Neither big nor special as it turns out
All in all, a bit mealy-mouthed
A quick ‘Free Palestine’ and can we move on
You wouldn’t expect the cleaner
And, well, the cleaner’s gone
Hanging from the rafters
Let’s talk about the issues
Let’s walk in my shoes
Never mind his shoes
Trigger the sample
Trigger the reaction
Take the booking
No call to action
Trigger the sample
Trigger the backing
The music’s great
The conviction is lacking
My dearest darling Natalie
I really like your style
Your tenacity defending
This green and pleasant isle
Your hard line on asylum seekers
Coming over here
Our match was made in heaven
That’s obvious, my dear
We’re so alike, dear Natalie
It’s very plain to see
Your votes against equalities
And for Voter ID
Those rights for workers, I agree
Will really have to go
And never mind the mishap
Shame on you and P&O
Dear Natalie, you’re very right
As far as I can see
Nobody could question
Our compatibility
And it’s fair, dear Natalie
To tap up Honest Bob
Your sex pest ex’s sentence
Clearly was a stitch-up job
I’m so glad you crossed the floor
Natalie, my dear
Welcome to the party
With all my love
Sir Kier
Susan Hall in a ULEZ car
Andy Street on the street
Conservatives out in Blackpool South
And rare in a council seat
Sunak’s disappointed
But says that the plan is working
Meanwhile back in Rochdale
George Galloway is lurking
(Pro-Palestine but anti-woke
It’s somewhat disconcerting)
Rotherham, confusingly
Is back in Liverpool
And Coronation Street’s in Yorkshire
But Teeside’s under the Baron’s rule
If you want all the stories
Laura only talks to Tories
Still squawking Stop The Boats
While just not getting many votes
His dad was Greek
His mum Palestinian
Born in Turkey
He grew up a Syrian
He’s a man of fighting age
He’s handy with a sword
He’s on a small boat
Coming over here
Red cross white coat
He’s a man of fighting age
But it’s alright, it’s okay
He’s leaving the country on the first plane
He law says it’s safe and sound
Just needs assent of the crown
He’s a man of fighting age
St George is Rwanda-bound
They stuck him on a barge
In Portland harbour
Lobbying hard
For his departure
He’s a man of fighting age
A soldier
In a foreign army
We’re not racist
To say this are we
He’s a man of fighting age
But it’s alright, it’s okay
He’s leaving the country on the first plane
He law says it’s safe and sound
Just needs assent of the crown
He’s a man of fighting age
St George is Rwanda-bound
The locals don’t like
Dragon slaying
Don’t like
What the dragon farmer’s paying
He’s a man of fighting age
A catholic country
This one ain’t
We ain’t the type
To venerate a saint
He’s a man of fighting age
But it’s alright, it’s okay
He’s leaving the country on the first plane
He law says it’s safe and sound
Just needing assent of the crown
He’s a man of fighting age
St George is Rwanda-bound
The Queen said pace yourself
But in the end she chased herself
Out of office fast as lettuce could rot
It’s so unfair she died
And getting groceries supplied
Was so much harder with the new job that she’d got
The Downing Street fleas
Would’ve tanked Air BnB’s
Johnson’s dog must’ve had quite a lot
And there was nobody there
To make appointments for her hair
To help her stop it from getting in a knot
She said that it was worse
The strings on the public purse
Despite her own ten years in the slot
And took no interest in the lives
Of presidents’ wives
There’s only so much info you can swot
When she had her say
She made Friday budget day
And gave her enemies the whole weekend to plot
Like a game of Tetris
She inevitably let this
Keep her up before removing Kwasi’s spot
And Hunt did not pick up
When she tried to ring him up
Because her number was one that he’d forgot
And now she’s got a book out
Better keep a look out
A bestseller I suspect that it is not
Anger, frustration, alienation
Disillusionment, pain
Anger, frustration, alienation
Disillusionment, pain
Anger, frustration, alienation
Disillusionment, pain
They’re gonna make sure that you get your five a day
Five a day
Five a day
Five a day
Five a day – they’ll always find a way to make you pay
Five a day – while the rich folk always get their way
Five a day – if there’s a plan for this, let’s get it underway
It’s time to do something about the five a day
Five a day
Five a day
Five a day
Anger, frustration, alienation
Disillusionment, pain
Anger, frustration, alienation
Disillusionment, pain
Anger, frustration, alienation
Disillusionment, pain
They’re gonna make sure that you get your five a day
Five a day
Five a day
Five a day
Anger is the power that you need to make a change
Frustration is the reason that you’re feeling this way
Alienation – it’s why we’re all here
Disillusionment – well, that’s pretty clear
Pain – it’s time to make the pain go away
Pain – it’s time to make the pain go away
Pain – it’s time to make the pain go away
It’s time to do something about the five a day
Five a day
Five a day
Five a day
Five a day – they’ll always find a way to make you pay
Five a day – while the rich folk always get their way
Five a day – if there’s a plan for this, let’s get it underway
It’s time to do something about the five a day
It’s time to do something about the five a day
Five a day
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
To Put Up Shut Up Britain
To Put Up Shut Up Britain
To Put Up Shut Up Britain
They’re dying on trolleys, dying in chairs
Dying in corridors like nobody cares
And still we sing God bless
God bless the NHS
And still we sing God bless
God bless the NHS
‘Cause when they’ve taken that away
There’s really nothing left
Welcome…
Sooner or later it’s someone you know
Soon you’re as low as you can go
Your house, your street, your town
They’re burning it down
Your house, your street, your town
They’re burning it down
Burn it down
Welcome…
How do we measure a person by their worth
When it’s never been easier to be a TERF
And the only thing that power’s used for
Is persecuting a culture war
While protest singers from sea
To shining sea
Are sharpening their pencils
Getting ready for World War Three
Welcome…
Willy’s sending dick pics, getting into conflicts
Selling out his mates to cover up his clicks
But nothing’s bad enough to get him fired
His loyalty is all that is required
And here’s a map of the shit in your river
Here’s a map of the sewage outflow
Here’s where the shit is delivered
Here’s where your opinion can go
Welcome…
Put your conscience aside, we’re still arming genocide
Blind-eyed to the thousands who died
Blind-eyed to the thousands who died
Blind eyes for the people that die
And welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Where the drones get built and the profits hidden
Get off the statue, get on the plane
And don’t you dare ever complain
Welcome…
Welcome…
When the economy won’t grow
And there’s nowhere else to go
It’s not considered evil
For the rich to just eat people
They don’t want to eat you up
But over runneth their cup
And when it’s this unequal
The rich will just eat people
They can’t live in all the houses
But they can own all the houses
Which turns out to be legal
When the rich start eating people
And when the rich start eating people
Some of them will be quite gleeful
Saying it’s a rising tide
We’re just waiting for our ride
Which of course will never come
Because when all’s said and done
It’s simply medieval
For the rich to just eat people
In solidarity with our comrades at the NEU campaigning against agencies offshoring millions of pounds in profit made in the supply teacher ‘market’. With thanks to Reel News for the film.
It takes a village to raise a child
But an agency to profit
A government to turn a blind eye
A trade union to stop it
‘Cause the world keeps turning on education
And you’d think an educated nation
Wouldn’t settle for an NQT
Who comes with a hefty fee
It takes a village to raise a child
But an agency to profit
Like some kinda nightmare-ish
Capitalist project
Where the money that’s supposed to circle
Goes in a straight line instead
From agency to shell company
To hedge fund, virtually tax-free
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
It takes a village to raise a child
But an agency to profit
In a system that prefers your dough
In a rich man’s pocket
While the Minister, dear God
Declares she’s doing a “fucking good job”
A good job fucking with it, more like
No wonder the teachers go on strike
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Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
It takes a village to raise a child
But Teaching Personnel to profit
A subsidiary of Hood TopCo
Whose dividend’s set to rocket
And Simply Ed’s at it too
A million quid off me and you
To turn a temp’ry teacher
Into shareholder value
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Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
It takes a village to raise a child
But an agency to profit
By managing supply
It’s time we made ‘em stop it
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Welcome to Put Up Shut Up Britain
Phone shop
Vape shop
Chicken shop
Bookies
It used to be so sweet
Now it’s Unlucky Street
High crime
Traffic fine
Sex attacks
And decline
Phone shop
Vape shop
Chicken shop
Bookies
It used to be so sweet
Now it’s Unlucky Street
Fly tipped
Dog shit
County lines
Conflict
High crime
Traffic fine
Sex attacks
And decline
Phone shop
Vape shop
Chicken shop
Bookies
It used to be so sweet
Now it’s Unlucky Street
Front garden sofas
Poverty sarcomas
Everyone you know does
A shrug of the shoulders
At fly tipped
Dog shit
County lines
Conflict
High crime
Traffic fine
Sex attacks
And decline
Phone shop
Vape shop
Chicken shop
Bookies
It used to be so sweet
Now it’s Unlucky Street
Tags in the litter
A mattress in the river
Stand and deliver
Throw up a pigeon’s dinner
On front garden sofas
Poverty sarcomas
Everyone you know does
A shrug of the shoulders
At fly tipped
Dog shit
County lines
Conflict
High crime
Traffic fine
Sex attacks
And decline
Phone shop
Vape shop
Chicken shop
Bookies
It used to be so sweet
Now it’s Unlucky Street
Robbery’s a failure
Antisocial behaviour
Jesus Christ our saviour
Do us all a favour
Tags in the litter
A mattress in the river
Stand and deliver
Throw up a pigeon’s dinner
On front garden sofas
Poverty sarcomas
Everyone you know does
A shrug of the shoulders
At fly tipped
Dog shit
County lines
Conflict
High crime
Traffic fine
Sex attacks
And decline
Phone shop
Vape shop
Chicken shop
Bookies
It used to be so sweet
Now it’s Unlucky Street
Steve White & The Protest Family 