Inspired by this article on Write Out Loud home page.

Link to video version on Youtube.

 

This government’s passing some new legislation

to distract from Johnson’s shoddy situation.

As the country’s not fooled by his hollow sorries,

to avoid the rap, they’ve deployed Ms Dorries

to bluff and to bluster with her dodgy rhymes

in the hope we’ll forget her boss’s crimes.

Meanwhile, the head shyster, to follow that ode,

spends his time on changing the ministerial code,

so misleading parliament won’t require resignation.

At least not for Boris, though the rest of the nation,

must obey his laws, or fines they will pay:

not do as I do, but do as I say.

As one who adhered to the rules that he broke -

saw him and his cronies treat it all as a joke -

when my urgent surgery kept being postponed,

and without friends around, had to bear it alone.

His colleagues know full well what kind of man,

Always lies through his teeth, never carries the can.

What they know as corrupt, they pretend is astute,

When what they should give him, is Churchill’s salute.

 

Julian Jordon