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the last ex-pat in Costa Del Sol turns his thoughts homeward<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n with apologies to Leonard Cohen<\/p>\n by Mark Cassidy, with image above by Martin Gollan<\/em><\/p>\n Come, my sisters and brothers, the last ex-pat in Costa Del Sol turns his thoughts homeward with apologies to Leonard Cohen by Mark Cassidy, with image above by Martin Gollan Come, my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":16976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[3144,3145],"class_list":["post-16980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-labour-party-purge","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
let us govern Britain,
let us apply our best minds,
let us discharge sewage in Downing Street,
let us make the Lords a torture chamber
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0until \u2013 one by one \u2013 they all confess,
let us purge the Labour Party,
let us make Europeans speak English
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0not only here but everywhere,
let us promote the dark races
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0so \u2013 when they take control \u2013
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0they shall be magnanimous,
let us make content for TikTok,
let us all be tourists,
let us float across the Channel on a Li-Lo,
let us whisper sweet nothings to the enemy,
let us cast bullets in men\u2019s sheds,
let us sell Irn-Bru to the Third World,
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(Do they know three of our national leaders were women?)
let us terrorise our colonies,
let us merge republican with royalist,
let us not show a white flag,
let us demand a written constitution
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0sponsored by Bet365,
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0with prize for the most ground-breaking suggestion,
let us threaten to join the U.S.A.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0then chicken out in the nick of time,
my sisters and brothers, come,
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0our best minds are waiting for us
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0like sleeping bags abandoned in shop doorways,
let us give them purpose soon,
let us keep a world-leading silence
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0beside the Thames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"