We’ve had eat out to help out here’s the bee Tory go to slogan.
starve a kid to save a quid.
saw this on Facebook earlier thought I would share.
You what frightens me more than anything in life. More than angry bees. More than forgetting to browse in ‘Private’ mode when I visit certain websites of a specialist nature. More even than Covid-19, Long Covid, and the inevitable Super b****d Mega Covid that is sure to emerge in early 2021 as a result of the ever-growing anti-masker movement’s influence. It’s the responsibility of providing for people who depend on me and the knowledge that like anybody else we are only a few, or even one single unexpected event away from it all going horribly wrong.
Even when things are alright, just having this thought at the back of my mind can be overwhelming and I’m pretty sure that there are loads of people that must feel this way. Worse still, now more than ever there are parents out there who aren’t just imagining what it could be like - they are experiencing it.
Contrary to what you’re seeing and hearing from so many different people, these aren’t all terrible monsters who prioritise 20 Silk Cut, a bottle of Smirnoff, a ‘fix’ and a Sky subscription over their kids’ wellbeing. They are bearing the brunt of the economy going to **** because of the global situation. They are experiencing the ‘zero hours’ element of ‘zero hours’ contracts. They are escaping abusive relationships where the alternative to financial hardship for themselves and their children could literally be life-threatening. They are dealing with cancer or another serious illness. They are generally doing the best that they can and having to deal with the crushing reality that it simply isn’t good enough.
What I’m trying to get at with all of this lefty-wefty, bleeding-hearted, like, share and comment-grabbing virtue signalling, and I say this with the highest amount of respect to you all out there in Facebookland, is that if you are even considering posting one more comment along the lines of ‘can’t feed them, don’t have them,’ please turn your smartphone sideways and stick it so far up your balloon knot that onlookers will believe that Samsung have gone into the gumshield business.