Also... there's one's huge back-log of Blairiana - which I suppose wont count since he is now called to spend his time communing with all the other Gods of the Middle East! Still, I love the excuse to off-load some...
SHADOW MAN
I had a lot of MPs who went in and out with me,
And what could be the use of them was more than I could see.
I pretended to be like them in most every kind of way;
And they followed on behind me though I led them far astray.
The funniest thing about them is the way they liked to fight -
Not at all like proper people, which is always to the Right;
For they sometimes were so perverse and of States-side sense bereft,
That they sometimes read red speeches and then led off to the Left.
They hadn’t got a notion of how MPs ought to go,
And could only make a fool of me at every US show.
They learned, and stayed behind me, for they’re cowards you can see;
I’d think shame to stick to voters as those Members stuck to me!
One polling day, quite early, in the midst of my ‘nth’ war,
I'll rise and find the faithful pews less faithful than before;
For those nasty little voters, will leave them to their fates,
And no one's left behind me, neither MPs nor the States.
(With apologies to Robert Louis Stevenson)
... but the thing I most regret about that one is that the ruddy shadows remained shadows to the bitter end! And now... after Steve Bell has reduced Cameron to a condom, well - words do tend to fail one.
Nigel
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