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Luxuries! (A rhyme written in response to the vote by the House of Commons to block plans to extend free school meals for the most vulnerable children in society)

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  "Luxuries! Luxuries! We must have responsibility!" cries the MP from the comfort of his salary and lunch subsidy. "Avoid nationalisation! Let's have rationalisation for the joy of privatisation is the freedom to choose. Heat or food? Clothes or light? It's about liberation in the ongoing fight to unshackle the people and allow them to decide! Emergency dinners is fiscal suicide. We need every penny to keep our bombs primed and ready to use if we are inclined. We must honour our contracts and look after our friends We must keep in their favour (Our retirement depends on the offer of seats on a top business board Earning more money as we head to the Lords). So, let us be honest - we're in this together And the decisions ahead are a question of whether we avoid the tough actions fiscal prudence demands. Free dinners are wasteful - you must understand. And now the debate and the vote has been won, we're off for a meal Subsidy anyone?" Luxuries! Luxurie...