tax free at last
The news is out and at long last
All our dreams had come to pass
From next year that’ll all be gone
Such good news the Tories won.
‘Tax free at last’ is the headline,
From next year we’ll keep the gross.
In a stroke they’ve all been axed
Government has dropped its rake.
Our new wealth spend as we wish.
Come next April things will change
As from taxes we’re estranged.
Excitedly folk plan their spending
Hols and cars they now are pending.
The fateful day arrives on queue
To usher in a world brand new.
As untaxed wealth is spread around.
“Halleluiah!” “Thank you gov” is all that’s heard
But now the government has no cash
We start to feel a dark backlash.
Schools start charging to stay open
As by the private sector they are roped in.
Bloody hell I’ve cricked my knee
Am kept holding as charges clock
Really? It’s only to check-out my knee.
‘Cos I can’t walk straight I cannot work
I don’t get paid, feel such a twerp.
Try to sleep, but with no meds.
Dialling police I hear a voice
Give the address and your card
Once funds have cleared we’ll send a car
Assuming you don’t live too far
For otherwise more dosh is due.
And leave me with a bill. Enough!
This isn’t what we had expected
We wanted cash AND service tendered.
How do you expect us to pay all this?
It is not right, it’s well remiss.
The cars, the hols, they disappear
As to the peeps new bills appear.
‘Cui bono?’ now is what is heard
We didn’t mean the state should shrink
And lead us all towards the brink.
We can’t afford to pay for stuff
This new state is far from sunny.
Rich get richer running service
People now are really nervous.
“Haves” with money to disburse
“Have nots” with less in their purse.
Now left to fend like mongrel whelps
One year on and much has changed
Streets are filthy, roads potholed
Belts are tightened, but then behold
A new party from the murk emerges
In support their backing splurges.
The central plank of their agenda?
To bring back taxes like we remember.
Take small amounts from all the folk
And spend to help those who are broke
For now we’ve learned that we are more
If we use the collective income
To help the all and not just some.
They got elected and taxes restored
And as the taxes they came back
People realised what we lacked.
‘Bout paying tax to improve out lot
To pay for stuff that we all need