I’m an armchair activist:
I switch channels
When the other parties politically broadcast;
Shake my head at the ‘Ten o’clock News’.
I’m an armchair activist:
I mark the documentaries
In the TV Times
Then laugh on cue
With re-runs of ‘Have I got News..’
I’m an armchair activist:
Eagerly involved in TV debate
I ignore the politician at the door,
And in fairness
The man from Christian Aid.
I’m an armchair activist:
Firmly entrenched in velour-views,
Action amounting to no more
Than two fingers up at a thirty inch screen.