Posted on 01/18/2018 9:25:46 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
In memory of British lawmaker Jo Cox, who was murdered by a right-wing extremist in 2016, the U.K. government has announced the appointment of a new “Minister of Loneliness.”
Conservative MP Tracey Crouch was named to the post by British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday. The recommendation for the appointment came from the Jo Cox Foundation, a registered charity that was set up in Cox’s memory after her death.
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The Disappointed - XTC (one of Andy’s best songs, IMHO!)
The disappointed
All shuffle round in circles
Their placards look the same
With a picture and a name
Of the ones who broke their hearts
The disappointed
All congregate at my house
Their voices sob with grief
That they want me to be chief
Of the tribe with broken hearts
Once, I had no sympathy
For those destroyed and thrown away by love
Seems, your ring upon my finger
Signifies that I’ve become the spokesman of
The disappointed
Will bear me on their shoulders
To a secret shadow land
Where a somber marching band
Plays a tune for broken hearts
And day grows darker now
Everywhere, everywhere
The disappointed
Are coming in their millions
They’re spilling from the bus
At a monument to us
Made of bits of broken heart
Once, I had no sympathy
For those destroyed and thrown away by love
Seems, your ring upon my finger
Signifies that I’ve become the spokesman of
The disappointed
Are growing every second
They blot the sun to black
At the bottom of the pack
I’m the king of broken hearts
The disappointed
The disappointed
“Exactly what this position will do and how it will work is not known.”
You call her up and tell her you are lonely. Then she sends an entrepreneurial woman over to make you feel better.]p
Her deputy is the Maytag repairman, I guess.
Nothing to laugh about. Old people have been known to die from loneliness, depression and despair because they feel abandoned and forgotten.
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