Re: Silliest council jobs yet

In article <memo.20051028115454.2716n@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Colin Rosenstiel <rosenstiel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <4dc0d5cc99john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John
> M Ward) wrote:

> > In article <smFVLcCiHcYDFwR5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > Paul Hyett <pah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > In uk.politics.misc on Thu, 27 Oct 2005 at 12:23:17, Mike S wrote :
> > > >
> > > >From:- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-1828372,00.html
> > > >
> > > >"HIGHLAND council is to fund the creation of Scotland's first
> > > >"suicide poet" to explain, in verse, why so many people kill
> > > >themselves in the north of the country
> >
> > > Through reading bad poetry? :)
> >
> > From being Labour-dominated? ;->

> Not in Highland Region. Perhaps the least Labour bit of Scotland.

Ah, well: it was a thought. I mean, I couldn't really blame them if
that /had/ turned out to be the reason ;-)

More seriously, though: it is always a worry when people kill
themselves, and I wonder if something more constructive than writing
poetry is being done in places such as this that have a high incidence
of suicide.

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John M Ward - see http://www.horsted.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Conservative Councillor for Rochester South & Horsted ward, Medway
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