I see Trans People and Muslims (or Brainwashed Mod)

I see Trans People and Muslims (or Brainwashed Mod)

I asked an acquaintance, “What do you see

In the Mail and on GB News every day?”

“I see trans-people and Muslims” said he;

“That’s why I’m voting for Reform UK.”

I said, “Reform want lower taxation

For billionaire brokers who live overseas,

Reaping the wealth of privatisation,

Hedge betting and market monopolies."

He, double-downing, declared, “I don’t care;

We’re not allowed to be English and proud,

There aint a Union Jack anywhere,

The wokes and lefties, are getting too loud,

And you can’t post stuff on X anymore,

Cos they’ve banned free speech and there’s two tier law;

And besides," my interlocutor said;

“The politics of envy don’t work mate;

They’ll just leave and live somewhere else instead."

I then inquired of his views on the state

Of our services and utilities,

To which he responded: “If we spent less

On benefits for so-called refugees

And scroungers, we wouldn’t be in this mess.”

He ranted, brooking neither ifs nor buts;

Nullifying my counter suggestion

Pertaining to austerity and cuts,

Which he felt were barely worth a mention,

Beyond blaming it on lefties, in spite

Of fourteen years governance by the right.

Rant over; he donned a target skid-lid,

And scooted off on a chrome Lambretta,

Very much looking like his father did,

Before he got older and knew better;

Leaving me at the roadside, reflecting

On the irony of nostalgia being

The way forward in the unsuspecting

Minds of majority voters, seeing

Only trans-people and Muslims as the cause

Of the erosion of our infrastructure,

While right-wing recipients of applause

Get elected; furthering the rupture,

Always with yet more scapegoats in mind;

Reform being kings, in the eyes of the blind.