The Many Haiku’s of The Newt

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An health assessment
Declares Britains National Parks
Nature in crisis

(11.4.24 the Campaign for National Parks says only 6% of national parks is managed effectively for nature)

That Feargal Sharkey
Joining Windermere campaign
And talking more shit

(9.4.24 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce48qed7xe5o )

Mega farm units
Imported from the US
Driving climate change

This manure mountain
Polluting English rivers
Mostly chicken shit

(13.2.24 Times report on shit on farm land leaking into rivers)

A toxic culture
The government colludes with
Shitting in rivers

Shitting in rivers
The government colludes with
A toxic culture

(29.4.23 Woke up this morning thinking about the CBI and stuff)

The newt pool steaming
The hottest year on record
Will we ever learn

(3.1.23 last year announced as hottest on record)

Don’t wear blue and green
They never go together
Stop tory coal mines

(7.12.22 Whitehaven mine permissions see tories leading the way on green issues)

Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
Arrest two young protestors
Not the pollutors?

(20.10.22 Catching up with recent news)

The Newt’s in trouble
His population falling
Sixty nine per cent

(13.10.22 The World Wide Fund For Nature reports on 69% fall in wildlife populations during the last five years)

These tory women
Miss Trusst the rubber lady
Flush down the u turn (bend)

(12.10.22 Miss Trusst channeling Thatcher)

Who voted for this
These BallsJups and Miss Trussts
Was it you and him

(6.10.22 Greenpeace protestors disrupt Hiss Trusst’s conference speech)

Deregulation
Policies lack protection
Attack on nature

(29.9.22? The Woodland Trust, RSPB and National Trust campaign against governments lack of concern for nature)

Now BallsJup is gone
Into the nether regions
Out of perils way

A ceremony
Naming a Prime Minister
I give you Miss Trusst

(26.9.22 The Newt renames the Prime Minister)

Slathering puppies
With panting tongues lolling out
Feel anxiety

(16.8.22 Losing interest in the leadership race in the hope that the winner will later become loser come election time)

The Newt’s Pond is hot
Nature adapts to climate
Chaos is coming

(19.7.22 Heatwave finds the Newt going back to where he started from – a new leader, climate chaos, the impact of deregulation)

A leadership race
Whilst I hope its not that Liz
They are all tories

(17.7.22 The Newt’s Verdict on the current race for leadership)

It’s all about tax
The tory leadership race
It’s very taxing

(10.7.22 According to the Sunday papers)

Rishi and Sajid
Send mild letters of rebuke
In leadership bid

(6.7.22 More resignations from BallsJup’s cabinet. Gove said BallsJup couldn’t get a team together didn’t he?)

Angela Rayner sings
To blue chorus of abuse
Re working class roots

The babies are banned
Competition not welcomed
By the ranting bores

(30.6.22 Don’t take your babies to work dictat announced and such a fuss about going to an opera)

SCHIZOPHRENIA

The great world leader pretend
Losing unions

(29.6.22 Inspired by a daily haiku renga BallsJup is losing the union and losing against unions but still thinks he’s special)

Tank running empty
Can’t afford to eat and heat
BallsJup says buy house

10.6.22 response to BallsJup’s cost of living speech

Defiant shouting
After being mealy mouthed
Rumbled not humbled

(26.5.22 Reviewing another BallsJup performance on day of Sue Gray Report)

The true blue party
Pornography and rapists
Who will lead us next

Who will lead us next
Fulll of damned dodgy dealers
The true blue party

(24.5.22 Just commenting on recent events that’s all)

Here there they seek him
The lying fraudulent fool
Make him our leader

They’re all lying now
Heads bowed in cabinet draws
Tory cover ups

Imran Ahmad Khan
Assaulted a little boy
Tory Sex Scandal

(23rd May 2022 – Pics emerge of BallsJup from the party he wasn’t fined for)

BallsJup denies it
Leaking a full disclosure
Of Sunak’s accounts

Citizen Khan
Another tory scandal
Must keep these pricks out

(12.4.22 On the chancellor’s missus being nom dom and another tory sex scandal)

London is choking
Under a polluted sky
Breathing is harder

War in the Ukraine
Keeps the pennies rolling in
Minimise sanctions

Keep refugees out
Refuse military aid
Zelensky asked for

A Saharan wind
Blows sand into our faces
Hard times coming home

Filthy brown rivers
Europes’ dirty man is back
Deregulation

(27.3.22 The Newt is suffereing from tory responses to the Ukraine and a lack of response to pollution)

Europe opens doors
Their hearts full of compassion
No refugees here

We want fruit pickers
Bending their backs for Britain
These are our war gains

Tory punishment
Locked hearts and doors and borders
Their shameless faces

Red as strawberries
Drops of blood in Ukraine mud
We’ll take your farmers

We’ll grow our future
On the backs of refugees
We’ll accept the skilled

See British fields
Lined with lines of fleeing feet
Marching to our drum

Drafted and dragooned
Echoes of slavery days
Our British methods

How we rule the waves
Money first profit second
Whip working people

(1.3.22 Haikus for Ukraine inspired by Poetry London)

This prime minister
Takes advice on honesty
When filling out forms

(13.2.22 Its been reported that BallsJup needs to take legal advice on how to fill out police forms legally. I mean honestly)

You’re responsible
You voted for a liar
Not an honest man

What a choice to make
Minor league Donald Trump
Misogynist too

Add to that racist
Xenophobic jingoist
Puffed up posturer

Ambushed by a cake
He’s sado-machochistic
Sending for the whips

(26.1.22 BallsJup’s character in haiku form)

Christian Wakeford’s lists
Prime Ministers failures
Would make good novel

Blackmail, corruption
An allegation of lies
Starving children too

Which crime made him walk
Come over to other side
And why take so long

(19.2.22 Christian Wakeford made a good case for leaving, a case for ejecting BallsJup and then William Wragg leapt in with all kinds of other stories)

If taken fully
His responsibility
Then how will we know

His masterful words
Of stinking cesspit disguise
Stink the commons out

(18.1.22 Today and a while ago BallsJup said he would take full responsibility. If he does how will we know?)

Operation Save Big Dog
If it doesn’t work
Let’s have him put down

(17.1.22 It transpires Downing St is going all out to save BallsJup)

Who do i believe
BallsJup or the scientists
A question of trust

(16.12.21 Mealy mouthed BallsJup fudging rather than fibbing causing confusion)

Never trust Tories
To look after public health
Freedom’s fucked their brains

(15.12.21 99 Tories vote against Balljup’s covid restrictions) 

I was too shit faced
To remember a party
Was it any good

(14.12.21 The excuse BallsJup hasn’t tried yet)

Liar pants on fire
You think you’re telling the truth
We know you’re not

(8.12.21 Busted BallsJup Again)

A xmas party
They came they saw and had fun
Rules went unbroken

No glasses were chunk
Across their social distance
They weren’t really there

Its a forlorn chat
From the chatty rat
Who had to blow a whistle

(7.12.21 BallsJup had a very strange xmas party last year)

Jon Bon Govie
In government drugs crack down
Tories rock and roll

(6.12.21 Todays its all about BallJup’s War On  Drugs. The speaker is calling in the cops re coke in the commons. Where do they get it all from?)

Social care crisis
Plus police under resourcing
Equals dead children

(2.12.21 RIP Arthur Labinjo-Hughges from all of us still paying the cost of tory austerity and me  me me policies)

Standards from this man
A man who has no standards
He’s having a laugh

(22.11.21 did the newt dream BallsJup was calling for standards vi-a-vis corruption last week?)

Insulate Britain
Become prisoners of conscience
In oppressive state

Major BallsJup’s crimes
Remain unpunished
By corrupt sleazy system

Money making schemes
v climate chaos
We know who the winner is

Insolate Britain
Isolate English
By those who got Brexit done

(18.11.21 The Newt on Insulate Britain and claims that BallsJup is corrupt)

We care about newts
Was BallsJup’s criticism
Green Activists

Deregulation
Is better than green, he said
Ripping the green belt

Its such a good thing
Like shit in sea and rivers
Compost the ocean

Now he’s gone all COP
Corrupt Opportunities
Abbreviated

Meanwhile in Newt Pond
Its hot and getting hotter
Reaching Boiling point

Caring for newts
Doesn’t wash with this great newt
He’s making it up

As he goes along
With this week’s BallsJup boosters
His card has been marked

(10.11.21 BallsJup Pollution, Climate Chaos and Corruption)

He’s learned green is good
Newt’s think green is great
So why is shit in my pond

(2.10.21 BallsJup pollutes rivers and then says he’s only just started taking an interest in green issues. Phoney deregulator)

10,000 piggies
BallsJup can’t save their bacon
They will soon be chopped

Save The Pigs campaign
Complain about BallsJup’s lies
Stop telling porkies

(18.10.21. Catching up on the slaughter of pigs due to no drivers, etc)

We got a deal done
On the word of an englishman
Who signed the papers

And now look at him
Wanting to tear it all up
Something wrong BallsJup

Those nasty europeans
The  French and Germans
Can they save us now

(13.10.21 Its all going wrong and now Europe is trying to bail us out. BallsJup still on ‘foreign’ holiday)

Nasty report out
BallsJup is on holiday
The sands not sticking

(12.9.21. Plus ca change. Shit hits the fan. Boris is on holiday)

Dummy Raab! Justice!
A tautology
Or Oxbridge Moron

It doesn’t add up
Gavin Williamson
Expelled

R Jenrick MP
Housing Secretary
Evicted

Justice for Afghans
Not bloody likely
They ruined his holidays

Justice for Jenrick
Accused of corruption
Again not likely

Liz Truss moves from trade
To Foreign Office
She knows her onions

(15.9.21. Cabinet reshuffle)

They all look the same
Choose Gavin Williamson
From dim tory boys

Turn them migrants round
Said Patel to Border Force
Keep my parents out

(9.9.21. Williamson identifies Itoje as Rashford / Patel issues illegal advice to stem flow of refugees)

The schools return
To the government a test
It keeps on failing

(3.9,21 Kids are back to school, covid infections set to rise, government solution…. open a window)

BallsJup says he’s proud
The Afghanis are burning
Dumb Raab’s still sleeping

(30.8.21 The west claiming victory in defeat whilst the world turns paranoid over western failure)

BallsJup recalls house
Wanting a long windy chat
Ruins Raab’s repose

(19.8.21 – On the Afghanistan debate)

Ancient habitats
Full of life and history
Replaced by railways

Slow ecology
The centuries of a tree
Versus HS2

Dig us a coal mine
Source us fossil fuel you fool
Planet is burning

(9.8.21 Alok Sharma MP gets a mention from Greta Thunberg. The Newt says it better)

Isolate BallsJup
Covid is irrelevant
We just can’t stand you

BallsJup is with child
Carrie carries the real weight
Of expectation

(8.8.21 holiday season – all is quiet on the western front)

Facebook not racist
Football not racist
BallsJup racist

Bans don’t stop racists
BallsJup won’t stop them
Law, education, helps us

Helps us
Survive them
Survive BallsJup

Survive BallsJup
Kicking balls up
Into empty space

(17.7.21 BallsJup like Prince George got a free ticket to the match. We shouldn’t give him a free ticket to talk shit)

BallsJup talks football
With customary flair of
Millwall supporters

BallsJup tells racists
To crawl under the stone
He just vacated

BallsJup takes his knee
Into the groin of football
Escapes sending off

BallsJup wears the shirt
A ringmaster loves his flag
Trampled by clowns

St George slew dragons
Prince George ponced tickets
Off the FA’s president

So. What’s wrong with that
Future kings can kiss my arse
Not real supporters

How much did you pay
For that old school tie
That gets best seats in the house

Nepotism still wrong
As sucking up
To money and to status

(12.7.21. BallsJup and Prince’s gets the Newt’s goat for approach to football)

You do as I say
But don’t do as I will do
Hypocrite Halfcock

Halfcock, he’s useless
Must keep him in employment
Moral-less BallsJup

Tough on pandemics
The Austerity Chancellor
Welcome Savage Jav

(28.6.21 Catching up on the Halfcock scenario)

Lies damned lies. Damn Lies
Cummins, Halfcock or BallsJup
Which one is lying

History dictates
The one who lies best
Comes out of the wash cleanest

BallsJup pedigree
Makes him clear leader
Jumps over moral hurdles

Halfcock is scapegoat
Trailing close behind
Sullied by BallsJup hoof prints

Cummins the tadpole
Wanted not to be a frog
Lied about Europe

Lies damned lies. Damn lies
Cummins, Halfcock or BallsJup
Which one of these lied?

(28.5.21 English politics loses compass in patina of lies and counter truths)

He freed Dominic Cummins
Freed Priti Patel
Free Major BallsJup?

(29.4.21 BallsJup retains the final say on his innocence – or otherwise. Which way will the pennies drop)

The Chatty Rat speaks
In asides and whispers
Of incompetence

The conservative party
Slides into sleazpe
With the utmost of ease

The chattiest rat of all
Uses foul language
Pile em high BallsJup

(24.4.21-26.4.21 Who said what? Conspiracy, revenge, et tu Brutes)

Dyson putting money
Above and beyond people
Dying of Covid

Football Supporters
From Chelsea and Man City
Ate the super rich

People win  class wars
Working with one another
When the time is right

(21st April Cronyism versus people. Fans versus oligarchs. People line up. Take sides. A war is coming)

Its competition
Not cronyism
According to Cameron

Meanwhile Pratt Halfcock
Was enjoying a drink
With Barman and Cameron

Health Secretary
Caught out at least twice
Spending to much time drinking

This is my complaint
We are much too interested
In this family

We put our beliefs
In castles and fairy tales
That disappoint us

Year following year
Invest in nobs not people
Anus horriblis

(15.4.21 both sets written during the week of the Cameron lobby scandal and the nation’s 8 days of mourning for Philip – too busy with birthdays to commit to blogging)

The Newt’s first monoku:

Conspirators insist illuminati exist; Philip doesn’t

Illuminati
Not feeling too bright today
His lights have gone out

His racist tongue stilled
By obsidian reaper
Snuffing out candles

Dear Liz, Never mind
I don’t mean to be unkind
But I just don’t care

Tell BallsJup his speech
About this great nations’ loss
Doesn’t apply here

(9.4.21. A series of haikus called ‘The Duke Is Done – Turn Him Over’ written on the day Prince Philip’s death was announced)

Hostage to fortune
Death count, economic loss
Shielders pay the cost

Health and beauty
Customers have to wear masks
Defeats the object

(7.4.21. Racing towards release from lock down the new normal BallsJup presents as cautious, doesn’t want to promise it will all be over by xmas or that we’ll do well to get away with 20,000 dead forgetting the costs have already been paid. The Newt is also amused about the health and beauty rules not that he needs any).

His racist ramblings
Mouths misogynist
Trumpian oratory

(1.4.21 BallsJup doesn’t agree with all of the findings in a govermental report on race which is said to be racist and celebrates Britain’s involvement in slavery, We presumes he has his favourite bits).

Wave your flags of red, white, blue
Tease those refugees
Traveling high seas

To find shores like these
Full of broken promises
To its own people

End food poverty
Stop children facing the same
Foreigners to blame?

So shelter beneath your flag
The one you’re waving
At those you stole from

(25.3.21 Some fuss about some tattered rag on the morning following Priti Patel’s hardline brutality)

If royal family
Provides shelter for paedophile
Archie best stay gone

Cameron lobbies
Sunak. Planting his size 9
In BallsJup’s black bog

Proves no one is best
No one is better
The Tory Party corrupts

Have a second home
Take a holiday
It’s the Stanley Johnson clause

(23.3.21 Maybe a last view on the Meghan saga – some hopes. Some people ask would Cameron, the weak maleficent, who handed 50 grumbling tories Brexit, have made a better prime minister at this time than BallsJup. His lobbying puts him in the Boris bog who wants to make sure  his Dad is ok).

Respect from the Newt
Rebellious lizard-like
For one of his own

Fitted with a new lizard heart
Recuperate
Illuminati

Go home to palace
To oppose the WOKE
The scales fallen from our eyes

(16.3.21 Prince Phillip goes home after MOT month in hossie) (MOT = Mode Of Transformation)

BallsJup has announced
He wants to keep women safe
So he’s staying in

(13.3.21 BallsJup previously reported to the police for domestic abuse now wants to keep women safe)

Madame Guilottine
Viva La Revolution
Off with Royal Heads

Ask BallsJup to talk
Racism and Mysogyny
He’s expert at both

The power of WOKE
Reveals the hypocrisy
Of institutions

Enough to drive us
Bleeding heart liberals
Right off our heads

(11.3.21. That interview fall out keeps on giving but for anyone to think that BallsJup should give us a talk on race or sex is preposterous given his record)

Oprah’s interview
Montage of Daily ‘hate’ Mail
Spreading racism

Harry’s announcement
Phillip wasn’t the racist
At least not this time

Harry’s previous
Employment, killing arabs
Not really racist

The royal family
Anachronistic breeders
Keep the blood line white

England. Racist state
Inhabitants vote Brexit
Keep the germ uns out

Keep the germ uns out
Harry’s nazi uniform
Swastika arm bands

No Meghan comment?
Is that because I’m racist?
Careless disinterest?

(8.3.21 The Royal Family described as racist institution. Quelle Surprise)

Coffee for nurses
Half a cup for the strangers
Living overseas

(8.3.21. Reflections of Tricky Sunkcacks Budget. Cuts to the NHS and International Aid)

He Doesn’t Count, Like We Do

BallsJup full of beans
One twenty four thousand dead
Do not feel too pleased
You are a self centred fool
Can’t possibly care
Only you matter its true
Useless waste of time
No one believes you
Tory Twatman of the year

(4.3.21. I’m told BallsJup was saying he’s full of beans having given up cheese and chocolate and he’s as fit as he’s ever been. Well good for him. Don’t cry no crocodile tears for the bodycount fool)

Unclever wordplay
Who needs Yemenis
With Sauds like these

That’s what BallsJup said
When Foreign Secretary
Unclever wordplay.

(2.3.21 Yemen in the news this week and words come back to haunt BallsJup)

Killer pesticides
Attack honey bees
With government permission

All for sugar’s sake
Promoted by industries
Obesity win

During health crisis
Where diabetic victims
Fall prey to Covid

Start to think things through
And prioritise the bees
Then claim you are green

(28.2.21 Countryfile report on Wildlife Trust legal challenge to gov’t decision to bring back outlawed pesticide. BallsJup’s green credentials questioned again)

Back to his school desk
Too old, Too fat to sit at
Has he learned lessons

Science gave a shield
Halfcock took an axe to it
Hacked giant pieces

Flammable cladding
Recommended for Grenfell
By a company

Tories privatised
Into a money motive
Red blue on blue hands

(24.2.21. Yesterday The Newt heard BallsJup talking shields after doing yet another promo from a school desk. Meanwhile in a more serious non promo setting a company man says privatising his agency inspired profit motives. The implication being tories care about money but money couldn’t care less).

BallsJup gets it right
But we hold reservations
History Lessons

(23.2.21 BallsJup’s roadmap out of lock down is encouraging but he’s made so many mistakes we cannot be over confident or afford to praise him in the slightest)

Criminal classes
From Whitehall to Westminster
Law makers/breakers (delete as appropriate)

(22.2.21 Media finally catching up with fridays legal decision. The secretary of state acted illegally.)

Don’t care about trees
Tories put their money first
Shruggers not huggers

(19.2.21 ‘Shruggers not huggers’ seen in letter to Guardian. BallsJups green credentials in doubt)

Roadmap. Sneak Preview.
Sacrifice…. British People
Stammer. Blah. Blah. Blah

(19.2.21 Stop Press. BallsJup’s Roadmap leaked here)

Duster in his hand
Now he’s cleaning chairs
Prime Ministers new duties

Says he’s like OJ
What he doesn’t know
Is OJ only killed one

(18.2.21 Ballsjup visits Cwmbran Vax Centre and disenfects chairs for the cameras. Phoney and knowing as fuck)

Todays’s Guardian
Talks of Newt Counters
Ballsjup’s green credentials

Doesn’t have any
Only says he does
Counterfeit green warrior

HS2 Problem
Eleven ancient woodlands
Digging protestors*

(17.2.21 The Newt re-engages with environmental issues. *as in liking/double meaning)

Hashtag PPE
Conservatives cashing in
Money for old tropes

Look the old school tie
Is smelling very corrupt
Did you go to Eton

(17.2.21 Recent reminders of corrupt practice early in the pandemic / BallsJup giving to his friends)

She won’t take the knee
This woman dealing race cards
From the Home Office

She’s not BAME enough
From a house of privilege
Married to whitey

Once upon a time
“A Paki in the playground”
She heard all the taunts

Now she has changed
Illegal immigrants afloat
She will keep you out

(16.2.21 Priti Patel wouldn’t take the knee and thinks BLM protests are dreadful)

(15.2.21. 60% covid deaths, disabled people, people with learning disabilities 6x more likely to die of covid than any other group. Add this to deaths associated with Universal Credit and you have to wonder).

newtSupport the front line
Where NHS Workers work
Never trust a tory

Health care, social care
Consult disabled people
Voices  must be heard

(11.2.21 Pratt Halfcock makes another move on the NHS. What he’s talking about has to be addressed. Disabled People have been stung for many years on the distinction between health and social care. Hear our voice. Never trust a tory).

Go on holiday
Don’t plan your holiday
Stay where you are go

Van Der Leyden has balls
Admits to making mistakes
BallsJup is a cunt

(11.2.21 Tory holiday confusion, EU clarity)
Makes no apologies
For his corona measures
Who’s he talking to?

(Tory) Libertarians
Promoting rights to freedom
To kill all others

(Pratt Halfcock on passing quarantine rules 12 months too late)
When a liar speaks up
Gives glib assurances
Should we  believe him

Elbow pushing idjit
Nudge nudging around UK
In orange hard hats

Hard hats and white scrubs
Blue tie, his shirt sleeves rolled up
On NHS wards

BallsJup works cameras
It beats thinking about things
Making things better

(8.2.21 I’m sick of seeing BallsJup doing publicity rounds during a pandemic)

The vaccine grabber
Dirty grubby hands reach out
Full of tattoo-ed lies

(8.2.21 News last week slowly filters through. We have bought more vaccines than we need. Others are going without. Its a pandemic Fat Chops. That means world wide. Close the borders).

Job Centre waiting
Take responsibility
As you say you will

(26th Jan 2021 Covid death toll tops 100,000. Johnson says he will take full responsibility)

Major BallsJup rides
Into Olympic Village
Get him on his bike

Investigate this
Print civil service report
Could he sack himself?

(12.01.21 BallsJup breaks local Covid restrictions and its ok but not for everyone else getting fined by the police)

Oven ready deal
Its time to talk some turkey
More gobbledygook

(Xmas eve Major BallsJup seems to have struck a deal of sorts)

BallsJup looking sick
On phone to Von Der Leyen
He has no chance there

(14.12.20 Staged photos of Ballsjup making phone calls make Newt consider BallsJup’s famed proclivities)

Tail between his legs
For fucking up the country
And spawning bastards

(11.12.20 Major Bozza BallsJup is shunned by European leaders who can’t deal with those they can’t trust)

When you cry Halfcock
Which of the 60,000
Names do you grieve most?

Do you know the names?
Do phantoms visit your dreams?
Do you have the list?

When the dead visit
Talk about their families tears
Do they forgive you?

As Ballsjup’s Patsy
Have you felt the weight
Of all the people crying?

(8.12.20 Matt Hancock cries on TV on day of first vaccination. He has reason to)

Christmas is coming
Holiday planning
A chance to kill off more plebs

Look over yonder
The cavalry are coming
Kill more indians

Appointed cowboys
To stockpile our PPE
From rags to riches

(25.11.20 A busy week for BallsJup. Caught out favouring friends for contracts, confusing vaccinations with horse soldiers and then coming up with plans to ruin christmas)

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19.11.20 Scottish polls not good for Boris

He’s not very quick
Some argue he’s a bit thick
He’s been slow again

(1/11/20 Come Thursday estimates say Lock Down will be 17 days late costing lives. Speed of Boris Ball’sJup’s reactions a common criticism)

Ms Patel regrets
Immigrant deaths by drowning
Sends out a gun boat

(2 adults and 2 child immigrants drown in the english channel)

Spot hospital soap
Branded for Brexit leader
Called Gojo. Bojo?

Rebel Northerners
Take failing BallsJup to task
So go Bojo now

(20.10.20 Newt sees funny hygiene product on news and reads it as a sign whilst Ballsjup deomstrates bullying stance to the north and a business association. Not a good sign in a leader)

Signs of leadership
In Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Not tory England

He’s still on his feet
Standing firm just like jelly
Next BallsJup wobble

(14.10.20 Firm action across the union. Tory describes BallsJup as standing firm)

Two points short this plan
This three point plan of the Major’s
Fails clarity test

Two points short again
These three tiers from BallsJup
Fails strategy test

What’s he playing at
Coming out with more nonsense
Flakey TV coup

(12.10.20 BallsJup presents old Covid plan as if a new plan)

Whilst in the shires
A housing algorhythm
Is causing despair

The lords and ladies
Of would be country houses
Are now asked to share

They who had it good
Are eco warriors now
Fighting Wringneck’s blight

Its a pretty sight
These tremourous tory knights
Viewed from this Newt pond

(11.10.20 Theresa May, Jeremy Hunt, Chris Grayling oppose ‘Build, Build, Build’)

Fiend Ugly Patel
Sending migrants overseas
More boat rides ahead

Fiend Ugly Patel
Described as nasty bully
Where’s the inquiry?

(2.10.20 Ugly Patel makes the news on grounds of policy and behaviour)

He’s not behind you
Panto dames oh no he’s not
He prefers real farce

Sir Lindsay Hoyle speaks
Talks of government contempt
Inside Parliament

(30.9.20 two minor stories that some might dismiss; Panto dames campaigning for arts funding and the speaker accusing the government of contempt)

Get it right Ballsjup
For Christ sake don’t get it wrong
Don’t go mis-speaking

Show some common sense
Show some common decency
Newt asks the wrong man

(29.9.20 Boris speaks to prove he hasn’t got a clue)

Halfcock’s test and trace
Loads of capacity if
People don’t use it                      9.9.2020

Rats love sinking ships
No respect for protocol
Laws go overboard

Tory way revealed
“Limited and specific”
Feed the hungry rich         (Ballsjup’s top lawyer resigns as gov’t prepare
to break international laws 8.9.2020)
Tony Abbot is a sign
Of Ballsjup’s respect
Two misogynists                                         5.9.2020

Domi Rob insists
On full investigation
Putin running scared

Explain that away
Your Domi Rob now demands
Today straight away

We must hear true words
It so goes without saying
That’s how it should be                  (Raab and Novalny Novochok case 4.9.20)

Pillockson’s beating
Took place at an enquiry
Ofqual did him in                                                      (also 2.9.2020)

They, the BBC
And Ballsjup demonstrating
Black Lives don’t matter

Sing Rule Britannia
Sing Land of Hope and Glory
Imperial shite

Fascists learn their lines
Their classical renditions
The Blues have their night          (The BBC bows to Ballsjup 2.9.2020)

A very low risk
Is not one Ballsjup would take
One for the people                                     (back to school/work 1.9.2020)

Sixty four million meals
At £10 per meal
1 hefty tax bill

Paid by working class
To support middle class spread
More hefty waist lines

War on obesity
Traced to chicken at Nandos
The Ballsjup meal deal

Meanwhile back at the food bank
The poor stand in line
To be called scroungers                       (The last day of the £10 meal deal – 31.8.2020)

Our Dope and Worry
This cringing embarrassment
Our Prime Minister                (Rule Britannia/Land of Hope and Glory furore 25.8.2020)

That fat trampling man
In a rare flower meadow
Did he pitch his tent

Landowner charges
He didn’t have permission
To defile the land

What Ballsjup assumes
Through entitled sense of self
Bad news for nature                         About Ballsjup camping holiday 22nd August 2020

(5 haikus on the political class)

Sorry mutations
Who can’t give opinions
Risk saying nothing

Toady up to leader
Easy sets at question time
A shameful turn out

The opposition
Are wilted through division
And smaller numbers

Ask proper questions
Ballsjup only lets you have
Deeper frustrations

Lie on pool bottom
Fomenting revolution
Our time comes one day                                                                20th August 2020

An external threat
By the name of Pratt Halfcock
Compromising health

The Newt celebrates
Another tory u turn
Ballsjup flips then flops (potential chorus)                                18th August 2020

Public Health England
Conservative MP’s Wife
Interchangeable

Whiff of corruption
Disinfecting corridors
Of fetid power

Privatisation
Of NHS coming to
Health centre near you

Raving Pillockson
Calibrates algorithms
A night of long knives

16th August 2020

Changing the death count
Manipulating figures
Makes Ballsjup look bad

This is what we learned
At school today about maths
It doesn’t add up

Ballsjup makes the grade
Hard for children to obtain
He’s such a waster

13th August 2020

If you get things wrong
Confidence in governance
Leads to recession

If you have no job
And money is very tight
Cut back  on spending

Ballsjup’s message is
Get out now and spend, spend, spend
To whom does he talk

Chancellor Nutsac
Who gives to those folk who have
Not to us who don’t

12th August 2020

A comparison
This is safe This is low risk
Are these two the same                    (Ballsjup announcing return to school as a priority)

Keep the pubs open
Ask people not to visit
Close the schools and pubs

Then open the pubs
To feed the economy
Stay away from school

September return
But we may have to close pubs
Let us know later                                                          (Tory commitment to clarity)

World beating system
A calculated failure
Risking many lives

A Spanish spike
Results in travel advice
Many months too late

Blue border contol
Quick cross the English Channel
Ugly welcomes you

This Ugly Patois
Planning welcome committee
For channel migrants

A new improved border force
Is like the old one
A bit more hostile

Ugly is checking
The hostile environment
Can she puncture boats

Ballsjup goes legal
His big chance to change the rules
Send the blighters back

Ugly on a boat
With private photographer
Making bad pictures

10th August 2020

Jenrick is Wringneck
Growth, Renewal, Protection
Planning levels change

Growth is a green light
For an attack on the Newt
Without protection

No social housing
Rip up planning permission
Wringneck’s way forward

Newt renews his pledge
To fight, observe and comment
Watch out for Wringneck

Wringneck took money
Its been well documented
Ballsjup allows it

Rape and corruption
Defining this government
Is this what we want?

Reintroducing
Conservation News
A beaver on the Otter

Is allowed to stay
In friendly environment
Without a passport

6th August 2020


BallsJup is away
On another holiday
That man hates to work

5th August 2020

BallsJup will deny
Closing the borders
Would have made us all safer

4th August 2020


Do not underestimate
BallsJup’s achievements
Pushing up death rates

Forty Six Thousand
Do not underestimate
BallsJup’s achievements

3rd August 2020


Liar. Pants on fire
This is a symptomatic
BallsJup condition

31st July 2020

Nicola Sturgeon
Talks too much for the Tories
North of the border

That Major Ballsjup
Hardly works at all for us
South of the border

28th July 2020

Dominic Raab slow
Slow, Slow, erm! not quick, slow, slow
Slow Dominic Raab

Grant Shapps is in Spain
England’s loss no Spanish gain
Boring no score draw

26th July 2020

Robert Jenrick moves
People towards slum housing
Using PDR
(PDR = Permitted Development Rights)

Anti-Vaxxers Nuts
Deploying negative words
A skill of BallsJup

BallsJup looks obese
On an obesity drive
With ten pound tokens

24th July 2020

Give Chris Failing Job
Intelligence committee
We are dumbing down

21st July 2020

The Newt is quiet
Today, watching and waiting
Looking for BallsJup

From the Newt pond 17th July 2020

He makes May look good
Who made Cameron look good
How low can we go

Deregulating
Tories expect you to work
For fewer pound notes

Both from the depths of the Newt pond 16th July 2020

Crest resisting waves
Of great BallsJup turbulence
Whilst boldly surfing

From a deeper depth of the Newt pond 14th July 2020

The Newt will create
A great Newt Modeled Army
Combat destruction

With our crest and all
We will survive that BallsJup
Heading for a fall

Both from an even deeper depth of the Newt Pond 12th July 2020

Deregulation
Disrupting the great newt’s pond
The Great Newt stirring

From the deepest depth of the Newt Pond 11th July 2020 / Up the Newts

The Newt exists because BallsJup doesn’t want him to.

The Newt stands against tory deregulation harming the environment

The Newt is very vengeful. BallsJup started it. BallsJup will get it.

BallsJup came into being when he called someone ‘Captain Hindsight’. Thus earning the moniker Major BallsJup. He was previously referred to has Boris Johnson.

Other characters are making an appearance; Prissi Nutsac (Rishi Sunak), Ugly Patois (Pritti Patel), Robbing Wringneck (Robert Jenrick), Raving Pillockson (Gavin Williamson), Chris Failing (Chris Grayling).

The Newt writes haikus because the haiku focuses on nature and The Newt has his own nature.

BallsJup The Newt Is Watching you

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Rishi Sunak Joins The Blame Game



On 9th April 2008 I blogged Sick Note Britain – What Disabled People are Sick Of in response to Peter Hain’s Sick Note Britain. Sick notes were compiled by disabled members of Brent Advocacy Concerns who later turned them into the film, ‘Sick Bucket’

Peter Hain was a labour politician with his eyes on the prize of welfare reform. His views were replicated by a certain David Cameron under the guise of Broken Britain. Cameron took Frank Field’s (Labour MP) views on Universal Credit on board and with the support of the malingerers at the Department of Work and Pensions set about dispatching the lives of 10,000 plus Disabled People (as supposedly reported in Hansard)

Very soon after Hain’s vision statement DAN the Disabled People’s Network halted traffic in Whitehall and started handing out DAN’s Sick Note. See Action Against Welfare Reform

Back then the Tories clearly sent out a message that they were out to get Disabled People, Single Mothers and Mental Health Service Users and given their genocidal approach were very good at getting us gone.

So, why the history lesson. 1) Only last week I was marveling at Dave Lupton’s the Blame Game (see below) – a cartoon that looks at the way politicians pejoratively label Disabled People, cajole the media into dehumanising us further by stoking up the public’s ire particularly just before an election and credit where credit is due only today… 2) Rishi Sunak is deliberating on consulting over the removal of PIP Personal Independence Payment with a view to particularly targeting the Mental Ill on the grounds that its hard to justify their need for extra living costs in comparison to physically disabled people so here we go again (and really who can we trust on this issue).

Dave Lupton’s work can be viewed here at https://crippencartoons.com/ Look out for his merch.

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Photo Challenge; 13th February 2024

I thought i’d post this pic for poets to respond to – what with all those council’s currently planning to tear communities apart.

Same deal as always. Responses to be included on my blog until some future date when they will transferred with your name and copy write intact on Disability Arts Online

Photo; Cuts

Put away your razor
Snipping snickering scissors
Stanley knives and such
One more peaky blinding cap
Your attitude to a budget

Cut us to the quick
Another axe is falling
Bleeding us slowly
Here come the tory bastards
With their pieces of paper

Wrapped in red boxes
Their plans for our destruction
Smiles for the camera
Our cheque books are confetti
This is a loveless marriage

Listen to them speak
To howls of much derision
An over statement
Of political good will
It’s time for an election

Do not be hoodwinked
By executioner smiles
Look behind the mask
Heads upon the block calling
For bloodless revolution

When switchblades are down
And the blood letting has ceased
When we are bandaged
When sucking leeches cure
Will we forgive what happened

Will wounds weep again
Will we re-cut re-open
Watch blood seep again
In expression of their gain
An expression of our pain

Richard Downes
12th February 2024

Totally sad , 
homes and hearts ripped apart,
lives in shreds,
cos bureaucracy said.

Jeanne Lipinska
12th February 2024


Don’t fear the pike
Ignore the strike
Look for the hake
In a more placid lake

Ivan Riches
12th February 2024

Rory was a Tory
Was he in it for his glory?
He says seemingly
Gleaming
Not
Ousted
Trusted
Thrusted
Out

But can you trust
Any Tory
Seemingly
Not quite
They unite
To rule
Policies
Often cruel

Never trust the rich
They stay that way
At the expense
Of those who have little
I watch their spittle
When they spout
About those without
They change laws
To get their claws
On what is little
That most of us have not

Below subsistence
Harsher existence
They pretend
Not to understand
But they greedily grab
All housing and land
And devalue
All work of value
To entrap you
If you have all
But little or nought

It’s a poorly hidden war
Between the rich & poor
It’s always been that way
So Rory stay away
Go back to being Tory And spare me your story

A Tory
Is a Tory
No sob story
From Rory
On how he was ousted
I saw he pouted
And proclaimed
That Boris
Was but a novice
For his ego’s office
But Rory
For me to believe
Your story
You should have
Never been
A Tory

I don’t see any glory
In any Tory
And for that
I’ll never be sorry

Ivan Riches
13th February 2024

Cut us
Bleed us
Dry
We will arise to
Defy
Deny and
Not comply

Kit Wells
14th February 2024

Backstabbers ...
they smile in your face ...
note the crocodile teeth ...
the smile rejigged as slime

Wendy Young
15th February 2024

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Birmingham 24



40 years since the shit hole called. Even more since it last pleasured me – dying flies and sticky carpets, a tribute to Jane Fonda, sci-fi, the eternal-ised sexiness of Barbarellas in far off punk days.

It’s different. Its changed. Wow! What they’ve done to the city. City centre only mind. Still not too far off from the shanty lands. Stood on metaphorical street corners listening to the brogue. There is kindness here, politeness. Someone could easily assume to be a friend in need.

The Grand Hotel is very grand. I find a pictorial joke, at my own expense, there. I eat well. Diners listen to my foolishness as if each word was important. I feel as if i’m being looked after, cared for, by an organisation.

Next day. At the workshop. During lunch a crazy thing happens. Someone passed the time and asked to know more about my artistry, what I did, how I practiced. I spoke as if I knew my stuff. I left hope, ideas, inspiration. I found I can say things I couldn’t say before.

A few days later I am in a rural shit hole, a place that depends on sky for beauty. I claim to be a poet and demonstrate my words to hear the call, “that’s dark” and dark it is because I’m sitting watching mom dying. I sit next to her. Become scarecrow. I scare the crows off. In her room a photograph. Of my sister. I feel unprepared for another white feather falling.

Vibrators vibrating troops of tomorrow
I am stuck to the floor and her fishnet stockings
Rouge cheeks, red lips, blue, black hair
A pout, a look, a premonition
Suddenly broken Aston’s shattered Edgebaston’s
Five Ways, a 74 to the Scott Arms, look glamorous
Pedestrianized, clean glass, friendly traffic wardens
With their new monikers claiming traffic stewardship
You new Birmingham reclaimed; I claim you
But what is this disparagement of the Albion I see
Mocking not my artistry nor my skilled practice
But my football team, the blue nub of it, the shiny white stripe
How dare they peck. Fly away my sadness.
This feather cannot fall

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Photo Challenge; 24th October 2023


I think I was at the Embankment tube station following an action when I saw an advertisement from the MS Society quoting a ‘sufferer’ saying “I feel like an alien on an hostile planet’. I set this as the latest photo challenge.



Alien On Hostile Planet

Imagine all those things seen never seen
All those things we’ve touched as not being touched
Imagine this planet green as not green
Imagine light and heavy things all crushed
Imagine everything ground into dust
This is what the alien came to see
The way we are the way we soon will be
The way our hostilities paved the way
For us and them to face the final days
The last days for you the last days for me

Imagine everything that we have lost
Precious things we would choose before to keep
Disappearing like the bridges we crossed
Piling around us in a great big heap
This is the harvest the harvest we reaped
This is what the alien came to hear
The sound of your shout the sound of fear
The cry of your babies your shrillest scream
Your enemies laughter their mocking jeers
The end of a life the end of this dream

Richard Downes
24th October 2023

A Dyspraxic’s Ode to an Escalator

Oh Escalator
I’ll try my bestcalator,
To pass your testcalator,
And not fall on my arsecalator.

Colin Wright

On my calculator
I hope to call ya later
Hoping there’s no crater
For such a silly tater

Ivan Riches

From my 4-star hotel
Foresee a glistening descent
Steel-hard teeth
honed for 13 years
gnashing at my family’s toes
Driven out by post-colonial non-strategies

Charles Barraball

Dante’s inferno’s stairway
Was ever thus a fair way
For those with evil intent
Who underwent descent
On one Circle line but fell
Into the Nine Circles of Hell

Kit Wells

Welcome to my whirlygig
Dig my escalation descent into
Hostile nations scuppering a dip dip dip
Into desolation

Wendy Young

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The Show / The Tour

Here’s a photo taken by Nat Ward – the clown from Epic Minds. In addition to myself Bee Kirkwood stars.

Epic MInds was a circus show at Jacksons Lane inspired by Heather Parkin’s experience of psychosis. It was directed by Nikki Kenward. Pre-show Poetry was provided by ‘Poets of Psychosis'(?), myself, Colin Hambrook, Becs Buckley and Wendy Young.

The two nights conspired to create my second favourite gig of the year. The first being Linda Laurie’s celebration of life where i created a series of participatory poems.

It feels like i’ve got something of a minor tour going on right now. In addition to the monthly bash at the Highgate Society I’ve got my first plenary coming up at Birmingham University where I will be debuting the poetry film Sleep.

Shortly after this I have my first performance at the National Poetry Library where I will be Raising the Equality Bar with the aforementioned Wendy, and Janine Booth and Allan Sutherland. Stellar line up or what?

You know what i would love to put the icing on the cake…. a gig for 10th October Mental Health Day and another for 3rd December – the International Day of Disabled People (sic).

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Melt

I am at the Archway and District Carers leading a poetry workshop based on the word ‘Summer’ and the five senses. Richard is supporting Sam who rarely speaks and who struggles to write but he knows what he knows and he relates well to all five senses. The other carers also contribute and some read out excellent finished poems. I write one for Sam using his words and space between instruction and read backs.

Melt
(for Sam)

The ice cream dripping over my wrists
to the sound of Bob Marley's Redemption Song
smells of hamburgers covered in apple jam
feels so good - like peaches


Richard Downes
2nd August 2023

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Photo Challenge; 18th April 2023

Really pleased with the response to this one

Sun shrouded by clouds


Sun shrouded by clouds
Tree waits,
its roots tremble in anticipation
for the first drops,
then the cloud moves away,
to find another tree in need.

Jeanne Lipinska

In trepidation
A Tree barely breathes
In a forlorn landscape
That clouds cloy to fool
A breath giving loner

Wendy Young


A stand alone tree
Under the sun
That sheds its’ rays
Against the clouds
To shroud a face
The face god
To ancient eyes
Misunderstood

Ivan Riches


Hope rebounds,
Scattering light,
Untamed sculpture of timber,
Weaving and bending,
Time well spent twisting,
Loves you differently,
Slows heart gently,
Longevity lost,
Reeling in the still.

Dianne Casey


Sharing the sky
The clouds and I
Detached sisters in space
Floating with heavenly grace
Solitary tree
Reaching up to thee

Kit Wells


Connection

In the castle grounds a tall tree
buffeted by storms and gales
blowing across valleys and dales
waiting for sunshine to be free
stretches its branches, makes a plea
on behalf of the prisoner
jailed for being a chiseller
when able to pay for a round
but the good king he stands his ground
like Geoff Boycott the cricketer

Richard Downes


Outline of dog, eyes closed
and pondering.
Floating through skies, of blue,
just wandering.

Dave Lupton


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Photo Challenge; 27th Oct 2022

Today’s photo a personal favourite. A lone tree stood on Oliver’s Castle in front of the Bloody Ditch it looks over Wiltshire fearing not the sun or cloud.

The Dance of the Mournful Land

In that mournful land beyond
Where our soul is captured by
(Where we go dancing on and on
to a bittersweet lullaby)
A glittering messenger calling
Dispelling fear of growing old
To lead us on, never falling
Dancing ghosts in fairy dust of old
Witness our stately procession
I shall go there, if I must
To find fulfilling expression
To answer wishful thought and lust
Forever dancing, dancing round
Having done so, having sought
Celestial hollows, respite unfound
Exhausted we sink, spirit fraught
From eternal waltz of stars
Begging forlornly for release
From courtly dancing lit by Mars
And shall we meet, shall we cease?
Past lives pinning hope to our side
By enemy’s old anchor
Or distant friends who greet and gently chide
Our new-made spirit form sans rancour
To save us from the star storm
As earthly longing is remaining
And we were never born
Clinging to life once sustaining

© Kit Wells

We Stand

We stand
Hand in hand
In arm in arm
Shoulder to shoulder
Looking to unknown futures
In defiance
Of the past
We once more place behind us
Hoping for something better
We stand
An eye taken for an eye
Ear for an ear
Our mouths full of snide
Full of snicker
And we move our hands
Place them on our hearts
Commit them to one more broken promise
We stand
We pray
We hope
For something better

Richard Downes

The Beckoning

Look hard enough
Japetto signals
Froggy …
Loners joined at the
Tip of dusk

Wendy Young

I set root
A single tree
To weather
A coming storm
The sun’s dim glow Behind the cloud, looking
Somewhat forlorn
I hold fast
Upon the hill
Waiting for
Some sign
That if I wait
And keep my head
Somehow the day
Is mine

Ivan Riches



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Photo Challenge; 5th July 2022

The Photo Challenge started as a response to covid – a game to play in lock down. I’m carrying it on. It depended like so many things do on engagement, participation, involvement. Though I’m happy to set it for myself. The challenge principally is to look at a photo and to reply with ekphrasis poetry or pr ose. The reward is to please yourself and to appear here on this blog as a participant and a few years down the line to be reborn on the blog I maintain at Disability Arts Online. Other that you had a go, you created. Take pleasure in that.

To Live In South Wood....

To live in South Wood behind bars, windows
Defensive rows of securing palings
And to look out on the world with conscience

Standing tall, confident, somehow unseen
In his best bib and tucker, suit and tie

Like a lifelike life size cardboard cut out

Richard Downes
5th July 2022

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