Hadrian's Northern Wall

Hadrian's Northern Wall ?

North-east muggers they ran riot, with nee bobbies on the beats
Kids joy-rode chariots on our one-twenty AD. streets
Swan's Galley-building Yard at Wallsend was closing, entirely out of
orders
Celtic n' Rangers were causing mayhem, plundering Geordie borders
So the council they called a meeting n' decided it had to stop
Saying nee matter how hard you searched, you could never find a
cop
The councillor from Scotswood said "me I blame the parents"
Another argued it was single mums. With subsidised fair-rents
They voted for more discipline o' prison, birch n' rack
After much debating they agreed to bring back to basics back
To mobilise market forces! Privatise the unemployed
Improve the National Health Service until it was utterly
destroyed
Then shut down all the mills and each n' every pit
What about the workers? We'll just leave them in the sh 1 t
Let's sack Maggy Bodicia who trims cabinet.
With Westland Rotor wheels
Cos she's cost us lots o' votes, with her dodgy Scots arms-deals
We'll create job creation! Invite capital from abroad
Approach Honest Major John Hadrian. Aye! let's get him on board
It only took one summons n' the Romans came in hordes
They didn't bring nee Lira, just macaroni, shields n' swords
Wasn't much opposition, few clashes but no trade wars
Akin to a precursor for Geordie building Nissans Cars
Emperor took on local labour, with short contracts by the day
Those hired paid nee tax, cos he didn't give them any pay
Unemployment, that was in real terms, vanished! At a stroke!
But poor exploited stone-masons wound up stony broke
Hadrian persuaded workers to buy their council homes outreet
Later repossessing them with them left kipping in the street
Senate voted themselves a greet big twenty six percent rise
Rewarding poor old plebeians with just promises n' lies
Romans conquerors had a fine old time, in fact they had a ball
While poor Geordie for his efforts earned a high-rise Roman Wall.

by Don Passmore ?