less, policemen who are unarmed, policemen who if they were not there would remove any vestige of safety from the citizen which he now enjoys:
"Is it not time to find a new solution to the evils of today, is it not time to resurrect the spirit of St. George? A champion who can go forward to rescue the weak, the beautiful and the worthwhile and slay the hideous dragon that lurks in almost every corner of modern life."
The Lord Mayor, who was speaking at the City branch of the Royal Society of St. George, which, unperturbed by that saint's erasion from sanctity (and honestly, one can see why, if he stood for all this continues to propagate its absurdly reactionary nonsense in the City.
The Lord Mayor explained what he meant by the above diatribe by adding, "There can be no civilisation without justice and the justice of English rule has been accepted except by the purblind few as one of the gifts which were brought to mankind wherever Englishmen went. the old-age-pensioners shouldn't really mind.
"Why don't we all go down to your house instead? "shouted a heckler.
The meeting, about 100 strong, unanimousl urged the Council to reject the closure proposa They were impatient of the way the Tory speakers kept evading the issues. "Get to the point," one heckler told them, "or the toilets will be closed down as well."
It isn't just the 500 public bathers who use the facilities each week who will be forced to take the bus. The baths include a swimming pool which is important for kids especially in an area where there are very few places to play. Local swimming clubs also use this pool and betped to organise the meeting to keep their Councillor Morris had a glib response to the swimming clubs. They might teach people to swim but they didn't win many national competitions. In his way of thinking this justifies them being stopped from doing any swimming atall: Free Competition!
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