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Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Fit to Work


FIT TO WORK

Fit to Work
Fit to Work
Come on Now
You mustn't shirk
Look at that man in his new car
Look at that woman, she'll go far.
Don't you want to be like them?
No
It's not fair that they have to subsidise you
They are the many, you are the few.
Fit to Work
Fit to Work
"Sanction me, you berk"
Folks are ill
you make them walk uphill
you kick away the crutch
you hide their inhaler
you ask them if they want to claim travel expenses
and when they say no, you punish them.
DWP means Stupid in Welsh 
mutated from Twp
I can't tell you how many times
I've looked for non existent jobs
on Government Job Search.
Not a single one of those vicarious careers
did I want to caress
but I had to apply for them
because you said so
but who are you?
Who actually are you?
Someone with a job
making someone else
get a job that they are not fit to do.
You begrudge them £8.00 a day
Come on what have you got to say?
This is the Welfare State
that Attlee made
and you are dismantling it in front of our eyes
you're too busy kicking out Russian Spies.


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