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Cartoonist, #BylinesNetwork, occasional artist, writer and sketcher of things. Likes tea and books. Sometimes hibernates. Living with #LongCovid
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I Am the Very Model of the Work and Pensions Minister (minor update for July 2024, with apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan and the Pirates of Penzance) #DWP#PIPreform

Verse text of 'I Am the Very Model of the Work and Pensions Minister' based on an aria 'I Am the Very Model of the Modern Major General' from the opera The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan. Text says '(The Work and Pensions Minister) You’re stifling the potential, huge cost to the economy, In numbers consequential, at present quite unknown to me, The nine point three million, that number is rhetorical − But we could make it real, and that truth is categorical. And seven hundred thousand will be all on sickness benefits, And every one is one of the great labour market challenges. Post-2020 there’s no cause for all this falling chronic health, But you’re the enemies of growth and you’re the enemies of wealth. (The Backbench Chorus) But you’re the enemies of growth and you’re the enemies of wealth.' (the chorus is repeated three times. Text continues for three more verses with a chorus, ending with final chorus text 'We say to all you lazy lot, there is no life on benefits'
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Cartoonist, #BylinesNetwork, occasional artist, writer and sketcher of things. Likes tea and books. Sometimes hibernates. Living with #LongCovid
116 followers156 following139 posts
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