Sod tuition fees.
They do not matter in the way that all the dreadful things that the most right-wing government since the War has done to poor and otherwise vulnerable people matter.
But this week's coverage has made it clear that The Guardian is going to endorse the Lib Dems at the fourth General Election in a row.
The Guardian and the Lib Dems are both typical liberal institutions - they seek to woo the left, but they always sell us out when push comes to shove.
ReplyDeleteYou've got it all wrong as per usual. The people who have done horrendous evil to the poor are the Leftists who killed the institution of marriage creating a social and economic catastrophe for the poor, ripped up the ladder of social mobility by destroying the grammar schools flung open the borders to mass cheap labour that takes their jobs and depresses their wages and unleashed a torrent of crime (mostly in poor areas) by abolishing the death penalty and beat policing and turning our justice system into a laughing stock.
ReplyDeleteThe Left has indeed done many dreadful things to the poor- the destruction of marriage (the best weapon against poverty) perhaps the greatest of all. And David "grammar schools are for dinosaurs" Cameron is part of that whole Leftwing project and has done nothing to reverse it.
That's his problem.
Bless.
DeleteEnjoy your one and only seat ever, from about 24 hours' time until May.
Anonymous, you can try to shift the blame for society's ills away from your hero Maggie, but it won't wash with the public.
DeleteChris EstMonNom, I know you lot don't really do subtlety or serious analysis-it's easier to scream "Evil Maggie" and "cuts, cuts".
ReplyDeleteBut as serious people know, most of the social ills for which Thatcher is blamed were in fact the result of the 1960's social revolution coming to fruition.
The effect of many revolutions, (particularly cultural revolutions) are often only felt years later.
The destruction of good education for the poor and the rule of law, the casualisation of abortion and the assault on the married family (through the 1969 Divorce Reform Act and the 1975 Child Benefit Act and many others) were far more devastating and far-teaching in their consequences than anything in the 80's.
Education and the married family are the best safeguards against poverty ever invented.
In Britain, they've both been destroyed since the 60's.