The Year Harold Wilson "Saved My Ass"


By Ed Crane
Tue, 10 Jan 2023
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Could it be he was a pacifist?
We will never know.
But he wasn’t gonna be
Johnson’s pet.
Using the right kind of words
he pacified
and created a war within.
In the face of the CND wheel
the man with the pipe stood ground.
Forget about pacifism
face up to realism:
"You don’t kick creditors in the balls."
But we can’t afford to print draft papers.
And we lived to tell the tale,
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Harold Wilson kept us out of
Harold Wilson kept us out of the Vietnam war. If Tony Blair had half his gumption he'd have kept us out of the Iraq war.
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