First, they came for the homeless

on Britain’s streets,

because that’s what they do, pick

at the fringes and the easy targets, the vulnerable

and the uncomfortable on the eye,

and you did nothing,

then they come, excited

by the work already done, the first small ticked box

for the disabled and reduce them down

to figures of ridicule and suspicion,

do they really need to be seen,

salivating now, the painted smiles

of ministers as you tore yourselves apart

to say nothing,