The Chancellor
Anarchophy
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Just like other Budget days, the pantomime begins The chancellor's red briefcase hides such misery within He holds it up and bears a smile that's dead behind the eyes He knows the numbers represent real people with real lives But also knows that that's the job - the subtle sleight of hand To give away enough that most don't recognise the scam Take from the poor to feed the rich tax breaks and incentives Praised by the press, the same each year: his theft is inventive So deft is he at selling us a path to poverty That few will stop to question austerity's validity The same old Trickle Down approach that didn't work before The same old welfare for the rich whilst stealing from the poor The same old pull your socks up and freeloaders can f*ck off While subsidizing industries and covering corporate loss And what's another cut to those who just refuse to work? Another pound or ten reduced - it isn't gonna hurt Think of where that money could be much better applied So what if it increases disabled suicides It may have been the income on which they may have once survived But business has demands and those demands must be supplied So watch as once again we raid upon the public purse When things are already this bad we barely notice when they're worse Darwin economics it's survival of the fittest And poverty will kill you when you're governed by the richest And I don't know What we're doing here I don't know When civilisation disappeared I don't know What we're doing here The chancellor does sleep at night next door to number ten Tucked far away from consequence he brought on by his pen His wrought iron gates are guarded by the cops he underpaid His head upon the pillow he rests tired from the day He doesn't hear the sound of those who have got nothing left to eat Of pensioners freezing to death who can't afford their heat Of unemployed begging for work as bosses count their profits Of those relying on welfare being told that they're now off it He doesn't hear the screams of those denied more social housing And if he did the dirty sod would likely find the screams arousing Instead he dreams of mansions and the parties he attends The lobbyists who tell him to increase their dividends The luxury and opulence to which he's grown accustomed The Masters of the Universe who groomed him and who trust him To show the population what's best for them is best for business Convince the citizens there is no other way to fix this The experts all agree that we all have to make these savings At least the experts we've employed; the ones that we are paying He doesn't have to listen to the sobs of a statistic Just the price of doing business in a world so capitalistic And I don't know What we're doing here I don't know When civilisation disappeared I don't know What we're doing here The media delights in the chancellor's deceptions Headline grabbing sound-bites getting all of their attention Even while acknowledging that they are being played It's like they cannot help themselves from joining the charade Repeating propaganda on every TV station Willingly participants in our manipulation Ideology being passed off as consensus With no alternative proposed the spin is just relentless Economic forecast reported as if its fact On eggshells as to how the global markets may react Disavowing culpability for what's ancestral Lives are being ruined while they cite the cost of petrol A penny off a pint of beer; the chancellor's a hero "Thou shalt opiate the proles": the chancellor's solemn credo Schools and hospitals won't have the funds to serve our needs And they shut down all the libraries cuz it doesn't pay to read And they lowered all the wages and they carved away the pensions But none of this is will linger in the public conversation Because we'd rather blame the Budget on the poor or immigration Than acknowledge that the Chancellor embezzled the whole nation And I don't know What we're doing here I don't know When civilisation disappeared
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