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Brexit Negotiations

by Mickey 

Posted: 30 June 2017
Word Count: 179
Summary: If I were leading the British negotiating team!


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The Single Market’s tariff-free?
Well, what about the annual fee!
And pay to leave? – don’t take the piss,
our EU imports you’d soon miss.

Why should we do a bloody deal?
we still import your bloody steel,
and sell your wines in all our bars
and buy your bloody foreign cars.

Emmanuel and Angela -
The Playboy and The Gnome,
are bound to want these talks to fail
to help their firms at home.

The Germans build the rolling stock
on Britain’s railway tracks,
the French own our utilities,
the Spanish run our banks.

We don’t want your kilometres.
We don’t want kilograms.
We want our red Routemasters
not your bendy Euro trams.

The arrogance of Donald Tusk
we British find alarming.
To help the inefficient French
we subsidise their farming.

You’ve stolen all our fishing grounds
to help the Portuguese,
and fucked the Greek economy
and brought them to their knees.

So we are taking back our borders
and cancelling all standing orders
we pay your wretched behemoth.
If you don’t like it -  just sod off!






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Mickey at 16:30 on 30 June 2017  Report this post
Just to completely alienate anyone who still liked me!!

Cliff Hanger at 16:56 on 30 June 2017  Report this post
Hi Mickey

I thought that would be the tack you'd take. The only initial comments I'd make are that I'm bemused by how hard brexiteers use negotiation as a synonym for fight. Also, I'm sure most people here can separate out differences of opinion and personal likeability. I'll come back in a while re the rest but it will be along the lines of 'we British' huh? It was a close vote so you can't speak for us all and I find the xenophobia around our exit from the EU abhorrent on a general level. As a poem it works though. I don't agree with it but I'm sure it will find an appreciative audience for reasons that I fail to comprehend.

Jane

Mickey at 17:05 on 30 June 2017  Report this post
Thanks Jane.  

Had you already realised what a grumpy old git I was from my previous postings? LOL

PS  Never let a reasoned argument from either side get in the way of a good rhyme!

Mickey at 17:17 on 30 June 2017  Report this post
PPS
My views have nothing to do with xenophobia.  I voted out in 1973 when immigration wasn’t even an issue.  I just want England to remain England whoever lives here.  Oh, and by the way, the poem’s sentiments are obviously an OTT caricature – I’ve just got another (used) Audi !!   See? I said religion and politics are a minefield !!!
 

Cliff Hanger at 17:35 on 30 June 2017  Report this post
Are you trying to wind me up by using England to mean The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?angry
These topics are a minefield but that's what make good writing.

Getting back to the mechanics of poetry, perhaps the stretch for a rhyme isn't always the most effective technique. I find I write both rhyming and free verse. The latter is much harder but more expressive. I wonder what your poem would read like in free verse.

Jane

 

Mickey at 19:15 on 30 June 2017  Report this post
Course I'm not trying to wind you up - I'm English, not Scotish, Irish, or Welsh! wink

Mickey at 19:17 on 30 June 2017  Report this post
Seriously, Jane, I can't write free verse.  I can only string rhyming lines together

James Graham at 15:56 on 02 July 2017  Report this post
Well Mike, you've set me what may be the ultimate challenge - to judge a poem entirely on its merits as verse regardless of its subject-matter! I have to avoid what one of those bloody impressive French intellectuals called critique moral. What you're saying in the poem makes me hot under the collar no- but it could still be a good poem...yes

James.

michwo at 22:04 on 03 July 2017  Report this post
Mickey,
I've just worked out who you remind me of - Nigel Farage!
Is he still in America or did you see him at that pub you went to in Rye recently?
Actually you're such a friendly-looking man I can't imagine you being anything other than conciliatory rather than instigating xenophobia along with the National Front and other wavers of flags with the cross of St George on.
"Steam communication with Boulogne" is a super poem by the way.  Lots of fun.
P.S. I read on my BT home page today that if a referendum were held now on membership of the EU 54% of people in Britain would vote to remain rather than leave.


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