Poems of the Week

Paws in Parliament

by Jerome Betts

Steve Darling, the newly-elected MP for Torbay Devon, is accompanied
in
the House of Commons by his guide dog Jennie, a Golden Retriever.

Hail Jennie D, a helpful dog,
No glib mendacious demagogue
No Truss or Johnson or Rees-Mogg
With toxic policies to flog!

Beneath the chamber’s verbal fog
You’ll find her sleeping like a log.