to think we should stop people bashing and think about how to get thru the next 5 - 15 years?

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Does it help bitching talking about those evil people who are higher tax earners complaining about losing their CB? (and helping pay the welfare bill)

Does it help bemoaning those scroungers who are useless and sit around all day on their arses drinking champagne and cashing their benefit cheques?

Where is the sisterhood?

It's cheesy but we are really going to have to pull together for the next 5 - 15 years as all the cuts are going to be brutal and shocking after all the help we've all got used to over the last 10 years and unless you are able to bank off shore, then they'll probably affect you too.

FGS, let's stop stabbing each other in the back and embrace our (largely on here) femenine power. Do we need to accept that different people have different lifestyles ad that ALL their worries are actually valid?

Some people will be worse affected, usually the poor, usually because they get a bit more (rightly so) help from Auntie Government.

As sooo NOT a card carrying tru bluer, this does hurt to type, but we really do need to think 'big society' and how we can solve the hardships and weather these problems over the next few years...

Maybe we need a WW2 mentality?

To be honest the only bitching and turning on each other that I've heard has been on Mumsnet. Real life conversations are thoughtful and intelligent. The section of media that I subscribe to has been interesting and thought provoking.

This forum is the only place where the cauldron is bubbling at the moment.

In WWII the rich could avoid rationing by going to restaurants. The food in restaurants was not rationed although there was a price restriction and two meat courses were not allowed.