Country Walk

 

Through ancient paths,

‘cross hills sublime.

I trekked on fields so green.

Breathing in the country air,

I lived my rural dream.

 

To fill my lungs with fresh, clean air,

was what I sought to do.

I gazed upon the scenery,

that took my breath to view.

 

In sweetest, quiet reverie,

I walked alone the route.

’til suddenly the peace was broke,

by snarling, drooling brute.

 

With searing pain,

and blood soaked clothes,

from idyll I descend.

The fearsome dog has sunk its teeth,

deep into my rear end.

Consciousness

 

I am, I am, I know I am.

I have been since so young.

I am who I know I am.

That I know,

shows what I am.

 

An oak is unaware,

I think,

of oakenness or tree.

Bacterium of

bacteriousness,

is absolutely free.

 

But, where lives

the knowingness,

that I am surely me?

That I am not

a rock, or coconut,

a rabbit or a flea.

 

Is the me,

that know’s I’m me

in brain, or mind,

or where?

If mind it is,

then do I mind.

If brain,

then do I care?

 

The me that drinks

until I reel,

in alcoholic haze,

does not behave

like sober me,

but me is in

each guise.

 

If me survives

continuous

through liquor

poisoned cells.

Then surely me

must live beyond

the chemistry

within.

 

The thread of me

that lives on through,

the child

and the man.

In sickness, health

and drunkenness,

in waking, sleep

and trance,

may not survive

a damaged brain,

though body mine

lives on.

 

A comatose,

or cabbage me,

would not be me at all.

 

If mind, or soul,

or spirit me,

of cells were

fully free,

that pulp brained

sorely damaged man,

would surely still

be me.

 

End All Immigration Controls Into The UK

A free market should exist in people as well as goods and services. The only people who should be excluded are those who have been deported following legal process.

Everybody else should be free to come and go as they please without requirement of work permits or visas. Biometric identification should be used on entry and exit.

 

Discontinue all state benefits for anybody who has not been a continuous UK resident for 5 years

The simple solution to so called benefit tourism.

Citizenship is a different matter. Only citizens should be entitled to state benefits of any kind other than the protection of the law. Citizenship should be open to application to anybody who has lived in the country continuously for five years without any form of criminal conviction, speaks good English and has a record of employment and tax payment.

Conjugal Writes

 

I was taught that verbs are active,

so I knew they got about.

You expect some minor frolics,

but not such mucky pranks.

 

When they told me that they conjugate

I had to look it up.

Then pushed the dictionary back,

before I blushed, bright pink.

 

It said they’re joining gametes,

in a loving, carnal act.

And if they didn’t do it,

they would be annulled and split.

 

You have to call the Pope in

to check that its been done.

Whether they did conjugate,

or if they still are one.

 

They’re much too rude for me to use.

So they are out of bounds.

Now all my work will only be,

with adjectives and nouns.

Biometric Identification for Everybody

Registration of births and deaths must be updated to include DNA. Concealment of identity or identity theft are at the heart of all crime. No free, law abiding citizen needs to conceal their identity or to try to pretend to be somebody else.

Clone

 

Three cows eggs and a corpse for parents.

A doting woman for a foster mum.

They say I’m the same as my dead daddy,

who lives on now through me and the cow.

 

They are wrong about that.

The thing they are missing, is

fixing my genes

didn’t set who I am.

 

The mum who has nursed me

gave no DNA,

but the love that she brought

went a very long way.

Making me me and not he.

 

Thank you kind cows.

You are parents I’m proud of.

All praise to dear mother,

but Dad I’m not sure

 

You didn’t want me.

It was you you were seeking.

Another long life

from a cell you bequeathed.

 

I am that cell

through a womb kindly given.

Three sweet parent cows,

and a life all my own.

 

I’ll have kids with a wife,

and die when my time comes.

You have died too!

You don’t live through me.

Trident Replacement

The UK is committed to NATO as a nuclear power and there is no prospect of us discontinuing that alliance or of the United States ceasing to provide NATO with its nuclear capability. In those circumstances it makes no sense for us to renew our own national nuclear weapons at enormous cost when there is a very great need for tactical and battle ground weaponry for use in the many fields of operations to which we are committed.

The other issue, which is more important in my view, is that Britain is a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty that commits its participants to work towards the elimination of nuclear weapons. In my view that is not compatible with a full scale replacement of our nuclear capability. Continued protection from a nuclear deterrent under the NATO umbrella is adequate if we are as committed, as we claim, to our international allegiance to the US and the other NATO members. Apart from anything else, when we commit to international treaties we must mean what we say and do everything in our power to honour the obligations that we have undertaken.

At a time when we are part of the pressure on Iran to forego its nuclear ambitions and applying pressure to north Korea to abandon its terrifying development of nuclear weapons, we need to be able to show that we are not hypocritical in our attitudes to WMD. The worst possible position to be in is to be saying that it is OK for western nations to have hydrogen bombs because our governments and people are superior to theirs and therefore it is OK.

Phase Out State Pensions

It is a personal responsibility to provide for our own old age. The state pension and National Insurance scheme needs to be scrapped and replaced by a citizens pension of £500 a month for everyone over 65 who has been continuously resident in UK for 5 years and who meets all of the requirements for citizenship. The citizen’s pension is a transitional provision that should not be increased and will gradually diminish in real value over time as people put their own arrangements in place.

Civilisation

 

The march of humankind

leapt forward with the pot.

To store, to cook,

preserve and pack

So social life could form.

 

The sail sent trade

across the world,

blending race and lore.

Gold and spices

plied the sea,

while colonies

took root.

 

The book gave knowledge

down to all.

To pass

from age to age.

Accumulating steadily,

building stage by stage.

 

The wheel brought revolution.

Rolling farm hands

from the land.

Then the cogs of industry,

replaced the artisan.

 

The speaking primate

hauled himself

from cave to Martian probe.

Then the robot seizes power,

and the carbon age is done.

City

 

Scally in a tracky

with his orange bird.

Hanging on the corner,

not a sound is heard.

 

Her slap is perfect

and her hair just right,

She’s in her PJ’s

and her mouth is tight.

 

His hood is up.

He’s packing tonight.

Her fluffy, pink slippers

are pinching alright.

 

The glad WAG’s hiss

at the sad slags kiss,

of the muscle bound hunk

in the street,

 

is cut by the smack

of a slug in the back,

for the pimped up

prick dealing crack.

 

He drops in a pool,

the shooter is cool.

The city falls

dead again.

 

Scally in an alley

lying limp with lead.

She’s pissed her PJ’s.

Her dude is dead.