Ed Milibands speech and porta cabins

[GabbyLoggon]

I have just heard it.

Well, Ed is NOT a cresendo speaker. Pretty low key

Did not have a lot new to say. (Because speeches are leaked, these days)

I laughed when he said he was at school in a porta cabin. I know a lady broadcaster who was also in a portacabin.

I wonder if Ed and this lady where in the same porta cabin?

Come on, lets do porta cabins. Who was a school in one?

Me? No, never.

Do you think that people voted for Ed because they didn't think he would get the post, but they didn't want David to have a huge majority?

Oh our huts were far superior to porta-cabins. Or (more likely) predated portacabins to a time when wooden cladding was the normal outer skin of all temporary buildings...

We called them terrapins.

I'm sure there was a reason for that.

No, lucky enough not to have a portacabin, unless to count the ROSLA block for the sixth form which was like a giant two story portacabin realloy.

For once Gabbyloggon I agree with you. EM is no orator is he? Even when referring to nazi-dodging parents and portacabin schooling he still has all the verbal charisma of a geography teacher.

My primary school was mostly portacabins before it was (too late for my generation) replacd with a new one. Very bad town planning.... labour council, ironically.

As long as you remember that the PRESS are more poweful than governemnts and oppositions,you wont go far wrong

Oh yes, we had maths and french in a porta cabin. Remember waiting outside in the rain for teacher to come with the key.

yes, we had lots of portacabins at both my schools. Do you remember the slightly hollow way the floors used to sound?

4 years worth of education in a portacabin with no loos so you had cross the playground in all sorts of weather just to go to the loo. I'm to say that I missed his speech - was he commenting on school building projects??

We really need someone who went to his school to come on Mumsnet to tell us all about it.

FWIW portacabins can be OK (was anyone not taught in a portacabin?), it is the teachers that dictate your school experience.

oh absolutely Crackfox. When I look for secondary schools for dcs I'm not going to go around trying to find out which schools have fewest portacabins!

I can't abide Ed Miliband. Insipid, bland, smug.

Won't be voting Labour with him the lead because the thought of him as PM is distasteful to me.

Quite a chunk of my 2nd & 3rd years at secondary school were in porta cabins while they built a new part - and all my English classes at college were.

I thank my lucky stars they weren't porta-loos.

Yep, class of 40 in a portacabin, had to trek across the playground to get to the toilets in the main building, where classrooms were closed because water poured through the roof. Those were the days.

Well I went to a private school and we still had a portakabin. Though it was only for French and Textiles lessons. It wasn't any different from the normal classrooms really.

yes, flibberty, some rich people seem to be confessing the portacabin thing as though they were going from rags to riches

How about outside loos. We had one

Rags to riches indeed...ours were so bad they were nicknamed The Cowsheds!