Ozymandias 2010: Gordybrownias - King of Grins

Gordon Brown's statue lays broken in a Britain laid waste by Labour's debt. The hubris and nemisis of Ozymandias repeats itself in the 2010 election.
The original poem Ozymandias is spoken by John Gielgud.
Artwork by http://www.posterspoof.com (spoof poster site)
I met a traveller from a bankrupt land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:

`My name is Gordybrownias, King of Grins:
Look on my debts, ye mighty, and despair!'

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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