OI POLLOI LYRICS

"Resist The Atomic Menace"

In March 1984 an old age pensioner by the name of Hilda Murrell was stabbed to death
when she surprised an intruder at her home in Shrewsbury
The police treated the incident as if it was just an ordinary burglary that had gone wrong -
but it was not - and they knew it.
Hilda Murrell was murdered by the British Nuclear Industry.

A world famous rose grower, Hilda Murrell had been a campaigner for ecological sanity for many years
and was in the process of writing a paper on the dangers of nuclear power
to be presented at the inquiry into the proposed building of a pressurized water reactor at sizewell.

This was vital evidence for those who opposed the P.W.R.
but after the break-in her final draft was strangely found to be missing.
Is it your ordinary burglar that steals that sort of thing
and yet leaves money and other valuables untouched?

She died because she saw through their lies.

Yet another victim of Britain's nuclear power program.
The truth behind nuclear power is grim and stark
so they weave a web of lies to keep us in the dark.

British Nuclear Fuels and the U.K.A.E.A.
will do anything to silence those who stand in their way.

There can be no justification for the use of nuclear power.
It leads to widespread contamination of the environment,
numerous deaths from cancer and leukemia
and unacceptable restrictions on our few remaining civil liberties -
while all the time cheaper and safer alternatives exists.

Because she realised this and decided to make her stand
Hilda Murrell became the target for a particularly foul and vicious attack.
A frail old lady, she was repeatedly stabbed then dumped in the woods and left to bleed to death.

Are there no depths to which they will not stoop?
If she was not to die in vain
We must resist this atomic menace
Resist this atomic menace

Resist this atomic menace
Resist this atomic menace
Resist this atomic menace
Resist this atomic menace

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