Woman, "work" is your mission Forget about the little sods! Keep, oh, keep the cheque book open Rule them with an iron rod! All true thinkers of our ages Are by mother-love repelled; For the State can rock the cradle Now New Labour rules the world!

Mother, Infancy's the tender fountain, Power may with beauty roll, The State can guide the streamlets, Mother please get off the dole -- Grow them in our child facilities, Sunshine streamed or evil hurled; For the State can rock the cradle Now New Labour rules the world. Blessings on the hand of women! Harriet Harman my dear does cry, "Quality childcare" is mingled With the workshop coming nigh-- Mingles where no excuse darkens, "Opportunities" now are hurled; For the State can rock the cradle Now New Labour rules the world! Your affectionate son, Gordon

Satirical Card of the Week 20th March 1998 Gordon Brown's Mothers Day Card. A post budget poem on women, mothers and New Labour. "Opportunities ..to work, backed up by more help with quality childcare". Submitted by William Ross Wallace