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!!)