THOROUGHLY MODERN MILI!
(Apologies to Sammy Cahn and
Jimmy Van Heusen.)
Ed Miliband [and Ed Balls] spout
about ‘One Nation’ Labour!
‘One Nation’ sound bites are spun out,
To mainly kid the poor;
That social inequality,
Will soon exist no more.
Is this ‘Two-Ed-ded’ Labour spin,
Designed for the Vox Pop?
Who will the Mili Band play to,
When charting near the top?
Will they be for the ‘Wurkin Cluss’,
Or the ‘Hoorays’ again?
This pandering to voters whims,
Goes strictly ‘gainst the grain!
Some call it spin, more liken it,
To ‘Tin Pan Alley’ hype;
To flog the latest offering,
That flattery calls tripe.
With an election looming soon,
Behold a ruse de guerre!
That never was real food for thought,
But mouldy, rancid fare.
What does it mean? Aye there’s the rub!
A hog-wash load of spin?
Disraeli’s soft-soap just won’t wash, (1)
The dross in their Has-bin!
Remember how state-ownership,
Would solve all social ills?
Then Labour had to swallow some,
Extremely bitter pills!
And next the U-turn to end all,
(Oh, how the Left were irked!)
‘Free-markets’ were the in-thing now--
How Thatcher must have smirked!
The droppings from the filthy rich,
Were meant to trickle down;
And Mandelson was quite relaxed, (2)
In his posh part of town.
Still Labour weren’t the masters then, (3)
The Bankers called their bluff; (4)
And showed that all their theories were,
The usual load of guff!
(1) Tory, Benjamin Disraeli’s 1872 speech
urged ‘One Nation’ paternalism!
(2) “We are intensely relaxed about people
getting filthy rich,” Peter Mandelson 1998.
(3) Labour’s Attorney-General, Sir Hartley
Shawcross, “We are the masters now” 1946.
(4) Gordon Brown “No return to boom and bust”
1997. His later claim to have said “Tory boom
and bust” disproved by video of his 1997 speech.
© Richard Layton
(Apologies to Sammy Cahn and
Jimmy Van Heusen.)
Ed Miliband [and Ed Balls] spout
about ‘One Nation’ Labour!
‘One Nation’ sound bites are spun out,
To mainly kid the poor;
That social inequality,
Will soon exist no more.
Is this ‘Two-Ed-ded’ Labour spin,
Designed for the Vox Pop?
Who will the Mili Band play to,
When charting near the top?
Will they be for the ‘Wurkin Cluss’,
Or the ‘Hoorays’ again?
This pandering to voters whims,
Goes strictly ‘gainst the grain!
Some call it spin, more liken it,
To ‘Tin Pan Alley’ hype;
To flog the latest offering,
That flattery calls tripe.
With an election looming soon,
Behold a ruse de guerre!
That never was real food for thought,
But mouldy, rancid fare.
What does it mean? Aye there’s the rub!
A hog-wash load of spin?
Disraeli’s soft-soap just won’t wash, (1)
The dross in their Has-bin!
Remember how state-ownership,
Would solve all social ills?
Then Labour had to swallow some,
Extremely bitter pills!
And next the U-turn to end all,
(Oh, how the Left were irked!)
‘Free-markets’ were the in-thing now--
How Thatcher must have smirked!
The droppings from the filthy rich,
Were meant to trickle down;
And Mandelson was quite relaxed, (2)
In his posh part of town.
Still Labour weren’t the masters then, (3)
The Bankers called their bluff; (4)
And showed that all their theories were,
The usual load of guff!
(1) Tory, Benjamin Disraeli’s 1872 speech
urged ‘One Nation’ paternalism!
(2) “We are intensely relaxed about people
getting filthy rich,” Peter Mandelson 1998.
(3) Labour’s Attorney-General, Sir Hartley
Shawcross, “We are the masters now” 1946.
(4) Gordon Brown “No return to boom and bust”
1997. His later claim to have said “Tory boom
and bust” disproved by video of his 1997 speech.
© Richard Layton
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