The 'antics' of the Legal Services Commission (LSC) have prompted Ian Henery, one of Obiter's favourite solicitor poets and managing partner of Wolverhampton-based criminal law firm Ian Henery & Co, to take up the pen once more. Author of the now legendary 'Marilyn the Mermaid' (see [2004] Gazette, 2 September, 13), Mr Henery has written to his local MP, Richard Shepherd, about the LSC, enclosing a new poem called Batman, where are you now? A good question, readers will agree. Mr Henery asked Mr Shepherd to pass the letter on to Conservative leader Michael Howard, but thankfully he has also copied us - and the Gazette's readership - in.


'We urgently need you here


Batman!


It's scary! There is much to fear!


Batman!


The government is taxing us to death,


From birth to our last breath;


It's all gone! There is nothing left!


Batman!


Not another term of Tony Blair!


Batman!


He has the sense of Rupert Bear!


Batman!


We don't want Camilla for Queen.


She has the grace of a baked bean.


It's disgusting!


It's obscene!


Batman.


I want government to have credibility


Batman!


Not stuffed with self righteous hypocrisy,


Batman!


Where are you, now, Dark Knight,


Look into the sky, see the Bat Light?


Rescue us, make everything right


Batman!


There is disillusionment all around,


Batman!


Pick our pieces from the ground,


Batman!


We all want you as our BatKing,


Give Catwoman your Batring,


Peace and happiness you will Batbring


Batman!'