Hypocrisy
What sticks in my craw is hypocrisy – as the elite hold their hands up in shock.
One rule for you and one for me – for they never end up in the dock.
When it comes to orgies, drugs and perversion, they’re at the front of the queue.
But when the poor do their own version, that simply will never do.
For Eton boys and establishment figures have always enjoyed free licence.
The authorities cover with rigour, and put a wall of silence.
Two-faced morality with a public face and façade.
Applied hedonistic brutality, hidden by the old guard.
Judges, colonels and police chiefs hypocritically follow a double life.
Hookers, cocaine and expensive briefs, public persona and wife.
Hypocrisy, hypocrisy – it has always been thus!
A veneer of respectability covering a canker of pus!
Opher – 25.2.2020
Death by a thousand cuts
Driving out the immigrants.
Kicking out the nurses.
Dumping all the doctors.
Counting all the hearses.
Not needing the carers
Sneering at low pay
Bin men and veggie pickers
Sent on their way.
Giving all the tax cuts
To wealthy corporations
Hammering public servants
Right across the nation.
Inviting private companies
In a dive to the bottom
Hens come home to roost
Whole system’s rotten!
Opher – 22.4.2020
The stupidity of Brexit, the fear of immigrants, the hostile environment – it’s all driven away nurses, doctors, carers, vegetable pickers, drivers and shelf-stackers – all the people we now realise we really need.
Ten years of Tory austerity running down the NHS, starving public services, while giving away tax cuts to the wealthy.
Now we see the stupidity of running down the NHS and driving all those people away. It turns out that the low-paid and public servants are highly valued members of society!
