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The price of progress.

The banks of Tyne are green again
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 daily tides still flow

up past Newcastle from the sea
Far cleaner than they used to be.
I wonder was it worth the cost
a thousand, thousand jobs were lost.

There was no clear cut policy
to deal with mass redundancy.
As usual the government
addressed the rising discontent

With promises of action to
reduce the ever growing queue.
On unemployment benefit
But sadly they did not see fit.

To do what needed to be done.
So we were left to struggle on.
The fat cats were protected by
the old boys camaraderie.

Nobody gave a tinkers damn
about the common working man.
One M.P.was heard to say
this is the price we have to pay.

He clearly did not understand
the working men’s right to demand.
Some action from the powers that be
which would relieve their misery.

Correcting mistakes which were made.
As usual the price was paid
By men who lost their livelihood
and not by those who really should.

have paid the price because they failed
to see. Just what would be entailed
In closing down an industry
which had thrived traditionally.

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