Hobhouse and Burdett are the dandy, o

In 1819 John Cam Hobhouse (Broughton) contested the parliamentary seat of Westminster, which had become vacant after the suicide of Sir Samuel Romilly. He stood as a radical, supported by his father and by Sir Francis Burdett, but was defeated on 3 March by the whig George Lamb, who is also mentioned in the text of the ballads. Hobhouse and Burdett are the dandy, o - first line reads: Come, push o…