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Friday, 24 August 2018
For Bookmarks (after Britain First incursion)
It looks like we’ve got
yet another case
of guys out rooting
for the master race
invading a shop,
being a bit of a pain
trying to make ‘Britain
Great Again’
by pulling books off shelves,
refusing to leave:
‘what a tangled web’
these klutzes weave:
like bumbling old Boris,
what a decent bloke,
just happens to make
a passing joke
while kindly Steve Bannon
speaks for rationalism,
has a platform on Newsnight
for his Economic Nationalism.
Nothing to worry about
we just have to keep calm
It’s ‘Judeo-Christian war
‘gainst militant Islam.’
If you think that’s just
a load of old testicles,
Netanyahu said it
to the Evangelicals.
So what looks like
just a few books on the floor
is part of a picture that’s
telling us much more.
Anytime we think
they’re just having a laugh
let’s remember the joker
with the toothbrush moustache.
Many thought then
he was just a bit of a pain
who said he’d make
his country great again,
who many thought then
was just a funny face
not a man who’d convince
you were the master race.
We’ve been here before
with Griffin and Tyndall
who did their very best
to light and kindle
the fire of fascism
in every street
but last time they tried
they faced defeat.
Come summer, come winter
wind, frost or rain,
we stopped them before
we’ll stop them again.