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Sunak’s Sorry, Keir’s Ear and the Ghost of John Smith<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n or,<\/p>\n 58 and Not Out<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n by David Erdos<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n Would John Smith be pleased? Yes, of course. Having warped adopts a socialist stance to help Blake defined. It could never happen of course. And crests compromise. Every new Government Will we take a deep breath and then rhyme So would Smith have been the last Statesman People who helped them once legislate, Them all and God damn them, not for being Tories, Into flan. They were bland but blasted by flames That after the dominoes fell he could scrape Of tax for Akshata, this whipping boy made from women So much so that we\u2019re dizzy and can, or so it seems, Bikini, sunbed scorched, for big boys. Or do we fan fury, until it hurricanes A panorama of puddles? Can Sir Keir tame Which are wrought from a broken system now spill? To Macron and Yelensky, will he still stall Palestine? Will now sit opposite you in the Commons. Swimmers, or will we now surf from sun-kissed waves The Socialist stream strains for oceans. Make fireworks out of beacons becalming Sunak left in rain. Starmer stalks sunlight. Sunak’s Sorry, Keir’s Ear and the Ghost of John Smith or, 58 and Not Out by David Erdos\u00a0 Would John Smith be pleased? Yes, of course. To…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":17121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17125","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\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
To see the Party in power. Or will his ghost trouble
Breezes across today\u2019s rain and branches
In Abingdon slash College Green? As Westminster,<\/p>\n
Straighten and iron out indendations pressed
Into the public psyche and lost dream
Of a political process in place that represents
Everybody, and governs sagely over the Jerusalem<\/p>\n
Each flag unfurled is mere patchwork, as loose stitches
Lease sunlight bleeding through hope\u2019s design.
So what we want now, in having dreams and hope
Tempered is a return to some standard which bests<\/p>\n
Overturns the legacy and template left behind it,
But undoing those stitches despite the flag\u2019s state
Can take time and it is in those intervals that a gap\u2019s
Gain can widen and while now we all rally,<\/p>\n
Relief with belief that things can change truly?
Say, as a Scot, would Smith bridle at the SNP\u2019s
Losses now? He was something of a player,
Astute, but the begetter of Blair in his dying;<\/p>\n
That I believed him to be, or the cow
Sacrificed so that Blair\u2019s angel face,
Made demonic could start the standard,
Not of deceit, but wrecked vows
Which have damned the decades that have
Doused us all, post Thatcher, who simply made
Stipulations, if not demands on the State
Of play and of place; so what of the Tories now
Amidst rubble? Will they honour the previous<\/p>\n
From Churchill back to the Pitts whose name
Now becomes the location of where I\u2019d cast Cameron,
And (thank God, at last) Braverman. Not to mention
Rees-Mogg. Slime away your greased goblins! Damn<\/p>\n
But for still sipping sulphur from the masonic cup,
Or passed pan, of exploited blood, that their
Stolen silver spoons would have stirred into chilli,
Or flambed while breathing the fires down<\/p>\n
That have raged for aeons as 14 years became endless,
Perhaps what Rishi sought was escape. In ignoring
Advice from his Grandees and supporters.
Was a so-called intelligent man so persuaded<\/p>\n
Victory? No. His was a toll and poll to be toppled.
A friend of mine taught him, and while near
The top of his class, no true win came his way,
Especially between May and Truss, and the slashing<\/p>\n
Is now an Asian Christ soaking sin from what
Has been wrought in the social sphere as religion;
With political priests as abusers fucking fake news
Across spin. And the world we have now has been spun,<\/p>\n
Never settle and never attain equipoise. I wouldn\u2019t
Put it past them to try and beg bad Boris back,
If I\u2019m honest, with Nadine Dorries as siren,
Imploring him, both breasts heaving in a burnt<\/p>\n
But \u2018first and foremost,\u2019 he said, and said to us all,
He was sorry. And so he should be with a glint
In his eye and sad frown. \u2018He had heard the anger.\u2019
Most do. But what is then done to resolve it?<\/p>\n
And tears down all of our structures, each dream
And therefore, each drama. Can Starmer storm,
Watched by former leaders like Gaitskell, or Atlee
Of course as PM? Or will he just swish through<\/p>\n
The tempests which today pitter-patted and made
What\u2019s historic, stilled tonic in glory\u2019s gin.
Will the stem of his glass full of gain snap
In twain as the tastes and tangles of complication,<\/p>\n
How keen is Keir\u2019s ear? He said he was listening
About Gaza. After the Anti-semitic slur within Labour,
Which rumours now will he kill? May his legal skill
Lead us all away from the skirmish. After talking<\/p>\n
The ghosts of Smith and Tony Benn glare. Kinnock
Was on hand last night hosting a no longer empty seat.
Clear all cushions. Today, tests are opened in the ongoing
Examination of Time. Jeremy as an Islington independent<\/p>\n
So now, I wonder, on both sides of the river
Will the socialist stream fully flow?
And where will Marxism mix as the tide turns
From the Tories. Will the common cause carry<\/p>\n
Into snow? Farage\u2019s Reform now has seats.
Which means that even glory gains gristle.
By this coming Winter, Trump could nuke us all
From his cell. Sir Keir, as I write, your car is easing
Into King Charles\u2019 Court. Sunshine simmers.<\/p>\n
As Laura Kuenssberg and the public breast wait,
To swell. Keir, keep your ear to the ground.
And make our polling cards keys to hope\u2019s chamber.<\/p>\n
The beaches once blasted. Your speech must mean
Something. So, make today, torn like others
Be one we can reaffix, and in times to come,
Genuflecting be one we can once again proudly tell.<\/p>\n
The clouds still seem undecided. But then what clouds
Allow once made magic. Some said this landslide
Was loveless, and yet today, there\u2019s elation.
Polish your wand to perfection and may those clouds
bestow modern spells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"