Hancock's Half Arse

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Tories demand agreement from all sides,
as if parliament were their surly class:
'I will not have this divisive language.
I will not have it!' the little snowflake
Hitler Hancock humphs, who lied last time
the question was raised, and so now
he has no answer but to bluster and snap
as to when the citizens of Slough will have
their local Covid testing centre back.

Mass murderers they are, but bills
and pitchforks will not turf them out;
for Brits are gutless fools, divided, led
like sheep to pen or shed or slaughter.
The media have seen to that too long. 
Through Austerity no one stopped the cull
of old, disabled, vulnerable, and weak,
double the deaths of Covid butchery
so far, but more disaster's coming.

The incidence of Covid climbs the curve
that hoists a ladder up to cataclysm;
and when the hospitals are fully stretched
the deaths will stack to daily hundreds,
and the care-homes short of PPE again.
Care workers then will flit like busy bees
to spread the bug and swell the funeral flowers
and hospitals will funnel patients back
like tossing in grenades; that's how its done.

Meanwhile the testing system's run by pals
in Serco. Tories call it NHS to try to stifle
legitimate complaint at such inefficiency
such hopeless inadequacy at huge cost,
a pisspoor service for the stolen bucks.
To add an extra grimace to a face
a million jobs are being thrown away
as back to Schumpeter's gruel Sunak steers -
that monster Thatcher-Reagan beast adored.

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There was a comedian called Tony Hancock who had 'Hancock's Half Hour' on TV in the sixties.  'Half-arsed' is to do a job lazily and inadequately. This Hancock is  Secretary of State for Health and Social care - or Overseer of the Covid Butchery as I name him.

Schumpeter was a cruel bastard economist who believed in creative destruction - just chuck a lot of people out work in the name of fiscal economy and some would start new businesses. It didn't matter how many suffered (or died early) and it kept mass wages down - though not those of bosses or bankers.  Sunak is the British Chancellor .


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