While the Conservatives change leaders like dirty underwear, foisting random idiots on the rest of us, the British public look on aghast.
Are these the promised Tory 'sunlit uplands'?
Yes – I know – poetry again this week but then – I am a
poet and this is what we do in times of trauma…
Where are those sunlit uplands?
Loony Liz and Kwasi
Dream team of our era
With the joint intellect of half a slug
The apocalypse draws nearer
Let’s frack our way to doomsday
While hedge fund managers revel
What’s trickling down isn't wealth my friend
But manna to the devil
Never mind turds in waterways
Floods or eco devastation
Lizz is her own universe
And screw the poor of the nation
Popularity with the uber rich
Is the only thing that matters
And never mind that the country
Is ruined and in tatters
Cameron, Osborne, Johnson, May
Mogg,
Kwarteng, Patel (etc)
Promised sunlit uplands
While steering us to hell…
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AND - while we cannot expect impartiality - especially from the state broadcaster the BBC - now in the hands of Richard Sharp - huge Tory donor and previous advisor to top Tories Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak before Sharp was gifted the powerful previously a-political position of BBC Chair - in other countries - the dots have been joined up by savvy commentators e.g. MSNBC
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Plus - its artists support at Bandcamp Friday again this week so do also check out my environmental epic poem on audio Casey & the Surfmen