The country on its knees ; Guess who ?

gregorgregorovich said:
Until recently, I worked as a relief driver for a local Pharmacy in quite deprived areas. Obviously most of my time was spent out of the shop, driving about and delivering prescriptions. However, regularly I would see and hear young parents come into the shops I worked in, explaining what symptoms their child had and ask what medicines they could buy. They would then be told what was suitable. The first follow up question was to ask, how much is it? I would then see them dig in their pockets or look in their purses to try to find the money to pay to help their Child get better. Far too often, they didn't have enough and I had to watch them walk out of the shop with their head down and shoulders slumped or as I sometimes did, give them the money they were short off.

I am sat typing this angry as **** with tears in my eyes remembering this.

We have to get these b***ds out of Office, but we also have to put something tangible in place to help and to stop demonising the poor, the disabled and the sick. We can't keep relying on foodbanks and charity and the newly termed Multibanks to help, because quite clearly they are nowhere near enough.

Rant over.
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When I was in the school, there would be more students going in for lunch on Fridays and Mondays because they knew it would be the last warm meal over the weekend and their first warm meal after the weekend, and Guisborough is seen by many as an affluent market town.

Prior to it being offered by all schools and school ages, the staff I worked with set up a breakfast club in the behaviour unit and took turns bringing in bread and butter and cereals. Staff would give them a warm drink from out of our tea club and other staff would regularly drop in a packet of biscuits for the students. I couldn't guess at the number of angry students I have dealt with and won over by giving them a slice of toast and a warm drink. How can anyone concentrate if they are hungry, I certainly couldn't.
 
Ingleby_Flash said:
All of the above, but I think Corbyn deserves a special mention for making Labour unelectable for a long time. Principles are great, but if they let Boris and Truss into power they’re misplaced.
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How do you make something unelectable? I'd argue that the blame lies with the people briefing the press and fomenting the unrest (and the idea of unrest) within Labour.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
When I was in the school, there would be more students going in for lunch on Fridays and Mondays because they knew it would be the last warm meal over the weekend and their first warm meal after the weekend, and Guisborough is seen by many as an affluent market town.

Prior to it being offered by all schools and school ages, the staff I worked with set up a breakfast club in the behaviour unit and took turns bringing in bread and butter and cereals. Staff would give them a warm drink from out of our tea club and other staff would regularly drop in a packet of biscuits for the students. I couldn't guess at the number of angry students I have dealt with and won over by giving them a slice of toast and a warm drink. How can anyone concentrate if they are hungry, I certainly couldn't.
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Norman_Conquest said:
When I was in the school, there would be more students going in for lunch on Fridays and Mondays because they knew it would be the last warm meal over the weekend and their first warm meal after the weekend, and Guisborough is seen by many as an affluent market town.

Prior to it being offered by all schools and school ages, the staff I worked with set up a breakfast club in the behaviour unit and took turns bringing in bread and butter and cereals. Staff would give them a warm drink from out of our tea club and other staff would regularly drop in a packet of biscuits for the students. I couldn't guess at the number of angry students I have dealt with and won over by giving them a slice of toast and a warm drink. How can anyone concentrate if they are hungry, I certainly couldn't.
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Greg/norman,

I read stories like this and we’ve seen enough broadcast recently about the water companies absolutely destroying our rivers with sewage and breaking laws that the EA can’t control because the Tories have decimated their resources through reduced funding and water companies pay their executives millions of tax payers money whilst good people suffer.
The Tories and anyone who votes for them, for me, are the true enemy and traitors of the country as they systematically allow our society to gradually decay and crumble into ruin
Absolutely boils my blood
 
The country has some problems, money needs better distributing and we need to create more of it without just printing it, but to me if you went back to the 1970s you would still want to come back the 2020s.
 
Redwurzel said:
The country has some problems, money needs better distributing and we need to create more of it without just printing it, but to me if you went back to the 1970s you would still want to come back the 2020s.
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You'd have hoped we'd made a bit of progress in 50 years, but is that really enough. Things are slightly better than when everything was ****?
You could make a very strong argument that things are much worse now and there is more inequality than there has been in at least the last 30 years.
 
Aet290204 said:
Maybe it’s the fault of the public who voted for Cameron/Brexit/boris and got what they voted for.
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I was about to post this.
Politics is a dirty word and a lot of people do not bother to inform themselves on what is going on.
How anybody could possibly consider voting Tory after what they have done keeps me awake at night.

The Brexit 'debate' was a national disgrace. It was hijacked by money and unfortunately the populist lies and rhetoric about stopping immigration and giving the money saved on EU membership to the NHS, suckered in millions. I really think lies perpetuated by the posh tw.at and Farage(next Tory leader) should have led to criminal charges.
 
Redwurzel said:
The country has some problems, money needs better distributing and we need to create more of it without just printing it, but to me if you went back to the 1970s you would still want to come back the 2020s.
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That's fairly arbitrary on the dates though. If you went back to the late 90's early 00's would you be so keen to come back?

If you were in the 70's and went back to the mid 1910's or early 1940's then the 70's would probably look quite appealing.
 
Ingleby_Flash said:
All of the above, but I think Corbyn deserves a special mention for making Labour unelectable for a long time. Principles are great, but if they let Boris and Truss into power they’re misplaced.
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Right Wing Labour MPs made Labour unelectable.. resignations in 2016 and then painting the Labour as ‘the party of remain’

Keir Starmer man!

2015 Voted in as an MP
2016 Resigned undermining the leadership
2017 The brexit negotiator
2018 ‘Remain could be an option’
2019 ‘The Party of Remain’
2020 made leader on the back of socialist principles
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
Taking just one issue, I would love to see how the Pandemic would have been handled without all the cronyism, corruption and incompetence.
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I think if you somehow resurrected the evil Margaret Hilda and her "vegetables", that Government would have handled the Pandemic better. Almost any administration you care to name within the lifetimes of anyone on here would. Johnson et al were absolutely the worst imaginable combination of incompetence, corruption and self interest it is possible to imagine.
 
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