She's secretly in love with a right-wing Tory Boy, but she has to compete with his adulation of Margaret Thatcher. She wishes Thatcher would come back to power, so Tory Boy would be happy, and she could explore being a laissez-faire capitalist.
Trying to get into the right-wing mood, she says she likes the "free days with no expectations", clearly a metaphor for the free market, and that she likes it "my way with no limitations", which refers to the new right ideology of individualism and unregulated capitalism. But still, she can't overcome her natural left-wing, liberal instincts, and can't help but "despise" Tory Boy for his political beliefs, even as she loves him.
In the next verse, she says "Darling you will always be around'. At first glance, this would seem to refer to Alistair Darling, chancellor of the exchequer from 2007 to 2010, and his ubiquitous presence in the media due to his status as a senior political figure. However, Darling was a Labour MP and, although New Labour moved considerably closer to a Thatcherite ideology, it seems unlikely that Alistair Darling is quite as enamoured with Margaret as the unnamed object of the songwriter's affections.
It seems more likely that the actual subject of the song is Captain Darling, from TV's Blackadder. Despite being a fictional character from a show set in the early 20th century, Darling's status as an upwardly-mobile middle-class member of the officers, clearly identifies him as a proto-Thatcherite. Furthermore, the constant repeats of Blackadder on G.O.L.D. and other freeview channels explains why he will "Always be around, whether my mood's up or if it's down".
The final clue to Darling being a fictional character is how the songwriter dreams of "taking him far away". Far away from the horrors of the WW1 battlefields that eventually claim his character's life. Why can't she take him far away in real life? Because in real life he's just a figure on a TV screen, played by Tim McInnerny. And he won't stay because when she wakes up, he's back where he was on TV. She could take Tim McInnerny far away, but that wouldn't be the same.
She's secretly in love with a right-wing Tory Boy, but she has to compete with his adulation of Margaret Thatcher. She wishes Thatcher would come back to power, so Tory Boy would be happy, and she could explore being a laissez-faire capitalist.
Trying to get into the right-wing mood, she says she likes the "free days with no expectations", clearly a metaphor for the free market, and that she likes it "my way with no limitations", which refers to the new right ideology of individualism and unregulated capitalism. But still, she can't overcome her natural left-wing, liberal instincts, and can't help but "despise" Tory Boy for his political beliefs, even as she loves him.
In the next verse, she says "Darling you will always be around'. At first glance, this would seem to refer to Alistair Darling, chancellor of the exchequer from 2007 to 2010, and his ubiquitous presence in the media due to his status as a senior political figure. However, Darling was a Labour MP and, although New Labour moved considerably closer to a Thatcherite ideology, it seems unlikely that Alistair Darling is quite as enamoured with Margaret as the unnamed object of the songwriter's affections.
It seems more likely that the actual subject of the song is Captain Darling, from TV's Blackadder. Despite being a fictional character from a show set in the early 20th century, Darling's status as an upwardly-mobile middle-class member of the officers, clearly identifies him as a proto-Thatcherite. Furthermore, the constant repeats of Blackadder on G.O.L.D. and other freeview channels explains why he will "Always be around, whether my mood's up or if it's down".
The final clue to Darling being a fictional character is how the songwriter dreams of "taking him far away". Far away from the horrors of the WW1 battlefields that eventually claim his character's life. Why can't she take him far away in real life? Because in real life he's just a figure on a TV screen, played by Tim McInnerny. And he won't stay because when she wakes up, he's back where he was on TV. She could take Tim McInnerny far away, but that wouldn't be the same.