By Nick Moss
What a surprise to find that of all the front bench
Shitbreathed turncoat rabble, the one to refuse
To swallow the genocide apologias any longer
Would be Yvette Cooper. Must have been
The wearing of the suffragette sash that did it,
In her Westminster Hall
Crocodile smile photocall.
Inspired her to form a direct action group
Aimed at ending British complicity with genocide in Gaza.
Triggered her conscience (note-don’t use words
Like “triggered” -this is about a peaceful direct action group,
Not like those “terrorists” at Palestine Action
That Home Secretary Yvette Cooper proscribed.
The ones who do terrible violent things like spraying red paint
On the property of arms manufacturers who facilitate mass murder.
Careless words cost time. Up to 14 years’ time.)
It gets confusing. But try to keep up. Thank fuck Yvette Cooper
Is showing the way, by carrying on the tradition of resistance
That Yvette Cooper tried to ban. She must have been conflicted anyway.
To have been inspired by suffragettes
Like Mary Leigh – who threw an axe at Asquith,
And bombed the Theatre Royal, yet seemingly appalled
By those who spray- painted Voyagers at Brize Norton.
But then there was the Yvette Cooper who said in 2017:
This week we heard the story of a teenage refugee who fled from ISIS in Iraq.
He had a legal right to join his uncle who lives in Manchester.
But when the Home Office interviewed him in Dunkirk, they didn’t tell him his rights, didn’t ask his circumstances, they just sent him back to a fetid, dangerous camp.
So then he hid under the axel of an articulated lorry all the way to Oxfordshire – where he died under its wheels as he tried to get out.
He had a legal right to be here, should have had the chance to be safe.
So let me give notice; I will seize any chance we get in this hung parliament to reinstate the Dubs amendment so our country stops turning its back on child refugees.
Yvette Cooper would make a fucking great Home Secretary.
Instead we got Yvette Cooper, crackdown zealot, Jack Straw in a Hobbs dress
Who set a goal of deporting 14,000 more people by the end of 2024.
The 2017 Yvette seemingly lost at sea, drowned with the rest.
Hurled from a small boat punctured by pitchfork wielding gendarmes.
Viva Yvette Cooper, then, for refusing to collude with genocide.
Viva Yvette Cooper, for organising to resist genocide,
And defying the criminalisation of protest
By Yvette Cooper, who through the use of anti-terror legislation,
Sought to menace them into submission to atrocity.
How long before Yvette Cooper comes
Before Parliament to seek to proscribe Yvette Cooper?
Faced with such action, we are all Yvette Cooper.
Viva Yvette Cooper. A new Mary Leigh,
Defiant in resisting genocide as she resisted the patriarchy.
Shout it out with pride.
WE ARE ALL YVETTE COOPER.
