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Council estate kid. Nurse. Soldier. Union branch chair. Lifelong socialist. Political verse from the front line. No polish. No surrender. North West, EnglandJoined July 2025
I watched my father struggle in job after job after leaving the Army. He carried the habits and conditioning they’d drilled into him, but the civilian world had no place for it. That experience stayed with me.
This poem speaks to that same journey from soldier to veteran a path…
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They bang the drums of war, they point to China, Russia, Iran. They drag people through courts, wreck lives, and call it justice. They strip liberty piece by piece and tell us it’s for our safety. But the danger isn’t out there it’s here, at home, built into the system.
This…
This isn’t just a piece of writing it was written for someone I know. Someone who’s carried more than his share, and who’s let me share this here with his permission.
It’s personal, it’s close to the bone, and it matters because it speaks to the struggles many of us never put…
You don’t kill an idea with a bullet. You just make its echo louder. Violence don’t end debate it strangles freedom.
The Price of Silence
Freedom ain’t some whispered prayer,
It’s shouted on the street,
It’s standing firm when others stare,
Not bowing in defeat.
It’s banners…
They dragged grandmothers in handcuffs.
They shoved pensioners, priests, and even a blind man in a wheelchair into vans, calling them “terrorists.”
If the frail and the old can be treated like that, what chance do the rest of us have?
This isn’t just about one cause it’s about…
He built New Labour’s shine, then drowned it in scandal.
Mortgage deals, dodgy mates, and now Epstein’s ghost on the page.
They still call him the Prince of Darkness but even shadows run out of places to hide.
Prince of Darkness
He weren’t no saint, he played it dark,
The…
When it’s Russia and Poland, they scream World War Three.
When it’s Israel and Qatar, they mumble about “complexities.”
Same crime crossing borders, breaking sovereignty.
But the rules only matter when it’s your enemy.
When it’s your mate dropping bombs, the room goes quiet.…
Politics today isn’t a talent pool it’s a damp patch of mediocrity. Labour’s cupboard is bare, the barrel’s been scraped, and the working class are left with nothing but suits and slogans. Reform’s circling, Farage is playing pound-shop Powell, and the voters Labour took for…
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