Well to me it read like the satire was aimed at the US political/media electoral circus.

And at the "Religious" Right - which should always be written with inverted commas, since so much of what they seem to stand for and try to associate with Christianity is totally at odds which the Beatitudes.

We don't have Sydney Carter songs on the DT, because of some hassle with his American publishers (probably down to Michael Flatley's bastardisation of the Lord of the Dance), but here's one anyway which sums it up pretty well:

Who'll be the lady
Who will be the lord
When we are ruled by the love of one another
Who'll be the lady
Who will be the lord
In the light that is coming in the morning

Sing John Ball and tell it to them all
Long live the day that is dawning
And I'll crow like a cock,
I'll carol like the dove
In the light that is coming in the morning.

Eve is the lady,
Adam is the lord,
When we are ruled by the love of one another
Adam is the lord,
In the light that is coming in the morning

Sing John Ball and tell it to them all
Long live the day that is dawning
And I'll crow like a cock,
I'll carol like the dove
In the light that is coming in the morning.

Labour and spin
In fellowship I say
Labour and spin in the love of one another
Labour and spin
In fellowship I say
In the light that is coming in the morning

Sing John Ball and tell it to them all
Long live the day that is dawning
And I'll crow like a cock,
I'll carol like the dove
In the light that is coming in the morning.

All shall be ruled
In fellowship I say
All shall be ruled in the love of one another
All shall be ruled
In fellowship I say
In the light that is coming in the morning

Sing John Ball and tell it to them all
Long live the day that is dawning
And I'll crow like a cock,
I'll carol like the dove
In the light that is coming in the morning.

I know someone who used to join enthusiastically in that one, and thought it was John Paul, not John Ball, the priest from Thaxted in Essex who was executed from his part in the Peasant's Revolt. And at times it could indeed be John Paul (which doesn't mean I think he's on the ball all the time, but who is?)

But I can't see it fitting in with the agenda of the "Religious" Right so far as I can see. But then I'm a long way away. Maybe they're being misrepresented...