Lecturer compiles book of poems to stamp out ‘despondency' in Blackburn (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Best part about this article is that she's leaving! lol.

So even though she's a Dr in English she's actually written nothing, just glued a few pages together...what a great teacher and now she's had enough after no time at all and is off! She's not from Blackburn and doesn't look set to stick around either otherwise she would soon learn and realise exactly what the word despondency actually stands for!

Tell that to the 99 from optare who will be getting their p45s soon!!

When you have worked for a company for a lot of years, had pay rises that don't match inflation, had your fuel costs rise by 50%, your insurance costs rise by 20% and food prices do the same, why wouldn't a feeling of gloom settle over you?
Frankly I'd sooner spend the cost of this book on something more practical to cheer me up.

“ and a vibrant and diverse community with a fascinating history.
“There’s innovation here, a rich tradition, and an exciting potential future that we need to celebrate.”

What a pile of rubbish!

It might be a diverse history but none of it will be Lancastrian in 50years time. The only traditions will be Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi. The reason people are despondent is because the town is changing daily with Islam being the corner stone of daily life and people that can move out, are leaving in droves.

A book of poems will do s0d all.

Yet another one who views the world through rose coloured glasses.

It's not poems the people of Blackburn want to lift the despondency it's some positive job creation paying a decent living wage,with the closure of East
Lancashire Coachbuilders it's another nail in the coffin,nearly all of the industrial manufacturing as gone in the town,very sad.

Aww.....Bless!

well i won't be wasting £9.99 of my hard earned. Book all stuck together-Whats all that about.I've plenty of copies of razzle all stuck together.

There was a young lady called Dobbs,
Who compiled some bits and some bobs,
If they don't even rhyme,
I just haven't the time.
I'm applying for much better jobs!!

jack daniels wrote:
“ and a vibrant and diverse community with a fascinating history.
“There’s innovation here, a rich tradition, and an exciting potential future that we need to celebrate.”

What a pile of rubbish!

It might be a diverse history but none of it will be Lancastrian in 50years time. The only traditions will be Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi. The reason people are despondent is because the town is changing daily with Islam being the corner stone of daily life and people that can move out, are leaving in droves.

A book of poems will do s0d all.

Not just the town the country as well,north first, then the infection will spread further south.
.
Welcome to the new 3rd world country!!!
.
A country proud for all to see,many a man has fallen.
The reason for the despondency,is invading thieving morons.
Gone are the days of democracy and freedom of true speech
That is now a thing of the past,thanks to all the leech
In they come from poverty to the land that once had plenty
Out we go for all to see now the nhs is empty
All the shops have gone now,nothing left no more
The only thing for you and me is a 6ft hole in the floor
Amongst the sadness of it all,true people died and then did fall
For what you ask? I hear you cry
To let people take the country from you and i................

Can someone lend me a pair of rose tinted glasses?

burner wrote:
There was a young lady called Dobbs,
Who compiled some bits and some bobs,
If they don't even rhyme,
I just haven't the time.
I'm applying for much better jobs!!

lol...

no negativity in those comments then

Sarah, your not related to Jack Straw by any chance are you?

He‘s never actually lived here either!

nice person wrote:

jack daniels wrote: “ and a vibrant and diverse community with a fascinating history. “There’s innovation here, a rich tradition, and an exciting potential future that we need to celebrate.” What a pile of rubbish! It might be a diverse history but none of it will be Lancastrian in 50years time. The only traditions will be Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi. The reason people are despondent is because the town is changing daily with Islam being the corner stone of daily life and people that can move out, are leaving in droves. A book of poems will do s0d all.

Not just the town the country as well,north first, then the infection will spread further south. . Welcome to the new 3rd world country!!! . A country proud for all to see,many a man has fallen. The reason for the despondency,is invading thieving morons. Gone are the days of democracy and freedom of true speech That is now a thing of the past,thanks to all the leech In they come from poverty to the land that once had plenty Out we go for all to see now the nhs is empty All the shops have gone now,nothing left no more The only thing for you and me is a 6ft hole in the floor Amongst the sadness of it all,true people died and then did fall For what you ask? I hear you cry To let people take the country from you and i................

Now that IS poetry ! xx hugs from phuck mei aka pink fairy lol xxx

the comments on here are a load of racial claptrap! Take responsibility for your own downfalls and stop blaming everyone else for your miserable lives - I am white, English and female, by the way.

burner wrote:
There was a young lady called Dobbs,
Who compiled some bits and some bobs,
If they don't even rhyme,
I just haven't the time.
I'm applying for much better jobs!!

LOL!

It's about time that the English owned up to being a mongrol race. After all, what is an Englishman, really?
These islands have been 'settled' by many races, from Phoenecians who only came here for the Tin, the Romans on a global conquest mission and in no particular order, the Norsemen, Viking and Danes.
Then after the two World Wars we got more people from all over the place settling here. When we had more jobs than people to do them, we invited people here on assisted passage.

To state that we are English is a bit of a cheek really, as we are a melting pot of so many differing tribes that it is hard to say exactly what we are, apart from a Heinz variety of races, cultures and religeons.
Curious as to my heritage, I sent off a DNA sample to an American company that was doing research into how Man has spread over the planet from the African Rift Valley. Boy, did I get a surprise! Am a right mix of races and not a lot of me is Northern European. This led my Mother to confess that my Great Grandmother had relations outside of marriage with a rather good looking Spaniard, whose roots were North African.
So I now consider myself as English as the Schleswig-Holstein-S
onderburg-Glucksburg & Saxe-Coburg and Gothas or the Royal Family to you..

It would solve all the ambiguity if the populous of this country were allowed to say what they actually mean, instead of skirting around contentious subjects for fear of upsetting the so-called minority factions. (Have you seen just how big the "minority" is becoming?). Maybe a better definition would be to distinuish by using the terms "Christians" and "others". At the end of the day, the threat of Muslim fundamentalism is what we who call ourselves the indigenous people actually fear. The radicalisation of our culture into sharia law etc.

woolywords wrote:
It's about time that the English owned up to being a mongrol race. After all, what is an Englishman, really?
These islands have been 'settled' by many races, from Phoenecians who only came here for the Tin, the Romans on a global conquest mission and in no particular order, the Norsemen, Viking and Danes.
Then after the two World Wars we got more people from all over the place settling here. When we had more jobs than people to do them, we invited people here on assisted passage.

To state that we are English is a bit of a cheek really, as we are a melting pot of so many differing tribes that it is hard to say exactly what we are, apart from a Heinz variety of races, cultures and religeons.
Curious as to my heritage, I sent off a DNA sample to an American company that was doing research into how Man has spread over the planet from the African Rift Valley. Boy, did I get a surprise! Am a right mix of races and not a lot of me is Northern European. This led my Mother to confess that my Great Grandmother had relations outside of marriage with a rather good looking Spaniard, whose roots were North African.
So I now consider myself as English as the Schleswig-Holstein-S

onderburg-Glucksburg & Saxe-Coburg and Gothas or the Royal Family to you..

Yawn...

We all know about our history.

What makes this different is that every other 'settler' has contributed to our way of life except this most recent one. When we have 'arranged' marriges from the home country, family honour/traditions imposed on 3-4th generation Asian heritage kids, as well as sharia law within the UK ( as reproted by the BBC this week) we are seeing the destruction of english traditions.

woolywords wrote:
It's about time that the English owned up to being a mongrol race. After all, what is an Englishman, really?
These islands have been 'settled' by many races, from Phoenecians who only came here for the Tin, the Romans on a global conquest mission and in no particular order, the Norsemen, Viking and Danes.
Then after the two World Wars we got more people from all over the place settling here. When we had more jobs than people to do them, we invited people here on assisted passage.

To state that we are English is a bit of a cheek really, as we are a melting pot of so many differing tribes that it is hard to say exactly what we are, apart from a Heinz variety of races, cultures and religeons.
Curious as to my heritage, I sent off a DNA sample to an American company that was doing research into how Man has spread over the planet from the African Rift Valley. Boy, did I get a surprise! Am a right mix of races and not a lot of me is Northern European. This led my Mother to confess that my Great Grandmother had relations outside of marriage with a rather good looking Spaniard, whose roots were North African.
So I now consider myself as English as the Schleswig-Holstein-S

onderburg-Glucksburg & Saxe-Coburg and Gothas or the Royal Family to you..

Leave the royal family out of this,funniest show on telly...

I have no intention of ever reading any religious works, I think religion is the root of all evil. However, I do believe that we can all have personal choices in what we believe/read. The RC church springs to my mind when you talk about oppression and restricting free thought. I think we will have to agree to disagree.