Year on Year Growth - fiscally fucking shrewd!
Its all about maintaining the financial bottom line
Exploitation is what made our country great
In the end it will turn out all OK, and just fine
Open up an oilfield and pump a lot more oil
Contaminate another water course
Sell seats to watch seas and oceans boil.
Just do stuff because you can, not because we asked
Use the cash you make to fund our 'security'
Sheep in paramilitary uniforms, faces masked
Fuck all the polar bears and screw all honey bees
Launch another constellation of satellites
Fell another forest and another million trees
Nothing really matters if the bank balance grows
When an elite owns all the money and the media
It can manufacture reality and control who knows
Take no responsibility and divert all the blame
Award yourself a big annual bonus
Use economic bollocks to cover up the shame
Deny all wrongdoing, hide every bad decision
Return all challenges to challengers
Treat adverse criticism with absolute derision
Faith, fact and fiction, blur the distinction
Corrupt the incorruptible
Promote evangelical, salvation from extinction
Deny science, promote opinion, to take it's rightful place
Cut expenditure on education and welfare
Let blind ignorance be a grace.
Digitise, computerise and throw away the books
Ensure the elite owns our history
If anyone left subsequently looks
State the fate of 'the poor' is all 'foreigners' fault
'Illegal immigrants' are to blame!
Keep your hand in the till, just avoid being caught
If you don't give a shit and are rotten to the core
You can manufacture guns and ordinance
There's profit in hurting humans, pestilence, war.
If the thing you say to day is so fucking bad
What you said and did yesterday seems less so
Not really bad, but demented, mad and rather sad
Sleep secure in bunkers miles bored underground
With no elite conscience nor morality
We're sure your sleep, will be profoundly sound
And if whilst you are sleeping there is a fall in income rate
You can deploy the troops on waking
To threaten a former friendly foreign state
But growth will inevitably come to a sad sorry end
Finite resources aren't infinite!
Resources on which both we and growth depend
Lie and spread bullshit, whilst it makes you money
Buy sex, fast cars, yachts, large properties
So what, if we are unable to purchase pure honey?
The glaciers are melting and slip sliding away
There is no where habitable in space to travel to
It doesn't really matter what your influencers say
Clean water and clean air aren't a human right
Because Billionaires want even more tax free
The Earth and humanity can all go to shite
Gaia has been sleeping, watching time slowly pass
But now she is awakening from her slumber
To unceremoniously and fundamentally, kick arse.
George Roberts - Bleak Doggerel of the Day September 2026.
My son threatened to place me in residential care home if I didn't 'lighten up'. This should do it then!
