Some cabinet ministers are not fully reconciled to the Brown era if a few lines of verse supposedly written by a cabinet minister that have been doing the rounds in recent days are anything to go by. “At Downing Street upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t Blair,
He wasn’t Blair again today,
Oh how I wish he’d go away.”
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London Calling
March 15th, 2008 2:57pmAt Downing Street upon the stair, I saw a space but no one there, Just emptiness and shallow tide, A hidden place for Men and Mice.
RW
March 15th, 2008 4:07pmI didn't realise John Hutton had poetic aspirations, assuming it's him. He struck me as being more down to earth, as in "Gordon Brown would make a f*ck*ng awful Prime Minister", a loose tongued but clear-headed prophecy which has come back to haunt him.
John Rentoul
March 15th, 2008 5:57pmCredit where it is due: Matthew Parris, The Times, 13 March. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article3542149.ece