Herd Immunity part 1 All hail Boris the Butcher A little England nightmare Arrogance, negligence and cruelty Is the twisted heart of Government If you repeat a lie often enough You can write it on the side of a bus They knew this pandemic was coming But as the storm gathered pace We declined international help We chose Brexit over breathing As other countries closed large events and gatherings Boris bragged about shaking hands Coughing for Covid with 80,000 Rugby fans Then Cheltenham Festival Where a quarter of a million spread the virus They say it is too early to wonder Why we have one of the highest death rates Maybe it’s because Every action has been taken with reluctance, incompetence and delay Too slow to close the schools, too slow to close public places Too late with tracing and testing We have gone against advice from the World Health Organisation We have taken a completely different response to every other country Stay alert Die quietly Don’t complain The victims are the most vulnerable; Coronavirus in care homes spreads like wildfire The sick and the poor are disposable Stay at home if you are rich Die at work if you are poor The lowest paid jobs have the highest death rates Those who never stopped working The un-furloughed poor; The construction workers, the cabbies, security guards, transport workers, teachers, nurses, carers delivery drivers and supermarket staff Workers from every country Vilified by the racists as ‘unskilled migrants’ Now as we are fighting for our lives Exploited migrants become key workers If you can applaud the NHS and carers Why do you keep voting Tory? Remember when they cheered a pay freeze for nurses? Stay alert Die quietly Don’t complain Angela Merkel is scientist Jacinda Ardern is compassionate We have our very own killer clown No scrutiny on the Government Put the blame on the individual But all that bluster got the clown infected Taking it on the chin became ‘let’s all pray for Boris’ We will never know the truth about his illness Except it’s his get out of jail free card An old Etonian’s scary ordeal Read the Sun exclusive He should try being poor Where deaths are reported as a scorecard of Government success An abstract figure fed through a prism of lies A criminal government aided and abetted by a complicit media Fawning over daily graphs and colourful slideshows It is a dark time when phone tapping Piers Morgan Is the only mainstream journalist challenging the government Stay alert Die quietly Don’t complain They say ‘protect our borders’ when they demonise migrants But when it comes to coronavirus we have an open door policy. Everyone is welcome particularly those infected Forget about fighting on the beaches Who needs quarantine, airports tested When we are ‘getting Brexit done’ Herd immunity is far-right eugenics In Dominic Cummings’s words ‘let old people die’ Like the Bullingdon club trashed restaurants Now they are wiping out care homes Do you feel proud? When Boris calls black people ‘piccaninnies with watermelon smiles‘ Do you feel proud? When Boris calls homosexuals ‘tank top bum boys’ Do you feel proud? When Boris calls Muslim women ‘letterbox bank robbers’ Do you feel proud? When Boris steals the racist thunder From Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson Stay alert Die quietly Don’t complain

Capitalism brought us here To the wastelands of greed The limitless power of the 1% Leaves footprints of destruction The air is toxic and the seas are poisoned We trespass on mother earth with a wilful indifference Screaming profit, money, GDP and growth But the market will not save us This end of history will be the end of us Free trade scorches earth with policies of Deregulation, austerity and privatisation Each day brings mass extinctions, floods, draughts, superstorms And so many hurricanes we have run out of alphabet If not you, then who If not now, then when The march is on This is the time of racist dictators Hellbent on tearing up protections and regulations Pouring money into ever more dangerous pursuit of profit Fracking, arctic drilling and tar sands extraction Bolsanaro's deforestation of the Amazon chokes the lungs of the planet Trump’s climate change deniers paid for by fossil fuel polluters From Kyoto to Copenhagen, Rio to Paris Agreements are made and then ignored As the waters rise there will be no more Venice and New Orleans Floods from Ireland to Bangladesh Wildfires from Australia to America Heat waves from Greece to Canada If not you, then who If not now, then when The march is on Climate change hits the poorest people hardest While 100 fossil fuel producers are responsible for 70% of global emissions The nexus of power and money Corporate government is a revolving door For fossil fuel gangsters, politicians and the mass media This has made the 99% look into our souls Creating a global mass movement of planetary defenders From Extinction Rebellion to First Nation warriors Civil disobedience and protest brings us here today With love in our hearts and determination in our souls Brothers and sisters we march as one From every corner of the globe From AOC's Green New Deal to Greta Thunberg’s school strikes With Naomi Klein's words We will rise with peace and love We are rebels for life If not you, then who If not now, then when The march is on

No borders, one world Refugees welcome We are all immigrants Multiculturalism are flowers that grow In the gardens of diversity Seeds blossom then sparkle as fire flies Cascades of colour and light A united nations of cultures Through the prism of race and religion Shines the beacon of love The builders, the makers , the creators From every corner of the globe Beauty in diversity Beauty right in who we are Language fragments and moves with the earth It mixes, turns and changes Cultures intertwined as rivers, streams and oceans Move with the seasons Follow the rhythms as poems and songs Do not fear difference, celebrate and embrace Take your favourite food , the music you listen to, Your favourite footballer Inside the hospitals and upon the roads The protectors and the heroes Diversity enriches us Inside the history of migration Every realm of earth’s creation We dance to the same beat of love Fear is the prison that holds us Racism is the poison that divides us As coastlines and peninsulas change over time Nations of people move from place to place Beauty diversity Beauty right in who we are

The birth of a nation in flames United States founded upon racism Slavery, Jim Crow and mass incarceration The 45th president of America Is the fascist Donald J Trump Inciting division and injustice The Ku Klux Klan became modern day white militias Slave masters became police officers The Confederate flag still burns hate Today in America one in three black men are imprisoned Ghettoised with systemic and institutionalised discrimination Fear is instilled with the full weight of the law It feels like nothing has changed Birmingham in 1963 or Ferguson in 2014 Police sirens and tear gas poison the air Dogs and firehoses of oppression In the words of Angela Davis ‘If they come for me in the morning they will come for you in the night’ Say their names Mike Brown, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Philando Castille, and George Floyd How many worlds will you shatter Until you see black lives matter White privilege has its knee on the neck of black America The everyday reality of profiling and harassment Beatings in the name of the law Miles Davis in 1959 or Rodney King in 1991 Fresh blood on nightstick batons Protect and serve, murder and maim Deaths in custody with license to kill Hands up don’t shoot Officer please I beg you Handcuffed with eyes popping out I cannot breathe you are killing me Tortured to death for eight minutes and forty six seconds Pulling the wings of a butterfly Between 2009 and 2018 10,000 people killed by the police in America Murdered with no prison time for the killers Say their names Oscar Grant, Jeremy Mcdole, Terence Crutcher, Jamar Clarke and Walter Scott How many worlds will you shatter Until you see black lives matter Slave ships bull whips crack flesh Salt into open wounds Cotton field songs and street corner verses Billie Holiday singing strange fruit about KKK lynchings Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin The pure racist evil of the 16th street Baptist bombing in 1963 Like the Charlestown Church massacre in 2015 Has nothing changed? From Charlottesville to Watts From Dallas to Minnesota State sanctioned violence Assassinations with impunity Black people are three times more likely to be killed than white people by the police Between 2013-19 99% of police killings have resulted in no charges for the police Say their names Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, Alton Sterling, Christian Cooper and Gabriella Nevarez How many worlds will you shatter Until you see black lives matter All those who take a stand are hunted down by white America Muhammed Ali won’t fight Charlie; banned for three years John Carlos and Tommie Smith fists raised; banned from athletics Colin Kaepernick takes the knee; banned from American football History is written through the eyes of the conqueror White privilege enforced through centuries of oppression Black Panthers killed and imprisoned Freedom rides and civil rights beaten and murdered White terrorism executed Martin Luther King and Fred Hampton As a white person I can call the police and they will always take my side As a white person I will not be killed because of the colour of my skin As a white person I can go about my day and not be executed As a white person I can relax in safety of my home As a white person I can wait for a bus As a white person I can walk away from a corner store As a white person I can breathe As a comrade I can breathe no more How many worlds will you shatter Before you realise black lives matter

Palestine The state of Israel is established Founded on displacement and terror Ethnic cleansing created a nation The Nakba erased a history Executions, deportations and evictions From Herzl to Sharon, Ben Gurion to Netanyahu From the Golan Heights to Tel Aviv From the Red Sea to the Dead Sea The policy is always the same The obliteration of Palestine From the river to the sea Palestine will be free Far right leaders stand with Likud The flies feast upon corpses Apache helicopters circle Children scatter in the alleys When the bullets rain down The prey are unprotected, the predator is ruthless IDF snipers celebrate their kills with cheers Inside the machinery of occupation, Detentions, separations and violence with impunity Indoctrinated discrimination and racism O Israel, O Israel who shall be your God? From the river to the sea Palestine will be free An Ancient home a biblical terrain These occupied territories which Israel called a land without people Now graveyards in Jerusalem and Jericho The wounds line the rivers and streams From the Mediterranean to the Red Sea Tortured landscape and rewritten history Refugee camps with no right of return Conquest and colonised the homeland of tears Where the past lives on in songs and poems Ancient civilisations beneath Israel The land sings the spirits of the dead 1948 and 1967 laid the foundations For the biggest prison on earth All along the watchtower the IDF keep the view Inside the barbed wire slammer The bulldozers cement an apartheid regime The ghettos of Gaza and the West Bank Daily harassment and confinement Violation of international law The so called greater Israel ideology Hand in hand with the American far right A spy in the Middle East The stars over Galilee are pale as death From the river to the sea Palestine will be free Palestinian resistance met with brutality A bank of targets or mowing the lawn Carnage from the skies to the planes Destruction of sacred temples No redemption in death The landscape of lamentation For the mourners and bereaved A red sun over Nazareth The skies darken with Israeli bombers The Jordan valley burns hard and bright War is the currency of Israel Arms tech and surveillance industries Special forces mercenary killers Muscle for hire around the world Gun fire sings hymns over Bethlehem Beneath a valley of corpses Father, mother, sister and brother killed As a child of five years old I am spared for another day When the sun no longer rises I will be with my family again Buried in the land that will always be ours From the river to the sea Palestine will be free

Herd Immunity part 2 Rule Britannia is a world beater Hoist that rag to the waves We have the highest coronavirus death rate in Europe We are heading for the worst recession as well It doesn’t matter how we fiddle the figures Little England is a success They say all lives matter but they want refugees dead They say all lives matter but refuse to wear face masks during a global pandemic They say voting for Brexit took back control Now they are begging Europe to ‘protect our borders’ With our shiny blue passports made in Poland If you want to know what the future looks like It’s a grubby little Weatherspoon’s with our drinks all white Farage and Cummings at the bar telling racist jokes Tim Martin giving sermons mumbling like a drunk Keep walking Captain Tom Stay alert Die quietly Don’t complain Just as Coalition austerity killed 100,000 Releasing infected patients into care homes was genocide The Oxbridge media are gushing in praise So here’s another photo op for the clown QAnon conspiracy fascists talking hoax of death Will be begging for ventilators when they are gasping for breath Forget the second wave this has never gone away The world has become one big zoom meeting Be ready for evictions and mass unemployment Eat out to help out with junk food all around Half priced Nando’s won’t save us this time We are going down Ecosystems broken, pandemics and environmental catastrophe This is our present and this is our future Where racism and corruption are pre-requisites to power How far can you take a lie? All the way to the White House, little Donny All the way to Downing Street, Boris Follow the money given to private companies Contracts to friends of Government For PPE that doesn’t work and a useless track and trace system As the Captain walks around the garden Time for another holiday Boris? Forget about COBRA meetings and daily updates Keep walking Captain Tom Stay alert Die quietly Don’t complain No more scapegoats Time to take responsibility If you voted Tory own it If you chose Brexit own it You despised Corbyn so you chose hate This is your creation Send me all the way to Barnard Castle for an eye test One rule for them and one for the rest of us If you are white and fill up Bournemouth beach they call it a holiday But if you join a protest and say ‘Black Lives Matter’ they call you a terrorist It is no surprise that the countries with the highest coronavirus death rates Are led by racist despots; Trump’s America, Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Boris’ little England People get ready there is a train coming This time we got race to the bottom trade deals, chlorinated chickens and prison camps for refugees You are anti-vaccine, anti-social distancing, anti-wearing face masks, anti-lockdown, anti-life and anti-love So who are you gonna blame next, blame refugees, blame foreigners, blame immigrants, blame Black Lives Matter, blame the EU, blame snowflakes , blame being woke, blame Extinction Rebellion, blame Jeremy Corbyn, blame Antifa, Blaming people is so easy It means you never have to look at yourself Keep walking Captain Tom Stay alert Die quietly Don’t complain