A National Malaise / An International Disgrace

  Our Prime Minister gave a speech this morning

  And what a speech it was.

  It had assonance and sibilance and never mind the dissonance

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  Slowly growing in your mind.

  For its craven, crass and cruel enough

  To feel like some kind of test.

  But the liar says he's not lying

  For lying's what liars do best.

  He spoke of British values, to which I offer this rejoint

  Real values don't come with a pound sign and decimal point.

  I live in a nation the world has rightly left behind

  When was it we forgot the second half of humankind?