Tuesday, May 16, 2017

IT’S ALL IN THE MIND! (weekly poem)

IT’S ALL IN THE MIND!

Shadow Home Secretary, Diane Abbott, said to Nick Ferrari
on LBC radio that Labour would put an extra Ten-thousand
Policemen on the streets for an absolute steal at £300,000!

With Labour’s extra police to come,
Their scheme’s been fully planned;
And costed at the bargain sum,
Of some Three-hundred grand!

With all these ‘Bogey’-men at large,
And Coppers going spare;
Each neighbourhood could have a Sarge,
To keep tabs everywhere.

The Rozzers could be down your street,
The Feds could be there too;
And the result of all this Heat,
Could all come down on you!

And then the Narcs would sniff around,
With all their pals, the Dicks;
Rogue cars could fill-up every Pound,
And Crims fill all the Nicks.

What with ‘The Bill’ upon the beat, (1)
‘The Sweeney’ in their cars; (2)
It could look like the ‘Z-Cars’ fleet, (3)
Combined with ‘Life on Mars’! (4)

But sadly, all this Fuzz-y gen,
Is all in Diane’s mind;
Which isn’t saying much, but then,
We mustn’t be unkind!

(1) ‘The Bill’ TV police series 1984-2010.
(2) ‘The Sweeney’ TV police series 1975-1978.
(3) ‘Z-Cars’ TV police series 1962-1978.
(4) ‘Life on Mars’ TV police series 2006-2007.

© Richard Layton

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