Following the poet laureate's interesting choice of the acrostic (a form usually used in introducing 7-year-olds to the very basics of the structure of poetry) for the recent QEII dedication - I have indulged in one for this government. I am more than happy to apply similar levels of consideration and creative input as Armitage…
I also hope it may be a eulogy for the Truss Tory government...
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Government of the DAMNED
D-list
players
Avaricious
in the extreme
Mad
and deluded
Nasty
through the seam
Entitled
but so empty they are
Dangerous
– dangerous - dangerous
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Three posts ago I referred to the summer’s insult to
democracy - Tory race to the bottom leadership event – as a ‘stupid stupidity’
contest. Since last week’s pound-crashing/humanity crushing/ community-crippling
non-budget budget – that seems like a massive understatement.
While Putin is razing Ukraine to the ground, doing a
fair job of trashing Russia and threatening nuclear Armageddon, I suppose we at
least should be grateful that Truss is only trashing her own country...
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