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Screwed!

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But sir, it wasn’t us, that’s so unfair!

We’ve only been in power for thirteen years,

It was those nasty Europeans, there,

Made of Britannia such a great pig’s ear.

It wasn't Hunt spelled with a C who wrote

That pamphlet saying “Kill the NHS”,

It was those forinners in small rubber boats,

That made the UK an omnishambolic mess.

Oh look at that, a dead cat in the street!

Ignore those corrupt sods in the House of Lords,

Those scrounging nurses; my, how they do bleat!

Those sick folk, how they block up all the wards!

It’s not our fault our beaches are open sewers,

That our inland waterways are full of turds,

That forinners now can’t get work as veggie pickers,

That our exports to the EU are down by two thirds.

Nothing’s our fault: it’s the EU taking revenge!

They’re plotting to make us all eat magic mushrooms

We’ll be eating straight bananas at Stonehenge,

While that elephant roams around our living room.

Welcome to J.R. Moggy’s sunlit uplands,

It’s all too bloody good to be true,

Don’t you just wish you had him as a husband,

So like the UK, you could be well and truly screwed?

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◄ Tory Haiku

Led By Donkeys Sting! ►

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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Sat 25th Mar 2023 11:31

Re Old Testament question:
"Am I my brother's keeper?" Genesis 4,King James Version

9 And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

My Answer: I most certainly am my brothers'-and my sisters' keeper.

Another answer in the New Testament:

"When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
35 One of them, an expert in Moses’ Teachings, tested Jesus by asking,

36 “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in Moses’ Teachings?”

37 Jesus answered him, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

38 This is the greatest and most important commandment.

39 The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as you love yourself.’

40 All of Moses’ Teachings and the Prophets depend on these two commandments.”

Just saying!
Hope that clarifies my position on social justice.
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M.C. Newberry

Fri 24th Mar 2023 17:04

Trevor Homer cites WB Yeats' poem "The Second Coming"
when referring to me as "the ever populist" (please enlarge on
that term if you can). It is a poem I too consider relevant to
the modern age for a variety of reasons. However, these are
not restricted to the rightful desire of a nation state to act in its
own interests when others do not. TH might refer
to the question posed in the Bible: Am I my brother's keeper?
A poet's style and perceived ability are indeed relevant when
commenting, but so is the content and intent of the material.
That's surely always an integral part of criticism or praise - and
an essential aspect of debate in poetry.

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Stephen Gospage

Fri 24th Mar 2023 17:02

I also enjoyed this poem very much (my previous comment was perhaps a little glib).
The Smogg's obscene views (e.g. on abortion rights) have to be challenged on every occasion.

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trevor homer

Fri 24th Mar 2023 16:00

Been a while since I visited this site - I remember when it used to critique one's work; - now it criticises the poets credentials.
I wonder what our Mr Sherwood and the ever-populist Mr Newberry would make of W.H Auden's 'Refugee Blues' or W.B Yeats 'Second Coming'?

I like this piece and it's sentiment - keep telling it like it is. Thanks

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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Fri 24th Mar 2023 10:04

MC.
Your observation that there's not a fag paper's difference between the two major parties is correct.
T. Bliar's appearance on the scene with his gleaming toothy smile, and Thatcher's approval of him for continuing the destruction of the NHS turned my stomach; the Starmerite "New Labour" party equally so.

Starmer's abject cowardice in the face of the current attacks on women's rights is a disgrace. What Britain needs now is true socialism, as opposed to anti-socialism.

By what set of ethics can it be justified that raw sewage floods the UK's inland waterways and coast, and that railway staff are choosing between heating or eating, while company executives of those bodies are hiving off billions of pounds to the Cayman Islands?

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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Fri 24th Mar 2023 08:52

Thanks to all for comments and likes.

Graham. I can assure you that I do not think managing is easy...that's one of the reasons I never studied for my promotion exams, and was constantly berated for not being "keen"; "impostor syndrome" or something?

The f*cked up state of the UK is not down to "mistakes", but due to very well managed policies.

As early as 2005 or so, Jeremy Hunt's NHS policy book: 'Direct Democracy: An Agenda For A New Model Party' called for the "denationalisation" of the NHS, and for it to be replaced by an insurance market system. That is now being enacted.

It was co-authored by Tories Kwasi Kwarteng, Michael Gove, Douglas Carswell, Daniel Hannan and Greg Clark.

The destruction of every last vestige of the UK's "welfare state" and of the public services is the primary aim of the Tory party; it's nothing to do with "feckless teen mums" or "people in small boats" as the Murdoch client press would have the gullible believe.

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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Thu 23rd Mar 2023 13:29

"...gobbledegook that is de riguer among the chattering lasses"

A pretty accurate description of some so-called "News" and current affairs programmes...Sorry ladies!

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Graham Sherwood

Thu 23rd Mar 2023 10:14

I've worked with many people over the course of my career, at one time managing a team of thirty managers and nearly four hundred staff. In my experience the biggest critics of 'how things are done' were usually the ones that made the biggest 'f*ck-ups for me to sort out!

Everyone thinks that 'managing' is easy, everyone that is who have never managed so much as a fart! I am convinced we will have a new labour government after the next election debacle and I am further convinced that they will 'f*ck it up yet again.

All change!!!

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Stephen Gospage

Thu 23rd Mar 2023 07:48

Yes, it's blame and shame! Nothing to do with us, mate.

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 22nd Mar 2023 22:19

I do not dispute the abject failure of today's Conservative and
Unionist Party to be recognised as its former self as the Party
of Middle England and Noblesse Oblige. The malaise seems
generational and interestingly commensurate with the global
gobbledegook that is de riguer among the chattering lasses.
Parliament is widely ridiculed and rejected for being way out of
touch with the people it supposedly represents and it is often
reported with much justifucation that there isn't a fag paper;s
worth of difference between the two major parties and their
policies - or lack of them. It has been said that cynicism is the
last resort of idealism. There is much truth in that observation.
The arena of Politics is its foremost battleground.

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