If basic decency needs explaining,
perhaps the problem started earlier.
The Leaflet takes aim at government guidance issued to asylum seekers covering British laws and expectations around equality, sexual consent and acceptable behaviour. For RebelliousBard, the leaflet exposes an uncomfortable contradiction: cultural differences long dismissed as prejudice when raised by the public suddenly become real enough to require official explanation when written down by the state.
A pamphlet for grown men…
Because the government ran out of ideas.
A PM nobody voted for prints a little guide,
How not to attack women, how not to cross the line.
Consent in cartoon form for men who just arrived,
While the girls on the street learn how to stay alive.
They opened the door, then printed the rules,
Teaching basic decency like nobody knew.
If you need it in writing, the country is lost,
We’re teaching the obvious at the public’s cost.
The leaflet, the leaflet, what a joke of a state,
Import the chaos, then educate too late.
Don’t rape, don’t groom, don’t treat women like prey,
We put it in a booklet and looked the other way.
The leaflet, the leaflet, Burnham’s proud new plan,
If they need the pamphlet, they shouldn’t have come.
We lecture our own kids till they can’t say a word,
Then hand grown men a leaflet like they’ve never heard.
You called us bigots for saying values collide,
Now Whitehall prints instructions explaining our side.
If everybody shares them, why explain at the gate?
Funny how the truth arrives officially late.
If you need it in writing, the country is lost,
We’re teaching the obvious at the public’s cost.
The leaflet, the leaflet, what a joke of a state,
Import the chaos, then educate too late.
Don’t rape, don’t groom, don’t treat women like prey,
We put it in a booklet and looked the other way.
The leaflet, the leaflet, Burnham’s proud new plan,
If they need the pamphlet, they shouldn’t have come.
You don’t fix a crisis with a folded A4,
You don’t import the problem then explain the law.
If basic decency needs a government course,
The policy failed before it left the source.
The leaflet, the leaflet, what a joke of a state,
Import the chaos, then educate too late.
Don’t rape, don’t groom, don’t treat women like prey,
We put it in a booklet and looked the other way.
The leaflet, the leaflet, Burnham’s proud new plan,
If they need the pamphlet… they shouldn’t have come.
Printed in colour.
Paid for by us.
Taught to the ones they let in.