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(Part 4 of 5) When do the children come home from school? Oh that’s a spot of luck I have a shopping trip with the girls planned That I want to get under my belt Before half-term when we holiday in the Seychelles When the kids are home I simply don’t get a moment to myself! And there’s my public image and charity events I have to support Although none of my activities will benefit the working poor That’s how the lives of the rich are paid for At someone else’s expense Always those who have the least but are still prepared to work in any event Should the Tories not be showing support for those who have a strong work ethic? Even if they are poor? What of the future? Why are we repeatedly shown the door? If I ask you what you spent on this week or what it cost You will look at me confused and a little lost This is not a question you understand And all this happens right in our land by your own hand By letting your husbands and their friends Behave in their appalling ways over and over again Behaviour which I would tell my children was wrong, vacuous, selfish and vain But just remember the price you pay for living this way Is when you husband f*cks up - and he will do You will have to lie - whatever is in your heart And whatever is best for your kids And be the one who makes him clean again (kind of like Switzerland) By peddling the lie that he’s a wonderful husband, MP, PM or Business Man (of the year no doubt) When despite appearances he is just a man who has done wrong Whatever his party or business culture says is ok It’s not what the law of our land says to us ordinary types every day Or what I tell my children is the right way And in case you think I’m wanting a socialist land You’d be wrong, I want for me and mine a life of opportunity Where for hard work there is a reward And it does not matter where you come from Just like Margaret Thatcher promised us all those years ago when we were young A free market economy that was open to all But which now only seems to welcome yours Are you worried about the competition? Because there are so many hard working people out there Who are better and more capable than your lot And all because we want different to what you’ve got Like no bonuses - if you can’t make it, it’s not ok to shake it or fake it And no letting MP’s big business or the privateers off paying their taxes I simply can’t envisage the sum total of those losses (please continue to part 5)
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