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Bureaucracy killed our Metric Martyr.


Steven Ste´ven

n. 1. Voice; speech; language.
Ye have as merry a steven
As any angel hath that is in heaven.
- Chaucer.

2. An outcry; a loud call; a clamor.
To set steven
to make an appointment.
 Thoburn, pictured, the `Metric Martyr' from Sunderland, who was taken from us at the tender age of 39, might have still been with us today if it hadn't been for European stupidity.

He was harassed by idiots from the local authority. He got nowhere in the courts and nobody supported him trying to keep Britain great.

The bureaucrats are responsible for his untimely death - they caused him a great deal of unnecessary stress and worry. These highly paid people should be ashamed of themselves. Steven stood for decency de·cen·cy  
n. pl. de·cen·cies
1. The state or quality of being decent; propriety.

2. Conformity to prevailing standards of propriety or modesty.

3. decencies
a.
 and fairness. Our thoughts are with his widow and children. You can be proud of Steven, he was a stalwart Stalwart

A description of companies that have large capitalizations and provide investors with slow but steady and dependable growth prospects.

Notes:
The annual gain that would be viewed as the norm for investing in stalwarts is about 10% to 12%.
 of everything that's good about being British, not European.

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Publication:Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Date:Mar 27, 2004
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