A day of showers. Pearl's blue umbrella
Helped keep me dry once more, out at lunchtime
For a union meeting where each speaker
Spoke against the Con-Dem government's trying
To push back social gains that have been signed
Up to over sixty years. NHS,
State pensions, safe employment. Now we find
These all under threat, workers start to flex
Muscles, like before Thatcher's handbag vexed
The socially inclined. Enough of her -
But her U.S. model's not in decline
Or so it seems across the globe. The next
War could be on the domestic front, a
Mirror of the recent Arab springtime
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