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Stop the Stunts!

Bravo Greenpeace,

now it’s time

to stop the Tory stunts,

those cunning stunts.

Lock ‘em up

on HMS Grenfell,

or on the Broads,

in massive punts.

Oh hell, I really must

learn to spell!

Addendum: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/aug/03/oliver-dowden-asylum-seekers-bibby-stockholm-uk-politics-live

 

 

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That Night

That Night (June, 2017)

I didn’t really feel I had the right, to write about that night,
Because I was on the other-side of town, safely in a house, tucked up tight...
I didn’t really feel I had the right, to write about that night,
Because I am not considered poor, and am classed indigenously white...

I didn’t really feel I had the right, to write about that night,
Because I won’t ever ...

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Common Sense

Mr Reel-Fogg came home exhausted after a hard day of talking. Those green leather benches were so confoundedly uncomfortable and one could never recline in peace.

After a brief attempt to assist Mrs. Reel-Fogg to achieve her ambition of having twelve children he fell into a deep sleep.

Around one thirty in the morning there was a confounded noise outside. He sent Mrs. Reel-Fogg to investigat...

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