Topical Acrostic Sonnet
(October, 2025)
 Economic Growth

 Exchequer mandarins, in need of cash,
 Collude with pubs to raise it from more sales
 Of alcohol at night-time, when a bash
 Need never more break up too soon in Wales
 Or England. Longer opening hours mean both
 More opportunity to be pie-eyed
 In public and more "economic growth"—
 Consumption with taxation on the side.
 Great Britain's not for temperance if booze
 Revives its fortunes: Rachel Reeves's vows
 Of no new taxes mean tax revenues
 Will have to come instead from old cash cows:
 The more you drink, the more taxation will
 Have drained your wallet, paying Reeves's bill!

 (First published in Light on 13th October, 2025 as
  one of the Poems of the Week. Story here)
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