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Listed below are comments made by rosemarypoet between Thursday, 5th March 2009 and Monday, 28th September 2009.

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Hello. Early, isn't it? 01:21am on 28 Sep 2009 Down at the labour Perty Conference, very enjoyable,the buzz, the immediacy, the political struggles. like watching the death-throes of a vast dynosaur, the head has already got the (very)bad news but the limbs are still manfully going through the motions.There is a real feeling of doom among the gathered faithful. Mandelson put in several brief sepulcheral appearances,as if he knows he would be wise has to not venture too far into the daylight.
Tried to get James Naughtie and John Suchet and Krishnan Guru-Murthy to read my poem about disabled social workers, but only channel 4 was polite enough to take it away.(I recognise that this sounds as if it was penned by Adrian Mole...but poets have to do something!)
Jack Straw looks very tired. The background murmur from this Labour conference (I have lobbied at three)is of frustrated supporters who want charismatic leadership and memorable messages, rather than hand-wringing and wrangling from the political assassins.
I hung about the entrance watching the comings and goings, the poor sweating t.v. crews struggling with all their paraphernalia,the union members, the party apparatchiks, the occasional minister floating past with his retinue. Prescott scuttled past and didn't even try to hit me when I gave him a poem.
I don't think the Labour party believes it should win the next election, and so it won't.
Suggest a story 01:00am on 12 Aug 2009 Sorry this goes into such enormous detail at such great length...but discrimination is still a very common experience for students with disabilities (although I prefer the term 'different abilities') since Richard Branson, Anita Roddick, James Lovelock, Pierre Curie, Einstein...et cetera... are among the many 'disabled' people who changed the world.
We have so much to give, and now we demand our human rights....
Rosemary
The fourth plinth 1:40pm on 17 Jul 2009 Three Quakers have made it on to the plinth in the first eleven days, Peter Davies, Lucy Ivankovic and Rosemary Rimmer-Clay...Letting our lives speak (since you certainly can't be heard very well from below!)
Listeners' Opinion Poll 8:30pm on 07 May 2009 What one change could make us all happier?
Listeners' Opinion Poll 6:16pm on 07 May 2009 How do we ensure that older people who are dying have a good end of life experience?
Listeners' Opinion Poll 6:12pm on 07 May 2009 Do you think social work works?
If not, what would you do about it?
Caption Competition 3:46pm on 05 Mar 2009 Having shrunk in the public's estimation, the bankers refuse to hand back their inflated pensions.'Come and try to get them back, Harriet!'
Caption Competition 3:30pm on 05 Mar 2009 Anthony Gormley's credit-crunched little gnomes of the South' is applauded by Boris for its taste and brevity.
Oops, spotted the lapse in punctuation, hope nobody noticed. Hmmmm
Caption Competition 3:24pm on 05 Mar 2009 Anthony Gormley's credit-crunched 'Little gnomes of the South' is applauded by Boris for it's taste and brevity.
Caption Competition 3:17pm on 05 Mar 2009 Short people plan mass sit-in on Andy Newman, only nobody notices. Trouble escalates into major conflict as little people chain themselves to policeman's ankle...

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