The Blind Will Be Led By The Half Blind

Britain is no more bureaucratic than it was in the past,
though now forms seems longer and more complex than before.
The greater the choice, the more forms that have to be filled in
to organise the powers that be to act positively on our behalf.
Often when we filled in complex forms before we were flattered
by their attention to detail, imagining that the complexity
will help us make a better case for our needs than of old.
We had already been sold the merit of open choice.
Now in secret places civil servants and corporate patrons
devise abstract points systems, and ways for cross-referencing
the answers they receive, which will always grant them
more right to deny an applicant what they ask fo
than ever they will admit to, even to a deliberately blind media.

Their real agenda is to blind us,
whilst leaving them half sighted,
the better to mask the power
of their wealth. For all the liberal talk
Power will always be about rationing.