This guy says it as it is!! I’m off to vote tactically to get rid of a loathsome corrupt, greedy, inept, lying Tory!!
Election Special. 5: Labour – YouTube
Corruption and Greed Rules
In halls of power, whispers of deceit,
Tory corruption and sleaze, a darkened stain,
VIP lanes paved for cronies, indiscreet,
The privileged few, their greed shall reign.
With masks of charm, they hide their wicked ways,
Behind closed doors, the deals are made with ease,
Their pockets lined, while the nation pays,
In shadows lurk the power they seek to seize.
Yet in the midst of this corrupt facade,
The people rise, their voices loud and clear,
Demanding justice, holding firm and broad,
For truth and honesty to reappear.
Though darkness looms, the light of hope still gleams,
In unity, we’ll shatter their deceitful schemes.
Are the Electorate finally totally sick of Tory lies and broken promises??
Looks like it.
The latest opinion poll from YouGov has Labour 8 points ahead!
YouGov
- Labour 39%
- Conservative 31%
- Liberal Democrat 12%
- SNP 5%
- Green 7%
- Reform UK 4%
The big surprise is that 31% still think this bunch of lying profiteers are worth voting for. Demonstrates the power of propaganda! The Daily Mail, Daily Express, Telegraph, Times and Sun must be very proud of themselves!
What we really need is a major change in the electoral system with PR so that nobody’s vote is ever wasted again. I’ve never in my life ever had a vote that counts!!
Right now, I’ll settle for getting this bunch of greedy, self-serving, entitled profiteers out. They’ve been plundering the country for far too long. If things carry on like this the Cayman Islands will soon sink under the weight of deposits made by the Tories and their wealthy patrons.
Let’s hope the population wakes up and that 31% goes down to the 5% that the Tory Party really serve.
This is a picture that gives a little hope:
Poetry – We’ve Been Fooled
We’ve Been Fooled
We’ve been fooled
By years of peace
Where the rumble of war
Was distant;
Where missiles and bombs
Fall on brown-skinned folk
In lands that are poor.
We’ve been lulled
Through days of prosperity
And calm,
Distant from guts and gore,
Into believing
That trade and civilisation
Are the new law,
And war was consigned
To history;
A despicable artefact
Never to darken our door,
Once more.
Opher – 21.4.2022
We’ve opened up the world and mixed with all people and cultures. We have discovered that we can get along with everyone. We are all the same.
We have united cultures and countries through commerce and travel.
The terrible wars always seem consigned to poor countries full of people who were not like us. It was terrible but distant.
It could never happen to us.
But have we underestimated the terrible human flaws – the paranoia, the greed, the lust for power and the fear?
Was civilisation a band-aid over a gaping wound?
Have we underestimated the human propensity for violence and cruelty???
Poetry – One Day
One Day
One day life was normal.
The next flung into fear.
One day our houses full
Of things we hold dear.
Now the towns are scenes of death.
Invaders seek to steal our breath.
Our cities pounded into heaps of rubble.
We huddle in basements safe within our bubble.
One day life was normal.
Once we had a home.
Once our lives had meaning
Sweet as any poem.
One day life was normal.
The next flung into fear.
One day our houses full
Of things we hold dear.
It will rise again,
Out of the ashes.
We will build again
And heal the hideous gashes.
Opher – 21.4.2022
I’ve spent the whole of my life in the modern world without being touched by the terror of war.
The wars seemed to happen in other countries far away, to people who were not like me.
War seemed primitive, a relic of the past.
It felt that we had been up trade and relationship to such a level that war was inconceivable.
Then the Ukraine happened.