As Valentines is coming here's a Poem as published in Japan, enough to make them start breeding again, or the population will HALVE

 Plenty of time for you all to prepare

As Valentines is coming

Here is a poem, copy it out in your best hand writing

On quality coloured paper

Then Pretend  you wrote it

Any resulting babies can be called Michael or Michaela 

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

The power of the pen, will result in babies

      Michael Casey, email michaelgcasey@hotmail.com 

 

 

              You're Never Alone When You Are in Love ©

 

 

                               By

 

     

                         Michael Casey

 

       Love is being together , Love is a smile , a Look , A Touch

 

       Or Just A Sigh , Not really knowing why you chose one another .

 

       Yet Together Till You Die

 

      

       Love is a Kiss soft and gentle on the cheek which warms your

 

       heart and makes you glad you chose one another .

 

       A Kiss can lead to more but I'll leave Passion locked Safely

 

       behind a bedroom door

 

       Passion spent you'll not give up each not even for Lent .

 

       You'll just lie in warm embrace and remember you forgot to say

 

       grace .

 

       Whispers and Promises are made , plans for the future and if

 

      she put her hair this way , Do you think it would suit her ?

 

      Then giggles and more embraces ,  Till the Night is over and with 

 

      a dig in the ribs you make him move over .

 

      Then your oneness complete , you have to put up with his cold feet !

 

      But when you are apart your hearts are still one ,

 

     Thought half is  absent you are still one .

 

      His socks under the bed , and after what you said .

 

      His  "toys" scattered about ,  and the clout you'll  give  when  he

 

      returns and the warmth of your body he yearns .

 

      His cold feet to chill you after he thrills you , are absent yet the

 

      thought makes you smile , at least you have the comfort for  a while.

 

      His grins and leers ,  which makes you smile at least  you'll  have

 

      peace for a while .

 

      But his heart is still with you , the love is always there - as

 

      bright as your fair hair .

 

      Close your eyes and he is still there ,  Remember the embrace as 

 

      he played his fingers across your face .

 

      Let your dreams go and remember the whispers in your ear, warm

 

      kisses on your shoulder before he gets bolder . The warmth of love

 

      that soars through your blood .

 

      Dream long , Dream deep , your Man toils while you sleep, though

 

      you are apart you are still together whatever the weather , for you

 

      are never apart for he is  locked in your heart .

 

      Though sometimes he can be trying , there's Never any need of

  

      crying for your love is Undying.

 

      Always remember he fills your heart even when you are apart

 

 

                        End

 

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Ok everybody you can cut and paste this and Translate into your own  Language

                           

 

this is my navvy look, hello sailor look, you can judge, 

a place in Birmingham sells them 

the future not bribes

UK should invest in green economy instead of tax giveaways, study shows

Economists say funding energy infrastructure, transport, tech and the environment will aid prosperity

Fiona Harvey Environment editor

Mon 22 Jan 2024 06.00 GMT

The UK should invest £26bn a year in a low-carbon economy to revive prosperity instead of planning tax giveaways that will only lead to further stagnation, leading economists have advised.

Investing in energy infrastructure, transport, innovation in new technologies such as AI, and the natural environment would boost the UK’s economy rapidly, the research found.

Public investment at that level would be likely to generate about twice as much accompanying investment from the private sector, and would quickly pay off in higher productivity, efficiency savings, economic growth and carbon reductions, according to a major paper by Lord Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, and colleagues from the London School of Economics.

Current government plans to stifle investment, by contrast, would lead to a “continuation of stagnant productivity and weak economic growth”.

The findings are strikingly similar to the commitments made repeatedly by Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, to invest £28bn a year in a “green prosperity plan”. Those commitments have come under sustained attack from the Tories, and are now to be reviewed by the opposition leadership this week, as some figures within the party are understood to favour dropping the pledge.

The authors of the LSE paper, entitled Boosting Growth and Productivity in the UK Through Investments in the Sustainable Economy, published on Monday, arrived at their conclusions independently, by examining the fitness of the UK’s crumbling infrastructure, the challenges and benefits of low-carbon investment, the broader economic environment and international competition.

Dimitri Zenghelis, lead author of the paper, said: “This does indeed mean that Labour’s £28bn-a-year green investment plans are of the right magnitude, consistent with investing in the structural change associated with a sustainable and resilient transition.”

But he noted that the investments required – equivalent to an increase in public investment of roughly 1% of GDP – were also similar to those espoused by the former prime minister Boris Johnson, when he held the presidency of the G7 group of advanced industrialised nations.

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Zenghelis said the research suggested that any “fiscal headroom” within the public finances, owing to better than expected economic performance, would be better allocated to investment than to tax cuts, which the Conservative government is planning.

“The evidence suggests that [such an uplift in public investment], after more than a decade of underinvestment, gives the UK the best chance of staying in, and possibly ahead of, the global innovation, efficiency and productivity game,” said Zenghelis.

“High taxes do constrain private activity, but the evidence shows that in the UK the far bigger constraint is deficient core infrastructure and underinvestment in produced, human, intangible and natural capital.”

Shaun Spiers, executive director of the Green Alliance thinktank, who was not involved in the LSE report, said: “The UK has been underinvesting for the last 45 years. The consequences are evident all around us, in failing infrastructure, costly energy and a depleted natural world.

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“Lord Stern and his colleagues are absolutely right. Public investment must be stepped up if we are to achieve net zero, restore nature and compete with countries around the world who are investing in the green industries of the future. It is what the private sector is looking for to give it the confidence to invest.”

UK needs ambitious green plan to keep up with allies, says Labour frontbencher

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Ed Miliband, the shadow secretary of state for energy security and net zero, said: “While the Tories refuse to invest in the greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century, now Jeremy Hunt’s economic advisers are saying they are dead wrong. Britain needs investment to grow our economy, cut energy bills and deliver energy security for our country.

“Labour’s green prosperity plan will get Britain out of the doom loop of 14 years of low growth and stagnant living standards under the Tories, by rebuilding the strength of British industry with clean, homegrown power that we control in this country.”

A government spokesperson said: “This government is focused on long-term decisions to strengthen our economy, which is why at autumn statement we announced a business investment package which could raise investment by around £20bn a year in a decade’s time.

“We’re leading the world in our transformation of the energy industry towards more clean and renewable energy, with over 80,000 green jobs being supported or in the pipeline since 2020, and our plans to power up Britain are expected to attract a further £100bn investment in green industries of the future.”

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and hello again Singapore thanks for stopping by

and if you have just visited Birmingham thank you come again, 

and send all your friends too

somebody said this will help with my Tinnitus so I'm trying it

these storms in UK, explode in my head too

and yesterday after getting out of the bath my hearing went again in my right ear

other than that, along with my other infirmities, I'm such a catch