Poem 20 Boris vs Virus on Budget Day Or should that be Rishi vs Virus? - 11.2.20
Channel: Bunny Warren
Date: 2023-05-29

This Budget was listened to by Jackie and I in the carpark of Churchill's Home at Chartwell. 
I shed a little tear of relief that financial support would come... we knew lock down was coming... but at the time we did not know how we would survive this new challenge to our society!

20. Boris vs Virus – Budget Day

It’s 1940 and Winston becomes
The leader of an embattled British nation
Now 2020 and Boris just hopes
That he will become an equal sensation

Boris studied Churchill
His biography seems best
But he now finds himself
In a similar mess

Winston the war
Boris the virus
A nation now stands
Against a new type of curse

He now has the work
Of leading us all
In a new kind of war
Will he truly stand tall?

Does history repeat
The nightmares of life
When death of the people
Causes great sacrifice

Before twas the young
In battles so scared
But now it’s the old
Who seem so ensnared

The NHS was created
By a nation to thank
Our heroes who risked all
Now cares for their ranks 

How sad that a generation
Born during a war
Need fight with true valour
For their health to restore

Should the young of today
Be prepared to forgo
Their health to protect
The elderly though?

Will the Millennials & others
Stand brave and use action
To show that real courage
Still thrives in our nation

By Andrew (Bunny) Warren - Wednesday 11th March 2020

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