A Modern Day Vicar of Bray

In seventy, when Health took charge,

EU was just UK writ large;

I favoured it like all the rest

Of Heath supporters, as the best

Way to move and join the crowd;

To be a Tory made me proud.

When Harold Wilson came along,

I sang a very different song;

Now Labour was the one for me,

And surely everyone could see                   

How good they were, right from the start –

They had the people’s needs at heart.

Things changed in Maggie Thatcher’s time –

I thought the Tories were sublime;

Everything they sought to do

Was in accord with my own view.

She was a hero in my sight,

And everything she did was right.

When Tony Blair came through the door

I knew the party to adore;

New Labour was the future way –

My fervour for them grew each day.

The other parties were the past -

New Labour had arrived at last.

But times can change, and governments too,

And twenty ten brought into view

Cameron’s Tories; along with them

The party of Nick Clegg – Lib Dem.

Coalitions, I now saw,

Were something we could do with more.

But then, of course, things changed again,

As were elected different men;

The Lib Dems almost ceased to be –

Of coalitions we were free.

I was a Tory, staunch and true,

Nothing else except true blue.