POLITICS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 57, 2 December 1946, Page 4

POLITICS

Some M.P.s sit on treasury benches, Opposing M.P.s do not;

Feeling twixt the ons and offs, Waxes intensely hot; Out of office M.P.s say that moneys being fooled away, That may cause a serious situation, And eventually ruin the nation; Politicians don’t spend;money in the • ordinary way, They administrate the boodle 'after a lot to say About overhead expenses, difficult

financial fences To negotiate with care, a disaster to

spare; Meanwhile the Opposition, full charged with intention* Refuses to ad'mit things are 0.K.,

And by persistant barrage, stalls the Parliamentary carriage, Which they propose to drive another

way; So disruption and’ confusion, delays

. the desired fusion Of ideas, to get sane reason’s lamp alight, . ’ Theri the speaker solemnly declares It’s time the members said their

prayers, And closed their weary peepers for the night; So history keeps repeating Parliamentarians competition For seats upon the monotary benches; Till its time to close the session, to obviate obsession, And give M.P.s a breathing space, to run the electioneering race. So Parliaments will come and go, and give the Devil a chance to share, His gift to manufacture woe; >' But truth will conquer in the end, the Divine and Human mind will blend Into a humatarian scheme, beyond the ablest statesman’s dream, When politics are laid aside, and into oblivion we glide; God’s Eddystone securely stands, An edifice not built with hands,

An everlasting kindly Tight, To guide lone mariners through the night.

H. SERGANT.