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Goodbye, Tory Slayer
By Alice
26 November 2005

Something to cheer us up!

This passage is loosely based on true events.  Therefore, some names have been changed to protect the identification of those involved. 

 


One by one, I slain  them all

Major's men.  They fell

Stumbled into disarray

It really was such fun

 

The women yelled.  "It isn't fair

You've nicked the way we talk

We really think we fancy you"

I pause.  I smile.  I've won!

 

With job to do, I set about

Righting all their wrongs

I wave my wand and cast my spell

Now, the Opposition rules!

 

I'll tell you what you cannot do

Good citizens abide

And as for all the rest of you

Just smile.  Enjoy the ride

 

Old people.  Yes.  What is it now?

Aren't you a needy bunch?

I'll give you ten more pounds to heat you

In the winter months

 

Your Council Tax.  You have to pay

Do you not recall

The poll tax wasn't wanted then

And, by God, it isn't now

 

Our hospitals are on the mend

It is a growing trend

That most who enter just alive

Will manage to survive

 

Hark!  What is that?  Poor Heckler

Don't you watch the news?

You're not allowed to give us grief

You and your lonely views

 

Now what is next on my agenda?

What else can I do?

I am the great, the one and only

Good old Tory Slayer

 

I must perform just one last trick

Before I stand aside

And mustn't let the Thatcher years

Be greater than my pride

 

But here he comes to steal the show

My time here's running short

I'll take a bow, smile cheesily

Say goodbye and go

 

No introduction needed

He inherits all my plots

Come to claim my title

Yes.  It's Mr. Flower Pot

Reviews
Mr Flower Pot
Written by Rattle_Spear (93 comments posted) 26th November 2005
Well done Alice. 
It will keep the politicians guessing.... 
:eek
Hello Alice
Written by BrianRobertNeal (1195 comments posted) 3rd December 2005
Rather belatedly thanks for your review, as a consequence of your poem I must fish out my "Me and the Nanny State" 
 
If global warming continues we shall have the climate to fully support a claim to have become a "Banana Republic." We have the morals, the private affluence/public squalor etc etc , 
 
Brian.

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