{"id":18685,"date":"2019-08-23T14:17:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T13:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=18685"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:55:37","slug":"unites-joy-johnson-reworks-ickle-me-pickle-me-on-the-absurdity-of-the-current-brexit-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=18685","title":{"rendered":"Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too,<\/p>\n<p>The Tories have staged<\/p>\n<p>a twenty first century coup<\/p>\n<p>He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only in Downing Street because of a few<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too<\/p>\n<p>Wielding the axe to the Cabinet we knew<\/p>\n<p><em>deal or no deal<\/em> <em>we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re leaving the EU<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Said Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ickle was captain, Pickle was crew,<\/p>\n<p>And Tickle served coffee to MPs in a stew<\/p>\n<p>As higher<\/p>\n<p>And higher<\/p>\n<p>And higher they flew<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too<\/p>\n<p>Over the sun and beyond the blue<\/p>\n<p>Hold on!<\/p>\n<p>Stay in!<\/p>\n<p>As remainers are desperate to do<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too<\/p>\n<p>Never cared for the Europe we all knew,<\/p>\n<p><em>Do or die<\/em> <em>we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re leaving the EU<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So if you see the Prime Minister<\/p>\n<p>Flying towards a disaster<\/p>\n<p>Recklessly, mercilessly forcing it through<\/p>\n<p>Let Boris Johnson hear you<\/p>\n<p>And just say boo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c2\u00a0This Shel Silverstein poem has been adapted by Joy Johnson, Unite political department, after her 12 year old granddaughter recited the original. She says, &#8220;it struck me that it was as absurd as the political situation is now so I reworked it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too, The Tories have staged a twenty first century coup He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only in Downing Street because of a few &nbsp; Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too Wielding the axe to the Cabinet we knew deal or no deal we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re leaving the EU Said Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1205,486,1187,44],"wps_subtitle":"Unite's Joy Johnson reworks 'Ickle Me Pickle Me' on the 'absurdity' of the current Brexit situation ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25068,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18685\/revisions\/25068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}