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Brexit Boy

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Feels like we’ve won the league. Yet

I get so angry I want to smash things.

You know that feeling? When people

sneer on the telly, or you talk

to someone who’s been to university.

You see their lip curl, when they think

you’re not looking. Take back control!

 

Ain’t just the weather, I’m always hot

under the collar. Say what we think

on the buses, down the tube. Tell ‘em

to get packing, doesn’t matter if they’ve

lived here years. We took the smirk

off the posh boy’s face. Thought

he had it in the bag, didn’t he?

 

Back then you couldn’t speak your mind;

now you can shout it out loud.

No one ever asked me what I thought before.

They’d better not try and twist things round.

Fuck off Europe!  All the potholes will be fixed!

Britain will be great again!

First time my vote ever counted for anything.

 

 

◄ York station

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Greg Freeman

Tue 21st Aug 2018 14:17

Thanks for the comments. Appreciate why you handled this as though it might blow up, Cynthia. These are the kind of people who think that after the Brexit vote that they're allowed to shout in people's faces. That's all. At least I hope that's all. It also means that I have a shorter fuse these days, too.

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Wed 8th Aug 2018 17:47

This could go badly awry. I'm not familiar with the 'video' mentioned, and could easily take the work entirely as the author's personal stance, venomous, fixated and dangerous.

Is the photo intended to be a clue?

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 8th Aug 2018 12:06

I'm all for some contentious WOL stuff - and have no time for the hooligan element that leeches on any convenient cause (check the vicious criminal element that hid behind
the guise of Irish Republican Army activity). The pity is
they get the publicity they don't deserve and damage the
cause they insult by their extremist behaviour.

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Greg Freeman

Mon 6th Aug 2018 23:58

You suspect right, John. After playing that YouTube video that they posted themselves it just kind of flowed ...

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John Coopey

Mon 6th Aug 2018 23:54

I suspect your fb post of those lovelies mobbing the bookstore is not entirely unrelated to this as inspiration!

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Graham Sherwood

Mon 6th Aug 2018 23:29

Good to see you back with a nice, easy uncontentious piece Greg!

<Deleted User> (18980)

Mon 6th Aug 2018 23:25

So just for clarification...are you leave or remain Greg?

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