Going forward!

Doing an early morning stint as a number-taker at a polling station in Norfolk, I asked a voter for his number. 'Eye-eye,' he said. 'Pardon?' 'Eye-eye,' he repeated. I looked at his polling card. Eighty eight it said. I never did quite master the dialect of deepest Norfolk which had abandoned some of the inflections of standard English. " 'E goo No'orch" could mean 'He is going/has gone/will go to Norwich' depending on the context.

I like it !

I think I shall shriek at the next politician who says 'there are lessons to be learned'!!!! It's a completely meaningless phrase to keep saying, as by now we all know that, having got the message, loud and clear - umpteen times!!!

Someone else said something similar about that too, earlier.