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Song Parodies -> "Reviewing The Situation (of Brexit)"

Original Song Title:

"Reviewing The Situation"

Original Performer:

Fagin (from Oliver)

Parody Song Title:

"Reviewing The Situation (of Brexit)"

Parody Written by:

Phil Alexander

The Lyrics

Well, a few months down the line, and there's still no plan for Brexit - no idea whether in a couple of years time we'll be a member in all but name (EEA membership, but free movement and inevitably some payment into the EU and no say in the rules we have to obey), or out in the cold desperately conducting a hundred lots of bilateral negotiations with every country with whom we would like trade. Maybe something in between.. who knows?
We've voted to leave... haven't we?
Though we were deceived, apparently
Because three-fifty-million a week isn't quite what it seems
If Brexit means Brexit I'm still not quite sure what that means

I'm reviewing the situation
There's more options than a simple "in or out"
What we've seen from deliberations
Leaves the UK with an existential doubt:
We're terribly perplexed, a thing
As nebulous as Brexiting
Might increase our autonomy
While blitzing our economy
It's worth making us indigent
The sovereignty of Parliament?
...I think we'd better think it out again!

So we could stay in, the E.E.A.
Is that our way in, like Norway?
That would be the softest of exits
That might be allowed
So how to get trade but not movement of people
--So how?

I'm reviewing the situation,
The Norwegian model - that's the way to go?
People voted 'gainst immigration
So the single market is a massive "NO!"
That's not what people voted for
And Leavers are not noted for
Their grasping of the subtleties
In fact they're thinking utterly
That immigration's scarier
Than any/all trade barriers
...I think we'd better think it out again.

So... WTO-- that's a thing?
What do we know? Not a thing!
Bilateral agreements are things that we haven't yet got
We'll need negotiators right now.. and we'll need a lot

I'm reviewing the situation.
If you want to trade some things must be agreed
Could be such a humiliation
If we fail to work out everything we need:
There may be tariffs, possibly,
I wonder what the loss'll be?
A downer for the GDP
So that'll make the greedy be
Somewhat irate, and irritate
The good and great, and rich..but wait!
...I think we'd better think it out again.

What happens when we finally leave?
Will there come a time...that we leave?
When all's done and we're gone and the old Brexit voters have died
One more referendum... well, maybe that ought to be tried?

I'm reviewing the situation.
It's a fuckup and a fuckup it remains
Coming years of "aggravation"
That's E.U.-phemism for a fucking pain
Don't ask this hopeless man to go
We don't yet have a plan to go
Yet soft or hard we'll say to go
They may yet make us pay to go
We do not know which way to go
Some want Theresa May to go
The Brexiteers we seem to find
They want it hard, and from behind
...I think we'd better think it out again!

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Mark Darling - December 12, 2016 - Report this comment
Marks off for using profanity. It should be beneath you, Phil. 4-4-4
John Jenkins - December 12, 2016 - Report this comment
This original song is a great vehicle for parodies and this, for the most part, is an amazing parody. The rhyming is outstanding, but I tend to agree with Mark Darling that the last verse could have been more creative.

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