I have for a very long time maintained that there is no real difference between the political parties. Again it has come to pass, but this time with the Labour Party. Now we have a bunch of politicians drying to depose their leader; the very same one that had not all that long ago been elected by the majority of party members. The contempt for democracy that politicians of whatever persuasion appear to show, calls to mind a little ditty that was published in London in 1725. It describes the rivalry between two composers and their respective opera companies:
Some say next to Bononcini
Mineherr Handel's but a ninny.
Others aver that he to Handel
Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.
Strange all this difference should be
'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Needless to say, Handel wasn't best pleased by this poem. In fact he got the right hump about it.
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