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Children are shrinking before us<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n by Owen Gallagher<\/em><\/p>\n And when they cut budgets again, for families and schools, Children\u2019s clothes began to hang on them Home didn\u2019t fit. We lobbied members of the government. When the waiter in the Commons restaurant \u00a0<\/p>\n Your Country Needs You!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n by Owen Gallagher<\/em><\/p>\n We answered the Government\u2019s call to keep Tut-tutted at having to Zoom from our laptops We created more offshore companies daubing a sign on the door of the infected. We made millions during the pandemic. Children are shrinking before us by Owen Gallagher And when they cut budgets again, for families and schools,we on the opposition benches said: \u2018Surelythey can\u2019t cut them…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":540,"featured_media":14417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
we on the opposition benches said: \u2018Surely
they can\u2019t cut them anymore?\u2019
And they did.<\/p>\n
as if they were passed down too soon.
We stood by and watched
their future shrink.<\/p>\n
School didn\u2019t fit.
The curriculum didn\u2019t fit.
We spoke out but that didn\u2019t fit.<\/p>\n
And said, again:
\u2018Surely they can\u2019t …\u2019
But they did.<\/p>\n
brought the menu
we forgot about the children
and tucked in.<\/p>\n
the profit flag flying,
the currency stable.<\/p>\n
and mask up
to queue for a latte.<\/p>\n
to redistribute wealth
to ourselves, resisted<\/p>\n
A mass culling
took place.<\/p>\n
We thanked our Head Boys,
now Government Ministers, for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"