Belt up Rishi (credit to Ben Chambers for inspiring the title)
To the tune of ‘Maggie May’ by Rod Stewart.
Belt up, Rishi, I think I got somethin’ to say to you
It’s late this month and time to do those tax returns
I know this keeps you amused,
but we feel we’re being used
Oh, Rishi, I couldn’t have tried any more.
You led us away from Truss
But you follow the Brexit bus
You stole our land and that’s what really hurts.
The morning jet to Blackpool yet you showed your face
And that don’t worry you none, what ‘bout a greener place?
Nadhim transparency lacks,
and in order not to pay his tax
Oh, Rishi, he couldn’t have tried any more.
You led us away from Truss
But you follow the Brexit bus
You stole our soul, and that’s a pain we can do without.
All we needed was an impartial leader for the BBC
But it turned into Sharp practice, and the fact is,
What a chancer he turned out to be
All he did to fix the loan, and the meal at the Chequers home.
Well Richard Sharp couldn’t have tried any more.
Rishi you lead the MPs
They tell you where to lead them please
You stole the truth, had to leave us all outside.
I suppose I could collect my bills and get on back to work
There’s no tax dodges for me, not one single perk
Or go to Marble Arch, and join a protest march
Oh, Rishi, I wished I’d never seen your face.
You made a first-class fool out of us
As you followed the Brexit bus
You stole our land, we just hope you’ll go away.
Rishi, I wished I’d never seen your face
We’ll get on back home one of these days
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Knowing that you lied – Dedicated of course to Nadhim Zahawi
To the tune of ‘Reason to Believe’ (the flip side of ‘Maggie May’) by Rod Stewart.
Though we’ve listened long enough to you,
There is no way to believe that it’s all true,
Knowing that you lied
Straight-faced while they tried
To look into what you would have us believe.
Do you Nadhim
Find it hard to care about
Somebody else?
Does one like you
Find it easy to live
Only thinking ‘bout yourself?
When you paid the fine to clear your mind
HMRC said it’s careless, so you’re fined
Knowing that you lied
Straight-faced while they lined
You up to head up HMRC
Though there was three million due
You forgot to get it paid, oh silly you;
Knowing how you tried
Straight-faced to heat the sty
On expenses in your house with tax relief.
Someone like you
Finds it hard to care about
Somebody else.
Someone like you
Finds it easy to live
Only thinking ‘bout yourself.
Ed: Mike’s Covid musical and Brexit Musical can be sampled at www.viewdelta.com , and with Augusta Lees he has summed up the Tory Government in paperback and video titled “It’s My Party and I’ll Lie If I Want To” – the book is available from Amazon here.
