He had particular fun reminding the Tory leader that, while he now claims to be the champion for restoring the link between pensions and earnings, it was the last Tory government which abandoned it in the first place.
Siemens started building the Bushehr plant in 1975, but quickly abandoned the project after the Islamic revolution took place in Iran four years later.
The last ice was produced in 1990 and the huge structure stands abandoned in the town's fish docks, with some of the original ice-making machinery still in place.
And the venture came very close to being abandoned in 2007 when the public-private partnership put in place to build and run the project collapsed.
It may be about to happen in particle physics - if neither the Tevatron nor Large Hadron Collider spots a Higgs boson soon, the standard model that scientists have worked with for years may have to be abandoned, or at least seriously reformed, and another built in its place.
Ms Bokova was impressed by the post-flood recovery works and was particularly interesting in learning about the plans for restoring the historic water management system of Ayutthaya, which had been put in place by the founders of the city but was later abandoned and covered by urban housing and street constructions.
Council leader Bill Dixon said he was "bitterly disappointed" but the project still had three-quarters of the money in place from the private sector and the plan had not been abandoned.
She says she led a campaign after the U.S. invasion to gather street children and place them in government institutions, but that program has now been abandoned.
The Stooges, abandoned at birth at a Catholic orphanage, must now save the place from being closed in an economic turndown.
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That is why the former colonial power, Portugal, has a prominent place at the current talks in New York, despite the haste with which it abandoned the territory in 1975.
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