Austerity Circles
The last time a party fell from office,
It found itself very quickly being blamed,
As the new government loudly declaimed
Details of the national debt and the price
Of a necessary austerity;
So obvious, everyone must surely see
How the previous crew incompetently
Managed to crash the economy.
Now though, with new hands on the fiscal reins,
The Chancellor sombrely explains
A policy of tightened purse strings, pain
That might look like austerity again.
Only, it’s not, in any shape or sense,
Rather, it is the return of prudence.
D. A.