Poor old Gordon Brown. While everybody in the UK political playground makes merry hell, a-whispering and a-bitching that Jack Straw has bigger and better Commons cojones, over in the land of the free, it is all very different. But while Barack has his Obama Girl, our PM has nary a D:Ream.

The latest of Obama’s musical champions comes in the form of calypso champion Mighty Sparrow, who has compositioned this delightful slice of political pop. It has a masterful way with the phrasing, and is guaranteed to put a smile on your face WHILE AT THE SAME TIME telling you lots of serious things about war, universal health care and disenfranchisement. If that is indeed a word. This writer stopped going to her politics seminars after some worthy twit bleated that ‘People are dying out there, man’. War is bad, Readers, in case you had forgotten.

Of course, something like this is never going to happen to Our Leader. There is no Gordon Brown grime banger on the horizon, celebrating his parliamentary skillz. But if you hear of one, please alert us immediately.

Mighty Sparrow: Barack The Magnificent

Barack The Magnificent (lyrics)