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8 years ago @ Conservative Home - We wish you a Merry Ch... · 3 replies · +1 points

Many thanks for good wishes, Elaine, but just to, point out that ConHome seems to have reprinted last year's comments!
Certainly a lot better than when first diagnosed; the trial drugs alongside standard therapies seem to have had some beneficial effect. Unfortunately one side effect is muscle weakness.
Still, if I was up to cooking Christmas dinner and doing the pile of washing up, maybe it demonstrates sufficient muscle power to get back into a little ConHome jousting!
Happy New Year
Ken

8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Newslinks for Wednesda... · 1 reply · +1 points

Ah, you just added ten years to my expectancy, Elaine.
I still peruse ConHome most days and continue to enjoy your snippets!
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8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Newslinks for Wednesda... · 3 replies · +1 points

Hi Elaine,
Much appreciate your concern. Reason was given in farewell poem just below.

Unfortunately, it is a more advanced cancer than the "ordinary" watching & waiting sort and fatigue/muscle wastage makes anything beyond short bouts of keyboarding rather impracticable. Frequent hospital appointments have also rather taken up time available and focus of attention! Am about to be put on advanced drug research trial. Maybe I'll be miraculously restored to vibrancy and therefore hounding you again ;-)

All the best

Ken

8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Newslinks for Wednesda... · 0 replies · +1 points

Most kind, Axstane.
All the best

8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Newslinks for Wednesda... · 0 replies · +1 points

Many thanks for your kind words, Ross.
On the plus side, I have acquired a lot of "new best friends" at the Health Centre and the hospital ;-)
Best of luck for your watchful waitings.

8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Rupert Matthews: Forew... · 1 reply · +1 points

"You do know that commerce and business is the same thing? "

Aye, badly phrased. I had intended to mean our overall economic well-being.

8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Newslinks for Wednesda... · 4 replies · +1 points

Farewell ConHome

It’s several years since first I trod
the boards of this wonderful site,
during which several views that were once deemed odd
have evolved to become alright.

The notion of leaving the mighty EU
was once perceived quite infra dig
but now the preserve of only a few
has blossomed to something quite big

Our historic “unwritten” constitution
was upheld as a matter of pride
but since our half-baked devolution
now sore needs to be codified.

Once a cause of a few noble stalwarts,
English Parliament’s come to the fore.
EVEL certainly ain’t the way forwards.
Only full devolution will score.

And that is not all I could chronicle.
Countless reams could I easily fill
with pet causes, in style of McGonagall,
but it’s Prostate-one/Ken Stevens – nil

I should hopefully be kept trundling along for quite a while yet but secondary complications are making extensive keyboarding a bit painfully awkward, so you’ll now have to struggle along somehow without me ;-)
Thanks to all for the enjoyment and stimulus of debate

8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Newslinks for Wednesda... · 1 reply · +1 points

"Christian bakers lose gay cake discrimination case"

Does that mean that I could go to a kosher or halal butcher’s shop and insist on placing a special order for a leg of pork?

If a shop does not routinely stock a certain item then, as long as it does not arbitrarily debar anyone from entering the premises to choose from the various goods displayed, that’s fine even if that display fails to include a leg of pork, pink cake or whatever. However, if it comes to accepting a special order, it is up to the proprietor to decide whether or not to fulfil it, irrespective of reasons for doing so.

8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Cllr David Hodge: Powe... · 0 replies · +1 points

More than happy to agree with your suggestions – but only as a scheme under the aegis of an English Parliament and Government.
As in other topics , there is this conflation between “UK” and “England”, such as your reference to Tory victory stemming partly from resurgence of UK economy. The win was achieved in England, not UK as a whole. As to county areas having been at the core, are you asserting that this was counties UK wide or specifically those in England?

I can understand your desire for more localisation but are you really prepared to ignore the further diminution of the national coherence of England within the UK to achieve it?

8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Securing the Majority ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Maybe in the same situation as us - - wouldn't realise the implications until too late.

Titular and ceremonial, agreed, but in visualising a USE I compare with USA and wonder how, if there had been a Queen of Texas or wherever, she would realistically have fitted into the scheme of things nowadays!

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