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Fight Back

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Fight back

 

Its fight back time

If you can’t accept what we’ve become

A country where homelessness is everyday

Where one in every two children is fed by a food bank

And billions in taxes seem to be going “astray”.

 

Its fight back time

When public transport cannot move you

And hospitals are terminally ill about to die

Where the media the public own and pay for

Insists on feeding its loving owners lies.

 

Its fight back time

For the society we need

Its fight back time

To save our fellow man

Its fight back time

Don’t swallow this political garbage

Its fight back time

And you all know

That we can!

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Douglas MacGowan

Sun 9th Dec 2018 22:52

A capture of rage. I can definitely feel the strength in your beliefs about these subjects.

<Deleted User> (18980)

Sun 9th Dec 2018 19:30

I like it Eve though I'm not sure it's strictly factual e.g. one in every two children fed by food bank seems a bit on the high side.

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