Hymn: "Ben" (M Jackson)
Big Ben: BONG!
MPs: We lament as we hear the last bongs from Big Ben on this last bongy day for four years.
Big Ben: BONG!
MPs: Surely our entire identity is tied up in the bonginess of these Westminster bongs.
Big Ben: BONG!
MPs: And if Big Ben bongs not, it is Health and Safety GONE MAD& © - for what is the hearing of a bunch of workmen - many of whom might not even be English - compared to our sense that there will always be an England?
Big Ben: BONG!
MPs: For if the bongs of Big Ben do not bong us out of Europe, will Brexit really be Brexit?
Big Ben: BONG!
MPs: If the 6 o'clock news on Radio 4 has just a recording, is it really the news?
Big Ben: BONG!
MPs: And if people realise that the whole Brexit exercise is a pointless exercise in failing to realise we have lost an empire and thrown away our entire purpose - will they not think we have lied to them in order to achieve a destructive, expensive, pointless exercise in vanity?
Big Ben: BONG!
MPs: Still, we stand, with heads bowed. The Empire has gone and we are just an island and a bit, on the edge of a continent, unable to accept our place in the world. Surrounded by evil foreigners.
Big Ben: BONG!
MPs: Let the French be gone - the Germans retire. Speak through recession, depression and fire... thou still small voice of ....
Big Ben: BONG!
MPS: Thou still small voice of.....
Big Ben: BONG!
Jacob Rees Mogg: Oh! There's nanny! I just need to get off for my lunch,,,
Big Ben: BONG!
Boris Johnson: Oh I say! That lady over there is rather lovely. I'd best get on my bike. Woof!
Big Ben: BONG!
David Davis: You know, with all the difficulty of Brexit on my shoulders, I'm starting to realise it's really difficult and sometimes I go home at night and I look at myself in the mirror and I...
Big Ben: BONG!
Jeremy Corbyn: Wasn't that..... ?
Diane Abbott: No, sounded like the right number to me.
Hymn: "Abide with me"
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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