Tolpuddle Festival Poem
Politics Show viewers on Sunday saw Swindon Community Poet Tony Hillier composing lines on the mood amongst unionists at the Tolpuddle Festival live on air, and I said I'd put the finished composition on line.
He was pleased with it, and so were we.
Politics Show shows you
So now you know
Politics Show
shows you how it's dun
Shows ur not the only one
Who thinks that way
who pitches their tent in a Puddle, a Tolpuddle
The Politics Show letz u know
The size of the the political temperature
Is best Found where Coalitions of left wingers Count the Cost of the Cuts
Design website banners
and bandage to CUT BACK that oil slick
People FROM FAR AND WIDE
take to the streets
to the workplace
the homes
So that ACTION is taken
that will STRIKE the NATION as SENSE
NO coalition you can't cut as you like
NOW, is in the PRESENT TENTS
See Tony perform "Politics Show shows you" on the iPlayer here. It's the last thing on our live slot.
Other guests included Bob Crowe, Frances O'Grady, Lord Jim Knight and Adrian Edmondson.
Welcome to the hustings! I'm Peter Henley, the BBC's political reporter in the south of England. From parish councils in Sussex, to European politics in Oxford, this is the blog for you. 
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