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Unexpected sight
toff in top hat and Tesla
pavement privilege
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by Scooj
EV
Tag: poem
False dawn
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Orange street lights glow
masquerading as sunrise
faking the real deal
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by Scooj
25 days
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The winter solstice
the light at the tunnel’s end
not long to go now
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by Scooj
Cross Country train
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Privatisation
ruination of our trains
profiteers clean up
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by Scooj
* The trains in England are a disgrace and an embarrassment. Visitors from overseas must be utterly bewildered by how bad our train services are.
Underfunded, with profits being creamed off by shareholders.
Why on earth do we put up with it? People will pay hugely inflated prices only to stand on a train, sometimes for several hours. Oversubscription is the norm, which must have implications for health and safety of passengers.
Surely if every passenger had to book a seat, sales would be curtailed when the train was full. I believe that is the system in America.
Delays, cancellations and reduced carriages are the norm. Often the electronic booking systems are broken. Encountering a ticket inspector/guard is a rarity.
Even if you get a seat, trains are grubby and cramped. Food and refreshment services patchy and expensive. The whole thing makes for deeply unpleasant experiences. It wasn’t always like this, and people used to mock British Rail!
Nationalise and subsidise the trains or set higher standards/penalties for operators.
The Privatisation obsession of Thatcherite Britain has failed its people but made a privileged few unimaginably wealthy. Disgusting.
Northern train
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The brightest cold moon
in a sea of blackened sky
train to Manchester
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by Scooj
Tea and biscuit
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Only one biscuit
something to look forward to
highlight of my day
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by Scooj
Memories
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Filled with a warm glow
recalling untroubled times
when we were children
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by Scooj
Attitude
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Must do what we can
nature and climate crises
can do what we must
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by Scooj
Glastonbury tickets on sale
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Camping on the site
sucking life and hope away
try again next year
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by Scooj
Deck chairs
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Cabinet shuffle
dusting-off an ex-PM
an empty barrel
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by Scooj
- I have recently tried to veer away from politics, but today has been too momentous to pass without some comment. At last, we see the back (for now) of the racist agent provocateur Suella Braverman as Home Secretary, to be replaced by the inept and underwhelming James Cleverly. His post of Foreign Secretary has been filled by former PM, architect of austerity and the EU Exit referendum (who was heard to sing ‘tum te tum’ as he returned to the door of No 10 after his resignation speech). David Cameron isn’t even an elected member of parliament and is the subject of an ongoing serious fraud investigation – furthermore Sunak has had to make him a Baron so that he can sit in the House of Lords to take up his office (there were 350 Conservative MPs Sunak could have selected from, but not a single one of them met the bar presumably). You couldn’t make it up. Other ministers and Secretaries of State have been shuffled, one of which will have direct implications for my own work. Surely, surely the Conservative party is utterly washed-up and should give the country what it wants, a general election.
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