Depressing Outlook
“Welfare for Osborne was just a bottomless pit
of savings, and it didn’t really matter what the
human consequences were, because focus groups
had shown that the voters they wanted to appeal
to were very anti-welfare . . . “
- Nick Clegg as reported by The Guardian
Hard hat on head, photographers on hand,
He knew to whom this image most appeals.
Disabled? Jobless? A negligible band,
Their money useful, though, to grease his wheels.
Cold-bloodedly, the snake, now scotched, not killed,
Still slithers towards its overarching goal,
A prospect leaving half a nation chilled,
The pitiless George Osborne in control.
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