5168 Days

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Five thousand, one hundred and sixty-eight days of the UK ruled by a Tory government 
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Five thousand, one hundred and sixty-eight days of failure reinforced by lies and corruption 
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First, they gave you Brexit and the cost of life, took away your protest rights 
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COVID took a ton of lives, called the youth a "sacrifice" 
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NHS waiting lists, making friends with racists 
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No policy on poverty, crackdown on refugees 
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The proverbial doormat they'll step on to get votes back 
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 Put 'em in a boat, stat, change, don't approach that 



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What's the trick? Call a genocide a conflict 
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Now every politician's fucking in on it 
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Fourteen yars, a hundred sixty-eight months 
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Five thousand, on hundred and sixty-eight nights 
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Five thousand, one hundred and sixty-eight days in which the UK has consistently declined. Why? 


 
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David Cameron, what was happening 
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 When you created your own fucking nightmare? 
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I think you were quite aware Brexit wasn't necessary 
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You only cared about your own legacy 
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Now your legacy proudly stands as nothing but 
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Instigating ten years of lies in government 



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Theresa May, with all said and done 
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How the fuck did you contribute to the EU referendum? 
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You could not, would not, finish at last 
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The country was left to the whims of a psychopath 
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Boris Johnson, goes without mention 
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He'd lie about breakfast if it meant that he got seconds 
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 Did you smile at the face of death 
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As your cronies described it as "unfortunate excess"? 


 
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 Were you systematically withdrawn 
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Or were you really as thick as you let on? 
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Liz Truss stumbled in not long after 
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Her fifty days serving ended in disaster 



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Rishi Sunak, where do we start? 
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With another fucking narcissist who could've been smart 
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Sun-actually, factually, swiftly elected 
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As a billionaire posh boy with zero perspective 
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Lest we forget all the cunts that you gave a job 
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Braverman, Gove, Matt Hancock, and Rees-Mogg 
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Every single sycophant who stood idly by 
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Or directly threw logs at a country on fire 



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 Are we overreacting a bit? 
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    If we were in power, would we know how to manage it? 
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Or are we missing a point when we ask such a question? 
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Is knowing how to lead about kowledge or intention? 
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Oxford, master's, politics degree 
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But jokes about the food that the poor kids eat 
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Great Britain has been passed through the fingers of thieves 
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For five thousand, one hundred and sixty-eight fucking days 
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What have we achieved?