I’ve lived through the terms of several Prime Ministers, from Harold MacMillan to today’s incumbent. They all leave, mostly unwillingly…
I’ve seen PMs come and go
And each time it’s been a blow…
To them.
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Super Mac was taken ill
I assume they gave him some wonder pill…
Didn’t work.
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Sir Alec Douglas-Hume
Was left to fume…
Alone.
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Ted Heath liked to spend time yachting
Instead of dealing with those plotting…
His end.
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Harold Wilson had four goes
Before they led him by the nose…
Away.
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Jim Callaghan was well meant
Until his winter of discontent…
Oh well.
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Mrs Thatcher, so gimlet-eyed
Ended when she finally cried…
For herself.
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John Major never mastered
How to deal with ‘those bastards’…
Sadly.
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Tony Blair, all hair and teeth
Smiled a lot, while underneath…
War-mongered.
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Gordon Brown
Frowned…
Too much.
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Davey Cameron’s referendum
Exposed him as nice but dumb…
The pillock.
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If only Theresa May had been
Theresa Would, we might have seen…
Progress.
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How come, with Boris Johnson
We thought he’d be an honest one…?
More fool us.
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So should I stand about and cuss
And generally make a fuss
As the Tories take Lynn Truss
And throw her under the next bus…?
Bugger off.
TanGental 
Nice, succinct, analyses
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It took a lot of research…
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Brilliant!
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thanks Nick
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Jolly Good Geoff! Twenty-two years ago, we made one of the best decisions ever and came to live in Spain. Of course, nowhere is perfect, but… We sold our house here and rent at 350 euros monthly for a 2 bed, 2 bath apartment, ground floor, patio and pool outside the door and small, part-tiled garden. We are a mile from the Med. and half a mile from shops, hospital, cafes and restaurants/ 15 minutes to orange groves, lakes and countryside. We can still dine out well for 12 euros for three courses. Two of our three sons live nearby, which is a bonus…the third in Denmark and visits yearly. The health service saw my husband through cancer and I have been hospitalized safely, a few times. I will always love the old England I remember, but Brexit has been a curse for us as the euro against the pound is dire…Upwards and on wards!
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Glad you found your nearly Nirvana, Joy. I can’t imagine wanting to live anywhere but in this village cum suburb but never say never. And while I’d like to be open minded and think Brexit didn’t have a large part to play in our current chaos, I’m sufficiently pissed at the whole farrago to happily blame everything on it. One of my closest friends is an ardent believer that it has and will cure everything from herpes to wet lettuce in the bottom of the fridge and that leads to the occasionally boisterous debate but happily we then default to the latest cricketing disaster and all is well again.
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I love it, Geoff. So true.
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I have to say Geoff I do share all your opinions especially on the anti Christ Blair! Sorry but you can trust someone who smiles as they plot behind closed doors! I can add another two to my lifetime Churchill and Anthony Eden.
They all had one thing in common, emotion …even if well hidden they didn’t want to go. Except Liz Truss she showed no emotion just had that stupid smile on her face….was she another grinning assassin or just an automotant.
Great poem Geoff.
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Eden eff’ed up as much as Truss, in his own way, didn’t he. And I had such high hopes of Blair. As you say, never trust someone cares more about his teeth than his constituents
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Yes Eden with his stomach problems and the entire Suez cock up! …. nightmare! …as for Blair nightmare!
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I think Major was probably the only one who left doing a decent fist of things but his party was so riddled with charlatans and chancers he never had a prayer
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No and he was such a mild mannered person not much charisma, a plodder !
We’ve not been over lucky but they are politicians after all what can we expect?
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The first political thing I really remember was the Suez Crisis. I was really a bit too young to appreciate what it was all about, really. But I do remember Eden having a lot to do with it.
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Well done!
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I feel in my sphincter
that this is succincter
than anyone’s written before
I hear Nadine Dorries
was speaking to Boris
to get him as PM once more
With such sheer affrontery
I may leave the country
I’m sure I can’t stand him again
Despite every pledge
I’m feeling on edge
that there is no relief for that pain
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fantastic… now get off my blog, you’re showing me up!!
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Thank you. I haven’t enough years left to be able to do that Geoff!
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Oh you do it very easily. Anyone who can use their sphincter in a rhyme deserves our admiration
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I have to find some use for it!
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Wonderful poem. I wish it was easy to reblog replies. This deserve a wider audience.
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Thank you.
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It is. I’m humbled…
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A wonderful resume of PMs. I just finished reading The Splendid and the Vile about Churchill’s years as PM before the US entered the war. I don’t know how he did it…
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No, but for the war he’d have gone down in history as a bigoted self promoting crook
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Right person for the job despite his failings.
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Yes he found his rather large niche
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It’s like a game in UK.
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Yes, sadly true though (a) no one seems to know the rules and (b) everyone cheats anyway… one compensation… at least we’re not French…
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I don’t think that the French have such a high turnover?
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No, just an inclination to riot and revolt… and who really thinks their neighbours are doing any better!
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Lol!
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Thanks for a summary on the PMs, Geoff.
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always happy to be of service
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When I first read the headline I thought you had failed to capitalize the s.
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I don’t think many of your followers thought Boris Johnson would be straight!
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But equally I don’t think they thought he was a political pretzel…
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Very clever! I’d still swap all those dude and dudesses for our last president.
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Well… its true none of them have encouraged insurrection
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A great review. I remember them all too. I especially liked Thatcher crying for herself.
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Thanks… I doubt you can do the job without believing in your own infallibility
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How come I missed that education? I am too aware of my fallibility.
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I am reminded of an advert for the Observer newspaper, on some anniversary of the paper 150th or 200th or something similar. It went like this
“Since this paper was founded there have been xx prime ministers, we have offended every one of them!”
A reason to be proud
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Quite but actually quite straightforward and ultimately what every paper should aspire to do
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We have reached a pretty pass when I suddenly thought that perhaps Michael Gove might be quite a good solution to our present problems. I had to go and have a lie down.
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Oh my…. I think you may have ingested too much wilful optimizum
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I am going mad.
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That was a fun read. I don’t think there are any good ones anywhere.
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Sadly that feels true. The NZ and Finnish PMs are probably the only ones around at the moment that give politics a good name
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Well written, Geoff. The news here showed her yelling her head off at all the blokes in Parliament. Still, it came as a shock.
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Parliament needs some chapter reading time to calm them down… Reading a few sections from the latest Finance Bill should work
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Hahaha!!
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Bravo on a job well done.
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If only the same could be said of the subjects
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History in a nutshell… Brilliant! Thanks for the education
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