{"id":16150,"date":"2024-01-24T16:59:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/labour-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:59:23","slug":"labour-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/labour-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1734\" height=\"2480\" class=\" size-full wp-image-16149\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/92098eae5e3ba535ddc07d364ca7cd44.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"caption\" title=\"Cover by Martin Rowson\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/92098eae5e3ba535ddc07d364ca7cd44.jpg 1734w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/92098eae5e3ba535ddc07d364ca7cd44-600x858.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1734px) 100vw, 1734px\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Labour, 2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>by Steven Taylor<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re already killing Houthis<\/p>\n<p>With lawful explanations<br \/>They needed showing<br \/>That we mean business<\/p>\n<p>Labour is agreeable. Complicit<\/p>\n<p>The shipping lanes are sacrosanct<br \/>Like pilgrim routes for Christians<\/p>\n<p>Previously, we killed Syrians<br \/>Libyans, Iraqis, former<br \/>Yugoslavians, Afghans<\/p>\n<p>Not the hounds, just the people<\/p>\n<p>Irish<\/p>\n<p>The list is partial<br \/>And does not include<\/p>\n<p>Refugees<br \/>Asylum seekers<\/p>\n<p>Those who drown off Dover<br \/>The cockle pickers in Morecambe <\/p>\n<p>Tribes and revellers<br \/>A wedding party waving<br \/>From a rooftop<\/p>\n<p>Civilians, accidentally<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians under rubble<br \/>Being starved of food and water<br \/>Medicines. Warmth and shelter<\/p>\n<p>We supplied the weapons<br \/>Lethal, indiscriminate<\/p>\n<p>No excuses<\/p>\n<p>Labour\u2019s ready for government<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Fruits of Starmer&#8217;s Labour: The Bread and Roses Anthology 2023,\u00a0<em>\u00a0is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwales.com\/bibliographic\/?isbn=9781912710652&#038;tsid=2\">here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour, 2024 by Steven Taylor We\u2019re already killing Houthis With lawful explanationsThey needed showingThat we mean business Labour is agreeable. Complicit The shipping lanes are sacrosanctLike pilgrim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":632,"featured_media":16149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16150","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\/632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}