WordSalad: The Poetry of Luke Prater

Chancellor George Osborne with The Budget neatly packed away

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The Conservative Government of The United Kingdom, in their Annual Budget announcement of Wednesday 23 March, revealed they are cutting the rate of tax for the richest (those on incomes of £150,000+), and reducing age-related Pension benefits.

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Ha! The News of the World
gossip of soulsold hacks
paparazzi moralacks
xenoflags finally furled

BSky bid force-failed
spivspin media mogul
facing humble pie

The Does were had by the Fox
but hunting is back in season
gun down the repulsive reason
for agit-prop missile-locks

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Odious Right-Wing media magnate Rupert Murdoch‘s global News Corporation enterprise, which includes Fox News, the disgustingly self-righteous and xenophobic British Sun tabloid and until very recently the equally heinous News of the World, has finally found itself in a quagmire that means more than just the loss of the bid to fully acquire British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), and a closure of the News of the World. The British Government was ready to bend to the man and allow him even more media influence in the BSkyB bid, as suddenly out came the mobile phone-hacking scandal – abducted children, 9/11 victims, 7/7 victims mobile voicemail messages had all been hacked for the sake of news headlines. The corruption inherent in News Corp is embedded deep and thick, as senior police officials and others have been forced to resign having taken bribes from the News of the World. The octogenarian Australian admitted to having the “humblest day” of his life after a member of the public landed a cream pie square in his face during a Parliamentary hearing on the 19th of July 2011.

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Cameron (Conservative), Clegg (Liberal), Brown (ex-Labour/PM)

Burnt marshmallow of
Blue and Yellow
tastes like toasted cancer.

I’ll answer you
Yellow-Blue,
cos you got my vote,
you chancer.

Hear “fuck you”, Yellow-Blue

Clegg’s Brown-nosed Cameron.
You lied before like the others did,
now showing your true colours, hid

did you know
Yellow-Blue
makes false-economy Green?

We know you now,
Yellow-Blue,
we know where you been.

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UK Political Colour-Codes – Blue = Conservative; Yellow = Liberal. Brown is the colour of excrement, and also the surname of the UK’s ex-Prime Minister and Labour Party Leader (they’re supposed to be Red, i.e. Socialist, but in fact showed themselves to be further Right than the Conservatives, particularly in aligning themselves with George W Bush’s Centre-Right Administration and going to war in Iraq under false pretences). Green is Green and should be at the top of the agenda with the Economy, but seems to continually get overlooked. I’m sorry, is ‘Green’ and ‘Economy’ (or perhaps ‘Corporate Profiteering’) an oxymoron extreme? It appears so.

The UK Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition of May 2010 has thus far looked to be a farce, with Conservative Leader and Prime-Minister David Cameron (left) pushing around his Deputy Prime-Minister Coalition partner Nick Clegg (centre) of the Liberal Democrats. The recent bullying and propaganda to secure a ‘NO’ from the public in the Alternative Voting system reform Referendum and the Lib Dems suffering a drubbing at Council-level elections one year on from the General Election of 2010, is a sure sign that Clegg is under the Tory thumb, and that Liberal voters are disillusioned. Clegg pledges to change the status quo and stick to some of the 2010 Election/Coalition promises. We watch and wait.

This was written following the UK General Election and Coalition Agreement in May 2010 and now all of a sudden, one year on, seems very much relevant again.

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Conservative Leader and UK Prime Minister David Cameron

Their toxic manifestos blind our sight,
Authoritarians lay traps and wait.
Rage, rage against the lying of the Right.

By Coalition, Liberals chanced the night -
the Tories forced into a strange stalemate -
but manifestos must be kept in sight.

The plotting Palin proves Obama’s blight,
while India and China crash the gate.
Rage, rage against the lying of the Right.

Control whole Middle-East, least if they might,
securing all the oil, at any rate.
Their faking manifestos blind our sight.

Don’t think you’re still ahead just ’cause you’re White,
and turn that huntin’ gun on me, irate.
Rage, rage against the lying of the Right.

Misled; within your eyes, Hell’s Flames alight,
unlock those missile-sights, all set in hate.
No toxic manifestos blind our sight;
rage, rage against the lying of the Right.

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Republican Sarah Palin, left, taken down a peg by satirist Tina Fey, right

The wonderful line I have used as my second refrain, which sparked off this villanelle in the first place - ‘Rage, rage against the lying of the Right’ – (playing on Dylan Thomas’s famous line ‘Rage, rage against the dying of the light’), is sourced from the Liberal/Left political website www.myleftwing.com and used with their kind permission. Indeed they have t-shirts with the it gloriously emblazoned across the front.

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Tony Blair addressing Britain

Ex-’president’ Bush and Mister
Blair thought they’d play God,
create Hell somewhere.

Take those black, widowing hands
and say your earnest prayers,
because, sure as Hell:

you’re going there.

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This was written in 2009, when Tony Blair’s New ‘Labour’ Government was still pacing the Corridors of Power in Westminster, though he had wilfully, as planned, given up the Premiership to Gordon Brown by then. Quoting something about ‘health’, and admitting popularity was a problem (for him, and for his Party), he resigned an ashen-faced shadow of the young and vibrant man who came to Government with a landslide in the 1997 UK General Election. The ‘War on Terror’ continues, George W Bush and Blair never held to account for quoting ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ (and links to Al-Qaeda) as reasons for  invading Iraq in 2003. None were found.

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Burnt marshmallow of
Blue and Yellow
tastes like toasted cancer.

I’ll answer you
Yellow-Blue,
cos you got my vote,
you chancer.

Hear “fuck you”, Yellow-Blue

Clegg’s Brown-nosed Cameron.
You lied before like the others did,
now showing your true colours, hid

did you know
Yellow-Blue
makes false-economy Green?

We know you now,
Yellow-Blue,
we know where you been.

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Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, is talking seriously to David Cameron about the possibility of  a Coalition. To my mind this would morally compromise almost all of what the Liberal Democrats stand for. A Liberal-Labour-Green-Scottish/Welsh/N Irish Nationalist Coalition would give them the necessary majority to legally form Government, and would seem the obvious preference. Liberal and Conservative? It’s as bemusing as Blair’s New “Labour” seeking advice from Thatcher and going arm-in-arm(s) with George W. Bush’s Centre-Right Republican Administration and going to war in Iraq under false pretences. Clegg and Cameron do not make happy bed-fellows. Or perhaps they do… is it time to come out of the closet, Nick?

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Arise out of ashes a smeared Phoenix,
hanged, hanging, hung with a sweaty
Coalition tie. Sins of the Spin-Father

forgiven and forgotten; beget and
begotten one rotten apple in the
barrel, taken out and tossed aside.

Tosser you are, to toss it that far.
Let it compost in the Common Garden,
Guardian of the Common-Folk.

Common yoke we all bear; give us our
share of the Open Source spring you
jeopardise. Closed-Circuit TV and ‘Net

passive-listeners rape Civil Liberty.
Threaten with threat of terrorism -
protect me? Nothing to hide, nothing

to fear, you’ll say, in that way, that way
we’ve become numb to. Bored now
by your snakes in the grass; kiss my arse.

Get round the table with the guys in those
sweaty other-coloured ties we made you
embrace, ash smeared on your ashen face.

The UK General Election imminent, my dream is for a hung Parliament – and this time round, it’s very much a possibility. A hung Parliament and Coalition will scare-force the politicians into cooperation and at last we may see some sense in UK politics. My fear is that, in many constituencies, the Liberal/Green vote will be split – or even the Liberal/trad. Labour vote, which should be united against a common adversary: David Cameron. Not to demonise the man, but he may well soon be calling himself Prime Minister if we split the vote.

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