As the end looms, a little something - light-hearted!?!, to keep you going. No not another "End of the World" prediction, this time the end of the year and hoping that 2013 contains "the turn too far!" Confused, well you'll have to read on!!
Le
Manège enchanté (Magic Roundabout)
– New Year Review
The Coalition seem
ConDemed to meeting themselves
Coming back.
So many u-turns they must
be going around in circles,
Magic circles, man!
Sitting in my different
astral plane,
Laid back with my friendly
rabbit – Dylan,
I’m transported to a Magic Roundabout
Swindon’s magic roundabouts,
Once on it, those of
Nervous disposition, lost
forever.
ConDemed forever to turn,
around and around
Constant U-turn after
U-turn
Eventually, hoping to be
flung far off, far into obscurity
Regretting not being able
to have:
Seen the wood from the
trees,
The pasty from the caviar,
Charity from a fast buck,
Protected pheasants from
the buzzards
(Maybe those peasant
blighters could be shot instead!);
That would no doubt have
saved both money
And face on:
Housing Benefits
Disability Living
Allowance
Bookstart
School Sport
Domestic violence changes
NHS Direct
Military Covenant
Video Games Tax Relief
And would then perhaps
have been able to fund:
NHS Waiting times,
Scottish Independence
Referendum,
Joint Strike Fighter,
Chief Coroner,
Financial Inclusion Fund,
All of which have met
themselves coming back!
And, all at a cost!
Throw into the ebb and
flow of the turning,
Issues such as:
VAT on static caravans,
Secret Courts,
Unannounced OFSTED
Inspections,
Public funding of The Conservative
Party Photographer
And Camerawoman.
The list* seems endless
Constantly growing ......
The lady wasn’t for
turning.
But if she’d gone, she’d
be turning now,
In her grave.
As it is she must be
wringing her hands in despair
As “One couldn’t possibly
approve, could one?,
But, on the other hand it’s
More people trampled on
And left in the “merde!”
Wish I’d thought of some
of these!!”
Maybe there’ll be one turn
too many
And they’ll be thrown out
By centrifugal forces;
ConDemed to ignominy
Discredited forever.
(*try Googling
"Coalition Government u-turns," should get you
to a Guardian website
which if it wasn’t so serious it would
certainly be
laughable!!)
