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Just when you think the FIFA World Cup saga could not drag ‘The Beautiful Game’ any lower, another revelation sets a new low. As if it wasn’t bad enough that Russia & Qatar bought the 2018 & 2022 Finals, and that much of FIFA officialdom lined their pockets by-the-by, it now transpires that […]
The Ericle has become quite exercised by the experiences of the Offspring, as they try to gain a fingernail-hold on employment in the current economic climate. Over the last couple of years, I have witnessed their oft-exploitation by way of ‘internships’ and ‘work-trials’. To be fair, some of these have been straight up […]
Mrs Ericle & I, having been invited to a wedding in Nice on June 28th, decided to turn the Happy Event into an extended break in the area. Accordingly, a British Airways return ticket was purchased departing Blighty on June 19th & returning July 1st. Cost: £127 per ticket. Unfortunately we had overlooked […]
Last year it was ‘Go Home’ poster vans cruising our streets, yesterday came a package of miserly unpleasant Government proposals aimed at dealing with ‘the immigration problems’ facing the UK. According to The Institute for Public Policy research, when one takes into account the 2.2m Brits living abroad in the EU, the UK is […]
In my Inbox this week appeared an email from a close relative, (a holocaust survivor, now living in the USA), with a link to ‘England’s No. 1 Song’. (This is the link here). I hope & trust that he sent me this with an unwritten: “WTF?”, but I suspect […]
Sickening stuff in today’s papers. Tomorrow’s Panorama news programme, trailed in today’s Sunday Times, tells of three Labour peers revealing their willingness to accept cash to use their influence to push for new laws to benefit particular business interests. Their is an audio recording Lord (Jack) Cunningham, the former Cabinet Office minister, haggling for a payment […]
I hate tomatoes; can’t stand them. I am not allergic to them, I don’t break out in spots when I touch one, I just simply don’t like them. As a child I resisted all attempts by well-intending parents to force them on me; and since then nothing has changed. I’ve even, on the basis that […]
OK I am guilty! I am guilty of writing the above headline because it is provocative and presumably attention-grabbing. And I am also totally guilty of replying to my daughter’s question as to whether I’d be watching The Paralympics on television with the flip answer: “No! And I won’t be tuning into Dwarf Throwing either!” […]
It always amazes me when the British Parliament is held up as a shining example of democracy. How can that be even remotely so, given the structure of our legislature: a non-elected House of Lords and a first-past-the post House of Commons that benefits a 2 party system, where the leader […]
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What a swell party this is! Not!
From: Eric Wilton
Subject: Membership Number LXXXX217
Date: 28 August 2016 at 12:43:56 BST
To: labourmembership@labour.org.uk
Hello
I am writing to let you know that I am leaving The Labour Party and that I have cancelled my monthly direct debit subscription.
I joined the […]