There's global warming, climate change, submerging English towns.
There's huge great lakes where recently there used to be the Downs!
We're permanently sodden under sullen leaden skies.
The odds are stacked against us, it's a hard battle indeed.
A struggle for the future against vested corporate greed.
But here in Brighton what have Greens and FOE to say?
A lot - about a muddy field beside a motorway.
The Falmer battle's joined, and they are on the other side.
They stand against the folk who gave the Albion back its pride.
They stand against the loyal fans who won our bitter fight.
A Countryside Alliance with the NIMBYs of the Right.
You call yourselves the radicals? Well I say: shame on you.
The real grass roots campaigners are the folk in white and blue.
So, Greens, put on your Barbours, stick your noses in the air.
Go off and join the Monday Club - 'cos all your friends are there!
Attila the Stockbroker, Poet in Residence, Brighton and Hove
-Albion FC
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