Driving into Carlisle last week we passed a tanker carrying sewage.
Written on the side was the word serious and under that a slogan.
The motion is carried.
As the speaker frequently comments, Ordure, Ordure, or at least that's what it sounds like against the racket of braying MP's in the background.
As the week closes the overwhelming sense that Banks and Politicians have failed us gains momentum.
As a young man I became convinced that Anarchism was the way forward, no politics, no politicians and every major decision made by means of a referendum.
An Anarchist society is essentially a contradiction in terms but I joined and enthusiastically read my way through the literature from Bakunin to Proudhon and the early Christian Anarchists.
I even became actively involved in a campaign called Anarchy in, Politics out during one election campaign when it looked like the Tories were going to be re-elected.
Despite my campaigning they were re-elected and it was some years before the Labour Party were able to form a Government.
Returning from the European Summit the Prime Minister has again sought to protect the financial services industry and The City of London by using his veto, thereby isolating Britain from Europe.
His actions raise an interesting question about what is in Britain's interest?
The newspapers are divided on this and clearly it is to soon to tell but my instinct is to feel that anything supported by Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage is not going to be something that I would welcome.
Apparently Ed Milliband tweeted his response which was disapproved of by Mr Murdoch's Times Newspaper but then there is no surprise there, although it was the tweeting rather than the content of the tweet that was criticised.
I have come to the conclusion that it all comes down to being able to speak English.
If only the French and the Italians and the Germans would make English their national language then we'd get on really well with them and feel relaxed about being European, but instead they insist on speaking French or Italian or German, indeed some can speak all three languages at once.
I didn't learn a language or very much else at school and left with an 'O'Level in Woodwork.
But I do remember one teacher explaining that language gave us an insight into national characteristics and temperament. His example was Belgium which is a nation divided by two languages. The parts of Belgium nearest the Dutch Border speak French, he explained and the parts nearest to France speak Flemish, in that way he suggested, they defend their national interest.
Recently in Genova I recognised a pun in the name of a Cafe, combining the word Barrista and the name of the Street it was on to form a new word, Barribaldi.
But largely I still prefer to pun in English, once, swimming in the Mediterranean, I spotted a floating island of sewage, I called to my family nearby, don't swim here, just go through the motions ..........
Written on the side was the word serious and under that a slogan.
The motion is carried.
As the speaker frequently comments, Ordure, Ordure, or at least that's what it sounds like against the racket of braying MP's in the background.
As the week closes the overwhelming sense that Banks and Politicians have failed us gains momentum.
As a young man I became convinced that Anarchism was the way forward, no politics, no politicians and every major decision made by means of a referendum.
An Anarchist society is essentially a contradiction in terms but I joined and enthusiastically read my way through the literature from Bakunin to Proudhon and the early Christian Anarchists.
I even became actively involved in a campaign called Anarchy in, Politics out during one election campaign when it looked like the Tories were going to be re-elected.
Despite my campaigning they were re-elected and it was some years before the Labour Party were able to form a Government.
Returning from the European Summit the Prime Minister has again sought to protect the financial services industry and The City of London by using his veto, thereby isolating Britain from Europe.
His actions raise an interesting question about what is in Britain's interest?
The newspapers are divided on this and clearly it is to soon to tell but my instinct is to feel that anything supported by Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage is not going to be something that I would welcome.
Apparently Ed Milliband tweeted his response which was disapproved of by Mr Murdoch's Times Newspaper but then there is no surprise there, although it was the tweeting rather than the content of the tweet that was criticised.
I have come to the conclusion that it all comes down to being able to speak English.
If only the French and the Italians and the Germans would make English their national language then we'd get on really well with them and feel relaxed about being European, but instead they insist on speaking French or Italian or German, indeed some can speak all three languages at once.
I didn't learn a language or very much else at school and left with an 'O'Level in Woodwork.
But I do remember one teacher explaining that language gave us an insight into national characteristics and temperament. His example was Belgium which is a nation divided by two languages. The parts of Belgium nearest the Dutch Border speak French, he explained and the parts nearest to France speak Flemish, in that way he suggested, they defend their national interest.
Recently in Genova I recognised a pun in the name of a Cafe, combining the word Barrista and the name of the Street it was on to form a new word, Barribaldi.
But largely I still prefer to pun in English, once, swimming in the Mediterranean, I spotted a floating island of sewage, I called to my family nearby, don't swim here, just go through the motions ..........
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