When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses!

 
By Stanley Collymore

British right-wingers have
a massive problem with  
money being sensibly  
spent to stop children from  
pointlessly ever starving,
but unsurprisingly are  
amazingly okay with  
practically multiple  
billions  of Pounds  
Sterling, literally  
spent on dodgy  
contracts with
Tory donors -  

like those, purportedly,
making Covid-19 PPE  
that obviously don't  
work. Or huge pay  
rises for indolent  
and thoroughly useless MPs.
And comparably too Boris  
Kemal-Johnson's vanity  
projects when he was  
London's Mayor and  
similarly uncaring  
as Britain's lately  
installed, and a
visibly ineptly  
basically out
of his depth  
incumbent  
UK Prime  
Minister.

However, any public  
suggestion of help  
for the poor and  
truly vulnerable solicits  
nothing, but frothing  
fury from these same  
intensely obnoxious  
quite patronizingly  
too, irrefutably as  
well, sickeningly  
self-absorbed as
a proud coterie  
of thoughtless,
so manifestly  
haughty and  
toxic Tories  
discernibly  
of a country totally  
occupied by nasty  
persons - whose  
sole role in life  
other than to
make loads
of money;
is hating
persons
unlike
them.

(C) Stanley V. Collymore
24 October 2020.


Author's Comments:
The title I've given to this poem, and that appropriately I honestly do feel suitably fits this subject matter, does come from a discernibly inspirational quote by the late Shirley Chisholm.

Shirley Chisholm - now permanently ensconced as expectedly so with all the Heavenly Host - was an American born and dynamic lady of Barbadian extraction whose parents ensured she had the precious twin advantages of a thorough Barbadian upbringing and its full attendant formative education that Shirley herself always lauded in her native born USA.

An American politician, educator and author Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman to be elected to the US Congress, serving 7 consecutive terms from 1969 - 1982.

In 1972 Shirley also became not only the first African American of either gender but also the first woman  ever, and equally so for a major USA party - the Democratic Party - to run for the USA  presidential nomination. Quite remarkable achievements, these, by any objective and rational analysis!  

In marked contrast I will also borrow from the words of William Hoffmann to cogently summarise my opinion of Britain and most of its inhabitants.  

You ever get the sinking feeling that Britain is fast filling up with bastards of both genders - and not only biologically so but immorally too? I do! What I really  want to know though, is what happens when all these bastards run out of people to crap on?

What happens when all that's left in Britain are nasty bastards - not only Tory but also Labour, Lib-Dems  SNP and the other political nonentities?

My heartfelt humourous apologies to William Hoffmann  - A place in my Head.