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Political Poetry

Gaze Upon my Words, Ye Silent ones…

February 3, 2010

Take up the British burden
Send forth the best ye breed
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve Afghani’s need;
To wait in heavy harness
For Taliban folk, and wild
Be-burkha’d sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the British burden –
Under surveillance to abide,
To check the threat of terror
On which they all have lied;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred [...]

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The Backbone and The Darling Spoke of Many Things…

January 11, 2010
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The snow was falling on the land,
The country iced-up tight:
Old Cyclops did his best to make
Pronouncements dour and trite.
And this was odd, because t’was thought
The Backbone ‘ad taken flight.
The Backbone was quietly sulking,
Because she thought the Balls
Had got no business to be there
After her Peer-age was won–
“It’s very cruel of him,” she said,
“To come and [...]

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A Ditty for the Angry Bankers

December 26, 2009
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It’s Bonus time
Though there’s a chance they won’t get paid,
At Bonus time
That greedy lot, they’ve got it made;
Because in a world of spreadsheets
And fiscal graphs, oh boy,
They can move to Switzerland at Bonus time!
They say it’s fair
Fair that the clever guys
At Bonus time should move, so that they [...]

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T’was The Night Before Christmas…

December 24, 2009
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T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house,
Na’er a reveller was drinking, not even a Scouse,
The warnings from Liam, we’d listened with care,
In the hope that our children, the better would fare.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of polar bears danced in their heads,
The Climategate adverts that we thought [...]

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A Christmas Prayer.

December 19, 2009
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Oh, Gordon Brown who art in trouble,
Mock-ed be thy name,
Thy kingdom is snowed under,
In London as it is in Copenhagen,
Thy economy rent asunder,
By your Almighty blunders,
Lead us not into doubling our deficit,
With ‘global warming’ gifts inexplicit,
Give us this day our free election,
That we might move in another direction,
Drive us not towards revolution,
But allow the English [...]

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God Speed Ye Legal Gentlemen…

November 19, 2009
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God speed ye Legal gentlemen, let nothing you delay,
In ending piglet’s troughing ways,
And save us all from Nu-Labour’s power when they had gone astray.
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
O tidings of comfort and joy.
In Parliament, in London, this venal crime was born,
And laid upon the electorate with nowt but troughing scorn,
An end [...]

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Grate Expectation of Smouldering Members…

November 5, 2009
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On Bonfire Night, On Bonfire Night
It’s time to set the land alight:
So load the faggots, pile the wood,
Stack the logs and stack them good!
Pile on effigies and guys
Of MPs who we all despise:
Put Mandelson and Brown up there,
With smarmy grin, put Tony Blair;
And heap the brushwood, build the [...]

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