Shut Down
Leave the key in the door
Because there’s nothing to take out of Britain anymore
You've squeezed us
Blood red dry
Even a few disabled had to die
Leave the key in the door
Because there’s nothing left in Britain anymore
Hope turned into despair
And those who want for nothing
Clapping with cheery smiles
As the Plebs put them through the door
Shut Down.
Leave the key in the door
Because there’s nothing to take out of us anymore
(c) David R Mellor 2015
Dave,
I put down the list (from a newspaper) as an example of the desperate promises that were made to win 11an election which has both surprised and (I think) left the winners in a state of consternation (they were hoping that - even if they won - then their alliance partner would stop them carrying out half of it.)
Concerning austerity: there hasn`t been any of it yet...
all those people who have been forced back into work are probably on in-work benefits, and productivity (which was so important in my trade union days) is as flabby as a Sumo wrestlers belly. All of which doesn`t augur well for a trade-led recovery.
The oil-price collapse - which looks so handy -might be hiding an impending slowdown of the world economy.
To be talking about leaving the protective European Union at such a time seems to me to be sheer lunacy.
Concerning the hunching my shoulders bit:... The fact that the politicians didn`t want to upset the pensioners before an election doesn`t hide the fact that their pensions take a huge slice of government expenditure, nor that the fruits of decades long prosperity sit in their bank-balances like juicy red plums for the taking....It seems to me to be a target too obvious to resist. (well before the next - distant - election)
The huge monster looming over us is that bloody deficit...so watch your wallets folks!
Ken,
I absolutely love living in this country.
kindness has died and now five years of real pain
Bet you wouldn't live any where else Harry. and you David
David,
What are you worrying about?...think of the promises they have made.
1...Give the NHS an extra eight million a year by 2020.
2...Extend right to buy scheme to housing association tennants.
3...Build 200,000 starter homes.
4...Take everyone who earns less than £12, 500 out of income tax.
5...Lift minimum wage workers on 30 hours a week out of income tax.
6...Increase the minimum wage to £8 by the end of the decade.
7...Double the free childcare allowance for three and four year olds to 30 hours.
8...No above-inflation rise in rail fares until 2020.
9...Increase the inheritance tax threshhold on family homes to £1million.
10...cut £10billion of red tape.
11...Raise the threshhold for the 40 pence rate of tax to £50,OOO.
12...Lower the benefit cap from £26,000 to £23000.
13...Same-day GP appointments for the elderly and the right to a named GP.
14...Freeze the BBC license fee.
15...Reduce number of M`ps to 600
16...Protect pensioner benefits including free bus passes
and the winter fuel payment.
17...In/out EU referendum in 2017.
18...End any new public subsidy for onshore wind farms,
19...make a decision on expansion of airport capacity.
It`s all in the newspapers. (and pukka!)
And all this at a time when (given the ukip lesson given to the ruing party) we are quite likely to leave Europe and face the growing competition of the huge emerging economies - and the remaining European bloc - all on our petulant little own...at the time when we have really got to get down to reducing that bloody deficit.
I wonder what happened to all that austerity they were talking about?
As a member of the pensioner/NHS-demanding ageing population bloc (that huge consumer of government money) which is also the tempting location of so much of the accumulated wealth of the last few prosperous decades, I - personally - am hunching my shoulders in expectation.
whoever said you couldn`t fool all of the people all of the time?
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David R Mellor
Tue 12th May 2015 19:04
harry you make a heat felt point and Btw we love our country and hate what its become, hope the poem chimes in some