Now the demonstration
Where 50,000 people
Rained the streets of Manchester
Has been regulated
To a sentence on Page 21
Of the Daily Mirror
WHAT NEXT?

What of those
Whose benefits have?
Been cut because
Of the Bedroom tax
And are straying
Closer and closer
To the breadline
Or worse
WHAT NEXT?

What of my friend Cath’s daughter
Who while waiting
For their ESA assessment appeal
Have found out
Their benefits
Have now being frozen
And it could take months
For the appeal to be heard
Leaving her mother
Who is on the breadline herself
Struggling to support both of them
WHAT NEXT?

What of the increasing
Unemployed queue
And talk of
2.5 million people roughly unemployed
having to apply for the existing
0.5 million jobs
without mentioning
what these jobs are
WHAT NEXT?

What of their vague threats
Of forcing people to spend 37 hours
A week
Looking for work
Or doing lots
Of Community work
When unemployed
Or risk losing their benefits
WHAT NEXT?

What of Zero contracted hours,
Rumours of scrapping
The minimum wage
And Costa Coffee
Getting job applications
From people
Who were directors
At previous jobs
Because they are so,

So desperate for work

WHAT NEXT?

What of Councils
Going bankrupt
And Royal Mail
Getting sold off
While the Government
Get free travel passes
During a recent conference
In Manchester
And have £100 pound meals each night.
WHAT NEXT?

WHAT NEXT?