Anything they can do we can do.....?
WHILE WE SLEPT
Poor old Britain had faced a sad fate
Growing ancient and senile-sedate ?
But our immigrant - booms
With fresh willys and wombs
Have obligingly upped our birth rate.
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Yes, yes, absolutely. Great Britain, the only country I know to have an adjective in it's name. I am currently writing a poem about this (without it sounding too negative) about how GB is so many other thins than it promotes to be, but so far having fun with my older verse first after a long absence from poetry.
I will read more of your work. I loved reading your bio too.
Very timely, and clever.
Agreed. I married a Polish girl!
Graham,
Someone very close to me came here nearly sixty years ago as a very lowly paid nurse, Several of her children variously became: a B.B.C. news reader, An I.t. expert, an administrator in a large firm, and other responsible jobs.
Their children have since gone to university.
Harry, all this talk of wellies and wombs is making the migrant crisis news on the TV take on a new persona. Perhaps each EU country should lobby for how many Willies and/or wombs it is prepared to take in and not how many nurses, builders, etc.
I`m not sure if this is what Roger McGough meant about `crying` out about migration...but its a thought!
(Particularly when you think that a quarter of the babies born here last year were to mothers born in other countries)
(Its a sister Limerick to Uber Alles)
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DavidAddington
Wed 4th Nov 2015 21:50
I married a French girl...