The Gord's Prayer

Rhoda Klapp

A minute with google would find this parody with shepherds such as Obama, Mugabe and Cowen. I have a vague memory of it from the Wilson years, with sentiments appropriate for the times. I would be at all surprised to find it dates back a century or more. It's a parody which would have worked with everyone in the days when they all knew the Lord's prayer but would maybe not recognise much else, except what was recited at school.

In short, it's not original except in its adaptation to current concerns.

Rhoda Klapp

Oh, and Hawkeye posted it on Coffee House in February. Please keep up.

J Wright

Very Good, but does it actually get rid of him and his scourched earth policy???????

simon s

Here's a bit of what must be considered a prophetic poem from 2003:

But Gordon of the honeyed tongue
Can prove that black is white,
That penury is prosperity,
That he is always right.

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/owed.htm

Wily Trout

Pity we are all too politically correct to celebrate the unprintable verses from NoW readers - much like the way the BBC avoids covering the crowd chants that are the only interesting aspect of football matches. I thought the Spectator was an adult magazine: it carries references to drug-taking in its Life Pages. Go on, print the unprintable.

Vulture

James is quite right : a Cabinet revolt on the scale of the one that got rid of Thatcher is the only way Bruin will go. One minister alone will not be enough. Liebour seems to have made up its tiny collective mind that Postman Pat is the one to inherit the poisoned chalice, and one can see why: he's a bit dim but he looks and sounds vaguely normal, unlike most of his colleagues; above all perhaps, he's English, not Scottish. He's too close to the unions, though. Come to think of it, he's very much like Jim Callaghan who took over from Wilson when the latter suddenly quit over his health. Are we going to see a repeat of '76?

TrevorsDen

Browns biggest banana skin could still be Joanna Lumley and the Gurkhas.

Not for the rights or wrongs of the cause but by being disingenuous. The fragrant Lumley says he has promised one thing but Downing St say he has not.

According to the Telegraph her spokesman says ""What Joanna said was what happened in the meeting.
If there is a different view coming out of Downing Street that is a matter for them."

He hasn't a prayer ...

Tiberius

Gord of all hopelessness,
Gord of no joy,
Whose face ever childlike
No Ed could destroy,
Be gone at our wakening
And give us we pray,
Your head on a plate, Gord,
At the end of the day.

With apologies to Jan Struther.

Major Plonquer

This is a Kingdom of Fife thing that most people in the UK will not be famiiar with. It doesn't translate too well into common English but perhaps you will understand if I paraphrase. It means very simply that

'Baaaah Means No'.

seb

It is reported that a voter by the name of Juan Kerr has, with about two hundred others, signed a website petition urging Brown to stay on. On the petition, his name appears, of course, well below that of Ivor Biggun.

Rhoda Klapp

I strongly deprecate the use of double entendres or cheap spoonerisms in selection of noms de net.

seb

Rhoda!
It's the way we are. Don't deprecate. Join in!

hadrian

Slightly off topic but one simply has to laugh at the hapless way Broon manages to mangle most photo opportunities. What poetic justice to see him with a swastika blazoned to the left of him this week! Puerile but comic delight!