Poetry – Cynical Leadership

Cynical Leadership

Inciting, infiltrating and spinning

Deviously

To prey upon the gullible.

Threatening, posturing and jeering

Arrogantly

To enrage the peaceable.

Cajoling, lying and frightening

Blatantly

To scare the fallible.

Any tactic will do

To gain their power.

Illegal,  immoral or insane

Turning the future sour.

Opher – 31.8.2020

HG Wells was obviously thinking about Johnson, Sunak and the Tory Party!

The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in their armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than ‘the gang in possession’ and its days are numbered.

This present gang in possession have plumbed the depths of sleaze and corruption. Their greed, lies and outrageous corruption knows no bounds.

The worst in history. They will be remembered with shame.

Their lies, dogma and greed have broken Britain.

A Corrupt Government heading into Authoritarian Control

This government of lawbreaking, self-serving corrupt ministers are looking to change laws or break laws in order to stay in power.

We’ve gone from cash for meetings and peerages to lies and arrogance beyond anything we’ve ever seen.

Nepotism and cronyism beyond belief – from Johnson trying to give his wife a top job, Hancock giving his pub landlord contracts and VIP contracts spread out among friends through a special VIP lane.

We’ve had international and national lawbreaking – proroguing parliament to parties in Number 10.

We’ve had lies told to parliament and the country with Johnson pardoning himself.

We have crackdowns on the rights to protest, workers’ rights and laws to stop strikes.

We’ve had enforced austerity, wage freezes, tax rises and yet massive bonuses for the wealthy and no closing of tax loopholes.

We have lies about Brexit, Lies about parties and LIES about the economy.

Johnson finds himself not guilty of anything and looks for scapegoats.

This government has no honour, no honesty, no integrity, no competence and is a thorough duisgrace.

Compassionate Tories and Poopa Pig World

Chris Riddell strikes again (Thanks John Peachey!).

Poetry – Greed

Greed

Greed is the killer –

Divvying it up

For profit.

Religion the sop –

Faces in the shit

For prophet.

Sport the distraction –

Trying it on

For pro-fit.

Nature the loser –

No longer

Prolific.

Opher 18.9.2016

Greed

This modern world is not a pleasant place to have sweet thoughts – not while there are people around.

Everything is an opportunity for profit.

There are 8 billion people to exploit.

They would (and are) selling the planet.

To distract us from this game, they use religion, TV, sport and alcohol.

Greed, escalation, progress and profit. It is killing us. It is killing everything. Greed is the killer.