A lesson From History

It is always worth reminding  governments when their policies have become too egregious that the Middling Sort in Britain have, from time through history, said "Enough's enough"

Very soon the middling sort

Will rise against your arrogance

As we have done before:

Your fifth form economics,

Your bike-shed sniggering at the poor,

Your gradgrind education,

Founded on some mystic lore.

You believe your own ill-found

Stupidities. And now there’s more; 

You want to break the very things

We’ve worked a life-time for.

Poke the British lion and you

Will hear a muted British roar,

But be careful if you rouse the beast

Better scramble for the door

Be thankful we don’t bite off the heads

Of traitors any more.