"BPC serves a useful function as a romantic loser figure we can all sing about without there being any chance at all that anything he stood for will ever crawl back out of the swamps of history to bite us"

For a fraction of a second, I misread this as "BBC serves a useful function as a romantic loser figure we can all sing about..." For that split-second I thought you were anticipating a wealth of folk laments for Reithian values in the face of swingeing cuts to the good old Beeb.

Anyway, having now looked up the words to 'The Roses O' Prince Charlie', well, they're pretty banal. My attitude towards political songs from bygone days is generally to start by seeing what poetry's in them, first and foremost. And I can't see any in 'Roses', it's pretty dull stuff.

Unlike, say, "Ye Jacobites By Name" or "It was all for our Rightfu King", which have some great lines in them.