06 December 2022

Austerity.

These poems about the cruelty of the UK Tory Government are well worth a look, and a link. The website is called austerity, https://thisisausterity.uk/

 Best read about the poems and the project there. But here's a short example:

01 she was not ill enough

Posted on
She died of a lung condition.
Her husband agreed the life support machine be turned off.
The same day
the Department declared
she was not ill enough
to receive benefits.

[Daily Mirror, 08/01/2016, Dead mum not ill enough for payouts]

https://thisisausterity.uk/about-this-project/

Shaun Gardiner

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