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SCROUNGERS!

We all pay out for their second homes,

we pay their electric bills,

even Osborne’s horse paddock

and any number of frills.

We paid for Miller’s parents’ house,

for Duncan Smith’s underwear,

for his 39 pound breakfast

and they preach to us of ‘fair’!

 

We subsidise their consumption

at restaurant and bar

while some of us are hungry,

our money don’t go far.

Irrelevant how much it costs,

they charge us all like drips,

anything from a mansion

to ruddy paper clips!

 

We subsidise corporate bosses

to dish out lousy wages,

we pay some corrupt landlords

to rent out rabbit cages!

Our money goes to the bankers,

they really bleed us dry

with their big fat bonuses;

what’s left for you and I?

 

We are being told who to blame

but the guilty sector is which?

Just who are the REAL scroungers?

Why, it has to be the rich!

◄ Haiku: Easter weather

Panama scandal and atrocities of government ►

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Lynn Dye

Wed 6th Apr 2016 22:23

Hi Jemima - thanks for the encouragement - I needed a little push, ha ha.
Actually, I can't help wondering if I am actually less shocked about the Panama papers than most. This is because I have known about a lot of it for some years from blogs I've read online, but of course fresh evidence has brought it all to a head, and rightly so too.


Hi Patricia and Stef, I think that's a good suggestion for a title, but seeing as the poem I came up with was on a couple of other issues as well as the Panama papers, I chose something else.
Well, after all, I couldn't have you asking for royalties, could I? Ha ha ha. Thanks guys x

<Deleted User> (6895)

Wed 6th Apr 2016 17:18

yep! defo! we go with J.J. on her idea-our suggestion for a title should you have go would be along the lines of......

'keeping it in the family'.....eh what!?


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Jemima Jones

Wed 6th Apr 2016 09:13

Lynn,you must do a poem on this 'Panama papers' scandal.Can you believe how bloody hard faced these people are,even after being exposed! grrrr! Thank you.Jemima.

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Lynn Dye

Tue 5th Apr 2016 22:53

Cheers, Tommy, thanks for your kind comments.

Actually, I wondered if it would have sounded better if I had sworn, lol, particularly about those paper clips! :o)

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Tommy Carroll

Tue 5th Apr 2016 17:09

...and you didn't even swear, well done. You'll expect me to like this work Lynn and I do. Tommy

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Lynn Dye

Mon 4th Apr 2016 21:52

Cheers for the like, Steve :-)

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Lynn Dye

Mon 4th Apr 2016 21:52

Hello Harry
Thank you for your lovely compliment.

As for the Panama stuff, yes, you have a point, I think another poem may be coming on soon!

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Harry O'Neill

Mon 4th Apr 2016 15:17

Lynn,

I`m waiting to see what you do with all this Panama stuff
coming out...go for them Girl!

(Great to see that lovely hair-style so often again)

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Lynn Dye

Sun 3rd Apr 2016 22:42

Thank you for your kind comments, Jemima, and I completely agree about those conferences.

Jemima Jones

Sun 3rd Apr 2016 21:56

" we subsidise their consumption at restaurant and bar"
too right Lynn! the number of times 'conferences' have ben held to discuss the migrant crisis,is the prime example.Discussing luxurious food and wine list's,more like!Good one Lynn.Thank you.Jemima.

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