ALL ABOARD THE EU BUS (IP)

By Linda Wigzell Cress

Sun, 22 May 2016
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Round and round the argument goes

IN or OUT? No bugger knows

What’s best for us the great unwashed

With no degrees? What is the cost

Of independence from EU –

If we opt out, what will we do?

All our heads are in a spin

Should poor vote OUT and rich vote IN?

OUT to stop mass immigration –

And reclaim self-determination?

IN to maintain love and peace -

And get cheap holidays in Greece?

NO to save our Britishness?

YES to avoid economic mess?

Obama tells us to stay IN –

WTF’s it got to do with him!

 

If no solution can be found

What will then become of us?

The arguments go round and round –

Like the wheels on the EU bus.

 

 

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Comments

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

... something tells me you're sick of hearing about it : )

 

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

You're not wrong iinsert! Thanks for reading.

Linda

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Very topical, Linda, and so true. Nobody knows what the consequences are but from what I hear we are doomed whichever way the vote goes.
As for your question about WTF is Obama's intervention is about, perhaps the answer lies in the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) a treaty secretly being negotiated between the EU and the U.S. which would open the European market to the latter. no Worth reading about it.

Luigi x

 

 

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

I'm sure you're right Luigi, it's all about self interest. Whatever happened to the 'special relationship' with the U.S.? Obama put a lot of British backs up by trying to tell us what to do. Thanks for commenting x

Linda

Submitted by Kurt Rellians on

Good poem! I agree that it is all very confusing and a bit scary. How are we mere mortals to decide what is best for us all?

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

Thanks for commenting Kurt. How can we know really? Both possible outcomes are unpredictable.

Linda

Submitted by Alan Russell on

Like the poem.  It has a nice rap cadence to it.

The President's comments should never have been a surprise as ever since WWII America has been pushing for Britain to become more integrated into Europe.  The BREXIT group were very quick to jump on the President for being a foreign interferer.  Yet they fell strangely silent when another foreigner, an American at that, offered his opinion on leaving.

So to the BREXIT group it is fine to express an opinion if it is in line with their objectives but it becomes interference when it is contrary.

Well done for the poem as I think you will spark some debate as any art that creates a reaction is good art.

 

Alan

Ringwood

Great Britain

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Vents your frustration nicely, Linda, and chimes with everyone else's. Sometimes the machine will just do what it will do, and we little people just get swept along. The fight is probably between very powerful interests whose names we'll never know. Probably the same ones who profit from sending us all off to war. Great post.

Parson Thru