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Date: 05 October 2010 09:36:01
So yesterday it was my purse,
I know, it was silly of me to put it there,
A place where you could take it
To get your next fix, or something similar
Or maybe even pay a bill.
What you don't realise is what it did to me,
Losing that purse full of cards you can't use
And a few quid in cash with the railcards.
You see I am one of the "hidden poor"
The ones you think are better off than you.
In fact that money was to get me to work
And buy a loaf of bread.
The fact you took it meant I couldn't get to work,
Before deductions that's £75 quid I lost.
Because of a complicated life
that was a good chunk of Novembers rent you took.
But it could have been worse
I got my child benefit today,
For my sixteen year old daughter.
She gets her EMA to live off
And I get her child benefit and child tax credit
To buy the food, put with my term time one nights wages,
And pay my debts and rent.
There are bigger thieves than you about though
They want to take that twenty quid a week
Thinking that because of the EMA I don't need the child benefit.
Or that's what the news said this week.
They want to steal more from me than you ever could
It's money that I have paid with my NI contributions
They want to take from me.
The worst thing is that they will justify it
With complex words and spin
About reinvestment, targeting and fiscal responsibility.
They are not as upfront as you,
I'm guessing if I ever asked
You'd tell me what you'd really used it for
They are going to talk education and health
Whilst paying for new "defence".
My child benefit for the nuclear deterrant
My bread for their bombs.
This "reinvestment" they talk of
Will involve stealing from many more
Than your careful pickpoketing ever will
They are ready to steal from the poor, the old
And the acting serviceman
In order to renew Trident.
So dear thief
I'm pissed off with you
But I'm so much more angry at the real thieves
Who are ready to attack this month.