SCROUNGERS!
We all pay out for their second homes,
we pay their electric bills,
even Osborne’s horse paddock
and any number of frills.
We paid for Miller’s parents’ house,
for Duncan Smith’s underwear,
for his 39 pound breakfast
and they preach to us of ‘fair’!
We subsidise their consumption
at restaurant and bar
while some of us are hungry,
our money don’t go far.
Irrelevant how much it costs,
they charge us all like drips,
anything from a mansion
to ruddy paper clips!
We subsidise corporate bosses
to dish out lousy wages,
we pay some corrupt landlords
to rent out rabbit cages!
Our money goes to the bankers,
they really bleed us dry
with their big fat bonuses;
what’s left for you and I?
We are being told who to blame
but the guilty sector is which?
Just who are the REAL scroungers?
Why, it has to be the rich!
Lynn Dye
Wed 6th Apr 2016 22:23
Hi Jemima - thanks for the encouragement - I needed a little push, ha ha.
Actually, I can't help wondering if I am actually less shocked about the Panama papers than most. This is because I have known about a lot of it for some years from blogs I've read online, but of course fresh evidence has brought it all to a head, and rightly so too.
Hi Patricia and Stef, I think that's a good suggestion for a title, but seeing as the poem I came up with was on a couple of other issues as well as the Panama papers, I chose something else.
Well, after all, I couldn't have you asking for royalties, could I? Ha ha ha. Thanks guys x