25 JANUARY 1975, Page 5

Lobby Lyrics-11

When Cedric Higginbotham fought The last election, he besought His voters not to be misled By anything the Tories said, For workers, in demanding more, Did nothing to make prices soar And surely anyone could see How strong was the economy; And all of this he knows is true Because his leaders said it too.

But what poor Cedric can't quite see Is why those leaders now should be Exhorting us, with faces glum, To scrimp and save to overcome A so-called crisis, that is all Imagination, and forestall Catastrophes that can't arise Because they're only Tory lies. Ogilvy Lane