Tuesday, February 23, 2016

POLITICAL DUETTES


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Political Duettes

In politics as in  opera you can often  place your bet
on which  rival will prevail
And, as now  in both England and America, the tale
may be of  blonde against  brunette.

But though we might   want to
we should not expect  bel canto:

just words in  hot air 
that  few can   adore 
to make for despair,
rather than  "encore".

HzL
2/23/16


Yet in four months it will all be over. The British people will be voting. They will do so with their customary common sense and realism as they always do – a view to which I still subscribe despite having sometimes been on the wrong end of that realism. As they go bleary-eyed back to work on 24 June, will leading Conservatives still all be able to work together?

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