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A Whitehall farce, anyone?

Thursday, 17th December 2020

• WOULD a joke make you smile
At the foot of the gallows?
Would hungry sharks beguile
If you met in the shallows?
Then you’ll enjoy the fine farce of Johnson’s crew
As they persist in casually ruining you.

RUSSELL BUTLER

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