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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
MAD PARADE (Smokestack Books, £7.99) by Nottingham bus driver Neil Fulwood is a collection of white-hot political satirical poems taking the piss out of some of the knaves and fools who parade their poisonous egos across the stage — like Blair, Johnson, Farage, Robinson, Starmer and Trump.
Turning his attention to “the relevance, integrity and political impact” of Change UK (remember them?), Fulwood gives us an empty page.
There is a great sequence imagining Johnson as the Fat Controller in a reboot of Thomas the Tank Engine, and Starmer as a character in Camberwick Green.
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