Tag: Politics
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Back tae the Lan’
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The government cries “Back to the land” to encourage local farming but, sadly, people seem to prefer to import cheaper and inferior foreign food.
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Raising school fees
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A satirical verse about the recent government policy gesture of providing more heating in country schools. Published in the Mearns Leader newspaper. Apart from the title and first line, this is the same verse as the handwritten verse Raising the Skweel Age.
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Snowden an’ me
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In the summer of 1931, the government had been gripped by a political and financial crisis as the value of the pound and its place on the Gold Standard came under threat. This satirical verse is about Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald asking people to trust him and Viscount Snowden, the Chancellor of the Exchequer to…