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Steve White

@steveprotest.bsky.social

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Writer of wrongs, singer of protest songs. Trade unionist, anti-fascist. Co-founder of Love Orient Hate Racism. Putting the Steve White into Steve White & The Protest Family since 2009. https://protestfamily.com/

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · 20h

The poem "Memories of The War"

Eighty years ago
My granddad lived in Walthamstow
He saw the queue for fish and chips
Get blown to bits
By a bomb in World War Two
Hated fascists, like you do
Moved to Clacton in ‘82

Derek lives in his house now
Flies the flag, English and proud
Remembers the war like yesterday
‘Though he weren’t born ‘til ‘53
He left Walthamstow in ‘92
And now votes for fascists
Like you do

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
A truck load of ICE agents coming into sight
Chasing people of colour
Wearing masks and shooting guns

Oh, say can you see by Jeffrey’s list
That power and abuse always coexist
And the land of the free
Is run by fortunate sons

America's Broke

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · 3d

They're eating people....

Monsters

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · 13d

"I heard it this morning on LBC
Where nothing is true so anything could be
In Clacton, it’s Derek’s take
That fake news is real, and real news is fake"

(They're Eating The) Swans

YouTube video by Steve White & The Protest Family

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · 16d

Nigel wants to kick out his girlfriend
Nigel wants to kick out his ex
An end to indefinite leave to remain
Them first, you next
Nigel’s borrowing policy
From the BNP and National Front
Even the right-wing papers say
Nigel’s an unworkable stunt

Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · 22d

The flags are out for the predators
The flags are out for the sex pests
From Tommy’s long list of abusers
To Jeffrey Epstein’s special guest

The flags are out for the Rapist-in-Chief
Meet the King, wave to the crowd
The flags are out for the predators
Don’t it make you proud

A cartoon of Donald Trump as an elephant

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · 22d

A cartoon of Nigel Farage as a frog and Tommy Robinson as a rat, standing in front of a dirty union jack. Robinson is making a Nazi salute. Farage is mimicking him, holding a glass of red wine aloft.

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · 22d

A Must Listen (5-star) review from Folk London for Evidence-Based Punk Rock.

"I never thought I would find myself recommending a CD that reflects the daily news we all dread hearing but I am. Unequivocally!"

Folk London magazine October-November 2025

Buy the latest magazine including an interview with Katie Spencer and Croydon Folk Club on their Remembering Rita Cherriman season, plus CD reviews and event listings

folklondon.co.uk

Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · 24d

Thanks!

Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · 24d

Cheers!

Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · 25d

This land of riches, this land of rags
This land of lampposts and angry flags
Of roundabouts and hasty tags
Oh England, can you tell me where it hurts?

Oh England (Can You Tell Me Where It Hurts?)

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · 28d

Your up-to-the-minute protest song delivery service.

"They've got fear shootings, they've even got ear shootings, and a long list of someones shot with guns."

Shot With Guns

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · 29d

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · Sep 7

And the trick they play they say the flag is yours
Flown at one world cup and two world wars
A tawdry cross daubed across any old white rag
I’ll never swear allegiance to the flag

The Flag

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · Sep 6

And now for something...

Breaking Britain (Video)

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · Sep 5

Release day! And it's Bandcamp Friday too. Get yours here: stevewhiteandtheprotestfamily.bandcamp.com/album/eviden...

A photograph of the front cover of the CD "evidence-based punk rock" by Steve White & The Protest Family.

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · Aug 27

A cartoon of Nigel Farage as a cigarette-smoking frog.

Frog-faced fascist Farage
The tinpot TikTok wannabe dictator
Squawks deport ‘em all, let God sort ‘em out
Dreams of riots, five quid flags
And mini roundabouts
Dreams of Trump-ish sanctions
And Taliban transactions

It’s mass deportation masturbation
For a nation that’s been
Squeezed, plucked
Furloughed, fucked
Despairing for an answer
But stranded with a chancer
In stockbroker tweed
When what they need
Is far less greed
From those that have it all already
Such as him

Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · Aug 24

"Paul lives in a country
Where even the roundabouts are white
His crusade’s embarrassing
And not a pretty sight"

Bring Back The Dancing Coppers

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · Aug 22

Great stuff. Presumably someone is talking to them about a grassroots anti-racism campaign founded by fans of a certain east London football club.

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · Aug 21

They’re hanging flags on the lampposts of Breaking Britain
They’re painting the roundabouts red
The concerned mums of Epping are lighting fires
While Bobby’s on the beach winding up their suppliers
They’re kicking the refugees out of The Bell
Next thing they’ll wanna kick you out as well...

Breaking Britain

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · Aug 13

Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · Aug 8

One of *those* conversations.
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Deserve A Chance

YouTube video by Steve White & The Protest Family

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Steve White @steveprotest.bsky.social · Aug 8

"...it’s an absolute tour de force."

Attila The Stockbroker's review of Evidence-Based Punk Rock morningstaronline.co.uk/article/atti...

Pre-order your copy at stevewhiteandtheprotestfamily.bandcamp.com/album/eviden...

Attila the Stockbroker Diary: August 8, 2025

VERY very busy couple of weeks coming up. Five shows in three days at the brilliant Rebellion punk festival — happening at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool right now — and then straight up to Edinburgh...

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