Free Sestina

Free Sestina

A sports presenter exercised free-speech,

To criticise government policies on Twitter,

much to the vexation of right-wing football

fans, as well as home secretary, Cruella Deville,

who complained to her friend at the BBC,

who in turn, reprimanded his employee.

“if you want to remain our employee,

control yourself; curb your free-speech,

lest you tarnish the good name of the BBC.

In future, don’t post anything on Twitter,

criticising the policies of Cruella Deville;

try sticking with tweets about football,

or at least, if you digress from football,

be a responsible, impartial, employee;

lay off Brexit and Cruella Deville;

we shouldn’t have to tell you: free-speech

has its limitations, maybe not on Twitter,

but certainly, here at the BBC.”

So said the Tory donor chairman of the BBC,

to the pundit; but still, right wing football

fans bitterly bombarded the Twitter

account of the reprimanded employee;

exercising their powers of free-speech

to condemn his tweets re Cruella Deville,

and as far as the PM, and Cruella Deville

were concerned, the chairman of the BBC

should silence the pundit’s free-speech,

once and for all, even concerning football;

they felt he should no longer be an employee,

after what he’d tweeted on Twitter,

and, incidentally, how could it be that Twitter

allowed Nazi comparisons with Cruella Deville,

on their platform, now every left wing employee

has been sacked by Elon Musk? The BBC,

following Musk’s lead, should sack the football

pundit, and enforce laws, banning free-speech,

on any left-wing employee, of the BBC,

tweeting on Twitter, slandering Cruella Deville,

and mixing football with anti-Tory, free-speech.