To keep up with a small Dungeekin tradition here is a specially commissioned little Budget Song for you all. Enjoy.
Ronan Keating ‘When you say nothing at all’
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuJrEBtmM1Q&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
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It’s amazing how you can still try to be smart,
Thanks to you our economy’s fallen apart,
This Budget Day you have done it again,
Talked a lot but you don’t say a thing,
CHORUS:
You’re all a disgrace, and you’ve mortgaged the country,
All your figures are lies, and you’ve wasted our money,
In thirteen long years you’ve delivered precisely sod-all,
We’ve masses of debt,
and you’ve done nothing at all.
In your speeches you waffle and claim to be proud,
Figures pulled from your arse, and your head in the clouds
Try as you may to say everything’s fine
Deep inside you must know that you’re lying,
CHORUS:
You’re all a disgrace, and you’ve mortgaged the country,
All your figures are lies, and you’ve wasted our money,
In thirteen long years you’ve delivered precisely sod-all,
We’ve masses of debt,
and you’ve done nothing at all.
You’re all a disgrace, and you’ve mortgaged the country,
All your figures are lies, and you’ve wasted our money,
In thirteen long years you’ve delivered precisely sod-all,
We’ve masses of debt,
and you’ve done nothing at all.
(We’ve masses of debt,
and you’ve done nothing at all
We’ve masses of debt,
and you’ve done nothing at all)
You’re all a disgrace,
Your figures are lies,
You’ve mortgaged this land
And you’ve screwed up the country,
You’re all a disgrace, and you’ve mortgaged the country,
All your figures are lies, and you’ve wasted our money,
In thirteen long years you’ve delivered precisely sod-all,
We’ve masses of debt,
and you’ve done nothing at all.
(We’ve masses of debt,
and you’ve done nothing at all
We’ve masses of debt,
and you’ve done nothing at all)
You’re all a disgrace,
Your figures are lies,
You’ve mortgaged this land
And you’ve screwed up the country,
(We’ve masses of debt,
and you’ve done nothing at all
We’ve masses of debt,
and you’ve done nothing at all)
Repeat until we finally get the General Election we so desperately need….
Good lyrics, just about sums it up.
I personally enjoyed David Cameron ripping into the budget. Had me in stitches.
I listened to almost plausible Alistair, but realised that he wasn’t adding much because a lot of the taxes he wanted are already due to kick in soon anyway!
I talked to a small retailer afterwards and he said glumly that he will find it harder to afford to travel to deliver for his business.
But there you go, that’s Labour for you.
the trial of gordon frown
sinister priminster clenches
the benches banister
turns to his barrister
but gets no protection
even the defence has lost all affection
browns missing a page
of his plagerised script
nothing to say
all words have slipped
from the mouth of the man
who was never fit
to run a wonderful country like this
so he speaks of past times
portrays the ways of the tories as crime
though no word is heard
of cheques he would not sign
that could of protected
our bright men that died
on a forgein front line
or of debt and reccesion
as his party dine
at our expense
on red meat and wine
he stands up and whines
pining for tony bear
but his furry friend is no longer there
is this the cause for the frown gordon wears
when he airs his ideas
members sit back
and pretend not to hear
when will he quit
and admit his end is near
please no more years of red expenses
going shopping in fear
of all those products expensive
let down by the ones
that promised it all
when they begun all thier fun
not one single one
thought about all the damage yet to be done
we shall celebrate as labour doth fall
just like the jester doth bawl
as he drops juggled balls
we can only hope that the tories
will answer the call
just as boris so chose
took to his toes
and rode to city hall
please paint no 10
in a new coat of blue
all of us and our friends
are voting for you
Anyone remember Lionel Bart’s musical about
Oliver Twist?
How about a remake –
Alistair!
“You’ve gotta pick a pocket or two…”
Darling’s Budget was like the mouthwash the dentist gives you. It was pale pink, mildly astringent, bland yet nasty and a preparation for some bloody business ahead.
Chancellors with bushy eyebrows are always bad – Denis Healey, Norman Lamont, Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling. Even Stafford Cripps had a decent pair of puss moth caterpillars above his eyes.
Silly song.
Does Boris Johnson feel embarrassed [Ed: inappropriate]
It even made Radio 4 news.
@Ed Gibb
Sorry, I can’t do a remake of ‘You’ve Gotta Pick a Pocket or Two’, for two reasons.
1: It’s far too obvious and easy;
2: I’ve already used that song to have a crack at the BNP and Nick Griffin.
I’m sure some more Labour-related song parodies will turn up, though.
@spencer
I’m disappointed that you found it silly. Perhaps you’d care to expand on that, especially as I missed the R4 broadcast in question?
Regards to all
Dungeekin
@dungeekin
‘…pick a pocket or two’
Sorry if it’s obvious and easy. I hope that it’s
obvious how easy it is for these theives to take
well over half of my income.
Regards, Ed
They do seem to have a gift for taking every penny of our cash, don’t they?
Shame they lack the capability to do anything meaningful with the money.
D
‘…indeed burgling, when viewed in Darwinian terms, was clearly approaching a crisis. Burglars were finding that almost everywhere had been burgled. Burglars were forever bumping into one another, stepping on the toes of other burglars. There were burglar jams on rooftops and stairwys, on groaning fire-escapes. Burglars were being burgled by fellow burglars, and were doing the same thing back..Returning from burgling, burglars would discover that
they had been burgled, sometimes by the very burglar that they themselves had just burgled!’
From London Fields, by Martin Amis.
Pretty good description of our Houses of Parliament, and No.10, isn’t it?
Ed
Obviously touched a bit of a raw nerve by asking about Boris Johnson’s allegations that his [Ed: not this website] had been hacked during the mayoral campaign.
Funny we never heard any more about it. It did its job though. The damage had been done.
Dungeekin asks for more on Boris Johnson’s allegations that his [Ed: the report is about his emails] hacked:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sky-News-Archive/Article/20080641311932
but there was never anything further. Perhaps there was no hacking, just a nasty allegation that was impossible to disprove.
@spencer: actually his blogspot for boris watchers has been hacked seems as though these people have nothing better to do than criticize a man who actually has the publics interests at heart! another example of biting the hand that feeds you