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!