Why we lost
(29/11/19)

Too many hostile newspapers
Too many billionaire donors
Too many reflex-tweet journalists
Too many monsters made cute by satirists
Too many boomers with no stake in the future
Too many rooms full of Russian hackers
Too many daft conspiracy theories
Too many short or faulty memories
Too many fancy-dress poetry revolutionaries
Too many selfies
Too many memes shared without checking
Too many thinking they’re the first one thinking
Too many cat videos that cost the earth
Too many bored thumbs
Too many algorithms

Too many spying devices bought for Christmas
Too many Halloween masks in August
Too many back to school offers in July
Too many disposable barbecues in June
Too many Father’s Day gifts in May
Too many unsold barbecues in April
Too many Mother’s Day cards in February
Too many Easter Eggs in January
Too many Valentine Cards in December
Too many Black Fridays in November
Too many Advent calendars in October
Too many selection boxes in September
Too many rooms where we all just agree
Too many state-sponsored drug cheats
Too many acts of denial
Too many live matches
Too many state occasions
Too many look at the state of that!
Too many cars
Too many crap trains
Too many long-hauls
Too many Stag & Hen do’s
Too many tests
Too many reports
Too many inspectors
Too many myths passed on by teachers
Too many buy-one-get-one-free
Too many clothes
Too many FINAL REDUCTIONS
Too many comfort snacks when you’re skint
Too many notification pings
Too many driven people who don’t know where they’re going

Too many cakes on Friday
Too many Black Fridays
Too many reality shows that aren’t
Too many talent shows that aren’t
Too many employed that aren’t
Too many automated checkouts
Too many shops boarded-up
Too many cuts
Too many zero-hours contracts
Too many consultants
Too many managers who can’t manage
Too many unaffordable mortgages
Too many gig of free data
Too many cameras
Too many giving billionaires free data
Too many days to raise the profile of that and this
Too many who just don’t do politics
Too many in cells instead of hospital wards
Too many awareness-raising badges
Too many pat answers
Too many acts of remembrance of nothing much
Too many actors selling souls in adverts
Too many homeowners saying never a borrower or a lender be

Too many told they were born to rule
Too many papers owned by too few
Too many slogans that don’t work once you think them through
Too many war films at too great a distance of time
Too many clickbait outrages from Mailonline
Too many pub landlords on Question Time
Too many lies to keep a track of
Too many lips poisoned like Botox
Too many thinking Trump reads their replies on Twitter
Too many singers who sound like a phone speaker
Too many buskers with expensive guitars
Too many guitarists with too many guitars
Too many effects pedals
Too many guitarists
Too many singers using auto tune
Too many who can’t put down their phone
Too many lagers cheap as piss
Too many season finales you mustn’t miss
Too many box sets
Too many pointless remakes
Too many sequels
Too many prequels
Too many best ofs
Too many bots

Not enough votes.