Guest writer Thomas Dixie Elliott with a piece mocking the inflated claims of the Queens Own. Having seen crap covered walls for years while on the blanket he instinctively recognises it when it is served up as something smelling of roses.
Kleptoparasitism: n. The parasitic theft of captured prey, nest material, etc. from animals of the same or another species.
I received a nice glossy newsletter last night from Northland's SF.
Noticing an article with the heading...'Taking City of Culture into local communities - cllr Barney O'Hagan', I read on with a small dash of interest, not too much, mind you, on a full stomach.
I was informed that SF cllr Barney O'Hagan 'is an active board member of the Culture Company' - I'd be a bored member myself, listening to that lot trying to avoid using the UK part - anyway the glossy newsletter went on to tell me that 'building on the excellent work already undertaken in the local community, a local culture plan is in the process of being developed.'
Reading on, I began to believe that there was a misprint in the glossy newsletter and 'culture plan' should have read 'cunning plan'.
Which brings us to the kleptoparasitism (kelp-toe-para-sit-ism)...
The cunning plan according to the glossy newsletter, 'will include a wide range of events including sports activities in Brooke Park, projects focusing on local history, music and the arts, summer schemes directed at children young people....'
Hold to fuck on says I to the glossy newsletter, the above things have been going on up in the Rosemount area for years. Sure there isn't a week goes by that there's not a football tournament taking place. An old friend of mine has been doing a local history project for years. In fact I saw a van load of young lads leaving the Rosemount Resource Center during the week bound for Castlewellan.
So in effect the cunning plan entails taking credit for the work of others and if your granny is playing the bingo you can rest assured it has already been penciled in as part of the UK City of Culture programme.
I put the glossy newsletter in the blue wheelie bin with the thought that someday it might return to me as toilet roll.
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SF are good at things like that , stealing other peoples good work, and , without a doubt , will be getting EU funding for it.
ReplyDeleteIts what it says on the SF tin, claim credit for everything. People don't respect them, just vote for them to keep them bloody quiet so life can go on normally.
ReplyDeleteAch, God love the wee dear's, and their queen!
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