{"id":15656,"date":"2023-10-22T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/salty-terms-to-deter-asylum-seekers\/"},"modified":"2023-10-22T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T13:56:07","slug":"salty-terms-to-deter-asylum-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/salty-terms-to-deter-asylum-seekers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSalty Terms\u201d to Deter Asylum Seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15654\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/be75ab89b7b7f53e3f145f94bfa744db.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1448\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/be75ab89b7b7f53e3f145f94bfa744db.jpg 1448w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/be75ab89b7b7f53e3f145f94bfa744db-600x338.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/be75ab89b7b7f53e3f145f94bfa744db-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/be75ab89b7b7f53e3f145f94bfa744db-441x248.jpg 441w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/be75ab89b7b7f53e3f145f94bfa744db-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/be75ab89b7b7f53e3f145f94bfa744db-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/be75ab89b7b7f53e3f145f94bfa744db-10x6.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1448px) 100vw, 1448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><em>\u201cSalty Terms\u201d<\/em> to Deter Asylum Seekers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">(An extended villanelle or &#8216;villanelle-vague&#8217;)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u201cIf they don\u2019t like barges then they should f*** off back to France\u201d<\/em><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2014Lee Anderson MP, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\u201cLee Anderson expresses the righteous indignation of the British people.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Yes, he does it in salty terms\u201d<\/em><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2014Alex Chalk MP, Justice secretary<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Conservatives ride crests of wavering votes,<br \/>Divide &#038; rule the waves over coercible<br \/>Tabloid-fed electors, booming STOP THE BOATS.<\/p>\n<p>Few tears for refugees who can\u2019t stay afloat<br \/>Or who are deported as undesirables\u2014<br \/>Conservatives ride crests of wavering votes;<\/p>\n<p>But tributes brim over when the Titan implodes<br \/>As billionaire hubris turns a submersible<br \/>Into a timebomb\u2014there are sobs for certain boats.<\/p>\n<p>Jenrick gives \u2018reception centres\u2019 a few thick coats<br \/>To cover up too-welcoming cartoon murals\u2014<br \/>Conservatives ride crests of wavering votes;<\/p>\n<p>Traumatised children tasked to take bitter note<br \/>That Britain\u2019s the place to re-burst their bubbles<br \/>Buoyed by tabloids booming STOP THE BOATS.<\/p>\n<p>They fled war &#038; torture to be made scapegoats<br \/>With mouthfuls of red rags dripped on by Whitehall\u2014<br \/>Conservatives ride crests of wavering votes.<\/p>\n<p>Unaccompanied minors going missing in smoke;<br \/>\u2018Gammon\u2019 vigilantes storming <em>\u201cmigrant hotels\u201d<\/em><br \/>Buoyed by tabloids booming STOP THE BOATS.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFuck off back to France\u201d<\/em> or board Bibby Stockholm\u2019s<br \/>Bacterial lab of xenophobic microbials\u2014<br \/>Conservatives ride crests of wavering votes;<\/p>\n<p>Language as<em> \u201csalty\u201d<\/em> as seawater that chokes<br \/>Refugees\u2019 lungs\u2014toxic rhetoric makes coral<br \/>&#038; skeletons for Davy Jones\u2019 Locker. 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BOATS.<\/p>\n<p>Crossing the Rubicon of bloodred tropes,<br \/>English-channelling Nigel Farage &#038; Enoch Powell\u2014<br \/>Slavering Braverman craves wavering votes;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLuxury beliefs\u201d<\/em> like compassion &#038; hope<br \/>Spouted from <em>\u201civory towers\u201d<\/em> by liberals,<br \/>Blown out of the water of thought.\u00a0 STOP THE BOATS.<\/p>\n<p>Bash <em>\u201clefty lawyers\u201d<\/em> as unpatriotic Woke,<br \/>Spike public discourse &#038; puncture inflatables\u2014<br \/>Conservatives ride crests of wavering votes;<br \/>They TOOK BACK CONTROL<br \/>just to shout STOP THE BOATS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSalty Terms\u201d to Deter Asylum Seekers (An extended villanelle or &#8216;villanelle-vague&#8217;) \u201cIf they don\u2019t like barges then they should f*** off back to France\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":15654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2856,2850,2851,2859,2858,2852,2854,1740,2853,2855,2860,2857],"class_list":["post-15656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-gammon","tag-bibby-stockholm","tag-braverman","tag-enoch-powell","tag-farage","tag-jenrick","tag-reception-centres","tag-refugees","tag-stop-the-boats","tag-tabloids","tag-woke","tag-xenophobia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}