Sunday 7 June 2009

New Labour - the musical?


Incase you don't know, Les Miserables is about the French revolution. With the European election results due tomorrow, I think the lyrics to ONE DAY MORE, one of the songs from the musical are remarkably poignant, even in modern times. I've changed none of the lyrics, just which characters sing them...
(I need to find more to do on a Sunday!)


GORDON BROWN
One day more?
Another day, another destiny.
This never ending road to Calvary;
These men who seem to know my crime
Will surely come a second time.
One day more?

UKIP & BNP
I did not live until today

ED BALLS & YVETTE COOPER
How can I live when we are parted

GORDON BROWN
One day more?

HAZEL BLEARS
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away,
And yet, with you, my world has started!

GORDON BROWN
One more day all on my own.

CABINET
Will we ever meet again?

CAROLINE FLINT
One more day with him not caring.

ED BALLS
I was born to be with you.

CAROLINE FLINT
What a life I might have known.

HARRIET HARMAN & ALAN JOHNSON
And I swear I will be true!

CAROLINE FLINT
But he never saw me there.

HAZEL BLEARS
One more day before the storm!

ALASTAIR DARLING
Do I follow where she goes?

DAVID CAMERON
At the barricades of freedom.

TONY BLAIR
Shall I join my brothers there?

HAZEL BLEARS
When our ranks begin to form.

DAVID MILLIBAND
Do I stay; and do I dare?

GORDON BROWN
will you take your place with me?

DAVID CAMERON
The time is now, the day is here...

GORDON BROWN
One day more?

BLEARS, PURNELL, FALCONER, FLINT
One more day to revolution,
We will nip it in the bud!

Sir ALAN SUGAR
I will join these little schoolboys,
They will wet themselves with blood!

GORDON BROWN
One day more?

DAILY TELEGRAPH
Watch'em run amuck,
Catch'em as they fall,
Never know you're luck
When there's a free for all,
Here a little 'dip'
There a llittle touch,
Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much!

CONSERVATIVES
One day to a new beginning!
Raise the flag of freedom high!
Every man shall be a king!
Every man shall be a king!
There's a new world for the winning!
There's a new world to be won!

EVERYONE (except Gordon Brown)
Do you hear the people sing?

MANDELSON
My place is here. I fight with you!

GORDON BROWN
One day more!

BNP & UKIP
I did not live until today.

GORDON BROWN
One more day all on my own!

CABINET
How can I live when we are parted

DAVID CAMERON
I will join these people's heroes
I will follow where they go
I will learn their little secrets
I will know the things they know.

GORDON BROWN
One day more!

HAZEL BLEARS
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away

CAROLINE FLINT
What a life I might have known!

GLENYS KINNOCK
And yet with you my world has started

DAVID CAMERON
One more day to revolution
We will nip it in the bud,
We'll be ready for these schoolboys...

DAILY TELEGRAPH
Watch'em run amuck,
Catch'em as they fall,
Never know you're luck
When there's a free for all!

LABOUR
Tomorrow we'll be far away,
Tomorrow is the judgement day!

ALL
Tomorrow we'll discover
What our God in Heaven has in store!
One more dawn!
One more day!
One day more!

2 comments:

subrosa said...

Very clever indeed. Tell me, what household duties were you shirking pleading you had urgent blogging to do? ;)

Jeff said...

Awesome!

Alan Sugar has the best lines...