to think my friend is a fuckwit

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Just talking to friend on the phone. We were discussing the election. She told me she would never vote conservative (good, thinks I)

because??

Because 'thatcher closed all the mental homes and that's why we have to put up with nutters roaming the streets'

Thats why you shouldnt discuss politics with friends.

ithought care in the community was a labour idea? ( could be wrong though)

I thought it was John major. But I may be wrong. But she has a point, albeit slightly skewiff and OTT

Nope, it was Thatcher that closed them, your friend has a point, care in the community is a load of rubbish and its the most vulnerable who suffer as usual.

What a disgusting thing to say tough, she sounds vile. I'd drop her like a hot brick if I were you

Sounds like she meant mentally ill people who have committed crimes ?

she does have a point but her way of expressing it and her apparent reason for being cross about it are pretty revolting.

Sure you want to keep her as a friend?

Care in the Community - definitely Conservative.

Not sure I want to thumbwitch, no. But I seem to be culling friends left right and centre at the mo! (Two close, and well educated friends voted BNP because 'the pakis want to take over the country')

you dont have to agree with her do you? blimey if I culled every friend who said something slightly I'd be Billy No mates

I do think that the abolition of psychiatric hospitals was the wrong thing to do.

Some patients needed the physical removal from the stresses of society to regain their mental health.
But there were still people who shouldn't have been 'roaming the streets' when we did have psych hospitals.

I guess it depends on how close friends they are - I'd be putting a bit more distance between us, if it were me, but maybe not dropping them entirely. It would shock me a lot if any of my close friends voted BNP or said something like that - it would change my view of them as a person that they could hold such narrow-minded views.

I was working as psychiatric nurse when they started abolishing the old asylums. It was very sad having to turf patients into group homes in city centres where they clearly were not going to cope or get the support they needed.

I'm not really discussing whether Care in the Community is a good idea or not, more that she called people 'nutters' who 'roam the streets'

My mum worked with someone who had a mental illness (am I allowed to say that? not sure) which was mostly well controlled - but he had the option of going to the local mental health unit whenever he felt he was losing that control. Until they closed it. Losing that option was extremely hard for him and made controlling his illness much harder (increased anxiety, not knowing where to go to feel safe). Shocking thing to have done to vulnerable people.

What an odd thing to be hung up on all these years later.
I'll never vote conservative, but it sure ain't cos Maggie stole my milk

yes the word nutters isn't nice but they do 'roam the streets'
hardly worth falling out over though imo