According to Starmer
And The great and the good
Electric cars
Do what they should
As clean as can be
That’s what they feel
What about the Congo
Where mining is real
Children in bore holes
Working all day
Looking for cobalt
The cruelest of way
So Many collapses
Children have died
What’s clean about death
So much is denied
The poorest of the poor
Indulged in this work
Terribly dangerous
In the smut and the murk
The Congolese children
Suffering so
It’s filthy energy
That much we know
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.