'Bad poetry' posters about Boris Johnson pop up around Bath
Have you seen them yet?
Richard MillsSenior reporter
The poems in Margaret's Buildings
Poems on posters about Boris Johnson and Universal Credit have popped up in various locations across Bath.
The posters have been spotted on Bath High Street and Margaret's Buildings, among others, and were put up before the 2019 General Election.
The poem, titled 'Bad Poetry: Boris', is about Boris Johnson and talks of him saving us with his 'bad hair and his bumbling charm' but that he is a 'buffoon'.
It adds that we should not waste our future on 'self-serving liars'.
One poem says: "Hey Hoh! It's election time. Boris will save us, with his bad hair and his bumbling charm.
"That buffoon however conceals a quick brain. Easily outwitting our antique and pedantic system.
"And his agenda? Himself of course. His history speaks to us: A slippery grasp of the truth and a self-belief that wins all games.
"But our country faces a tough future. Not just Brexit, which will soon seem like a distraction.
"As there's little time left to waste before we have to feed and fend for ourselves.
"Or the climate crisis will take care of us but we have a leader that sees it as a joke.
"So the choice is ours. It's our children's future now. So let's not waste it on self-serving liars. Eh?"
Bad poetry: Boris
The second poem, titled 'Bad Poetry: Universal credit', and talks about how this system is 'unravelling the fabric that holds our society together'.
It adds 'Is this the country we really love?'.
The poem reads: "I always thought that the health of a society was reflected in how it treated its most vulnerable.
"And our country still sits at the top table of the richest on the planet.
"Yet it is quietly unravelling the fabric that holds our society together.
"And one of the first victims of this impoverishment is our most vulnerable, the poor and disabled.
Boris Johnson was re-elected as PM on December 12, 2019 (Image: Getty Images)
"Universal Credit – sounds innocuous enough.
"With crab-like cunning, this new order of payments to those entitled has a gap between old and new of five weeks.
"A cliff edge that throws those most vulnerable into that hell called homelessness.
"Where most don't survive a second winter. As for the rest, further indebted, they live with the fear of sanction by a system both punitive and cruel.
"For not chasing hard enough, for the s*******t jobs, or for just being late.
"Sliding back to a Dickensian past. A children's story now includes visiting the food bank, normalising the unacceptable and one in three children now live in poverty.
"Is this the country we really love?
"We voted these people in.
"I for one would think twice before trusting them with my Yes.
"As: There but for fortune go you or I."
Bad poetry: Universal Credit
In Bath, Wera Hobhouse strengthened her hold over the city at the 2019 election, winning 54.5% of the vote - a 7.2% increase on her victory in 2017.
She came ahead of Conservative Annabel Tall (30.9%), Labour's Mike Davies (12.7%), The Brexit Party's Jimi Ogunnusi (1.2%) and the Independent Bill Blockhead (0.7%).
Nationwide, the Conservatives won 365 seats, 47 more than in 2017, and Labour lost 59 seats to end up with 203 seats.
The Scottish National Party climbed to 48 seats from 35 in 2017 and the Lib Dems fell from 12 seats to 11.
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