Write Out Loud’s founder Julian Jordon has issued a video riposte to culture secretary Nadine Dorries’ recent TikTok foray into rap. Julian’s film, titled ‘Avoiding The Rap (with no apologies to Nadine Dorries)’ and which is available on TouTube, begins:

 

“This government’s passing some new legislation

To distract from Johnson’s shoddy situation.

As the country is not fooled by his hollow sorries,

To avoid the rap they’ve deployed Ms Dorries

 

to bluff and to bluster with her dodgy rhymes

in the hope we’ll forget her boss’s crimes.

Meanwhile the head shyster, to follow that ode,

spends his time on changing the ministerial code

 

so misleading Parliament won’t require resignation,

at least not for Boris, though the rest of the nation

must obey his laws, or find they will pay.

Not do as I do, but do as I say.”

 

Julian himself faced the challenges of delayed surgery and isolation during lockdown. He goes on:

 

“As one who adhered to the rules that he broke,

saw him and his cronies treat it all as a joke,

when my urgent surgery kept being postponed,

and without friends around, had to bear it alone.

 

His colleagues know full well what kind of man

always lies through his teeth, never carries the can.

What they know is corrupt they pretend is astute,

When what they should give him is Churchill’s salute.”

 

Why did he make this video? Julian reply was simple: “I was incensed.”

 

You can read the poem here

or watch the video here