The Politics of Envy (part 2)

The Politics of Envy (part 2)

An immigrant mum moved into a flat

A Tory commuter angry at that

Tweeted a tweet conservative blue

Wrote to The Sun and The Mail HQ

Drove to the railway station uptight

And very nearly ran a red light

On hearing reports on radio two

Of doctors and nurses striking anew

He hurriedly parked in need of a pee

Saw pickets outside the station and he

Recalled that he’d forgotten about

The railway workers’ vote to walkout

Turning around exceedingly vexed

He had an exchange with his boss by text

And rather than lose a shifts’ worth of pay

He took a day out of his holiday

For being a blue collar absentee

In line with company policy

He doesn’t get paid till after day three

Whatever the reason happens to be

Back at his house he noted a van

Parked by a harried delivery man

Carrying boxes of groceries

To the new arrivals from overseas

Straight to his tablet on Twitter he went

And a whole days’ holiday thus he spent

Venting his anger at nurses on strike

Immigrant single-mums and their like

And while he was at it he had a snipe

At public sector woke left wing tripe

Benefit scrounging neighbourhood blights

Socialists calling for human rights

Accumulated wealth being shared

Services run with no expense spared

And higher taxes for billionaires

Living off privatized company shares

It’s the politics of envy he said

If kids are unhappy and underfed

Their parents should work more hours per week

Or find a job less prospectively bleak

The blue collar Tory is fifty five

And if he’s lucky to still be alive

In twelve years’ time a pension he’ll get

But a dozen years is a way off yet

His fellow employees not on the board

Can’t even at sixty seven afford

A nice retirement and here’s the twist

Company pensions no longer exist

Least not the same as back in the day

When workers retired on salary pay

And the old school board was more inclined

To profit-share with employees in mind

Yes he is very bitter indeed

But not at the crude supporters of greed

Glorified every day in the Mail

As poverty soars and services fail

The blue collar Tory lacking in sense

Stands by the Tories in rigid defence

Even as the myth of trickled down wealth

Benefits nobody such as himself

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