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
Shock resignation is a wake-up call to the British people
David Davis’ resignation from his job as MP and Shadow Home Secretary yesterday, forcing a by-election in which he will stand again in protest over the issue of the 42 day detention of suspected terrorists, surprised everyone.
In two notoriously opportunistic and hard-nosed professions, politics and the media, in both of which personal convictions in the 21st Century are too often limited to expressing passionately-held beliefs over which restaurant serves the best caviare, it’s no wonder that we’ve since seen a plethora of career politicians on all sides, and political commentators, utterly incapable of understanding why Davis did what he did.
tags: 42 days, anti-terrorism, Big Brother, civil liberties, Conservatives, conviction, courage, David Davis, Labour, oppression, politics, state control, ToriesLabour offers northern Irish all their potatoes back to secure support in war on terror
The government has confirmed that it knows it will win every vote in the House of Commons right the way through to the General Election, to be held on the last possible day at the last possible hour in 2010, thanks to having made a bold offer to Democratic Unionist politicians in Northern Ireland to give them not only all their potatoes back, but all the potatoes the English took from the whole of Eire back in the day.
tags: anti-terror legislation, humour, politics, potatoes
