January '09: 2009 must surely be sublime!

The winner of our prize draw with the Samsung Flat Screen TV is Nicky Layton of Horizon Homes

Well done Nicky!

2009 must surely be sublime!

Happy New Year to one and all

I trust everyone had a Yuletidetastic fall

Prior to the Christmas break, festivities & all that

Dear old "One Eye" Gordy reduced the rate of VAT

As our prudent PM continues to get his figures wrong

His panic stricken Party again bang the "borrow more" gong

Reducing VAT by 2½% is supposed to inspire the proletariat to spend

Cynics fear it's a cloak and dagger tax hike on the rich's stipend

How can Gordy borrow billions of pounds more

From an invisible, asset less bank, somewhere offshore

The repayments for such a profligate fiscal debacle will be high

Leaving us all to pay a heavy future price that no politician can deny

Is there any hope for us all in the current financial plight

We have to remain positive ... positive with all our might

Things could be worse ... I'm a Celebrity etc could run for weeks and weeks more

Mind you it's not as bad as Celebrity Big Brother which I deplore

In a fantasy world where Z list celebs try to reinvent their careers

We pleasure in their discomfort as they try to beat their fears

There's something worryingly satisfying seeing egos flag as they eat insects and the odd testicle

But I pity the marsupials who had their genitals removed in order to achieve this televisual spectacle Perhaps we should get the politicians on such shows

What would they be prepared to do to up their "cred" ... God knows!

I seem to remember one said politician pretending to be a cat

He simply ended up looking like a complete T**t!

So onwards and upwards we all must go

Things will get better the MP's tell us and they must know

Ignore the terrorist attacks, the redundancies, the uncertainty of the modern day

We all have a voice, and we all have a vote, and something to say

Take solace in the fact events go in cycles ... this philosophy never fails

Down one minute we're up the next ... price increases followed by sales

Labour now ... possibly Conservatives next is doesn't really matter

They're all as bad as each other ... George Bush, after all, was as mad as a hatter!

It's all about the choices we make

There is only so much we can take

Think positive for 2009 and don't take things too seriously thereafter

The whole idea of this particular ode is simply to create a little New Year laughter...

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