Vicar of Bray

WITH THE PROSPECT of a General Election looming, Skye correspondent and Crier poet Ophir Catling discovers an old newspaper cutting culled from the days he used to read newspapers.

"Young Conservatives - most intelligent."

"Young Liberals - too busy loving or fighting

to have time for politics."

"Young Socialists - have the dreariest meetings,

wildest looking young men, ugliest women and tepid cocoa."

Robert Cooke, Bristol Cons

and writes:

'I started in the Socialists,

And went to every meeting;

But found their women ugly

And their cocoa needed heating.'

'And so I joined Tories,

But their girls too were extreme;

Politics was in their blood,

They didn't have a sex-stream.'

'But when I joined the Liberals,

There wasn't any doubt;

They loved to fight, and fought to love,

And Politics - was OUT!'

Ophir

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