The Sound Of Strikes
Your vote matters. Your vote counts
Your vote really can amount
To something less loathsome, to someone less dire
Than returning old piles with new logs in the fire
Manifestos pledge all sorts
Campaign with vision, govern with thought
Minority holds of parliament seats
Conjure cringe-curdling policy shifting feats
The pretext of options as colours collide
Belies an establishment rigged to survive
The choice is clear like an odourless gas
Hiss-howling the airwaves, propelled by stats
Hot old embers beat out toxic fumes
Churning the quotes for the chainsaw of news
Healthcare and welfare sold out to greed
Threats to safety fuel cuts to need
Austerity touted and services slashed
The papers blame migrants the rich avoid tax
Profiteer's puppets named expert advisers
While food banks and gross inequality rises
Kensington's fire leaves a nation bereft
But two years on marks two years left.
Towers still clad with inquiry blinds
But Mogg's cause of death cites inferior minds
Racism soars beneath columns of hate
Powering divides using difference as bait
Accents of empire and old boys' cliques
Laugh at the rest in contempt and conceit
Systemic design defends privileged liars
The stench of the rich labelled perfume d'aspire
Fairness is mocked as a fanciful joke
Slinging filth for their donors to dig deeper moats
Denial and deflection of hardship unleashed
Meaningless phrases repeat and repeat
Deception parades in authority's cloak
As the lie beats the truth to the popular vote
Old members refute why they said what they said
Tucking up to the bigots in the cabinet bed
Smoking out gains, positions and posts
For party, for pocket, for the sword on the coat
So your vote matters overall
Not least if you've had no voice at all
Together with others your strike can be bold
And help shape a system to vote out the old
Pick your poison, make your mark
Or strike clear through with heavy heart
Register with millions more
The sound of strikes from years before