When Morality Comes Up Against Profit, It Is Seldom That Profit Loses! Poem by Professor Dr. Stanley Collymore

By Stanley Collymore

British right-wingers have
a massive problem with
money being sensibly
spent to stop children from
pointlessly ever starving,
but unsurprisingly are
amazingly okay with
practically multiple
billions, of Pounds
Sterling, literally
spent on dodgy
contracts with
Tory donors -

like those, purportedly,
making Covid-19 PPE
that obviously don't
work. Or huge pay
rises for indolent
and thoroughly useless MPs.
And comparably too Boris
Kemal-Johnson vanity
projects when he was
London's Mayor and
similarly uncaring
as Britain's lately
installed, and a
visibly ineptly
basically out
of his depth
incumbent
UK Prime
Minister.

However, any public
suggestion of help
for the poor and
truly vulnerable solicits
nothing, but a frothing
fury from these same
intensely obnoxious
quite patronizingly
too, irrefutably as
well, sickeningly
self-absorbed as
a proud coterie
of thoughtless,
so manifestly
haughty and
toxic Tories
discernibly
of a country totally
occupied by nasty
persons - whose
sole role in life
other than to
make loads
of money;
is hating
persons
unlike
them.

(C)Stanley V. Collymore
24 October 2020.


Author's Comments:
This title I've given to this poem, and that appropriately I honestly do feel suitably fits this subject matter, does come from a discernibly inspirational quote by the late Shirley Chisholm.

Shirley Chisholm - now permanently ensconced as expectedly so with the Heavenly Host - was an American born and dynamic lady of Barbadian extraction whose parents ensured she had the precious twin advantages of a thorough Barbadian upbringing and its full attendant formative education that Shirley herself always lauded in her native born USA.

An American politician, educator and author Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman to be elected to the US Congress, serving 7 consecutive terms from 1969 - 1982.

In 1972 Shirley also became not only the first African American of either gender but also the first woman ever, and equally so for a major USA party - the Democratic Party - to run for USA presidential nomination. Remarkable achievements, these, by any objective and rational analysis!

In marked contrast I will also borrow from the words of William Hoffmann to cogently summarise my opinion of Britain and most of its inhabitants.

You ever get the sinking feeling that Britain is fast filling up with bastards of both genders - not only biologically but also immorally too? I do! What I really want to know though, is what happens when all these bastards run out of people to crap on?

What happens when all that's left in Britain are nasty bastards - not only Tory but also Labour, Lib-Dems, SNP and the other political nonentities?

My heartfelt humourous apologies to William Hoffmann - A place for my Head.