21 FEBRUARY 1969, Page 10

Up Jenkins

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS

Through streets broad and narrow Sir Gerald Nabarro Cries 'Jenkins, up Jenkins, alive—alive—o' Though he certainly hinted The forms had been printed It seems beyond doubt it cannot have been so.

Yet he sings his glad ditty 'God damn the Committee, God damn the Committee, its crabs and its cracks.'

Whatever they're brewing, He'll say it's his doing If the end of it all is they don't raise the tax.