Seasideblue
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Rascal said:Seasideblue said:Rascal said:Good points mate
What also pisses me off is Manchester as a City as always been at the forefront of progressive politics and yet now our own people are attacking our own people.
Historically Manchester has always been a hotbed of political thought, ideas and innovation, we are a proud City who have lived and fought against injustice.. When Liverpool supported the Confederacy in the Ameriican civil war so they could keep there wealth, Manchester refused cotton from slaves and many went close to starvation because of there beliefs. We got a statue of Lincoln for our beliefs and our values, Liverpool declined. Marx and Engels founded there beliefs in our City as they saw the working man and everything he espoused as the true people of a nation.
Yet today a hundred years and more after everything we have achieved as a people, still we have class war and its not class war as the tories railed against in the 1800s when they thought the working class would not be able to elect just men, its turned so the tory rich elite now pit working man against working man.
As Mancunians with our rich history, we should be fucking ashamed this happening
And Manchesters rich history has got to do with the "people"in Picadilly Gardens in what way ?
In some ways lots in other not
Manchester is a city that has always embraced outsiders and always celebrated its own.
Who is too say that Marx and Morrisey were not sat in Piccadilly at some point.
Peterloo had many Mancunians of the unsavory sort according to the London centric press
-- Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:48 pm --
Seasideblue said:Rascal said:Yes of course i can.
It is the governments stated aim to shrink the welfare state. They have already said they will reduce the numbers claiming DLA by 20% despite fraud being 0.05%. So 1 in 5 people who are ill will no longer qualify for support. How fucking random is that?
ESA , is now only paid for 1 year, if after one year you have not found a job you lose the benefit completely, not some of it, but fucking all of it, zilch, no cash nothing. Have you any idea of what ESA is?
And shamefully fucking shamefully the govt are comitted to closing remploy. Under the fucking bizarre thought that disabled people can easily get a job in normal society.
I hope the countrynwakes up soon to whats happening, im part of these vicious changes and its fucking scary i tell you, they dont care about me, which means if you fall on hard times they will not care about you.
You stated that the gov wanted to demolish the welfare state
de·mol·ish (d-mlsh)
tr.v. de·mol·ished, de·mol·ish·ing, de·mol·ish·es
1. To tear down completely; raze.
2. To do away with completely; put an end to.
You then state that it is the goverments aim to SHRINK the Welfare State
Can you understand my confusion?
They would love you
Ask Gideon for a job, you might get to suck his deficit
This is my 1000 post so cheers Rascal for getting me in a debate
Dont need to suck any deficit for a job because i am in the fortunate position of not needing one and doubt i ever will
Now my wife works at the hospital and spends her whole carrer lisening to people who "must" stay on their benefits and spend there life trying to convince the doctors/surgens/registrars/consuultants that they are ILL yet despite all the know tests there is nothing wrong
Despite the above if a mistake is made watch the headlines in the "right wing press "stating that the health service is a shambles.
What i am trying to say is that ANY system that is there to protect us is open to abuse and WILL be ABUSED
I do not know your possition and appreciate you may be having a hard time but not everyone is as honest as you