Haiku for 2025 [No.19. Bigots]
Great British Numpties,
Snouts in troughs of ignorance.
Sweet summer of bliss!
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh June 2nd 2025
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Mon 2nd Jun 2025 10:16
Good morning Uilleam,
Your haiku "Bigots [No.19]" struck me with its sharp brevity and biting wit. The red initials G, B, and N didn’t go unnoticed—they instantly brought GB News to mind, and the clever wordplay in Great British Numpties made the critique land all the harder. It’s a perfect satirical twist on the kind of nationalist branding that so often goes unchallenged.
The image of "snouts in troughs of ignorance" is both grotesque and poetic. It paints a vivid picture of willful blindness, of people who not only accept ignorance but gorge on it—nourished by fear, prejudice, and media that panders to their narrow views. That you managed to distill this into just seventeen syllables is a testament to your craft.
The final line, "Sweet summer of bliss!", reads to me as beautifully sarcastic—there’s peace, sure, but it’s the peace of those lulled into complacency by their own misinformation. It’s as if ignorance has become their vacation, their reward. That tension between apparent calm and underlying decay makes the haiku resonate all the more.
Thank you for this piece—precise, political, poetic. A small poem with a loud voice.
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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Wed 4th Jun 2025 13:00
Thanks for your likes, Aisha and your comment, Rolph.
My haiku is a reference to the proverb: “Ignorance is bliss, where ‘tis folly to be wise”.
The future of social cohesion, and of fact – based journalism in the UK is looking grim. A man who, it’s said, owns 42 percent of Numpty News, and who is worth £630 million, is apparently intent on buying vast swathes of the Tory press.
The same individual has liked numerous tweets such as “The native European population is losing patience with the fake refugee invaders”. It’s clear from his “likes” that he’s a rabid homphobe and an Islamophobe.
Hope not Hate are rightly concerned about his activities.