Social Care and broken promises.

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We will fix Social Care once and for all with a plan we already have.

a. There was no plan.

b. There still is no plan

c. He is taxing the poor and pensioners to pay for a botch

Instead of taxing the wealthy, who have had an absolute bonanza this last two years; instead of stuffing up the tax loopholes and stopping the exodus of money to the Cayman Islands tax free, he is making those he has been imposing pay cuts and austerity on pay.

Tories – from the rich and for the rich!!

So:

No raising of taxes

No taking the triple lock off pensions

Truth

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Poetry – To have or have not

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To have or have not

To have or have not

And what is too much?

To deserve or not be worth

This, that or such.

So many and so few.

The more that’s made

The more the gap grew.

Some disport penthouse and yacht

But what have the others got?

Dodging bullets in search of a crust

Or rolling in champagne and lost in lust.

Life is so different each side of the divide.

So few options with so little to decide.

Opher 12.10.2018

As the inequality grows to obscene levels in a system designed by the wealthy to maintain their wealth, the poor are left with no way out.

As A/I kicks in it will only get worse.

There are profits to be made by sowing the seeds of chaos or war. That accounts for the madness that surrounds us.

Poetry – Robbing

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Robbing

Robbing from the schools

Robbing from the poor

Robbing from the nurses

Wicked to the core!

Opher 16.9.2018

There’s a big hole where all our money went. It’s a big hole created by reckless greed. It’s a big hole dug out with bonuses and fat-cat pay packets. It’s a big hole that they are filling in with nurses, teachers, police, soldiers, social workers and the down and out!

I know what I’d like to shove in that hole!

Poetry – Floundering in the Wake

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Floundering in the Wake

We flounder in their wake from this austerity

Inflicted by politicians on you and them and me –

Except for all the bankers immune to the disease

Still necking back the champagne and living lives of ease.

We’re all in this together – except the one percent!

They’re a law unto themselves for which we all lament.

One day we will rise up and depose them from their thrones –

The greedy and the selfish who can’t hear people’s moans.

They are the ones who cause this misery

Grabbing all the wealth from her, and you and me!

In the midst of this madness with the destruction of our schools

The politicians party and treat us all like fools.

They’re still necking back their champagne and driving in their cars

Selling subprime mortgages from here to there to Mars.

They do not give a damn if the people cannot pay

As long as they have their fat bonuses to keep their blues at bay.

They have their private services to provide an ample buffer

And when it all goes tits up they know it’s not them who’ll suffer!

Opher 16.9.2018

It irks me that the politicians decided who should pay for the crash they created – not them who deregulated and gave the bankers freedom to go mad, not the bankers who created the crash with their greed, not the top 1% who benefitted from the bonanza, but us – the innocent ordinary people. We are the ones to pay. Our pay is slashed and frozen, our pensions are reduced, our public services are decimated with cuts – because the country cannot afford it. But we can afford the fat bonuses for the wealthy, tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations; we can afford big wage increases in the boardrooms and we still do not address the massive tax evasion schemes, or to force the huge megacompanies like Amazon to pay their fair share.

There is one rule for the rich and quite another for us, so the inequality gap opens into a yawning chasm and is filled with lies. Meanwhile, hidden behind the shroud of Brexit, the country falls apart, public services decay, people go hungry, law and order breaks down. But safe behind their gated communities, with their private healthcare and education, the elite are immune.

Fairness would be nice!!

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What Causes Offence??

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I find it incredible that the idea of a possible European superleague pulls thousands out on to the streets which government incompetence, corruption and lies are just ignored.

Unbelievable!!

Essential workers become unskilled laborers.

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The Fading memory of lockdown

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During that first lockdown when there was such a fabulous feeling around everyone was reaching out to the key workers who were risking their lives for us. We were out clapping. Everywhere there were bright coloured rainbows. They even saved stupid Boris’s life after he stupidly went round shaking hands with covid victims (what an idiot). He said how much he owed the nurses for saving his life.

The key workers were lauded – but it was all hypocrisy on the part of the Tories as history proves.

The first opportunity they had they splashed out money to cronies and profiteers – not thousands or millions but billions. Huge contracts were divvied up to Tory supporters – for PPE, apps, Track and Trace, vaccines and to do with Brexit – to companies doing transport (ferries and flights). Millions were made by bogus firms and profiteer sleazebags.

Then, when the vaccine had the disease on the run it was time to settle the bill. Who pays for the damage to the economy and the enormous amounts doshed out? It is the public servants, the poor – the key workers who kept us all going.

So the nurses, teachers, shop workers, drivers and all those key workers we clapped for face years of austerity while the profiteers stash their loot in off-shore havens.

What we are left with is a fading rainbow.

Poetry – A Question of Priorities

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A Question of Priorities

There’s one percent for caring

And forty-four for war.

There’s a wall instead of sharing

And a world outside the door.

Millions for profiteering

Cuts for the poor.

Opher 18.3.2021

I am really beginning to dislike the ethos of this country. It used to be outward looking, honest and trustworthy. It used to offer refuge and a helping hand.

What we have now is a narrow-minded, insular, little Britain – inward looking and nasty.

We have a government that lies, breaks international law and is destroying cooperation and trust in the name of petty nationalism.

They promote inequality with blatant cronyism and disregard.

I despise their arrogance.

They offer 1% pay ‘rise’ to those who risk their lives while doling out millions to Tory donors who are blatant profiteers. They then propose to waste billions on a 44% increase in nuclear weapons.

They insult our friends and suck up to tyrants and despots.

They disgust me. The people who support them disgust me.