to be disappointed in the apathy of the county

[southeastastralbeing]

and the quickness at which the people seem to roll over and accept all these horribe cuts and looming redundancies - it's so accepting and lambs to the slaughtery (yes i know that's not a word)

i find it very depressing and wish i lived in france, where at least they're prepared to get on their arses and be heard

:(

heracles around 60% of the population voted either Conservative or Liberal Democrat

At least the 'bastards' won't escape their share of pain. The Lib-Dems have cut their own throats as a party and Cameron will soon find it's no fun being in power when you're universally loathed.

I don't understand why some people think that the country can carry on with a budget deficit of £159.6 billion and now they are blaming the people who are sorting the mess out not the ones who created it. As a country we are spending £40 billion pounds a year on debt interest.

huddspur (great name, btw) that's not true, is it?

10.7m people voted for the cons, 6.8m voted for the libs. If that's 60% of the UK then we've lost about 40m people somewhere.

I was talking the proportion of people who voted. Under 18s can't vote so you can reduce them from your 40m and I have little time for people who couldn't be bothered to vote if they start complaining.

PosieComeHereMyPreciousParker Sat 16-Oct-10 09:01:16
Nice to see 2shoes only gives a shit if it affects her family.

This is the beginning, noone yet feels the squeeze, there's no visible signs of cuts....yet. Dss classroom assistant has gone, but the caretaker has a new leafblower[confuse].

I think the attitude expressed by 2shoes is one felt by many if it hasn't reached them yet they don't care.

fuck off
go read my thread in teens if you want to fucking judge me so badly.

Heracles - Um... not everyone alive in the UK is eligible to vote - or chooses to.

Huddspur - has always been the case, always will be. Can't see the wood for the trees mentality.

I never thought I'd say this but thank you very much Daftpunk for the link upthread re the protest

had no idea about it- or the Coalition of Resistance

anyone else in?

Riven I'm guessing that whoever it was that was about 2shoes post wasn't aware of her circumstances and was just going on the post itself.

as for protests am guessing that this will be a bit of a weedy one- but I'd expect the whole thing to gather momentum in the near future

[blind faith in the Great British Public emoticon]

I think it is an economic necessity that there are cuts.

I think these cuts would need to be made whoever was in power.

I liken it to a household budget, if you are living on £70 per week and you DC ask to go to the cinema every week you would say no. They may not like it but tough.

If your DCs ask for food everyday, you don't spend the money on the cinema and then say starve.

So yes there will be cuts and many wont like them, but if these cuts are seriously affecting the quality of life for disabled DCs and their carers then something is wrong.

And I do think people would be prepared to stand up and protest, not just those personally affected.

As if having enough resources so that your GCSE class is under 32 and they have one book between two is akin to not going to the cinema!!

It is inevitable that the retirement will have to rise everywhere in the developed world. When our pension scheme was first introduced, people lived on average 3 years after retirement at 60. Now, many people live 30 years beyond retirement. It is unsustainable. The French can protest all they like but they're pissing in the wind on this one imo, as are the anarchists in Greece who want everything without paying any taxes.

I think that the British do stand up and be counted when they really feel it matters (1 million people in the streets of London on 15th February 2001 for example protesting the Iraq war- for all the good it did). I do like the fact that the French stand up for each other, but I do think that they sometimes protest unreasonably (and the infrastructure grinds to a halt far too often for comfort there).

Heracles - Um... not everyone alive in the UK is eligible to vote - or chooses to.

Yeah I know. I wasn't the one saying 60% of the population voted for the ConDems, was I...?

2shoeprintsintheblood Fri 15-Oct-10 17:27:33
thing is cuts have to be made, but as of yet I haven't found out how it will affect my family, so how could I protest If I don't know what I am protesting about?

2shoes, you really expect people to search messages just in case you badly misrepresent yourself and/or your situation?

judge away if it makes you happy.

Noone knows that the government won't save services for the very needy.

Riven Sat 16-Oct-10 14:07:28
the affects on helpless disabled children will be far worse than non-disabled who can protest, go get a job etc

Really, you know that?

yes we do
as we are already suffering due to cuts, anymore and well, life will get impossible

You sound awfully silly 2shoes. How am I supposed to know what your situation is? I'm not judging you just your comment.

you are full of it, you judge people as you did me earlier.
yet you haven't got a clue, so why keep on??

A clue about what 2shoes?

Riven...Are they direct cuts to services or more clever cuts that affect the most needy but not so brazen? Only I can't imagine any government has the balls to directly cut the most vulnerable. (not, of course, saying a shitty sideways cut is any better)

as I said not a clue.