Gunboat Diplomacy

Gunboat Diplomacy

As project fear becomes reality

Threatening our neighbours with gunboat diplomacy.

Cameron and Osborne were quick to flee

Leaving us in the wreckage of what might be.

If this carries on we’ll be

Storming the beaches of Normandy.

Brainwashing from the Express and the Mail

Feeding us lies from nationalist hell.

All gobbled up without fail

By a bunch of people who can’t read too well.

Leading us off the rail

To cooperation’s death-knell.

You can forget collaboration

We’re on our own

Bought it on ourselves

As we start to moan.

As the prices rise

Have to take out a loan.

As the jobs evaporate

You’ll give out a groan.

‘Can’t get much worse’ I heard you say.

Think about that on your next pay day.

In zero hours heaven, no time to play.

While the millionaires are all making hay,

For you the skies only look grey.

So grit your teeth – it’s time to pay.

The Eton boys are running this show

Voted in with a Ho Ho Ho.

Taking back control to the status quo

So the rich get richer, the poor take the blow.

Building a country with a lot less dough.

For all us suckers it’s a world of woe.

Opher – 23.12.2020

War, war war. That’s the way it’s always been. Competition instead of collaboration.

A strong trading partnerships producing bonds leading to the longest period of peace.

The Anglo-Saxons, emanating from Germany, with the blood of the French Normans, the Italian Romans, and the Nordic Vikings  creating a mongrel race called the British.

Persuaded that they would be better off being apart.

Wealthy nationalists, who made a killing out of leaving these shores and leading us to disaster.

To leave the benefits of Europe for the isolation of uncertainty.

Poetry – The Watershed

The Watershed

We’ve hit the watershed!

Nothing can be allowed to stay the same.

Nation pitted against nation in competition.

All that mattered was the profit – all short-term.

All about power and wealth.

But then the watershed.

What if we changed

And built a society based on caring and cooperation?

Where profit wasn’t the bottom line?

Where nature and love were the currency?

What then?

For now we all know

That it was the ones we treated poorly

Who we now value the most,

While the profiteers

Have nothing to offer.

After the watershed?

Opher – 13.4.2020

Is the virus going to prove to be a watershed? I so hope so! We desperately need it to be.

The world is being ruined by a greedy, selfish elite who have a stranglehold on wealth and power. That is a lock that requires breaking.

I would like to think that out of the other side of this crisis we can produce a more caring compassionate society. But I’m not holding my breath.

A Great Idea!

I’ve got a great idea! Would it be wonderful if:

We removed all borders

If we could travel freely between countries

If we could work anywhere in the world

If we had free trade between countries

If we cooperated with each other on projects

If different cultures were able to freely mix and meet to better understand each other

If the young could travel widely and study abroad making friends all over the world

Wouldn’t it be great if we could remove all barriers and break down the fears, racism and misunderstanding?

Wouldn’t that make it less likely to have wars?

Perhaps we could start in Europe?