Angela Rayner: Quick Reckoning Time in the Vortex of Power

reckoning

savage vultures encircle
“rotten Rayner,”

tax evader, freeloader —
nuanced,

but echoes
of the cronies before her.

she refers herself
to the ethics committee,

like me
referring myself

to HMRC
when someone’s

about to expose
my dodgy dealings.

working class or not,
once sucked

into the vortex
of executive power,

striding through
those halls

like nothing
else matters,

becoming a stranger
to the populous –

then the scales
of justice tilt

heavily the same
way every time:

one rule for youse only.
upwardly mobile.

A giant, crooked scale of justice, one side weighed down by few elites, the other empty or with ordinary people struggling.