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These are polemical and activist poems written to predict and hasten the demise of our tottering government and\u2014hopefully\u2014of the Conservative Party itself. The present-day Tory party and its leading representatives are unequalled in their incompetence, arrogance, greed, mendacity, corruption, and systemic criminality.<\/p>\n
The past fourteen years of Conservative rule have surpassed even the Thatcher period in terms of the social, cultural, and economic damage inflicted on the vast majority of ordinary people, especially the poor, the sick and the homeless.<\/p>\n
Another Vote for Sunak!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Me, I\u2019m your typical swing voter \u2013 That Sunak, he won\u2019t screw my daily rota. If I was Rishi\u2019s party-line promoter So tell the world we don\u2019t care one iota These intensely political poems are consummate examples of the art of resistance. They range widely in their targets, moods and formal structures, though they mostly concern some specific, invariably shameful abuse of office.<\/p>\n The volcano of satire, disgust and righteous indignation erupting from the texts is supercharged by Martin Gollan\u2019s brilliantly pointed, ferocious cartoons. These poems and drawings are timely examples of how cultural workers across the arts can join forces in the unsparing exposure of political wickedness and evil.<\/p>\n Convulsions, 2021-24: a Trusstercluck, by Chris Norris, ISBN 978-1-912710-64-5, is \u00a312 inc. p. and p. in UK, \u00a312 plus \u00a35 p. and p. elsewhere. <\/em><\/p>\n Please buy via\u00a0Wales Books Council<\/a>\u00a0or via the Donations button\u00a0here<\/a>, and send your name and address to\u00a0info@culturematters.org.uk<\/a><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These are polemical and activist poems written to predict and hasten the demise of our tottering government and\u2014hopefully\u2014of the Conservative Party itself. The present-day Tory party and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":16543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1667],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-publications-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The only thing I care about\u2019s my car.
Just keep your hands off me and my old motor
Else you\u2019ll find out how narky us lot are.<\/p>\n
He knows this barmy Ulez thing\u2019s by far
The biggest issue for your cash-strapped floater \u2013
It\u2019s all them doomsday types whose voices jar!<\/p>\n
I\u2019d say \u2018just get old Clarkson as your czar
For drivers\u2019 rights \u2013 he\u2019d push the Ulez boat a
Whole lot farther out, our all-time star!<\/p>\n
How anxious for their grandkids\u2019 lungs they are,
Those Greens \u2013 we say \u2018Jump back in your Toyota
And we\u2019ll jump back in our old bangers, ta!\u2019<\/p>\n![\"to](\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/to_the_frogs_rev2.jpg\")
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