In among all the other rubbish he just posted because he hates not me but immigration being questioned, I must respond to these words in my mouth: "Just as you moved to the North-East because it has the lowest percentage of ethnic minorities in the UK" (IB)...I've NEVER said this, and it was NOT the reason: I was UE in Manchester, and spent a weekend checking out the NE - another good place for the kind of manufacturing I've long been in and out of for years - via trains...

Poem 162 of 230: TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001

Where traditions are not so rare;
    Sea, country and works scent the air;
A multitude of monuments,
    Planted tubs and patterned pavements.

The longish pedestrian malls;
    The remnants of defensive walls;
"Broken-roofed buildings" are a gauge
    Of the respect for heritage.

Wheat, rape and pines in the fields;
    Estuaries guarded by shields;
Long sandy beaches and wide scenes;
    Romantic-ruin go-betweens.

Rivers in parts licked by trees,
    Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries,
And crossed by practical delights -
    Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.

Fine churches headed at Durham;
    Football kits ad infinitum;
Kept castles - one for study;
    Masonry behind masonry.

And, with moulding-works out that way,
It's somewhere for a longer stay..?

From walkaboutsverse.741.com

(IB - as I have, rather, said to you before, there's what we want, and there's the tactics we are prepared to use.)

Will - given/accepting all that, as I keep stressing, what is best FROM NOW ON...

Diane Easby: "racist filth" is false and defamatory filth (I've only questioned the act of immigration itself - NOT criticised any particular culture or race); and then "I spent two years trying to persuade them to do something - anything - other than Irish."...