Yes, the usual apologies to Paul McCartney ...
[four bars of plaintive harp music]
Friday morning at five o’clock as the day begins
One final glance round the smart Whitehall flat
Cursing the lawyers and kicking the cat
She goes downstairs to the limo, clutching her handkerchief
Now for the letter she knows she must write
How did it all turn to shite?
She's (I'm just a working class lass )
breaching (Just a poor working class lass)
the Code (What can you do when you've no old school tie?)
Hitting the road after breaching the Code in so many ways
Starmer snorts as he wanders round in his dressing gown
Picks up the letter the courier brought
Standing in triumph; another great snort
He laughs loud, and cries to Victoria
“Whoopee! - our Angie's gone!
How did she think she could have my job?
Always just shooting her gob!”
She (I did it all for the kids)
was breaching (Nice flat in Hove for my kids)
the Code (I wanted everything money could buy)
Tried to explode the establishment Code for so many years
Sunday morning at nine o’clock she is back in Hove
Making a call to her old comrade Jez
Join his new party? - let's see what he says ...
She's (What did I do that was wrong?)
no judgement! (I didn’t know it was wrong)
None! (Judgement's the one thing that money can't buy)
Couldn't explode the establishment Code after all those tears
Crushed by the Code (bye bye)
ND
14 comments:
Superb
Yes, execllent. You are being very sympathetic to her, though.
One must add - as all folks schooled in the classics now, that Nemesis follows Hubris. Poor Ms/ Rayner. Not only fiddling her taxes, but stealing from her son's disability compensation fund to buy the Hove house.
Brought up near Stockport, I have a deep love of the town. Increased by working there for five years as a schoolboy and student at Robinson's Brewery, still a family owned business and producing exquisite beer.
The along come Little Owen Jones, and BIg Ange. Both slurs on the good name of Stockport. Owen, of course, would like to think of himself as working class, but he was brought up in a leafy part of Davenport, a small borough between Bramhall and Stockport.
Both, useless wretches.
Bravo
"She goes down the stairs to the limo, clutching her handkerchief " will match the original for meter
What??? Isn't the original "she goes downstairs to the kitchen"? No "the" between down and stairs. Click that Youtube!!!
Well done!
What's still to come out? Malfeasance in using her son's trust as an ATM? (i.e. Has Elby got it right?)
Or will it come out? Will Sir Cur and her other enemies keep it up their sleeves in case they need it in future for stake-through-the-heart operations?
Excellent Mr Drew.
But achieves nothing. In a week the same old same old problems and same old non solutions. And we know for sure Nigel would make no difference and if the Tories scraped up a half alive candidate they would make no difference either.
We need a big change, perhaps some group could lay hand to a spare nuke and remove the entire Westminster Estate on a Wednesday lunchtime. Might make the evening news and might even help the country, can't think of anything else effective.
By heavens you're right! Been avoiding that song since 1968 and that was my memory of the lyrics. Having looked them up and read the background to the song, the girl was more of a poor little rich girl than the working class runaway of my youthful imagining. Quite a character.
"Reform UK’s head of policy Zia Yusuf has said Boris Johnson would never be welcome in his party. He branded the former Conservative leader “one of the worst prime ministers in British history” and accused him of betraying Brexit voters. “We certainly would not welcome Boris Johnson – that’s never going to happen,” he told Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips. “He threw open our borders. The Boris wave, which is millions and millions of non-EU migrants flooding into the country post-Brexit, betrayed every single person that voted Brexit."
To be fair, Rishi continued it, and Conservative MPs sat on their hands and said nothing. Which is why a lot of people who don't particularly rate Reform will vote for the Plague On All Your Houses Party.
OT, but this Ross Douhat NYT chat transcript on USA v China is fascinating.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/opinion/china-global-superpower-dan-wang.html
Dan Wang doesn't know the future any more than the rest of us, but key points
a) China's not caving to Trump, but Europe has
b) China is dominant in a lot of key technologies - for example rare earth magnets and solar and wind power.
c) USA needs to re-industrialise, but once the "process knowledge" i.e. learning by doing knowledge - is lost, it's hard to regain - very much the take of James Dyson.
d) even the commanding heights of US manufacturing - Boeing, autos, Tesla, Intel are not what they were, while European manufacturing is in real trouble - energy woes plus China eating their lunch.
On process knowledge, think of all the manufacturing knowledge that's died with its UK practitioners, while, their grandchildren work in warehouses or call centres.
"think of all the manufacturing knowledge that's died with its UK practitioners, while, their grandchildren work in warehouses or call centres."
Or don't work at all because they're too depressed and anxious.........or just bone idle.
OT, but what are the odds of UK/EU putting 100% tariffs on India and China? Zero IMHO. I would love it - love it - if we did, because it would be a tiny step towards reindustrialisation. But people's lives are crap enough as it is, can't see it happening.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent:
We are prepared to increase pressure on Russia, but we need our European partners to follow us. We are in a race now between how long can the Ukrainian military hold up versus how long can the Russian economy hold up. And if the US and the EU can come in with more sanctions, more secondary tariffs on the countries that buy Russian oil, the Russian economy will be in full collapse and that will bring President Putin to the table."
"Donald Trump has reportedly asked the EU to levy tariffs of up to 100% on India and China, in order to increase pressure on Russia to end its war in Ukraine."
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