Saturday, 11 March 2023

Horde

 


Let's call them a horde.

This will get the people on board.

An invasion, it sounds so scary,

intruding on our peaceful safe haven.

They are scrabbling at our borders,

a zombie surge

scrounging/job-stealing scourge.

A swarm who never follow orders.

If they emerge from boats

and stand on our shores,

this country will surely submerge.

 

Call them a band, a mob, a gang, a swarm.

Not someone's mum, dad, brother,

sister, daughter, son.

Not human.

Call them scum.

Lock them down,

beat them up.

Concentration camps will work a charm.

Ermm...

Shouldn't this all be setting off alarms.

We're sounding a bit like nazis up in arms.

 

These are people

not figures

on a spreadsheet.

I repeat,

these are people.

Not an invasion fleet.

 

Is it any surprise

that we are fed right wing lies?

Hate flows through tory blood.

They have feasted on expensive goods

as our nurses use food banks.

Gaslighting

as energy bills tanked.

They took more

when wages grew stagnant.

Ignored cries and partied

whilst innocent people died,

but they lust for war,

and the thrill of the fight.

So will spend on attack

but won't look twice

at the tears in people's eyes

 

They divide,

into us and them,

fuelling propaganda.

Always looking for new ways

to drive a wedge.

People are not illegal.

but is it any surprise,

that this government conspires

to make hatred rise.

xenophobic ideology

runs through their bones.

Cut them

and hateful words

bleed through,

like Blackpool rock

with a right-wing view.

 

 

 

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