Current Affairs How old were you when you grew up and stopped voting Labour?

[Clint Planet]

Channel 4 News's current Homelessness series of reports must make for uncomfortable viewing for anyone who's put an x in the Tory box in the past.

 

[orchard]

Are they looking at reality in contradistinction to May's claims last week?

Channel 4 News's current Homelessness series of reports must make for uncomfortable viewing for anyone who's put an x in the Tory box in the past.

 

[Clint Planet]

Are they looking at reality in contradistinction to May's claims last week?

I don't recall the exact details of her claims but it's a damning indictment of neo-liberal social policy/philosophy and a stain on our collective conscience.

 

[magicjuan]

Oh yeah, but it seems that every thread turns into 'Capitalism is BAD. System that has never actually been implemented anywhere = GOOD. Disagree and you're an uneducated racist who hates the poor.'

Care to offer a defence?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I don't recall the exact details of her claims but it's a damning indictment of neo-liberal social policy/philosophy and a stain on our collective conscience.

Neo liberal contradistinction? *snigger *

 

[Seanjd]

Oh yeah, but it seems that every thread turns into 'Capitalism is BAD. System that has never actually been implemented anywhere = GOOD. Disagree and you're an uneducated racist who hates the poor.'

Why read it?

In fact, why post?

 

[Clint Planet]

Neo liberal contradistinction? *snigger *

Throw another poor person on the fire!

In the meantime, here's Michael Rosen:

'A Christmas Carol' is a thoroughly modern book: an employer doesn't pay enough for a family to live off, the disabled person is dying, the employer thinks the poor are to blame for being poor and for there being too many poor people. It's....Iain Duncan Smith!!!

 

[Clint Planet]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politi...ht-times-rule-11719778#ICID=sharebar_facebook

Great work, people who grew out of voting Labour!

 

[Number_25]

Insincerity, I can only echo the obvious frustrations @Clint Planet demonstrates here.

The fact of the matter is that there has been an attempt to coerce the working class population of this country to think that socialist policies are in some way negative to their lives. More needs to be done to put to white middle-aged working class men that the continued emancipation of women and BMEs does not need to come at the cost of their hard fought for victories.

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

Channel 4 News's current Homelessness series of reports must make for uncomfortable viewing for anyone who's put an x in the Tory box in the past.

you are assuming they have a conscience as they couldn't care less

 

[Bruce Wayne]

you are assuming they have a conscience as they couldn't care less

The fact that there are homeless people in every single country with a left-leaning government suggests it's a bit more complex than you're making out.

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

The fact that there are homeless people in every single country with a left-leaning government suggests it's a bit more complex than you're making out.

not really in this specific case and not homelessness in general i doubt any tory voter would bat an eyelid about those figures

 

[Bruce Wayne]

not really in this specific case and not homelessness in general i doubt any tory voter would bat an eyelid about those figures

If you think of the proportion of people that will help someone on the street versus walking past though, you could probably make that accusation against most of us.

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

If you think of the proportion of people that will help someone on the street versus walking past though, you could probably make that accusation against most of us.

wouldn't argue against that at all for the majority of people its a case of " I'm alright Jack ".

 

[Frang]

8000 more homeless on the streets allegedly this month..