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PAT REEAT – CAMPAIGNS TO BE THE  “ENGLISH” POET LAUREATE

THIS  FIRST VERSE HAS BEEN PENNED FOR THE ROYAL FAMILY IN A BID TO GAIN THEIR SUPPORT

(WHO IS CAROL ANN DUFFY ANYWAY?)

REMBOURRAGE  THE REPUBLICANS

Dear Kate and Will   

Your day was brill  

You lifted me and the nation

With your wedding celebration     

                                   

Who said the monarchy is finished

And it’s power has been diminished

Republicans looked dour and glum

Whilst all the nation was having fun

“How can people be so silly

Just cos a commoner has wed our Willy!”

“Whilst Libya is all afire

And our voting system walked the wire?”

So muscular liberalism saves the world, what hypocrisy!

They say ‘we need to teach them about democracy’

As the political class continue to whine and whinge

‘This isn’t Britishness’  they cringe.

Yet it’s interesting to contemplate

How republicans would seal our fate

For without the constancy of that royal drama

We could end up with a Bush or an Obama

Identity and belief are not rational

You cannot just teach someone to be a national

Our history may have been taken

 By educationalists with a Marxist vocation

Our stories of battles  bold

May have been rubbished and our ancestry sold

Our culture may have been slain

By Blair Babes and the Euro gravy train

But people just speak as they wish

And will not be subject to the political tish

And as we sing from church and steeple

The voice is heard of the British people

And if democracy counts for out

Then listen to their joys and shouts

The bells of Westminster Abbey pay no heed

For a thousand years they have taken the lead

Our Monarchs give us back our history

For without them nationhood would be a mystery

Now let’s all join in and say a prayer

And wish joy to the happy pair!

(Pat Reeat)