David Lucas, a commentator on his blog, offered this doggerel in a comment, and then gave me permission to share it more widely:
We, the people, feel the squeeze
You may have heard it said,
And this is more than a rumour
That the City of London and the mega-rich
Act like a cancerous tumour
They suck our blood
Which does us no good
They act like a parasitic worm
Does that make you squirm?
They have influence and persuasion
Money offshore and tax evasion
Private yachts and Private jets
How loathsome their self-indulgence gets?
Huge contribution to global warming
They sound ghastly and revolting.
We, the people, feel the squeeze
Polluted rivers and polluted seas
Crumbling schools. Failing NHS
Hungry children. Failing services
Unaffordable rents and houses
Unmended potholes in our roads
Time we were protesting.
Time we were revolting.
The government won't act to clean up this mess
Because they are in the pockets of the rightwing press
Because they are “brainwashed” by investment banks
Influenced by antisocial neoliberal rightwing think-tanks
Directorships, consultancies, lucrative bungs as thanks.
It's time to legislate a change
It's time for an economic rearrange
Government get off your grubby self-interest knees
Please, please, please, please listen to our pleas
Release us from this inequality economic wheeze
Do something about this economic sleaze
Because we the people feel the squeeze.
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And just to go nicely with it
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2y009pr50o
Wheres my pitchfork?
And still the BBC is not angry.
BBC probably wary of being too critical as it appears to be “company policy” that Gordon Brown (the King of PFI) is the “elder statesman” who did no wrong.
In the interests of “full disclosure”, I’ve done very nicely professionally out of PFI deals (the work I did advising a potential buyer of loans to PFI companies was very satisfying intellectually, and it generated fee income) but they were an obvious “car crash” from the outset. The most optimistic outcome was that they would prove to be a very expensive way of providing fundamental essential services.
It may be of consolation to readers here that there are significant private sector losses associated with the collapse of the PFI company (Transform Stoke Schools Ltd).
I’m reading Peter Oborne’s 2025 book ‘Complicit’ about Gaza – the BBC are complicit in just about everything as far as I am concerned. Honestly…………..