How many more lies, and how much more obfuscation will it take before the "people" of Britain awake?
"Search out and probe, Gehazi,
As thou of all canst try,
The truthful, well-weighed answer
That tells the blacker lie -
The loud, uneasy virtue
The anger feigned at will,
To overbear a witness
And make the Court keep still.
Take order now, Gehazi,
That no man talk aside
In secret with his judges
The while his case is tried.
Lest he should show them - reason
To keep a matter hid,
And subtly lead the questions
Away from what he did.
Thou mirror of uprightness,
What ails thee at thy vows ?
What means the risen whiteness
Of the skin between thy brows ?
The boils that shine and burrow,
The sores that slough and bleed -
The leprosy of Naaman
On thee and all thy seed ?
Stand up, stand up, Gehazi,
Draw close thy robe and go,
Gehazi, Judge in Israel,
A leper white as snow !"
Kipling. Gehazi