" Mug's Game"

You're supposed to be the Man of the People
The Labour man at the top
But what you did down in Deal
Shows why you're such a flop.
Where I come from a pub's not a toilet
Just somewhere for a wee
But I'm an ordinary geezer
That's the difference between you and me.
Even if you weren't thirsty
You should have stayed for a half
Chatted to the landlord
Tried to have a laugh.
Apparently it's in 'enemy country'
Where they laud that clown Farage
But even he knows the score
Holding up a pint & giving it large.
Perhaps you're not used to 'chewing the fat'
With ordinary people in pubs
More suited to your own type and class
In your Westminster bars and clubs.
Time to work with your spin doctors
And learn how to work a photo op
It's why Farage is more popular than you
Even though his policies are no cop.
You need to travel the country
Listen to the working classes in the street
Otherwise you'll never reach Number Ten
And Cameron and Co. will have us beat.

Dulwich Poet 4th January 2015

(A newspaper report said that Ed Milliband, leader of the Labour Party, was on a private stroll on the Kent Coast, and popped into a pub to use the toilet, but didn't stop to buy a drink. And that the UKIP leader Farage has popped in there for a pint several times.)