Think again, Priti

Poem by Frances Voelcker

Priti Patel, Priti Patel
your Police and Crime Bill
will take us to hell,
draconian powers
never end well – 
for pity’s sake, Priti,
we have to rebel!

Democracy means
that each voice must be heard,
the least and the lonely
as well as the herd.
It’s messy and noisy
and passions are raw
but your Bill’s a dictator’s -
must not become law.

51 weeks
for texting a Friend
to meet in the street
and sing songs that offend?
Banners that criticise
serve to defend
Human Rights, Priti:
we will not be penned!

The planet is reeling,
the people displaced:
have you no feeling
how we are disgraced?
19 pages unscrutinised,
ethics effaced?
Misuse of police,
court values debased?

Home secretaries come and
home secretaries go,
but the laws that they leave
can bring nations down low.
For the sake of the people
think ‘listen’, think ‘share’
Oh, think again, Priti:
your soul is laid bare.

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Priti good poem

By Padraic Murray on 17th February 2022 - 10:47

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