SIMPLE WHEN YOU KNOW

Press, 14 April 1984, Page 18

SIMPLE WHEN YOU KNOW

By

WHIM WHAM

The absence of three Ministers on medical grounds is putting no undue pressure on their Cabinet colleagues . . . “We operate a number short from time to time and there is no pressure in the sense that we cannot handle it.” — Sir Robert Muldoon.

When Ministers aren’t on Duty, What must the Problems be? How does the Government govern? Business as Usual, said He. We could manage with Half a Dozen Or as few as Two or Three — The Quorum isn’t significant, So long as One of them’s Me! But what if you’re needed in Paris, Or in Washington, D.C., Or No. 10 Downing Street, holding Hands with Maggie T? Oh, I simply pick up the Telephone To Wellington, ISD — From the old Savoy or the Waldorf, Wherever I happen to be — Just Me and Jim, whether I call him Or he calls Me—- — all the Same in the Cabinet When I say we All agree — We hang together, not One of us Wants to hang separately! And what of the Press, the Media, All that Fiddle-de-dee? Oh, couldn’t I teach them a Thing or two About how to be Free — Just pay their Rent and remember The Rent’s what I decree! *