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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414715" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The price of progress.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The banks of Tyne are green again<br>The skyline boasts no shipyard crane<br>Our great shipbuilding industry, <br> a footnote now in history</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The riversides no longer ring<br> to the harsh sound of riveting<br>It’s not the Tyne I used to know<br> although the daily tides still flow</div><div style="margin:10px 0">up past Newcastle from the sea<br>Far cleaner than they used to be.<br>I wonder was it worth the cost<br> a thousand, thousand jobs were lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was no clear cut policy<br> to deal with mass redundancy.<br>As usual the government<br> addressed the rising discontent<br> <br>With promises of action to<br> reduce the ever growing queue.<br> On unemployment benefit<br>But sadly they did not see fit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To do what needed to be done.<br> So we were left to struggle on.<br>The fat cats were protected by<br> the old boys camaraderie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nobody gave a tinkers damn <br>about the common working man.<br>One M.P.was heard to say<br> this is the price we have to pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He clearly did not understand<br> the working men’s right to demand.<br>Some action from the powers that be<br>which would relieve their misery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Correcting mistakes which were made.<br>As usual the price was paid<br>By men who lost their livelihood <br>and not by those who really should.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">have paid the price because they failed<br>to see. Just what would be entailed <br>In closing down an industry<br> which had thrived traditionally.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From lack of positive support <br>and even worse from lack of thought.<br>Though craftsmen could transfer their skill<br> there were no vacancies to fill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whole communities were destroyed<br>there was no way they could avoid.<br>Being forced to move away <br>although they would much rather stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The banks of Tyne are green again.<br>Paid for in hardship and in pain.<br>The working men were hardest hit<br> again the rich folks benefit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because they can afford to buy<br>Luxury flats that now rise high<br> and cater for the wealthiest<br>Who think that they deserve the best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The working class lose out again<br>Which is quite easy to explain.<br>Though working men are in demand<br> the wealthiest are in command.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They always were through history<br>There really is no mystery.<br>The power lies with the elite<br>The working men cannot compete.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rich get rich at our expense<br> and most of them make no pretence.<br>To care about the working man.<br> Who they exploit because they can.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q>
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The skyline boasts no shipyard crane
Our great shipbuilding industry, 
 a footnote now in history

The riversides no longer ring
 to the harsh sound of riveting
It’s not the Tyne I used to know
 although the dai..."></div>
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