My tribute to a bunch of punks.

Hurrah! It looks like the DUP and Sinn Fein have made a grubby, self-serving, back-office deal reached out for peace and soon we'll be all back to being "governed" by the Toytown Parliament.

In honour of the return to meaningful business at our very own Happy House (aka Stormont), our two tribal chieftains, Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness, have released an updated version of the Siouxsie and Banshees classic:

This is the happy house-
We’re happy here in the happy house,
And it'll be such fun to ruin the cops,
We’ve come to play in the happy house
And waste a day on full pay and expenses
In the happy house-it never rains.

We’ve come to scream sectarian abuse in the happy house,
We’re in a dream in the happy house,
We’re all insane.

This is the happy house-we’re happy here,
There’s press-accreditation for you if you say:
"A new dawn for peace "
But don’t say "no, they're all a bunch of useless bigots"...
Or you’ll have to go,
We’ve done no wrong with our communal blinkers on,
It’s safe and calm if you sing along*.

This is the happy house-we’re happy here in the happy house.
To forget ourselves-and pretend all’s well,
There is no (except if you live beside one of the increasing number of "peace"-walls, but that's nothing to do with us. Obviously.) hell.

I'm really sorry Siouxsie:(




*To "The Sash" or "Amhrán na bhFiann", you choose.