{"id":2559,"date":"2016-02-16T22:36:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T22:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2016-02-16T22:36:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T22:36:29","slug":"not-fit-to-fly-the-red-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/not-fit-to-fly-the-red-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Fit To Fly The Red Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Got
Got this message to the OffalyCAHWT<\/a> twitter account just now from a Labour party supporter… reply in satire as I am blocked!!! Let us make the hashtag #notfittoflytheredflag trend on Twitter!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Together we fought as Irishmen
\nAgainst the classes and the Crown
\nAnglo, Scot and Gael together
\nWe fought and won, took an Empire down<\/p>\n

Traitors to our class and country
\nWho of their heritage like to brag
\nWho betray that heritage with every law they pass
\nAre not fit to fly the Red Flag.<\/p>\n

They stand by as banks evict families
\nInstead of restarting the Land Commission again:
\nIs it all right to put Irish to the roads
\nAs long as your not Protestant or Englishmen?<\/p>\n

Blind to their folly and unapologetic
\nThey pay their taxes they claim
\nInsult the working working classes
\nWhe they spill their bile at and aim.<\/p>\n

Most of the protesters I stand in ranks with
\nMost today have a job
\nMany two or more to make ends meet
\nMaking a lie out of the words from this fools gob.<\/p>\n

The folk I meet who DO have no issue with austerity
\nThink they have the system sussed
\nWork and sign or don’t work at all as you please
\nState will provide housing and healthcare, they are nonplussed.<\/p>\n

Those of us who do work and pay the taxes
\nOr who have no work but would work if work was there
\nHave issue with bank bailouts, evictions and cutbacks
\nWe who pay for our country about it we care.<\/p>\n

So smug Seaneens who call us thrash
\nWe are the folk who for freedom faught
\nYou are the “Faithful” who worshipped the Crown
\nRanks and titles in its regime won and sought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Together we fought as Irishmen Against the classes and the Crown Anglo, Scot and Gael together We fought and won, took an Empire down Traitors to our class and country Who of their heritage like to brag Who betray that heritage with every law they pass Are not fit to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[571],"tags":[2691,2690,788,2692],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","tag-notfittoflytheredflag","tag-irish-labour-party","tag-labour-party","tag-offalycahwt","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-Fh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2474,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/those-who-fought-on-that-side\/","url_meta":{"origin":2559,"position":0},"title":"Those Who Fought on That Side","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"2nd January 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many men faught not for Ireland But under another flag And of their deeds our folklore feeds Of them we like to brag But there are those of whom A silence does not speak A veil is drawn as if to warn That knowledge of them one should not seek.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Ulster Scots"","block_context":{"text":"Ulster Scots","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/ireland\/ulster-scots\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"He never fired a shot, but was part of the regime. 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