Cor, you're everso lucky
being a Brit and living in the UK
that's where everybody wants to be
that's why they come over the channel
risking their lives in those small boats
to be in the glorious UK.
Oh i dunno about that
it ain't so glorious any more you know
taxes have all gone up
the NI stamp has gone up
it aint so easy anymore
why's all that gone up then
maybe it's got something to do with
having to pay for feeding and housing
the 28,500 of them illegal boat people
who arrived last year
and they just keep on coming
welcome to the UK
can you help us pay our tax bill please
or were you hoping to live on benefits
and put everyone elses tax bill up
funny what you think of
when your tax bill drops on the mat
or your wage packet contains a bit less
innit
(no need to worry about it if you believe money
grows on trees in downing street gardens)
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- Comment from author about the poem: Rumour has it that Rwanda will become a much more desireable destination for cross channnel small boat type economic migrants and much less demanding on UK taxpayers. Currently costing taxpayers £4.7million PER DAY (you do the maths 365days x £4.7million.... careful with those noughts now, with one nought out of place thats an awful lot of money).... yes its £1715.5 million a year thats £1,715,500,000.00 out of your deep pockets. You didnt know you were having to pay that much did you.
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please don't hate, all us immigrants
dear Poet
we're not all bad, promise
and though your words, account
for us who had to run
from wart torn, lands
may I, humbly suggest
while other's, 'economic' reasons
may seem, flimsy
or self-serving, only
most of these
guys and girls, and most
at such a young age
choosing to brave, such a treacherous
journey, submitting themselves
to those flimsy profiteering
bullies and rapists, with insidious
and inhumane malice, intent..
do so
so they can stand in line, beside you or me
in those waiting rooms
for job applicants
knowing, they will be discriminated
against
but having no better, avenue
to seek, that better
all those profiteering Hollywood dreams
sale to them..
or those conquering, Imperialist regimes
made them believe
in the warped textbooks, they left behind
once they finished, looting
those once, self sustaining
lands...
(theirs more to numbers
than mere digits, my friend
their are lives, imbued
in each rounded-up, figure
whole, entire lives
full of fallible mistakes
broken dreams
and suffering, endless
endless
crimson rivers of suffering
that those tiny boats
paddle through, to find
frustrated mindsets, like yours
as their horror greeting's..
such is life
for some..
for other's
they most likely
won't even make it, this far!
and died, not knowing
what a morose reality
awaited them
at their, dream destinations)
Hate? Where is the hate? It appears you picked up the hate word and ran with it in your comment LBM.
UK is among the most generous of countries when it comes to aiding migrants and so it should remain, where is the hate in that?
But side stepping the question in the piece's title is not the answer.
well, that's weird mr Dusk
I used that word once, as an opening
aside another word, 'please'
but you used it three times, and you think
I 'ran' with it.. ok
let me change angles a little
forgo the humanist tone
and trying to tap into your absent empathy..
let's converse based on cold hard FACTS
where all
is digits and score cards, to point fingers at
for our woes in life..
May I ask, dear wise and proud Nationalist
what percentage of the UK budget
you think accounts for this 'immigrant's'
without qualifying for whether they be 'economic' or other
just immigrants, as a whole
from the Irish, to those with different skin tones
all, as one
what percentage, you think?
and yet, they're the sole cause
for Our, collective tax hikes
year on year..
And comparatively, may I ask
dear wise proud Nationalist
what percentage of these same 'immigrant's'
prop-up
the worlds most influential economy/currency
by size
do you think?..
Yeah, I know
'They' tell us, every time theirs a tax hike
blame it on those foreigners, right?
that's how the UK leave, 'party'
managed to convince people to vote out of EU
'They come here, taking our jobs' and all of that
right?
All nice and simple, point finger
at one problem
fix it and and then all will be well..
Has leaving the EU, helped then?
Anyway, you probably find my words
antagonising, fuel
for your entitled opinions, so be it..
Let it be then, you're entitled to your opinion
much more than I am
I'm just another statistic immigrant, after all
what do I know..
THere you go again, this time you\'re calling me a nationalist. You have completely missed the point. Look at the title because it holds the theme of the theme of the post. The comments bring the current financial situation situation to the readers eyes.
I have no objection to legitimate immigration whatsoever. But as a law biding individual i do respect the laws of this country and will continue to wish to see ALL illegal activity dealt with by the authorities including the profiteers of gangland who profiteer by misleading economic migrants that they can enter UK illegally. If you have a problem with the laws of UK take it up with a politician.
Finally, remember what happens to the poor illegals who actually make it to UK. They are taken advantage of by the underworld. They end up in sweat shops or as sex slaves and that includes the children. I'm sure you are overlooking those aspects of this issue because i cannot for one moment imagine you support exploitation.
exploitation, discrimination and victimisation
yet they still come
makes you ask, what they're running from
or yearning to find..
forgive my name calling, if you find 'nationalist'
such an offensive term..
I missed the humanist empathy in your title
and misunderstood
why of course, by referring to 'this lot'
your words were sympathising with their plight
how wrongly I have misinterpreted your intentions..
lol
let's just agree to disagree then, dear poet
The MPs have got it covered, they will not lose out or be out of pocket so that's alright then.
Andy
I believe this unposted poem of mine tells a tale:
From the moment humans left the African plains
And planted new soils with life supporting grains
A tide of immigrants transformed the many lands
Till a flag was planted and nations were born
Fear or necessity force millions to crawl for foreign sands
Once welcomed as labor have become an invading thorn
The solution is simple, and tide can be turned
Once the nations are free of corruption and economies are churned
You certainly reach the historic roots of how nations are born in your words.
It's a sad fact that those currently entering illegally who dodge the immigration laws are cruelly taken advantage of. Not only are they paying a fortune for a very risky boat trip to get to UK but once they arrive they will be in the hands of unscrupulus gangs. They end up in sweat shops or as sex workers and earn little or no money - and that includes the children.
"Who's paying for this lot then" well sadly the illegals are paying a terrible price by the look of it as things stand.
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