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How do you make that out??

Where do you get the two year figure, Just H. I’d be interested to know.

I know what’s going to happen as much as Theresa May. Once they reject her deal, we’re in uncharted territory.

But if you have any inside information, I’d be pleased if you share it.

Change is crucial.

The threats to us all in transport, health education as well as to those who work their backsides off just to survive all point to this.

We want change for the better, though, not a change whihc will make condtioons worse, or even much, much worse.

Emily Thornberry, part of the Labour leadership,  was making this clear on…[Read more]

Reminds me of a Beatles song called Savoy Truffle –

Creme tangerine and montelimar
A ginger sling with a pineapple heart
A coffee dessert, yes, you know it’s good news
But you’ll have to have them all pulled out
After the Savoy truffle

Cool cherry cream, nice apple tart
I feel your taste all the time we’re apart
Coconut fudge really blows down…[Read more]

Nearly 79% of JCers who have voted want no deal.

haha.

Why are the Leavers so scared of a second referendum? You should be able to win it hands down, and a vote like that would indicate a national unity which would stand the UK in good stead in negotiating with the EU

Or maybe JC isn’t a reflection of the country??    

I plan to answer some of these later this week.

For those who are taking this discussion as a genuine discussion, my apologies for breaking it off on 18th December, but the 19th is a special day in my family, and has been all my life, so I  cleared the decks in preparation. Others won’t take that reason seriously, so no apology for them.

Given…[Read more]

Now that phrase rings a bell

You ought to post more poems, Ms Sass.

Mizzy has a real talent for it, but she’s so rarely here now. Nem can write some good stuff. I am a total coward when it comes to writing it. But I love reading them.

I take it that you like to paint and draw, rather than look at paintings and drawings.

My hands used to shake terribly when I was at…[Read more]

and this is what happens when a leaver gets bored

On political arguments, my prose communicates through a combination of analysis and dialectical argument. It’s never straightforward, and requires an awareness that the argument can be subtle and balanced.

My prose on this thread seems to have been understood clearly enough.

Any comment on the inadequacy of my prose is always welcome :good:…[Read more]

Well, that’s a problem for us all. In a sense, we often find ourselves – many of us – basically writing for ourselves in the hope that others will read them properly.

Ms Sass was writing her poem for someone, and she thinks he got the message.

Poetry is interesting to me when it’s not clear – we have to figure out what is being communicated,…[Read more]

Sorry, Linda,

I gave up making New Year resolutions a long time ago.

I just keep breaking them.

Now I just make a resolution to keep on being a really swell guy, loved and respected by all I know, online and offline, all year round

I’m not sure whether I’m included in his New Year greetings,

but a Happy New Year to Somer, Linda and all on JC.

while I’m thinking, it’s the last line of the Bunting quotation – “Follow the clue patiently and you will understand nothing” – which is the important one.

Aha! Touché!!

Or maybe not!

I wasn’t writing either a poem or a polished piece of prose. I didn’t check over every word, it was done in a hurry to make a point (or two).

But even so I disagree with your argument that every word has to ‘make sense’.

You’re absolutely right if you’re referring to mixed metaphors. many an undergrad has had…[Read more]

Dodger,

I enjoy your poems, and I love your love of poetry.

I don’t fully agree with your criticisms, but I recognise that they’re positive in their intent.

That makes them different from the criticism I once raised against people who wrote poems here. I was very scathing,. I was quite an a-hole, holding a ‘superior’ standard of literary…[Read more]

It’s grand that you should write these poems, Nem.

Takes some courage to write poems in JC, though it’s easier than it used to be.

Merry Christmas, everyone xx