
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