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WHAT A DATE

London
Autumn
Showers
Cloudy
Grey skies

I’m on my way to a date
We’ve promised each other
That we’d meet in this pub
On time

On time!
After downing several pints
Of bitter
All by myself
The night’s gone stale
But where is my date?

Still autumn
Cloudy
Grey skies
Another date
We’ve promised each other
That we’d meet in Hyde Park
On time

Well I’m sitting on this bench
In Hyde Park
Waiting
And waiting
I’m bloody shivering
But where’s my date?

Oh, Autumn
Where is my love?
Do you know where Brown Eyes & Blond Hair is?

Brown Eyes & Blond Hair
I’m still here
Waiting for you
To turn up
On time!

Waiting
For so long
The fruits of sorrow
On the trees
In Hyde Park
Have ripened

Waiting
For so long
I’ve made friends
With the bench
Instead!

Autumn
Showers
Cloudy
Grey skies
I treat my love generously
I treat my love generously
But in her mind
I’m making her
My prisoner! ( roll eyes )

London
Autumn
Showers
Cloudy
Grey skies
Oh… oooh…

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Former No 10 communications chief Alastair Campbell wants to return to Labour to fight the General Election campaign, he says today.

He feels he ‘owes it to Labour’ to return .

He tells the listings magazine, Shortlist, ” A lot of people come up to me and say ‘You’ve got to do what you can to stop these Tories’ and I feel bad. I feel like I should be doing something full-on, full-time like I used to.

” I don’t mean to be pious about it but I feel that if you think you can make a difference, you should.

” If I were to go back it would be full-on 24/7 because what I did was 24/7. Read my diaries: every holiday interrupted and every weekend ruined.”

He says that politics is ‘part of who I am’.

On David Cameron, he says the Conservative leader has done a better job that Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard.

” I think what he’s good at is the presentation stuff – but that’s only important up to a point.

” I don’t think he can do the vital stuff – big strategy, big policy.
And so (at the Tory party Conference) what he’s done is get himself as tame a media as it is possible to have in politics. They are so far up his backside it’s obscene. Cameron is just getting away with murder. It’s (the media’s) fault.”

It was put to him that he was accusing the Conservatives of doing what Labour did.

He replied, ” And we did it very well. But it was not a substitute for policy and strategy. And what’s more, we have the media coming at us 24 hours per day. The slightest thing, they’d pick you off. The Tories get away with absolute murder. I don’t mean they kill people, although they probably would.

He says he is not sure who will win the General Election. ” Since the Tory conference I’ve noticed more people saying ‘I’m not sure. I don’t like the look of those Tories’. In a recent poll in the Times they went down.”

The life-long Burnley fan reveals the one job he would love to do ‘more than anything else’: to be a football manager.

” I was really chuffed when Steve Cotterill (Burnley manager 2004-07) left and Ladbrokes had me down, I think, at 60-1 to take over.

And if he had to choose?

” That’s a tough one. If you’re saying I could only go for one, and providing my son doesn’t read this, then I’d have to go with Labour.”

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Some of them [MPs] are on suicide watch.

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Not enough. Not nearly enough.

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It’s a combination of the same way football clubs can justify paying silly money for the best players and that fact that the very best traders can easily go freelance – i.e. leave, set up a hedge fund and pocket 20% performance fees.

Bonuses for senior executives and directors is another issue however.

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Still autumn
Another date
We have promised each other
That we would meet in Hyde park
I am sitting on a park bench
Waiting and waiting
I am shivering
But where is my date?
I make friend
With the bench
Instead!

Oh, Autumn
Do you know where Brown-Eyes-Blond-Hair is?
Brown-Eyes-Blond-Hair,
I am still sitting here
Waiting for you to turn up
For so long
The fruits of sorrow
In the trees
In Hyde park
Have ripened

Autumn
Showers
Cloudy
Grey skies
I treat my love generously
Yet he moaned
I was making him
My prisoner! ( roll eyes )

Autumn
Showers
Cloudy
Grey skies
Never date in autumn!

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Can you hear Autumn?
The rustling sounds of expense claims as our sovereignty leaves?
Let us count the fallen soldiers into the season…

Can you hear Autumn?
The gentle footsteps of the European Union encroaching on the crispy poppies?

The fluffy promises of politicians are floating away…
Can you hear the silence of Autumn?

Can you?

It will soon be winter for Great Britain.

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