Tough Guys

To regulate the British Press
Would take a statesman brave,
And staunch beneath tabloid duress,
And rather unlike Dave.

The British Press must always stay
Cantankerous and free,
Beneath the toothless grinning sway
Of warmed-up PCC.

For Dave's a chum of Michael Gove,
Who's one of Rupert's monkeys;
And Jerry Hunt, that little love,
And suchlike gormless flunkeys.

And, speaking of Nick Clegg and co.,
Of fragrant reputation,
Will they not let the Murdochs know
Their proper, lower station?

Of course not. Nicky still has pride
In what he is about:
Why should he take the victims' side
When he could sell them out?

To regulate the British Press
Is quite a parlous trick,
Requiring something more or less
Completely unlike Nick.

Boggler Gloogh