Poem: Great Britain 2008


squeeze me
watch me
control my every move

monitor me closely
punish me
make me bleed

treat me like a terrorist
preach to me
persuade me of my sins

turn on the cameras
tell me what’s right
but being poor I have no rights

track me
sack me
modify me

force me not to smoke
or drink
use laws instead to make me choke

denounce the fat
praise the thin
smelling a rat, the sheep still grin

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Friday, June 20th, 2008

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Labour in government: the enemy of the people, peaceful protest, and democracy


After fifty years one of the most famous symbols of protest in British political history, the peaceful demonstration maintained outside the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, has been bludgeoned to death by the Labour government, yet again displaying its contempt for the notion of civil liberties and its twisted determination to do all it can to control what British citizens can and can’t do, think, and say.

Incredibly, the protest survived six Tory governments, the end of the Cold War and the rise and fall of mass marches against the British nuclear deterrent. It is widely expected that the proliferation of nuclear power stations through to 2020, enforced upon the public and our land after a heavily massaged so-called consultation process, will lead to a resurgence of active participation in the anti-nuclear movement.

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Saturday, March 8th, 2008

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