There’s yet another list of tables
With a myriad of choices that that enables
To find out who’s cheapest on the grid
In this latest out-of-the-blue price rise bid
It all seems so complicated
With some tariffs back or pre-dated
Just to gain an edge on a fickle market
In another rip-off profit-based power-play bet
Gordon’s little world of taxes
Has no regard for service sector axes
One more heating cost crisis for all old folk
is playing yet another sick and maybe costly joke
With the rising price of consumables
Where does that leave our social vulnerables?
Hospitals, day care centres and retirement homes?
Oh yes and let’s not forget those immoral bed-Rock loans
So whilst we’re turning down our heating
Our leaders will hold yet another red carpet meeting
Just to warm the hearts of a few shivering share-holders
While the elderly and vulnerable just get by a little bit colder
And so the expenses-paid in-crowd
Bails out a bank with inland revenue because it’s allowed
As our under-funded essential services fail and falter
We’d better speak out against the rises now or nothing will ever alter
Copyright Brendan Hawthorne 2008
