The Independent, 15 September, 2010
Max Hastings, Daily Mail, August 2011
They made the Royal Family frown
In Manchester and Canning Town
In shopping malls and retail huts
Reacting to the budget cuts
Kids reached through shattered glass and ran
In Tottenham and Lewisham
Like crazed bankers at bonus time
But City greed is not a crime
It’s natural justice, common sense
That the poor show deference
Why should money be their glitch?
It only motivates the rich!
Tabloid and broadsheet lust for blood
Against the wearers of the hood
Liberal policemen, they avow
Have slaughtered England’s sacred cow
It is a holy trinity
Business, greed and property
Buttressed by hypocrisy
A pretend aristocracy
They see the world through thatch and fields
As riot police with Perspex shields –
A Praetorian guard who shove and bray –
Keep the urban poor at bay
Hastings with his marbled nose
Rolls out a length of purple prose
My dogs have more respect, he writes
Than these unfathered urbanites
Making an unholy row
Even the girls are it now!
How dare they clamour to be free
For self-expression, liberty
Only war will make them manly
A healthy slaughter, like Port Stanley
The town hall flag has turned bright red
The age of deference is dead
Politicians cuss and rave
The camera follows Eton Dave
How have the latest cuts gone down
At the poorer end of town?
Tanned from a Tuscan holiday
He speaks of criminality
Through smouldering ruins now he sees
A broken Big Society
Spoiled by benefits and health
The weak have tried to share his wealth
Only the rich can shout and smash
Abuse the meek and splash their cash
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