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, Tories
