From the Trussian Anthology
i
Liz Truss
Can she be trusted? Discuss.
My advice is
Don’t trust Liz.
ii
Elizabeth Truss, Elizabeth Truss
threw her first Chancellor under the bus;
her second’s preparing without any fuss
the bus to reverse on Elizabeth Truss.
iii
I never saw the Herm in Merton
though others have – that much is certain.
Perhaps, although it’s no Three Graces,
the fact it’s furnished with two faces
Alumna Liz might find divertin’
now Britain’s gone for a bloody Burton.
iv
When your flush is truly bust
When your faction turns to dust
When you must do what you must
Then you have been fully Trussed.
(Although, due to the dense amnesiac fog that has gathered around the Trussian era, no-one can now definitively identify the authors of any verses from this impossibly distant period, scholars have putatively ascribed the following names to the verses above: i. Andy Jackson; ii Ian Duhig; iii. WN Herbert; iv. George Szirtes.)
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