Day: July 27, 2019

What time  is left, has Palestine grown roots?

Oh,Mandy’s   here displaying   her white boots
She  sees disintegration,loss   and new despair
Douglas-Hume  starts  wincing on my roof

My eyes were open, dignified, aloof
Edward Heath, man, give me my  bus fare!
What time is right for  docketing the truth?

I knew there were strange numbers on the route
Take pi and e and i and  stop just there
Harold Wilson  tried in Downing Street

John Major  felt my brain , he was  astute
We see  straight through your eyes into you, bare.
When day was night, the Bennites spoke the truth

I bought the book, I ‘ll soon be destitute
Iraq has  made much wealth for Tony Blair
The bombs fell on  the children , ain’t they cute?

 

Graham Greene, the end of the affair
Netanyahu is leading but to where?
What time  is left, has Palestine  grown roots?
Asylum seekers die  for lack of roofs.

EU money and child poverty UK

 

 

 

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I took some photo of Leonard Cohen’s Joan of Arc  song.This is one

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-49131685

Extract:

Child poverty cash handed back to Europe unspent

By Sean CoughlanBBC News family and education correspondent
  • 27 July 2019

More than £3.5m intended to alleviate child poverty and homelessness is at risk of being wasted because the government has failed to spend it, says a House of Lords committee.

Peers have written to the Home Office saying it is “extraordinary” that the EU funding has not been used.

They warn that some of the cash has already been forfeited and are worried about the rest being handed back.

The government said there had been “barriers” over spending the money.

But peers have written to complain that after almost six years, the government has failed to deliver spending aimed at addressing “the worst forms of poverty”.

About £580,000 of unspent cash has so far been taken back – and a further similar amount is at risk of being deducted at the end of the year.