The Politics Of Envy

The politics of envy

The Bullingdon Boys of Eton

After having eaten

Came across a beggar in the park

To whom a scion shifty

Bared a note of fifty

And burned it down to ashes for a lark

They walked away with laughter

The beggar died soon after

The scion with a wealthy guarantee

Had an Oxford education

And after graduation

Turned Conservative celebrity

The Oxford classics reader

Became a Tory leader

In towns and cities very much in vogue

All youthful antics rotten

Dismissed or long forgotten

The country voted in the charming rogue

And now the population

Is told of high inflation

Warned of punitive austerity

As scions burn their millions

And the ever-poorer minions

Toil for Eton’s sons’ prosperity