Snouts in the trough

Snouts in the trough

Standing in the ruins of a fourteen-year battleground;

                Smouldering public services and food banks all around.

A cost of living crisis while the wealthy dine in style

                Funnelling their excess profits to the Cayman Isles.

We’ve had VIP lanes, parties and useless PPE

                As Tory donors pocket millions with chortles of great glee.

More migrants than ever since Brexit cost us dear

                As the greedy make a killing – the reason is quite clear.

Snouts in the trough

                Snouts in the trough

Greed rules the Tories –

                All hay in the loft.

Cash for questions and ‘thinning of the herd’

                ‘Sacrifice the elderly’ from that shambolic nerd.

Lying is second nature as he rides his bus.

                Placing the economy in the hands of stupid Liz Truss.

‘All in it together’ was the lying battle cry.

                Robbing from the poor and let the aged die.

Breaking the schools, courts and the NHS.

                What cost of living crisis? They loudly profess!

Snouts in the trough

                Snouts in the trough

Greed rules the Tories –

                All hay in the loft.

Living through wage stagnation swimming through turds,

                Worst trade in a hundred years but mark my words

Corporation tax is down; the rich pay far far less

                A deficit of three trillion that ‘we’ll’ have to address.

Austerity and cuts were our reward for work

                While one hundred and fifty new billionaires process their latest perk

Multimillion pound bonuses and eye-watering salaries –

                The poor luvvies need it all to pay those high school fees.

Snouts in the trough

                Snouts in the trough

Greed rules the Tories –

                All hay in the loft.

Opher – 4.7.2024

Well today is Election Day. We’ll see if the people have been fooled again. Democracy is in the hands of the stupid, gullible and tribal.

For fourteen years the Tories have been robbing the poor and cutting public services so they could give to the rich. We’ve gone from 29 billionaires to 177 billionaires while the poor cower in the cold, not able to afford the energy and relying on food banks to stay alive.

Corporation taxes are down and oil companies are pocketing billions.

Our rivers are full of sewage while billions are siphoned off to foreign investors. Tory donors, like Lady Mone and Hancock’s landlord, pocket millions for useless PPE that has to be dumped. The VIP lanes farmed out contracts to Tories and bypassed the companies who could do the job.

Brexit is a disaster. They lied!!

Nobody is accountable.

Cameron, May and Johnson are busy earning millions while Britain is broken!

What We Have! – A poem

What We Have! – A poem

A poem written about the attitude to immigrants but it has a wider context.

What We Have!!

What we have we keep!

Holding back the tide!

Creating problems

Planet-wide!

We stand together

In this fight

Against the desperate

In their plight!

If we treat them nice

More will come for what’s on offer!

Lock them up! Beat them up!

Make them suffer!

Opher 16.6.2018

What We Have!!

It seems to me that there is an attitude of embattled defence. We feel we deserve to hold on to what we have. We are rounding up the wagons against the encircling Indians. It’s a mentality!

I think it’s time we started thinking globally and started solving the problems that are creating mass immigration:-

Overpopulation

Gross inequality

Climate change

War

Unemployment

Economic disaster

Poverty.

They are all easily solved. They have been created by selfishness and greed.

Who can blame people who just want a better life?

The politicians have used the problems to further their own careers.

Poetry – Cuts

Cuts

Cuts

Cuts Cuts

Conservative

Cuts

Constabulary

Cuts

Crime

Cuts

Courts

Cuts

Crisis

Cuts

Knife

Cuts

Cuts

Cuts Cuts

Opher 7.1.2019

I don’t believe that you can savagely cut public services without creating disastrous effects.

The Tories decade of austerity is reaping its harvest.

They have cut education, health, police, youth services, mental health, the courts, prisons, social services.

Every cut has an effect.

The schools exclude more kids because they do not have the resources to deal with them.

More kids join gangs because youth services and support have gone.

More disturbed youngsters are on the streets because mental health services cannot cope.

The police cuts have removed community policing, detection rates have dived. The criminals get away with more.

The courts and Crown Prosecution cuts mean that more criminals escape justice.

Gangs and knife crime, murder rates and violence have all increased.

It is not surprising.

The Tories, out of ideology, has slashed into the very fabric of our society!!

Tory cuts – but with the addition of a single n it describes them perfectly.