{"id":15776,"date":"2023-11-13T14:11:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T14:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/cameron-s-crawl\/"},"modified":"2023-11-13T14:11:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T14:11:21","slug":"cameron-s-crawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/cameron-s-crawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron&#8217;s Crawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15775\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/02fdbabc63adaff7b522c3a25484bdb3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Cameron&#8217;s Crawl<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by David Erdos<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in Chess sits that secret moment<br \/>When the board turns to fire as the predetermined vision <br \/>Ignites, and when the parade of each piece before the gaze<br \/>Of fate proves astounding, revealing how what\u2019s decided<br \/>Is framed by both the cosmic black and star white<\/p>\n<p>The moving of politicians perhaps is much more <br \/>Than just the opposite of that process. The phrase cabinet<br \/>Reshuffle is the desperate pose of the checked, <br \/>For this moving of mates is arbitrary at best, <br \/>Not strategic. It is an attempt to hide behind order<\/p>\n<p>As the Rat Ship slides into sinking and as chaos <br \/>Flames below deck. It is worse that wankers<br \/>Who frot inside their own pockets. And is not <br \/>As calm as cards who slice cleanly between fortune<br \/>And decline. It is a last turgid act in which<\/p>\n<p>Unable to plan, you move madly. As if you were<br \/>Cheating at scrabble or leaving and losing your<br \/>Shit. It\u2019s a sign. As recently as yesterday Sunak still<br \/>Supported Suella, sadly another Indian woman<br \/>Who made her boorish predessor seem astute.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve used this joke before but I cannot resist <br \/>Its repeating as this shrill sounding siren<br \/>Kept singing a sick c for Canute. Make light <br \/>Of those letters to read what I think of these people <br \/>Who strive to lead us, just as the Pied Pipist<\/p>\n<p>Led rats. And lets not forget his dark price <br \/>And who he took back to the mountain. Which one <br \/>Of us will stay beach bound when survival\u2019s song <br \/>Resounds flat? The walls are closing in, made of sand, <br \/>And Rishi soon will slump, buried. Alarmed by Starmer<\/p>\n<p>Who is somewhat surprisingly on the rise, Rishi <br \/>Returns from under his rock, the crab Cameron<br \/>Who has been licking probably the same pearls <br \/>And Oysters that Sunak\u2019s tax-free wife must assize.<br \/>No doubt there are living the dream of past days<\/p>\n<p>Creamed by glory. Which in Politics can last minutes <br \/>Or a half score of years; which the public will never get back, <br \/>Pawns, priests and even Queens sacrificed, or soldiers dead.<br \/>Pensions frozen. Alan Bennett was right, live to 90 and still <br \/>Be able to boil an egg you\u2019re held dear. This happened<\/p>\n<p>With Oswald Mosley and soon, it will happen with Boris. <br \/>Though God forbid he continues his toilet squat for that long. <br \/>But TV will soon have him back, which shows how we should <br \/>All make our returns quick to reading, or to the piano placed <br \/>In the parlour, where families once fused around song.<\/p>\n<p>When it happens it will show how stupid we are, <br \/>And clearly how guileless as we allow the erosion <br \/>Of standards like Suella\u2019s empty sea to suck shores <br \/>Of their welcome and sheen. And so Cameron crawls, <br \/>Lobster licking, with crap and caviar soon combining<\/p>\n<p>To stain and stink step and door. Behind which Sunak <br \/>Steers towards the After Dinner Speech Circuit. <br \/>Not to mention the book that by Christmas 24 or 25 <br \/>Will feed trash, whether placed in the shops,<br \/>Or languishing in a dustbin. The print of another<\/p>\n<p>Displaced slim-hipped shadow placing a fat-faced fool <br \/>There beside him as the sinking ship does a wheelie <br \/>To become our next fatal car-crash, as we careen <br \/>Between choice and the lack of it bequeathed to us. <br \/>Under his storm, Sunak\u2019s steering is not a safe return<\/p>\n<p>To bland bays but a mayday signal at best, the wave <br \/>Of a soon to be anonymous arm in its drowning. <br \/>Even if he wins, it\u2019s not worth it. As it seems no decision <br \/>Made while aboard that careless craft can convey <br \/>What needs to happen. And so Cameron\u2019s call<\/p>\n<p>And each news unworthy item is another nail <br \/>In the coffin that has already been thrown out to sea. <br \/>We just have to secure it, that\u2019s all. But have you ever tried <br \/>To hammer hard through wild water? It chills chance, <br \/>Hands and motion, stopping it dead. Are fish free? <br \/>Or just biding time until we can trap them.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a good job Democracy\u2019s broken, and that equal <br \/>For all cannot be, or else the elite would be unable <br \/>To roam, forget and then net us. For just as we are <br \/>Cod-driven, they would have us with chips, easily. <br \/>Politics now, today is what Pop was in my childhood:<\/p>\n<p>Cannibalistic. Music sweetened. But this is sour stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Spit back. Checkmate. Unvote. Change.<\/p>\n<p>Condemn.<\/p>\n<p>Flee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron&#8217;s Crawl by David Erdos\u00a0 Somewhere in Chess sits that secret momentWhen the board turns to fire as the predetermined vision Ignites, and when the parade of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":15775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2885,2081],"class_list":["post-15776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-david-cameron","tag-foreign-secretary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15776","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\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}