Let Them Eat Humbug

Political cycles will pan from left to right,
and back again, and from the rear to the front
when they are presented in 5.1 surround sound,
whenever a new leader is thrown up to the public.

The new leader will aim to sound like
a new broom sweeping the past clean away
with freshly polished rhetoric in a media so new
that the old media does not know how to absorb it.

They will upset some voters and parties,
whilst hoping to please enough of the public,
enough of the time, to be able to ignore
the malcontent of those who can't be satisfied.

Those with Humbug of their own don't need
to be told that fresh new Humbug is available.

Poverty Multiplied By Inequality Equals......

In these democratically turbulent times
where multi-coloured political party kettles
say that the opposition have gone to pot,
and the opposition need to clean their act up
if they even half want to remain the opposition 
what Governing parties like to affirm 
is that the public needs more
of the old divisions between rich and poor,
the public are better off than they can know 
with a politics where wealth,
whatever the skin colour of it's holder,
entitles the wealthy to the privacy
where the public can't know how racist
and worse, obnoxious towards the poor, the newly rich are.
And the poor will know even less
of the private opinions of the wealthy
after the latter have massaged the poor's vote,
via divisive media, and propaganda that reinforces
the distance between controller and controlled.