“And Another Ting…….” By Vince Nolan
ding dong, tunnel vision and eu matters
One of the little-known stories to emerge from the recent consumer frenzy that was Christmas, was the plight of the bell-ringers of York Minster. It seems that in late October last year the 30-strong bell ringing team was summoned at short notice and were abruptly told they were being sacked. The reasons for the move were given as health and safety and risk management. 600 years of chiming ceased. The Governing body then tried to recruit replacements from local churches but in an unprecedented example of solidarity amongst Yorkshire campanologists, none came forward. One assumes a very Silent Night resulted.
no need for all the other reindeer to laugh and call him names. He was then excluded from their reindeer games which was very wrong of them. A victim of venison bullying just because he was different. However, the hitherto unknown shallowness of reindeer was then revealed when Santa invited Rudolf to pull the sleigh (albeit only because his fog-lights had packed up and who else was going to be available on Christmas Eve with a glowing hooter?). Then how the reindeer loved him – well they would wouldn’t they, the cloven-hooved sycophantic hypocrites. Next month we examine the Bing Crosby number “Do You Hear What I Hear” which subliminally suggests some kind of voices in his head.
I recently read that Ministers in Whitehall have the power to overturn laws made by the Welsh Assembly using Statutory Instruments which were enacted at the time of Henry VIII. Devolution – please! I wonder if we are ever going to stand up for ourselves as a Nation?
Staying with the Christmas theme, I only recently became aware of the sinister and bullying undertones in the popular song Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer. Alright, he was born with a shiny nose which glowed but there was
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I thought I would stick to politics for a bit and wheel out the M4 proposed Black Route which will be a £1.3bn+ waste of your money. Actually, it is worse than this because we will need to borrow £500m from the UK Treasury and fund the balance ourselves whilst still paying for the Severn Bridges. I have never read such guff about the inward investment which is allegedly being lost because of the current snarl-ups. I have worked at the front-end of inward investment for the better part of 35 years and believe me the road is not a barrier. We should be overseas persuading investors to come here instead of worrying that they might be a bit teed off about paying a bridge toll and waiting at the infamous Brynglas Tunnels for twenty minutes. These were the first tunnels in the British motorway network and are still the only ones
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