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Bruce Wayne said:
You missed out the very next line in her speech "It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then to look after our neighbour."

It's often used to suggest we should all be selfish arseholes, when that's not really what she's saying at all. Instead, she's saying that rather than expecting the state to care for those around us, we should also step up to the plate ourselves.
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I left it out because the 'do as I say not as I do' tribe she bribed up to the top table have managed to conveniently overlook (that part of*) her words and 'thy neighbour' ever since.
It's why I specified Rashford and battling to feed starving school children.
The cut throat nature of 'you are what you earn*' has come home to roost, when you can earn nothing - you are nothing.

housing, pensions, health, education, banking, have all been turned over for a profit, and not everyone was invited to the party. Those left out are not happy about it, and some of them got conned with brexit and 'them forrins' as some sort of fix.

something has to give, and I'm more than happy for it to be generations of tory enablers first.
 
Rita_Poon said:
I didn't make the mess, stop letting the amazons and starbucks of this world siphon money out of the country untaxed then?
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Are the two matters related? It's perhaps also noting that the City doesn't do "too" badly at washing dirty money so it's perhaps swings and roundabouts in that regard. It's also worth noting that Ireland, where many companies choose to push the image rights nonsense, therefore they may be getting their share of corporate profits, also has a retirement age considerably higher than the Waspi ladies had.
 
Rita_Poon said:
I left it out because the 'do as I say not as I do' tribe she bribed up to the top table have managed to conveniently overlook (that part of*) her words and 'thy neighbour' ever since.
It's why I specified Rashford and battling to feed starving school children.
The cut throat nature of 'you are what you earn*' has come home to roost, when you can earn nothing - you are nothing.

housing, pensions, health, education, banking, have all been turned over for a profit, and not everyone was invited to the party. Those left out are not happy about it, and some of them got conned with brexit and 'them forrins' as some sort of fix.

something has to give, and I'm more than happy for it to be generations of tory enablers first.
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Granted, I spend more time discussing this stuff on here than anywhere so that will inevitably flavour things, but I see that speech used by the left more than anyone. I often wonder how many have even read Hayek's work that inspired it.
 
Goat said:
Surely that's the point?

The people who need help get it, the 1s who don't, don't.
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Age UK and the End Fuel Poverty Coalition are both forecasting that taking away the winter fuel cash from 10 million pensioners will see a lot more pensioners falling into fuel poverty.

Who'd have thought eh? Taking hundreds of pounds off people who relied on that cash pushes many of them into the official 'in poverty' category of the 1.1M who will still retain the payment.

Still, it's only the old. No room for them in the Starmer Project.

The stalwarts of the old Labour Party would have seen him for what he is straight away: an ideological Tory. There's been many of them in the LP over the years, but the far right cult they belong to have seized the controls and the rest of the cowards who might not agree with him are careerists determined not to rock the boat and lose their 80K p.a. job and massive expenses.
 
davek said:
Age UK and the End Fuel Poverty Coalition are both forecasting that taking away the winter fuel cash from 10 million pensioners will see a lot more pensioners falling into fuel poverty.

Who'd have thought eh? Taking hundreds of pounds off people who relied on that cash pushes many of them into the official 'in poverty' category of the 1.1M who will still retain the payment.

Still, it's only the old. No room for them in the Starmer Project.

The stalwarts of the old Labour Party would have seen him for what he is straight away: an ideological Tory. There's been many of them in the LP over the years, but the far right cult they belong to have seized the controls and the rest of the cowards who might not agree with him are careerists determined not to rock the boat and lose their 80K p.a. job and massive expenses.
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How many do you think should get it Dave?
 
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