{"id":20297,"date":"2024-11-16T06:20:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T06:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/?post_type=product&#038;p=20297"},"modified":"2024-11-16T06:22:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T06:22:21","slug":"convulsions-2021-24-a-trusstercluck","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/product\/convulsions-2021-24-a-trusstercluck\/","title":{"rendered":"Convulsions, 2021-24: a Trusstercluck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Another Vote for Sunak!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Me, I\u2019m your typical swing voter \u2013<br \/>\nThe only thing I care about\u2019s my car.<br \/>\nJust keep your hands off me and my old motor<br \/>\nElse you\u2019ll find out how narky us lot are.<\/p>\n<p>That Sunak, he won\u2019t screw my daily rota.<br \/>\nHe knows this barmy Ulez thing\u2019s by far<br \/>\nThe biggest issue for your cash-strapped floater \u2013<br \/>\nIt\u2019s all them doomsday types whose voices jar!<\/p>\n<p>If I was Rishi\u2019s party-line promoter<br \/>\nI\u2019d say \u2018just get old Clarkson as your czar<br \/>\nFor drivers\u2019 rights \u2013 he\u2019d push the Ulez boat a<br \/>\nWhole lot farther out, our all-time star!<\/p>\n<p>So tell the world we don\u2019t care one iota<br \/>\nHow anxious for their grandkids\u2019 lungs they are,<br \/>\nThose Greens \u2013 we say \u2018Jump back in your Toyota<br \/>\nAnd we\u2019ll jump back in our old bangers, ta!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>Convulsions, 2021-24: a Trusstercluck<em>, by Chris Norris, ISBN 978-1-912710-64-5<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<p>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","protected":false},"featured_media":20305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"etheme_brands":[],"product_cat":[3275],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-20297","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-books","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/20297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"brand","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etheme_brands?post=20297"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=20297"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=20297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}