If You Support A Political Party Poem by Francis Duggan

A favour paid deserves a favour in return it would be fair to say
And if you support a political party who have helped you in some way
Then you are only paying your debt off but what is beyond me to explain
How anyone can support a political party just for love and not for gain?

For most politicians are deceitful and they flatter to deceive
And they are not to be trusted and them one should not believe
Even to the simplest question an ambiguous answer they will give
And honesty to them a stranger it is by deceit they live.

The three major political parties who in this land legislate
From the federal riff raff in Canberra to the State Parliamentarians who run every State,
The Liberals and the National Party and Labor their policies much the same
The neglect of the poor battlers is their legacy of shame.

They only serve the middle class type to the wealthy billionaire
And for the poor old Aussie battlers they do not seem to care
In Australia's bigger Cities Homeless people no longer rare
And in a so called wealthy Country many living in despair

Of ever again living with a roof above their head
A disused factory doorway in dark alleyway is what for them is bed
Many cannot afford to pay high rent and the cost of living high
And in the slums of the big city they quickly age and die.

And so you support a political party who have helped you in some way
Then it does seem understandable that the favour you ought repay
But if you support a political party because in their doctrine you believe
Then you are not so enlightened as they flatter to deceive.