Child poverty was a major issue

The corona virus is raising so many questions

about our values,

systems and structures.

Child poverty was a major issue

screaming to be addressed prior to the virus.

The virus has forced us to reconsider

the value of a whole range of workers

previously dismissed as low skilled.

There is a real need to consider

the effectiveness of the government's preference

for contracting private companies.

Will we listen and learn as we endeavour to get back to normal?

I have a tiny glimmer of hope that Covid has forced many of us to re-evaluate what's important, 

I don't remember Matt Hancock

asking hedge fund managers

and the hard-faced men

who have done well out of Brexit

to dig deep or pay more taxes

in order to help us through this crisis.

Our Government cares so much about

vulnerable children

that they’ve cut Safeguarding budgets. 

This Government has not got a clue about vulnerable kids

and Cummings was heinous

using a safeguarding loophole

for his jolly to Durham.

As for their government  world beating records,

ineptitude, callousness, lack of empathy

and their sheer sense of entitlement is so galling.