Porridge, porridge, good for your bones,
Bones, bones, good for your bones.
Eat it up; it’ll do you good,
Do you good, good, good, good.
Look at it now; it’s so fine to eat,
It’s so fine and good, it is a treat.

Porridge, porridge, good for your bones,
Bones, bones, good for your bones.
Eat it up; it’ll do you good,
Do you good, good, good, good.
Look at it now; it’s so fine to eat,
It’s so fine and good, it is a treat.

There once was a boy named Paul,
Who wanted to get away from it all,
So he took up sea swimming and set off one evening,
Now he’s nowhere at all,
A shark or something horrible probably ate him.

Potter, Harry Potter, are you sure that it’s so,
His title, that label, or are you having a go,
At me, your poor servant, a man dearthly low?

Harry Potter is such a Rotter
Harry Rotter, for sure.
Del Boy Potter, are you sure that is right?
Del Boy Potter, oh, what a fright,
To think that he could be a Wizard of tricks,
Del Boy Potter, is a concept quite sick!

Mystic Cola, powerful might,
Thunderous magic, hidden from sight,
Disguised by a treat, sugary and sweet,
A shortcut to enlightenment,
The Cryptic Agenda decree.

If this has you thinking,
You would like some of that,
Visit their temple and study their track,
But watch out for that bottle once it’s uncorked,
Lest you are drawn to its magic and inside it are caught!

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The EU is no good,
Chop it up for firewood,
And if it don’t burn,
Pour on some PETROL,
And have some fun.


EU madness, for sure

Brexit AOK

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The EU is only an episode in European history – and is doomed to failure
Europe is not the same as the European Union. The European Union is only an episode in Europe’s history. The two, nevertheless, are frequently treated as if they were identical. It is, however, entirely possible to be a Europhile, in the sense of valuing and engaging with Europe’s cultures, peoples and history, and to be opposed to the European Union and thus to Britain’s continued membership of it.
Britain and continental Europe share much. Cultural, religious, philosophical and political movements and ideas have spilled across from one to the other. It would be strange if they had not, given their proximity. Nevertheless, exchanges of this kind are hardly sufficient to justify political union. The histories of Poland and Russia are similarly entangled, but no one would now suggest that they should join together.
The way that ideas have spread in Europe is important. One of the strengths of Europe has been its diversity. The separate experiences of Europe’s countries have acted as inspirations and warnings to others. The example of British manufacturing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, underpinned by the free-trade philosophy of Smith and Ricardo, overturned the regulatory and protectionist regime that prevailed across much of Central Europe. Bismarck’s early welfare state and Swiss federalism had their own emulators. Across large parts of Europe, the lesson of the French Revolution stimulated the politics of conservatism and of gradual change, and so on.
The high modernist ideology that underpins the EU is predicated on the erosion of differences between countries. It would seek to impose single solutions that are blind to complexity and inimical to the sort of local experimentation that has been one of the driving forces in European history. Not only therefore are the EU and Europe different things. By putting its stress on political, economic and social convergence, the EU may also be antithetical to Europe’s historical dynamic.