Winners

(Picture Credit - DUP Leader Arlene Foster by BBC)

The UK General Election has run its course.

A “win” for the Conservative Tories

With most votes and seats

Though they lost their parliamentary Majority,

And can only govern

By doing a deal with the Northern Irish DUP

Who oppose the rights of gays and women

And want to bring back hanging.

Yet Labour too are celebrating a win:

Halving the gap between the Tories and themselves

And winning loads of votes and seats.

OK they finished fifty odd seats behind,

But hey!

And then the Libdems “won” four more seats.

Plus The Greens held Brighton by a merry mile.

The Scottish Nationalists still got thirty five seats,

In spite of Nicola Sturgeon calling for

Another referendum on independence.

Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland got more seats too.

And the Welsh limited their damage by Labour.

“Winners” all, except for UKIP.

That’s politics.

Until the next election.

Which might be fairly soon.

Paul Butters