Cobalt clouds over Cathar Country: rainstorms say Return, return
What, to the EU?
I heard their young hearts crying Loveward above the glancing oar And heard the prairie grasses sighing: No more, return no more!
O hearts, O sighing grasses, Vainly your loveblown bannerets mourn! No more will the wild wind that passes Return, no more return.
There once was a man from Looe Who pretended to hate the EU All knew he was lying - That man's always flying To Berlin, Milan, and Bayeux
Not bad. But the first line is all wrong, not enough syllables, and doesn’t flow. Looe is divided into East and West, so you can use that; and you should also include an insult, therefore
There was an old man from West Looe
Is a much better opening line
Your argument rings very true.
PS I was trying to think of a better city than Bayeux to rhyme with Looe/EU. Couldn't immediately think of one (Chateauroux has too many syllables) so I asked ChatGPT, which came up with this gem:
Me: Can you think of a European city name that rhymes with 'you'?
ChatGPT: Certainly! The city name that rhymes with "you" is "Dublin," which is the capital of Ireland.
So bad it's rather splendid.
That’s an interesting error
Because Dublin comes from Dubh-linn = Irish for “black river” - and many Celtic languages pronounce Dubh (black) as Doo - cf Baldhu in Cornish, pronounced, “Bal-doo” = black mine
Maybe ChatGPT has some weird deep language memory of Celtic pronunciation?! I sometimes find its hallucinations more interesting than its coherent answers
Bayeux isn’t perfect, the rhyme isn’t exact, maybe Fitou?
"Can you think of a European city name that rhymes with 'you'?"
Turku - Finland.
Very good, A possible winner, i suggest. Also the fact it’s Finnish makes it more interestingly provocative
Baku, Capital of Azerbaijan, Is also not in the EU. Darn.
The bigger question is what European town rhymes with orange.
Unfortunately Orange doesn’t.
Bohinj perhaps.
I think it is reckoned that nothing rhymes with Orange. In The Inimitable Jeeves (100 years old this year) Bingo Little laments that so little rhymes with Cynthia.
At a tangent from this, no word of any size in English can be constructed from the letters of Chihuahua.
All this prevention of automotive derived child deaths by increasing survival rates for vehicle- pedestrian conflicts is sick communism!
Except...the bigger cause of child deaths is air pollution. And in Wales, they have just increased air pollution - by making journey times half as long again.
All this prevention of automotive derived child deaths by increasing survival rates for vehicle- pedestrian conflicts is sick communism!
Except...the bigger cause of child deaths is air pollution. And in Wales, they have just increased air pollution - by making journey times half as long again.
The interesting point about this petition is that it is at its highest across North Wales and in Drakeford's heartland
I drove into Llandudno today and halfway down the Little Orme to the RNLI boathouse has been cut from 40mph to 20mph and returning you go from 20mph straight into 40mph
If I want to go to my daughters in Abergele I will now go to the expressway (50mph to 70mph on the outskirts of Colwyn Bay) and avoid the promenade route altogether
It will be interesting to see just how high this petition gets but I haven't heard one voice in favour of the changes, but much anger directed at Drakeford
If @Dougseal is right then surely no resignation honours as she returns in triumph to the top of the party.
For the record, it will surprise nobody to know that I agree with every word of her speech. I don't really see how any Tory could disagree. Clearly some of our PB Tories are still dealing with their internalised guilt for foisting the dismal decline manager on us.
That won't do really. For example, a smaller government. Lets be modest and knock £50 billion off state managed expenditure. This is so modest it is much less than current annual borrowing.
£50bn is easy. Means test the state pension, anyone with private income in retirement of over £30k has a 75% taper rate. Cut disability benefits for "mental health" substantially or entirely, it's the new back problem for societies won't work types. Those with actual mental health issues can be assessed under the standard disability benefits criteria as they were until the rules changed.
Stop selling RPI linked bonds or at least reduce the mix to something like just 5-10% of the total and switch all index linking to CPIH for new bonds, new and existing DB pensions and the state pension.
I think that would save in excess of £50bn and axing RPI linked bonds would save substantially more over time and it would force pension fund managers to earn their living and support equity markets rather than just throw more money at linkers.
Cut quangos Cut foreign aid Legalise and tax cannabis (at the same level as cigarettes) Merge NI and Income tax (and make pensioners liable for the new tax)
The interesting point about this petition is that it is at its highest across North Wales and in Drakeford's heartland
I drove into Llandudno today and halfway down the Little Orme to the RNLI boathouse has been cut from 40mph to 20mph and returning you go from 20mph straight into 40mph
If I want to go to my daughters in Abergele I will now go to the expressway (50mph to 70mph on the outskirts of Colwyn Bay) and avoid the promenade route altogether
It will be interesting to see just how high this petition gets but I haven't heard one voice in favour of the changes, but much anger directed at Drakeford
This policy was supported by Andrew RT Davies until he realised there was political capital to be made by a U turn.
The interesting point about this petition is that it is at its highest across North Wales and in Drakeford's heartland
I drove into Llandudno today and halfway down the Little Orme to the RNLI boathouse has been cut from 40mph to 20mph and returning you go from 20mph straight into 40mph
If I want to go to my daughters in Abergele I will now go to the expressway (50mph to 70mph on the outskirts of Colwyn Bay) and avoid the promenade route altogether
It will be interesting to see just how high this petition gets but I haven't heard one voice in favour of the changes, but much anger directed at Drakeford
This policy was supported by Andrew RT Davies until he realised there was political capital to be made by a U turn.
The interesting point about this petition is that it is at its highest across North Wales and in Drakeford's heartland
I drove into Llandudno today and halfway down the Little Orme to the RNLI boathouse has been cut from 40mph to 20mph and returning you go from 20mph straight into 40mph
If I want to go to my daughters in Abergele I will now go to the expressway (50mph to 70mph on the outskirts of Colwyn Bay) and avoid the promenade route altogether
It will be interesting to see just how high this petition gets but I haven't heard one voice in favour of the changes, but much anger directed at Drakeford
This policy was supported by Andrew RT Davies until he realised there was political capital to be made by a U turn.
Does he have a sponsorship deal with Russia Today?
The interesting point about this petition is that it is at its highest across North Wales and in Drakeford's heartland
I drove into Llandudno today and halfway down the Little Orme to the RNLI boathouse has been cut from 40mph to 20mph and returning you go from 20mph straight into 40mph
If I want to go to my daughters in Abergele I will now go to the expressway (50mph to 70mph on the outskirts of Colwyn Bay) and avoid the promenade route altogether
It will be interesting to see just how high this petition gets but I haven't heard one voice in favour of the changes, but much anger directed at Drakeford
This policy was supported by Andrew RT Davies until he realised there was political capital to be made by a U turn.
Does he have a sponsorship deal with Russia Today?
All this prevention of automotive derived child deaths by increasing survival rates for vehicle- pedestrian conflicts is sick communism!
Except...the bigger cause of child deaths is air pollution. And in Wales, they have just increased air pollution - by making journey times half as long again.
You produce more air pollution per unit of time to travel at a higher speed though so it's not that simple. At 20mph you're more likely to travel at a constant speed with less acceleration and braking, too. Most roads in my neck of SE London are 20mph and it's actually preferable to drive at that speed once you are used to it, with calmer roads, less aggression, less risk of accidents and more time to be considerate and spread the love to cyclists and pedestrians. Twenty is plenty!
The interesting point about this petition is that it is at its highest across North Wales and in Drakeford's heartland
I drove into Llandudno today and halfway down the Little Orme to the RNLI boathouse has been cut from 40mph to 20mph and returning you go from 20mph straight into 40mph
If I want to go to my daughters in Abergele I will now go to the expressway (50mph to 70mph on the outskirts of Colwyn Bay) and avoid the promenade route altogether
It will be interesting to see just how high this petition gets but I haven't heard one voice in favour of the changes, but much anger directed at Drakeford
This policy was supported by Andrew RT Davies until he realised there was political capital to be made by a U turn.
Does he have a sponsorship deal with Russia Today?
The interesting point about this petition is that it is at its highest across North Wales and in Drakeford's heartland
I drove into Llandudno today and halfway down the Little Orme to the RNLI boathouse has been cut from 40mph to 20mph and returning you go from 20mph straight into 40mph
If I want to go to my daughters in Abergele I will now go to the expressway (50mph to 70mph on the outskirts of Colwyn Bay) and avoid the promenade route altogether
It will be interesting to see just how high this petition gets but I haven't heard one voice in favour of the changes, but much anger directed at Drakeford
This policy was supported by Andrew RT Davies until he realised there was political capital to be made by a U turn.
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I drove into Llandudno today and halfway down the Little Orme to the RNLI boathouse has been cut from 40mph to 20mph and returning you go from 20mph straight into 40mph
If I want to go to my daughters in Abergele I will now go to the expressway (50mph to 70mph on the outskirts of Colwyn Bay) and avoid the promenade route altogether
It will be interesting to see just how high this petition gets but I haven't heard one voice in favour of the changes, but much anger directed at Drakeford
Cut foreign aid
Legalise and tax cannabis (at the same level as cigarettes)
Merge NI and Income tax (and make pensioners liable for the new tax)
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