From Sietse

Parties

Isn’t it funny how the names
Of parties over time change meaning
Indicating subtle change
Of choices made, and of the leaning

Way back when, Republican
Meant progress, new ideas and such
An openness of mind to things
But now, it doesn’t matter much

Back in England, old Disraeli
Desired a party of the masses
One whose forthright slogans could
Transcend the dogma of the classes

Alas successors misconstrued
The meaning of his message plain
And nowadays Conservative
Means “You keep yours, and I’ll keep meyhn.”


Drawing "the end of an empire" from Sietse Hoeksma aka RAEL MAIL.

Text from Winston, a Brit living in Belgium.