HP Sauce (2006)

June Haikus 06

3rd June; Staff, workers at the H.P.sauce factory at Swindon are having talks with the management in a last-bid attempt to prevent its sale to a Dutch company.

So who's going Dutch?
Family sauce exported,
sold down the river.
British bottle gone.
No H.P. agreement though,
just Hollandaise sauce.
H.P. staff browned off.
Time to sell off H of P.
(Holland won't buy it.)

Tim Waterstone today failed for the seventh time in his bid to buy back Waterstone's from its owners, W.H.Smith.
Chapter Seven closed
Tim's bad buy-back-books bid stalls;
no longer novel.
Orange layoffs...
Orange sliced staff.Since
Navel-gazing it's blossomed.
Staff peeled off? They're juice

Ruth Turner

20th Jan.07Haiku
Ruth Turner, one of Tony Blair's senior advisers was arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of jutice by police investigating the "cash for honours" scandal. As director of government relations inside Downing Street she was arrested under caution at 6.30a.m. at home and bailed without charge after questioning.
Ms. Turner , who acts as both the "gatekeeper" and the "go-between"for the P.M.had been questioned in September about documents and e-mails raising queries about which labour donors should be placed on the Honours list. A police statement made it clear that they were unsatisfied about the accuracy of the answers she gave. She could face further interviews....

Will it Turn out to

be Ruthgate as Gatekeeper's

Turned out of her bed.

NBC plus C. o f E.

Jan 4th 2008.Anchormen Jay Leno and Dave Letterman are resuming their late shows on CBS and NBC while their scriptwriter's strike goes on ..they claim to be writing their own material.

Lettermen hang up
their pens...Leno, Letterman
'write their own stories'.

Jan 7th The Times reports that the C.of.E is launching a campaign of'practical and spiritual help'for those in debt'.

Church of England
to become Bank of England,
Ministry of Debt?

Libraries

Report in the Independent  highlights the worrying decline in library provision (40 were closed last year)

Reading at Reading
will cease if library cuts
prove final chapter.

Final chapter as
libraries are brought to book,
lines drawn under them.

The writing's on the wall
as death sentence is prepared
for our libraries.

Browns black hole 05.06.2008

Source: The Guardian

The headline story in today's Independent Wed. 8th July 08 is that the Labour Government is presiding over a budget deficit of 7.5 billion. Brown and his chancellor, Alasdair Darling will have to raise taxes, cut spending or borrow more, thus risking inflation. Brown will break his'golden rule' of only borrowing to invest over the economic cycle.

Britain's blue as Brown
breaks 'golden rule', leaves black hole,
Britain in the red.

Never Die

Old Scousers never die ... they just get more Ken Doddery.

Old mystices never die ... they just give up the ghost.

Old lovers never die ... they just loose heart.

Old postmen never die ... they just get stamped out.

Old comedians never die ... they just can’t stand up any more.

Old gardeners never die ... they just go to seed and take to their beds.

Old fishermen never die ... they just reach the end of the line.

Old butchers never die ... they just stop meeting.

Old dancers never die ... they just don’t see the points.

Old Scousers never die ... they just can’t be arsed.

Old poets never die ... they just start to read verse.