Sunday, 25 June 2017

Where do you go to?

I have just returned from cycling in France with a few mates. As we strolled along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice we spontaneously burst into song, singing Peter Sarstedt's 'Where do you go to my Lovely'.
While we were away we received the great news that Theresa may had completely misread the electorate and had received her comeuppance for so cravenly calling an election.
 The ballad below, so shamelessly derived from Sarstedt's great song is to celebrate my 3 comrades a velo; Rosie Duffield's victory in Canterbury; the revival of Labour; the re-entry of Young People into politics; and the kicking administered to the Tories' solar plexus.



Where do you go to my Mayfly? (in the style of the song by Peter Sarstedt)

Where do you go to my Mayfly
When you're with Phil, home in bed?
Do thoughts of duplicity surround you?
I'd like to look inside your head.

Your  dad was a C of E vicar
Which gave you an ethical steer?
But your carefully confected,  faux-Christianity
Just serves as a smokescreen, I fear.
Yes it does, Ha! Ha! Ha!

You took yourself off to Oxford
You're remembered by all at St. Hugh's
Some talk of your burning ambition
But more of your leopard-skin shoes.

So where do you go to my lovely
When you're at home in your bed
Are you troubled by thoughts of Grenfell Tower
I'd like to look inside your head

Your friends call you 'boring but competent'
But you're much more dangerous, I think
You'd trash human rights tomorrow
You thought up The Snooper's Charter
without so much as a drink

You style yourself 'New Iron Lady'
yet you lack her hateful, steely charm
You've tried to do Ronnie and Maggie
With ridiculous Trump on your arm

So where do you go to my Mayfly?
When you hide under the bed
Does your staggering hypocrisy surround you
I'd like to look inside your head...

You're obsessed by immigration
Though you you could not keep numbers down
You've started Brexit negotiations
With people as bargaining chips

The JAMs you supposedly side with
are still squealing like so many squeezed  pips

Your loveliness goes on and on; yes it does...

No strategy is too mendacious
No trick is ever too mean
But it's not just yourself you abase
It's all of us that you demean.

Now you called a General Election
You called it just for fun
(for a laugh, ha! ha!ha!)
The greatest miscalculation you could have made
A game of very high stakes and
One you should never have played

So eat up your own Dog's Brexit
You see; they no longer want you
Or fall silently on your sword
Boris says it's the right thing to do

So, where do you go to my Mayfly
When you're alone in your bed
Do you dare to look in the mirror?
Do you see someone already dead?

(na  na-na-na  na  na-na-na  na-na   na na na na)

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