Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that.

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Sitters versus standers

A critical debate

It happened in the Orkneys

And this is how it went.

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You have to stand while speaking

Or so convention says

But someone raised a motion

That claimed the right to sit.

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The Chamber was divided

Provoking great debate.

The Standers would not stand for it

Opposed the right to sit.

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A Councillor cited Churchill

He bothered to leave his seat

To make his famous speeches

“We’ll fight them on the beach”.

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It’s a lowering of standards

The Councillor expressed

Just what he predicted

When biscuits were allowed.

Tea and coffee, custard creams!

Standards had collapsed.

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The Sitters scorn his argument

Why take it lying down

They stand up for the right to sit

Declaiming with a frown.

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Why can’t they sit in comfort?

It shows no disrespect.

Who thinks that the electorate

Are bothered by all that?

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They had a heated argument

Then put it to a vote.

The Sitters won 11-9

The right to sit and speak.

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There’s reasons why we do things

And reasons why they change

But ‘because we always have done’

Is no reason not to change

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So here’s to all the Sitters

Who stood up for their rights.

Sit up and pay attention

To the right to stay sat down.