Europe needs to get real on defence; Britain needs to get real on Europe
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1 February 2010
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Good luck with this. Although we will always win in terms of numbers of activists, having no Ashcroft millions our party needs all the cash it can get to help get the message across.
But I can’t resist trotting out the old chestnut I first heard used about Edward Heath’s books. He hired a train to charge around the country selling and signing them. It’s said that the unsigned ones are worth more now because of their scarcity value!
And, a pedant writes, I hope your books don’t contain too many ablative howlers such as “a copy signed by TB, GB, JP, Alex Ferguson and I”. Why is “I” taking over from the more grammatically correct “me” in conjunctive ablatives, genitives and datives so often nowadays? Is it perhaps because the erroneous nominative use of “me” has been so drummed out of people? Or maybe it’s because Latin isn’t part of the core curriculum. Or it could be the BBC’s fault. I’m sure that Eton-educated Dave could, if someone planted the thought in his mind, attempt to pin most of the blame on Ed Balls or Ben Bradshaw…
Brian – grammarian democracy in action. I has become me. Apologies. It is normally I who am the pedant!! (or should that be is?)
Good stuff. Already have one but will get one signed and one for my Mum’s birthday – May 6!! Hopefully an omen of good fortune
AC, get a copy of Maya signed by all Burnley players mentioned in it, and then sell it by auction to raise money for Labour.