Parking tickets, litter fines and warnings about noise
Policing bus lanes, crushing cars revenue building ploys.
Community support gone west protecting stats gone south
Reclaim the Streets was once the cry now people shut their mouth.

Feral packs of uniformed black nike tracksuited youth
breaking laws and parents hearts with attitudes uncouth
Spitting down the stairs on buses pushing past old men
See them on their own like angels not in packs of ten

Bonfire night like Beirut or the Gaza strip gone mad
Industrial explosions blowing up the police stand back
send in the army just this once and show the hoodies how
we did it in the forties son and we can do it now

Let us know if it gets cold a tenner off your bill
milk and bread the rents gone up pensions frozen still
found last week by next doors cat the smell was hard to bear
73 no family or friends dead behind the stairs

MRSA Diff C ? Not good went in with slight pneumonia
told by the locum from the centre buy some strong covonia
hanging out the bed all dirty dignity on show
whispering on wards at end of visiting lets go

closed circuit lives see you 300 times in every day
watching you to make sure that your clean the labour way
Illiberalism mounting debt backhanders buying votes
fat cats extortion from the masses bosses scabbing post

I'd like to stay and fight my little corner I call home
But things get worse not better and I feel it's time to go
I'll leave a gap for those who have a stronger will than mine
And while I'm gone can someone pay my latest speeding fine.

I love the poem... it rhymes and rolls and carrys a message with which I wholehearteldy agree.