Lies, Spin and Deception

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Lies, Spin and Deception

Cheaper prices,

                A glorious NHS

Everything will be Better!

Make Britain

                Great again!

Even make

                The water wetter!

Controlling our borders!

                We’ll take back control!

Ship them off to Rwanda!

                Make Britain whole!

Cheaper prices,

                A glorious NHS

Everything will be Better!

Make Britain

                Great again!

Even make

                The water wetter!

Immigration the great bogie-man

                To xenophobic Brexit man

Promised in the tens

                Is now pushing a million!

Seizing back control

                Has become a matter of opinion!

Cheaper prices,

                A glorious NHS

Everything will be Better!

Make Britain

                Great again!

Even make

                The water wetter!

We’ve got Brexit

                To thank

For making us

                Secure!

It only costs us

                Forty Billion!

We’ve got

                The Brexit

                                Cure!

Cheaper prices,

                A glorious NHS

Everything will be Better!

Make Britain

                Great again!

Even make

                The water wetter!

Opher – 27.5.2023

So despite the promises of getting immigration down to the tens of thousands we are pressing a million immigrants! So much for seizing back control!

We’ve driven out good, cheap EU nurses, doctors, carers, fruit pickers, chefs, midwives, electricians, plumbers and HGV drivers without a clue of how to replace them.

Training takes years if you can find the British people who want to do the jobs.

Who’d train to be a nurse where the chief skill is how to use a food bank?

Which British people are falling over themselves to wipe old peoples’ arses or be bent over in the rain and cold cutting broccoli on minimum wage?

So we pay more, pull in less-skilled workers from Africa and India, let fruit rot in fields, pay tariffs on what we import and have endless strikes while people like Johnson, Farage, Rees-Mogg, Theresa May, Cameron and Osborne (the architects of this disaster) pull in millions!

Empowering the Racists (needs to be spoken out loud!)

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Empowering the Racists

Pandering to the xenophobes;

                Empowering the racists.

Chucking out the bath water

                With baby, belt and braces!

Not a clue on what they do!

                They didn’t think it through!

Chucking out the doctors!

                Chucking out the nurses!

Who needs the fruit pickers!

                To them a thousand curses!

Not a clue on what they do!

                They didn’t think it through!

How long to train a doctor?

                How long to train a plumber?

Where’s the sunlit uplands?

                You couldn’t get much dumber!

Not a clue on what they do!

                They didn’t think it through!

The British will wipe arses

                Pick fruit and save the day!

They’ll do it on minimum wage

                They don’t require good pay!

Not a clue on what they do!

                They didn’t think it through!

Johnson’s made eight million!

                Rees-Mogg makes millions too!

Brexit’s working for all of them!

                Shame about me and you!

Not a clue on what they do!

                They didn’t think it through!

They sold us all a pack of lies

                Like all good conmen do!

They’re walking off with all the loot

                While we drown within their pooh!

Not a clue on what they do!

                They didn’t think it through!

(or did they?)

Opher – 30.5.2023

When the architects of this Brexit disaster set about conning us with their promises of sunlit uplands they had many reasons:

Some wanted power at any cost,

Some wanted wealth,

Some worked from racist hatred,

Some from patriotic fervour,

Some from hate of the EU.,

They knew they were telling lies for their own selfish reasons. They knew that we would all end up picking up the tab and be paying for generations. They knew that it was going to cost us a fortune and create massive problems with customs checks, tariffs and rising prices.

They either didn’t care or thought that it was a price worth paying.

They knew that they’d all come out of it better off! Many of the bastards have made millions out of Brexit. We’re the ones who have decades of austerity ahead of us. They’re sitting pretty.

Poetry – Militia  

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Militia

 

Guys in masks,

With rifles,

On the streets

Subverting democracy.

Called to the polling stations

To intimidate you and me.

Called by their President

To subvert

The process of election.

Spreading fake news

About fraudulent voting

Without foundation.

Can this be happening

In the 21st Century?

That a President

Unleashes militia

In complete anarchy?

 

Opher – 30.9.2020

Poetry – The Biosphere.

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The Biosphere.

 

Protecting the biosphere

Must be the key priority.

Living on this planet

With sustainability.

 

More hedges, more ponds,

More streams, more trees.

More swifts and swallows,

More hedgehogs please.

 

The time bomb of climate change

Is kicking us.

It’s time for us to change

And board

The environment bus.

 

Protecting the biosphere

Must be the key priority.

Living on this planet

With sustainability.

 

Opher – 30.9.2020

Poetry – John Phillips – Poppies

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Another poem from John Phillip’s poetry book Shorts and Shots.

Poppies

 

Flower of remembrance;

Emblem of unending war and endless broken lives.

Echoes of hatred, of ambition,

Powering the pumps and pipelines

Deep beneath the land.

 

This war for Hearts and Minds

A quest for power and profit,

Fueling the Drone and roadside bomb;

The Semtex-sacrifice and landmines for the children

Sprinkling the fields with Poppy red.

 

But if the word was Revolution

Who could deny a people risen in unity?

Or quiet the angry voices raised as one?

Always the flowering of ambition,

Mirroring the Poppy with strange, narcotic power.

 

 

Poetry – Don’t Tell Me

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Don’t Tell Me

 

Don’t tell me your mixed messages.

Don’t give me your moonshot.

Don’t give me your oven-ready.

Don’t tell me you’re world-beating.

Don’t tell me about your track and trace.

Don’t tell me about your wonder App.

Don’t tell me it will be the easiest deal.

Don’t tell me about your £350 million.

Don’t tell me about Barnard Castle.

 

I’m sick of all your lies.

 

Opher – 29.9.2020

Poetry – Who is it?

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Who is it?

 

Who doesn’t pay his taxes?

Who’s telling porky pies?

Who’s claiming hoaxes?

As the population dies?

Who is arrogantly pouting?

Who ignores abuse?

Who shouts fake news

Every time he’s accused?

Who is using dirty tricks

To inflame and divide?

Who uses derogatory language

That many can’t abide?

Who operates in chaos

While feeding his base

Who brought his country shame

And is a complete disgrace?

 

I think I know the answer

It hits you with a thump!

 

Opher – 28.9.2020

Poetry – What is it that Russia wants?

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What is it that Russia wants?

 

To divide and conquer

That is the simple plan.

Pumping out the cyber.

Doing all they can.

 

They want the USA divided

And Europe split apart.

Populist leaders

Who haven’t any heart.

 

They don’t need

To go to war.

Targetting views

Into the homes of the poor.

 

Spreading rumours

And conspiracy.

In some modern-day

Piracy.

 

A wedge between allies

Suspicion into minds.

Deep State is after you,

Break the ties that bind.

 

To divide and conquer

That is the simple plan.

Pumping out the cyber.

Doing all they can.

 

 

29.9.2020

Poetry – Taxes

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I was inspired to write this by the ‘revelation’ that Trump pays no taxes. It’s something we’ve always known. It is why he doesn’t release his tax returns. He’s a scammer, a fraud and a cheat.

If billionaires like Trump get away with paying little the burden falls on everyone else. He can afford it; many can’t. Why should we all have to pay taxes while the rich use loopholes to avoid it?

They are the same robber barons who stole the land and made themselves rich at our expense!

Taxes

 

They pay no taxes – so we pay more

But they use our roads

They drink the water

Breathe the air.

 

They earn millions – but look for loopholes,

Pay their accountants,

Invest their loot.

Is this fair?

 

They pay no taxes on the money they earn

From exploiting us

With inflated prices

Everywhere.

 

They pay no taxes but we must pay.

They squirrel it away

Overseas

Without a care.

 

The same robber barons from long ago

Who stole the land,

Made us slaves

And took our share.

 

Opher – 28.9.2020