Laura Taylor

Budgetary Democide

by Laura Taylor

Tuesday 6th October 2015 10:14 am

Liam Fox fixes roofs by hitting old folks hard,

hammering the benefits that keep them warm and dry.

Alex Wild thinks they won’t recall who cut their fuel,

and even if they did, well he’s expecting them to die

so it doesn’t matter anyway, does it Alex Wild,

to freeze out folk who pay your wages, keep your nazi arse

in a Tax Alliance think tank making money from the old?

A heart of stone to plan to leave them shivering with cold.

And let’s not let them go the shops or into town for free!

Keep them home and starving, to die conveniently.

A hypothermic boon to your sinister intentions;

budgetary democide before the next election.

Hey Liam, hey Alex, here’s a novel strategy

to boost your tax collections, to bring in all the money.

Tax your fucking muckers, and make sure that you get it

instead of killing pensioners, removing crucial benefits.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34439965

tory policy third reich tory threat

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Comments

Patricio LG

Sun 15th Nov 2015 16:35

What you write here is completely me and how I feel, i am not anywhere near as damn clever as you though. A voice among fascists is not like a tree falling in the woods.

Stu Buck

Wed 7th Oct 2015 14:14

wifey votes greens every time. i am rather at one with nature (especially now i am on anti-histamines from the doctor) so maybe i'll give them a go.

Laura Taylor

Wed 7th Oct 2015 14:06

You're just being contrary now Stu! Get off the fence lad :p

Hey, nowt wrong with the Greens - I stood for local councillor last year and intend to do so again this year. Not wasted at all.

Me - I can't help myself. I have always become enraged at injustice, in all of its dirty forms.

Stu Buck

Tue 6th Oct 2015 11:16

its a great book. i get i should be interested, but i cant fake it im afraid. not that i dont enjoy political protest, i own every billy bragg album! its just i dont have it in me to be politically minded. i only stuck myself on the electoral role last year for the first time. now labour have swung far enough left, they are worthy of a vote. better than just wasting it on the green party i suppose.
i totally get poverty stricken by the way, i grew up on a council estate in hull. it just made me cynical and bored rather than political. it can go either way i guess.
i admire people who care enough about the plight of people and the obviously outrageous, orewllian divides appearing left right and centre (pun intended), especially if they can turn the anger into art. turn those clapping hands into angry balled fists indeed.
but honestly, i just dont have the depth of empathy in me. its not something i am proud of. but at least im honest.

Laura Taylor

Tue 6th Oct 2015 11:05

Ooo not heard of that book, will see if they've got it in the library.

It's a dashed-off rant tbh Stu - I am absolutely enraged by what they've said and plan to do. I've been entrenched in politics all my life, growing up in the Thatcher years and being poverty stricken (with all the shame and humiliation that that brings) will do that to a person. You do realise that what you've said is very close to "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Socialist", don't you? Just because something does not affect you directly, doesn't mean you shouldn't be worried/frightened/angry about it. It COULD affect you, at some point, anyway.

Stu Buck

Tue 6th Oct 2015 10:56

interestingly, im currently reading brave new world revisited, where huxley talks about how much of the original book has come true. and that was written decades ago. still, we can sleep easy knowing we have cereal cafe looters fighting our cause i suppose.
the third verse is my favourite. its all angry and hugely readable though.
i genuinely try to stay out of politics. living where i do, with my olds out the country, i dont need to worry to much at the moment. its all just puppets and muppets anyway.

edit: tendentious is gorgeous, and a new one on me. i must write it down.

Laura Taylor

Tue 6th Oct 2015 10:41

Blimey - that was quick!!

Haha Ledger :D It is getting to seriously scary levels of inhumanity now eh? And bang on - 50 odd years of paying national insurance should be more than enough to ensure you are not left 'out in the cold' as it were upon reaching pension age.

Graham - when you look at what they are actually proposing, as a friend pointed out to me, it's teetering on incitement to murder. The situation is out of hand.

Graham Sherwood

Tue 6th Oct 2015 10:35

Strong tendentious rant Laura. you should be sitting in the foyer at Manchester Central this week!

<Deleted User> (8659)

Tue 6th Oct 2015 10:34

Well put Laura, it just shows what we're up against with these people. If people like Alex Wild obect to anybody receiving the benefits they spent their working lives paying for then they should fuck off to a country which doesn't have a national insurance scheme.
Hey-that would also create a bit of emigration and rid the country of a few useless twats.

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