BULLINGDON GANGSTER - A POEM WRITTEN BY ZITA HOLBOURNE, COPYRIGHT AUGUST 2011

BULLINGDON GANGSTER

WRITTEN BY ZITA HOLBOURNE, COPYRIGHT AUGUST 2011

BORN RICH YET STILL YOU WERE A GANG MEMBER

GREW UP IN LUXURY BUT THAT DIDN’T CURB YOUR TEMPER

YOU NEVER EXPERIENCED DESTITUTION

YET STILL ENDED UP IN AN INSTITUTION

WITH YOUR GANG LASHING OUT

ACTING LIKE A THUG AND LOUT

DESTROYING PROPERTIES JUST FOR FUN

SHOWING NO REMORSE FOR WHAT YOU’D DONE

YOU SAID YOU DID THINGS WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG

THAT YOU BELIEVE YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE DONE

BUT STILL YOU MANAGED TO ESCAPE THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM

EACH TIME THROWING MONEY TO BRIBE YOUR VICTIM

DRINKING, VOMITING ON AND TRASHING PROPERTY

BUT NOT AS A RESPONSE TO EXTREME POVERTY

YOU SAID THE RIOTS ARE ABOUT A CULTURE THAT DISRESPECTS AUTHORITY

DRAWING ON YOUR OWN FAILURE TO ACT PROPERLY

YOU SAID THE PARENTS OF THESE CHILDREN DON’T CARE WHO THEY’RE WITH

I WONDER AFTER YOUR PARENTS FOUND OUT WHO YOU WERE WITH

THEY WERE ABLE TO FORGIVE?

HANGING AROUND WITH FELLOW THUGS OF YOUR BULLINGDON GANG

DID THEY DISCIPLINE YOU OR FORBID YOU TO HANG

WITH GEORGE AND BORIS IN YOUR GANGSTER PARADISE

DESTROYING BUSINESSES BEFORE THE OWNERS’ EYES

PERHAPS AS YOU ESCAPED PUNISHMENT AT THE TIME

YOU SHOULD BE EVICTED FROM NO.10 FOR YOUR CRIME

PERHAPS YOU OUGHT TO PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH AND RECEIVE A PRISON SENTENCE

PLEDGE YOUR REMORSE AND DEMONSTRATE YOUR REPENTANCE

YOU STATED THAT CHILDREN TODAY END UP IN GANGS THROUGH NEGLECT

SHAME ON YOUR PARENTS THAT YOUR CHILDHOOD WAS WRECKED

PERHAPS IF YOUR PARENTS HAD KEPT YOU AT HOME

INSTEAD OF FORCING YOU TO LIVE ALONE

YOU WOULDN’T HAVE COMMITTED THE VIOLENT CRIMES YOU DID

THEN WHEN THE POLICE CAME RAN AWAY AND HID

IT SEEMS YOUR BAD UPBRINGING LED TO A LIFE OF STEALING

TAKING TAX PAYERS MONEY FOR YOUR CONSERVATORY ROOF RESEALING

AND OTHER PROPERTY REPAIRS WHICH YOU AGREED TO REPAY

YET YOU CONTINUED THIEVING PUBLIC SECTOR PENSIONS AND PAY

YOUR LACK OF RESPECT FOR FAMILY VALUES

AND FAILURE TO COLLECT REVENUES

HAS LED TO MANY OF YOUR FRIENDS COMMITTING CRIME

AVOIDING AND FAILING TO PAY THEIR TAXES ON TIME

THIS HAS LED TO PARENTS OF THE CHILDREN YOU DESPISE

HAVING TO WORK TWO OR THREE JOBS JUST TO SURVIVE

YOU’VE BEEN TAXING THE POOR

TO PAY THE RICH MORE

SO MR CAMERON WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT BREAKING THE LAW

PERHAPS YOU NEED TO LOOK FIRST TO YOUR OWN FRONT DOOR