Goodbye Boris, Goodbye Liz, Hello Rishi!

Goodbye Boris, Goodbye Liz, Hello Rishi!

I have to say
as an Irish person
how proud and honored I am
that the United Kingdom has appointed a prime minister
whose first name is an anagram of “Irish”;
I know we and the English have had our troubles in the past
Troubles with a capital T
(the Plantation of Ulster…don’t get me started)
but the English are subtle people
not given to public displays of emotion
and this gesture is quintessentially English in its subtlety
it’s as if they are saying thank you for Father Ted
it brings a tear to my eye
it takes the oatmeal biscuit
so “Hello Rishi”
as they say in Ireland
“buachaill inniu, fear amarach”
or loosely translated from the Gaelic
“I hope your politics change soon”.

Taking part in OpenLink over at dverse

Photo : statue of Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square, Dublin.

19 thoughts on “Goodbye Boris, Goodbye Liz, Hello Rishi!”

msjadeli October 25, 2022 at 4:39 pm

So neat you pointed out the name. Hope things will take a turn for the better there.

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Tim Rice October 25, 2022 at 11:53 pm

Great stuff, Jim !
Never copped the anagram.
Didn’t realize you still had the cúpla focal.
All the best from Dublin.

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sdtp33 Post authorOctober 27, 2022 at 4:11 pm

Thanks Tim, they are among the few words I remember and I had to look up one of them!

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memadtwo October 26, 2022 at 5:15 am

We are all hoping that from our own vantage points all over the world. (K)

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rothpoetry October 27, 2022 at 5:25 pm

An interesting write on your political situation. The irony did not go unnoticed.

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sdtp33 Post authorNovember 1, 2022 at 5:00 pm

Thanks Dwight!

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1. rothpoetry November 1, 2022 at 7:08 pm
  
  You are welcome!
  
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Ron. October 27, 2022 at 6:22 pm

Oh I hadn’t noticed the anagram, so that was (in itself) worth the read, but the whole damned poem is beyond merely good. Outstanding. And I read it out to My Beloved Sandra (of extremely Irish heritage) and she loves it too. Thanks

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sdtp33 Post authorNovember 1, 2022 at 4:59 pm

That’s great Ron, glad you and Sandra enjoyed the poem! JIM

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poetisatinta October 28, 2022 at 7:29 am

Hi, this made me laugh, the whole situation is a farce – if it wasn’t so serious – you couldn’t write it, unfortunately here in Wales, we don’t have Independence….yet 🙂

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