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We Are Where We Are!

We are where we are.

We’re a planet, not a star! 

Global peace?

Carbon neutral?

It’s fair to say, 

We need to raise the bar.

Still, we are where we are.

 

Can you afford an electric car?

Is renewable energy on the way?

Which of us will be able to pay?

Who’s forking out for the cladding

On all those high-rise towers?

Where are we with H.S.2?

Someone needs to think this through!

It can’t just be left to me and you!

I would say Boris…

But as you can see that line’s incomplete, 

As he couldn’t organise a (secret) booze up

On Downing Street!

 

The levelling up plan

Hasn’t gone very far.

From where I am sitting

It has gone down the pan!

We’re still living amongst

Our post-industrial scars.

We’re in the North of England.

We are where we are!

 

 

 

 

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John Botterill

Mon 13th Jun 2022 13:04

Thanks for the likes Julie, Frederick, Clare and Aisha 😀

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John Botterill

Sun 12th Jun 2022 12:28

Well said KJ. It would take generations to even things up and we know it's a political slogan not a genuine commitment!

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kJ Walker

Sun 12th Jun 2022 08:32

When people talk of levelling up, it's as though northerners are asking for a handout.
In fact taxes raised up here are being used to fund schemes down south.

We don't need levelling up, we just need the government to stop robbing us.

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John Botterill

Sat 11th Jun 2022 09:41

Thanks Stephen. I very much appreciate your comments 😀
For all his big talk not much is actually done, is it? His sole focus is saving the big dog 😡

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Stephen Gospage

Sat 11th Jun 2022 07:56

'We are where we are' is a wonderful euphemism for ignoring all the mistakes of the past, John. Like BJ's 'move on', it seems to involve complete absolution in return for a promise to do better. I think you capture this very well in the poem.

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John Botterill

Sat 11th Jun 2022 05:22

Thanks for the likes Holden, Rose and Keith.

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