John, there doesn't seem much wrong to me with Jeremy's leadership. He has been increasingly accommodating to a rabble that have been hanging on for 10 months looking for an excuse to oust him.
Do you remember the ABC? Anyone but Corbyn, they all advised, and then stood down because they would not work with anyone who valued socialism.
The media have never given him a fair run, because they found him a threat from the outset.
Surely a weak leader would have bowed out after the vote of no confidence, which was the day that they all lined up to shout in his face to go. He is still there.
Comment is about Thoughts of the rebel MP's (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
But do you eat it upside-down?
Comment is about CLOTTED CREAM, SCONE AND BLACKCURRANT JAM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
MC – I don’t think any of us expect true equality, but there is no excuse for the Tories always making life in Britain more unequal whenever they are in power. Of course they tell us otherwise, but that is only because they changed the criteria on which it is worked out.
Regarding the lower tax threshold being raised, this was a Lib Dem policy and came into being under the coalition, in return for tax cuts for the wealthy. Yes, of course the Tories like to take all the credit for it, but it never came about because of them. Admittedly, they kept the policy on seeing how popular it was, but to be honest, with the rising costs and stagnating pay, most workers are earning less in real terms, and should not be paying tax on such measly pay anyway.
I don’t know how much attention you have paid to benefit sanctions, benefit caps and cuts, the bedroom tax and unfair work care assessments but my comment would be that the much maligned Tories have taken many vulnerable folk away from financial INCOME, and left them with nothing but destitution, homelessness and deaths.
Comment is about Thoughts of the rebel MP's (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
Thank you Alison for your kind comments.
And thank you LCPTB for arguing my case for me in my absence! :-))
Comment is about Thoughts of the rebel MP's (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
this is excellent, just my cup of tea. uplifting and dark at the same time. very enjoyable.
Comment is about Roots (blog)
Original item by E.M.S
and as for Nigel and his stiff ones (:... sounds like a normal night - lol.
Comment is about July Collage Poem (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
lots of great lines there guys.
gutted i couldn't make it.
see you all next month
Comment is about July Collage Poem (blog)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Thank you so much R Miller :)
Comment is about Faithful Moon (blog)
Original item by Gareth Glyn Roberts
Good picture Richard, can you please add it to your profile page?
Comment is about Me (Richard Harries) (blog)
Original item by Richard Harries
Humanity is constantly adjusting to accommodate its
evolution but when has equality ever been mooted as
a fact of life? Can anybody say?
The famous American Constitution only concedes that "all men are BORN (my upper case) equal"
and that itself can be challenged as it is demonstrably
false in real life, whether it be in terms of wealth, health or social advantage But it does allow for the opportunity
to progress and improve one's lot.
The Bible tells us that "the poor are always with us"...
so no rush to promote socialism there then!
Each age finds its way to assess and accommodate
what is perceived as "equality" for its time, but if
cynicism is the last resort of idealism, then idealism is the first refuge from cynicism.
It interests me that the much maligned Tories have
taken many vulnerable folk away from financial worry
by raising the bar before income tax becomes payable.
Ergo, it indicates that "socialism" doesn't exist solely
within the ranks of those who proclaim to be its
disciples and preach its prospects as gospel.
Comment is about Thoughts of the rebel MP's (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
JC - I like blackcurrant jam but as a Devon-born lad, I go
for scones, cream and strawberry jam.
Comment is about CLOTTED CREAM, SCONE AND BLACKCURRANT JAM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
Welcome to WOL Dalton, your 2 posts are wonderfully written. You express your thoughts so well. I look forward to reading more from you.
Comment is about Dalton Beston (poet profile)
Original item by Dalton Beston
Please, think nothing of it Greg. Football can of course raise hackles , like Gilzean's tackles (and headers that he was famous for)!
Ray
Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I live in a bungalow Martin. Sympathy comes with a slight smugness. It's a clever format and a bit disorientating reading up when coming down -so watch the mind as well as the body.
Ray
Comment is about Going up (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Thanks Colin. I went there to do a gig ten years ago, and the jet shops were there, but of course most of it antique stuff. Maybe in favour for the goths !
Glad you like the ideas.
Ray
Comment is about BRAM STOKER'S GHOST (blog)
Original item by ray pool
Thanks Martin
A Stiff One
Under the table
the view is
just slightly darker
but I'm safe
from Big Blondie
blew a kiss
fondled my bum
wanted some fun
not my type
instead of watching
having to listen
will get out
when the coast
is absolutely clear
in this position
hot and sweaty
sore and red
got stiff neck.
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Positively 4th Street spoke out to me whilst still at school and seemed incredibly relevant to a bunch of teenage mates.
I think you've captured the chaotic nature of his "wordsmithery" really well with this John.
Comment is about bob Dylan (blog)
Original item by JOHN PRITCHARD
Thanks M.C. and Ray,
Much appreciated.
Comment is about Love at the nets (2) (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
<Deleted User> (13947)
Mon 25th Jul 2016 10:34
Gareth, I truly love this. I can't explain to you how much without rambling on, but it's just a lot.
Comment is about Faithful Moon (blog)
Original item by Gareth Glyn Roberts
Ray, my apols for harping on about the football aspects of '1970', rather than applaud its poetic qualities the more! It's a very successful poem.
Comment is about ray pool (poet profile)
Original item by ray pool
Lyrical inspiration credits to Live, respectfully.
Comment is about If Only We Knew (blog)
Original item by Jake Vincent Belmont
<Deleted User> (13762)
Mon 25th Jul 2016 01:03
Come and get ya Goth in Whitby. I guess the jet has almost all been dug out the cliffs by now. Liking your themes at the moment Ray.
Comment is about BRAM STOKER'S GHOST (blog)
Original item by ray pool
elPintor
Mon 25th Jul 2016 00:37
Hi, Ray. Stu was very kind to pick up on that..I put up a link to a vid (see below) shortly after the blog post. The relationship between the post and the song is somewhat more personal than I wanted to get into, so I removed it. However, Stuart brought up a good point so I returned it.
Truthfully, I could go on and on. In fact, I've taken a page full of notes to explain. However, you've picked up on a good bit of it. Things happen and things change. Sometimes, you can't fix what's broken, and sometimes, it's insulting to have someone put their hands into personal situations to effect "repair", because they can only do it according to their own perspective.
Thanks to all for commenting. Truly, it can be eye-opening to revisit one's own ideas through the thoughts of others.
elP
Comment is about model glue (blog)
Original item by nunya
There's so much to enjoy in this bitter-sweet poem. The football scarf knitted by gran; that moment of surprise and joy when you've given up hope, the kind of moment that stays with you, even in the bad times. Every club has its Tommy Johnston; at Orient they renamed a stand after him when he died. And yet another POTW winner from the Hull area! Well done, Rick.
Comment is about 'Brisbane Road' by Rick Gammon is Write Out Loud Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
This is a lovely poem . like it a lot , it has such a lyrical quality to it. Nice one
Comment is about Forever in your eyes (blog)
Original item by A.august
Great poem Ray. I still have vague recollections of trolleybuses running when I was a kid, I think it was in Brighton. I love the lines
The crittall - eyed walls
of Raelbrook shirts backed up
the multiple bus stops.
Nice one
Comment is about 1970 (for Greg Freeman) (blog)
Original item by ray pool
My first and last hero. He's written some brilliant stuff and he's done some right shite.
Comment is about bob Dylan (blog)
Original item by JOHN PRITCHARD
...though the Balance of Terror does seem to have worked for 60 years.
Comment is about For Peace & For Pride (blog)
Original item by Simon Widdop
The man is truly a socialist saint; but he'll never make a leader while ever he's got a hole in his arse.
Comment is about Thoughts of the rebel MP's (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
Phew, Martin! I'm glad I read this downhill.
Comment is about Going up (blog)
Original item by Martin Elder
Thanks for picking up on "1970" Greg, my first year as a pro muso. Much time spent mooching about trying to build up contacts(using the phone in the underground station believe it or not). Saturdays often to Spurs as mentioned. I have a diary for the year, and noted all the matches I attended. I can't find any games with Chelsea, but I note Spurs beat L'pool 1-0 . Some were achingly depressing like Wolves 0-0 in December with the walk home following. The most distilled aggression was felt for Arsenal at the time!
My aim was to write a poem in a style hopefully similar to the ones you often pen, with lots of detail to flesh out the journey. Always a pleasure.
Ray
Comment is about Greg Freeman (poet profile)
Original item by Greg Freeman
LCPTB - having been involved over many years in the
law business, I'd love to see what you would present
to Parliament to make "equality" in life a reality.
Where would you start and how would you phrase the
words used to make it possible? Simply, this is pie in the sky stuff and Ivory Tower invective doesn't
help.
As for your second "bloody patronising" - ask The
Beatles or J.K. Rowling of "Harry Potter" fame if self -belief, skills and tenacity played their parts in their
success. They might have something to say about the tax they have to pay but I don't imagine that fits in with your own comment on the subject. They
didn't need the law to achieve whatever degree of
social fairness you seem to demand - but they, like
many others, just kept at it until they gained their
objectives..and that is a good maxim for anyone in
life: use what you have, go where you must and
keep trying, accepting social support as it was intended - as an emergency fund, and as a social
source of longer term help to those who really are
unable to help themselves for a variety of reasons
individually or collectively. But, of course, that
is no simple or easy matter to define or decide;
even less so when it open to shameless abuse, only
too well known now for the public at large to accept its distribution without close supervisory scrutiny.
It is perhaps, this situation that disfigures a well-
intentioned financial "safety net" funded, lest it be forgot, from compulsory taxation levied on others.
P.S. I still recall the scenes of wild exultation when a
grinning T. Blair worked the crowds on his arrival in Downing Street as the New Labour messiah.
Comment is about Thoughts of the rebel MP's (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
I totally agree and thanks for the insightful comment fellow bard
Comment is about This Bastard generation (blog)
Original item by David R Mellor
Thank you, Ray, for dedicating a poem to me, even if it is situated in the locale of Spurs. I know I should rise above the partisan politics of football to admire all you are doing in this poem; there are great lines in this, such as "the rain fell at timetable times", and many others.Trolleybus poles, too! I will only add that 1970 was the year that Chelsea won the FA Cup for the first time in their history - and I was there, aged 17, when they did it!
Comment is about 1970 (for Greg Freeman) (blog)
Original item by ray pool
thanks alison..btw the door looks great now
Comment is about Today we Painted a Door. (blog)
Original item by dazzer
Sun 24th Jul 2016 04:10
What I like here elP is the idea of being in control and yet standing aside while a process takes place. A sort of hiatus of patience. have we not all been there at some time. A test for us .
Perhaps I am in the dark re Stu's comment, sorry there must be a connection to something I havn't spotted.
Ray
Comment is about model glue (blog)
Original item by nunya
Delightful Harry. Clever construction and so lyrical , Shades of Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, very English as of Betjeman. An impressive format and quite wonderful
Ray
Comment is about Love at the nets (2) (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Hi Everybody
I am probably being a bit dim here but never really realised that this facility existed and therefore have never accessed it before. Anyway following on suggestions from last month I am just putting up details of 'under the fable'
This is an open mike night at the castle pub ,66 Oldham street Manchester on the 18th August and 21st September . I attended and read last year and are going to do so again on the 21st September. The second date has been added because they ran out of slots for the first night. Therefore I will attend both nights but reading on the 21st because I was too late for the 18th. Should prove to be interesting nights and worth attending.
Cheers
Martin
Comment is about Stockport WoL (group profile)
Original item by Stockport WoL
Sat 23rd Jul 2016 20:12
And as pleasing as ever!
You have to know what you're doing to attempt this sort
of thing and be able pull it off with such rewarding results.
Comment is about Love at the nets (2) (blog)
Original item by Harry O`N eill
Viewing the photo that accompanies your blogs, I'm not
sure if any old dear would be comforted by this image
looming up behind her - wherever she might be - and
would quickly give you the "kiss off"!
Comment is about BENIGN (blog)
Original item by John Coopey
A good 'un. Honest and meandering yet sharp as well. Hearing Dom reading it is a great experience.
Comment is about 'Man and Camel, & others, animal' by Dominic James is Poem of the Week (article)
Original item by Greg Freeman
I'm never "at one" with the word "inequality" since it is
a fact of life in any century and any walk of life.
The most one might (and should) hope for is equality of
opportunity - and that can depend on one's own ability
or tenacity as much as anything.
The current state of the major socialist political party is
of historical interest, something which will be written
about at length in the years to come. But hurrah
for the English (British) working man and woman
whose common sense and understanding of what is or is
not important forms the bedrock of the nation's direction when politicians lose their proper perspective.
Comment is about Thoughts of the rebel MP's (blog)
Original item by Lynn Dye
Hi John - We could do with some of Voltaires wisdom in these dark days. The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Comment is about Catastrophe in Nice (blog)
Original item by Tom Doolan
elPintor
Sat 23rd Jul 2016 13:44
glad you liked it, Stu..I removed the link because I felt that maybe it was too specific. I would rather I hadn't now..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKbkArYyics
Comment is about model glue (blog)
Original item by nunya
i first read this last night when there was a link to L.S on here. I thought it was very clever and well written and quite a poignant piece. Enjoyed it, a different take on a tragedy.
Comment is about model glue (blog)
Original item by nunya
Lynn Dye
Mon 25th Jul 2016 20:56
I think I prefer it with raspberry jam, just to be different, ha ha.
I enjoyed the poem, John. I don't really care which way up it goes, to be honest, it still tastes the same.
Comment is about CLOTTED CREAM, SCONE AND BLACKCURRANT JAM (blog)
Original item by John Coopey