Crisis, what Crisis?

An unashamedly political poem today about Jersey's Government with a glance back to Jim Callaghan and the Winter of Discontent, and the phrase attributed to him: "crisis, what crisis". Politicians hate the word "crisis", and want to talk about issues or problems, but when rents are pricing people out of coming to Jersey - nurses, for example, look at the housing market, and the high cost of living, and tsay away - hospitality workers are not coming back - and the brain drain of local talent continues.  Hosuing is a problem, but then they turn down the chance to set 30% of a new JDC build for affordable housing.

Meanwhile schools are told that it's tough by the Education Minister, but it's a question of priorities, and potholes have their place before extra funding, while budgets slashed to the bone already cause grief - and what about "putting children first?". The so-called Competent Authorities in charge of the pandemic say they follow STAC advice, until it becomes clear from minutes that they don't - their solution is a sub-committee with no minute taking! Secrecy and lies is the order of the day.

Crisis, what Crisis?

Now is the winter of our discontent:
Too few workers: because they went.
And would not return, high rent cost
And a brain drain too: these the lost;
As house prices soar, rents sky high:
Crisis, what crisis? So speaks the lie
As schools struggle to add up sums,
Budgets breaking, disaster comes;
Hope House closed, abandon hope:
Can the Government really cope?
As Covid soars once more, again,
And may still bring Christmas pain;
Mask wearing still not there in law:
As infections rise, they just ignore;
At least we don’t have Peppa pig,
But do our politicians care a fig
About putting children first? No!
I do not believe that it is so;
Not a crisis, but a problem, say
Politicians as they still betray
Our trust, with secrets and lies,
Deaf to poverty’s loudest cries;
Give me your tired, and your poor:
The government will shut the door;
Crisis, what crisis? Wait to next June:
Reckoning not moments too soon.

https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2021/01/27/stacs-concerns-over-border-policy-ignored-minutes-show/