My dad

[mudskipper]

My dad was a shop steward. He wasn't a big fan of Thatcher, but was surprisingly right wing in some of his views.
Sadly passed away some 18 years ago and I still miss him.

Yours?

Edit: I ought to add that I'm proud of him for sticking up for people. It stood me in great stead when I volunteered to be 'employee representative' during redundancy in previous permie life.

[Zippy]

Mine is a lot right wing. Refers to some Asian gentlemen as p**is occasionally, but is probably still in posession of only two of his marbles. They like him at the golf club though. I quite like him most of the time as he can be funny and generous.
Now his father was a self-proclaimed socialist who ranted on about Maggie Thatcher, bloody Tories, catholics, blacks, gays, women etc etc. to anyone who would(n't) listen. We held his wake at the Conservative club

[Cliphead]

My dad passed away a year ago this month. A manual labourer all his life he had no political views as such but instilled in me a set of values I treasure.

Working in a factory ultimately killed him, no health & safety worth a fck when he was there only profit for the owners. Nowt changed then.

[aussielong]

My father is a first generation immigrant in the UK, he arrived in 1966, aged 18 with ten pounds in his pocket, with no education except skills in welding. 50 years later he has had a successful career in engineering, paid for his own home, had two kids educated at red brick unis with good jobs, he has no debts, still has his health, my Mum and several grandkids.

He says he personally experienced more racism in Australia when he visited me, than he did in 50 years in the UK. My Dad loves the UK for the life that he was able to have there. He is a fan of Thatcher and will be travelling to London for her funeral.

[MarillionFan]

Is bigger than yours.

[DimPrawn]

sasguru's dad, now, which one was it..............................................?

[VectraMan]

Mine seems to be a bit of a socialist these days, which seems odd for someone who's always had the entrepreneurial spirit, if not all that much success. We always seem to end up arguing about tax, with him saying "the rich" whoever they are have a moral obligation to pay much more than required, because it's "okay for them", "they're not short of a few bob" - etc.

He spent the 60s and early 70s in the RAF, where as I understand he mostly worked on radios in Hercules and Nimrods. And then left at 30 with a wife and two kids to support, but was able to buy a house in Sussex so I guess we weren't too badly off. He ended up working as a milkman for a bit, but then got a job as a sales rep, which is more or less what he continued to do.

Then in the mid 80s he was a part of a management buy out, and ran a small business of 20 odd people for a while, but that didn't survive the early 90s recession. He never quite recovered from that; he had a couple of other goes at getting businesses going, mainly around burgular alarms, had a few contract and other jobs and did some taxi driving, but hasn't really had a "proper job" since.

Now he's retired and just wants to go live in France. He'd bought a second home out there about 10 years ago, and has been doing it up ever since. And that's not the first time; in the late 80s he'd bought a second holiday home in Scotland too.

So yes, a two home owning, socialist entrepreneur.

[BoredBloke]

My dad was a contractor in the oil industry. We did really well out of the thatcher years mainly because of the industry he managed to get himself into. The downside was that we never saw him. In the early 80's he got a contract in UAE and was on over £1000 a week tax free. The rota was 3 months on a rig and 4 days at home. Eventually he retired and they now live on a farm in Ireland, down the road where his dad was born and where they used to send him as a schild to help at his uncles farm

[sasguru]

sasguru's dad ....

... is a grouchy old sod. Made a fortune dealing in art in the 60s/70s/80s/90s with a massive failure in th 80s* that he eventually recovered from.

*that's when I had to go to comp, can you imagine it ....

[DimPrawn]

... is a grouchy old sod. Made a fortune dealing in art in the 60s/70s/80s/90s with a massive failure in th 80s* that he eventually recovered from.

*that's when I had to go to comp, can you imagine it ....

Ahhh, I see, still blaming your parents for your failure in life, even at 40 something?