Very neat. The review makes a good case for it being a nicely judged double whammy - both the form and the subject, which is, speaking as a compulsive parodist, a fairly rare accomplishment.
However, copping out at a single verse, splendid though this is, does leave Gilbert rather short changed - and I'd judge that a job rather less than half done. I sent a full one on the same pattern - or in the same 'frying pan' in this reviewer's terms - off on its journey round Facebook just before the General Election, when some wag suggested moving the Trident fleet to Gibraltar to escape the clutches of my fellow SNP supporting Scots.
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