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The Comeback Kings<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n by Paul Francis, with image by Martin Rowson<\/em><\/p>\n Time for a golden oldies track – named after Hardie. Don\u2019t be fooled. There\u2019s infestation, they can see: Hamas attack. When there\u2019s a war The Comeback Kings by Paul Francis, with image by Martin Rowson Time for a golden oldies track –the Tony\/Peter duo\u2019s backto tell their fans they\u2019re thrilled to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":15854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
the Tony\/Peter duo\u2019s back
to tell their fans they\u2019re thrilled to bits
they can replay their greatest hits.
It\u2019s leadership that matters most.
\u201cThe party\u201d is a fading ghost;
commitments, values, Labour\u2019s soul?
Stuff that. It\u2019s all about control
and their determination\u2019s clear.
They have a bot. They call him Keir<\/p>\n
Tradition has been overruled
so ancient loyalties are dropped.
Support for unions has stopped,
like underdogs they backed before –
the Blacks, disabled or the poor.
Back in two thousand seventeen
some saw a future, kids were keen
but that was then; right now it\u2019s plain
there is a swamp they need to drain.<\/p>\n
\u201cnot-Corbyn\u201d is their USP.
An anti-semitism purge
becomes a systematic scourge
of elements they need to lose \u2013
and quite a lot of them are Jews.
Meanwhile, the Williams report
on Windrush gathers dust; some thought
Keir\u2019d want to know. He turns away.
Not now. Maybe another day.<\/p>\n
back the US. That worked before
says Tony. Keir adopts the line
whatever Israel does is fine.
Cut off electric, water? Good.
They\u2019ll claim he was misunderstood
but discipline is not in doubt;
vote for a ceasefire and you\u2019re out.
Forget about lost members, please;
they\u2019re simply shaking off the fleas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"