• Chaotic Entropy@feddit.uk
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    3 years ago

    The Tory solution to everything… slash social programs and put money back in their own/donor pockets. Then throw enough scraps to the lower classes that they can get on board despite them also shouldering the burden of the cuts.

    “I slashed your tyres, but here’s a fiver. Go me.”

  • SbisasCostlyTurnover@feddit.uk
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    3 years ago

    Is this one of those ‘difficult’ choices’ that they go on about? The one’s that almost exclusively fuck over the poorest in our society? Those choices?

    We’ve had thirteen years of ‘tough choices’. Maybe it’s time we tried something other than punching the poor?

    I dunno.

  • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk
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    3 years ago

    You know what Tories.

    If you have been beating the shit out of the donkey for 13years. But the stick aint getting it to go where you want.

    Maybe you have broken the poor fuckers back.

  • j4yt33@feddit.de
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    3 years ago

    Of course. The UK is so fucked. You need to start producing something of value in this country, where is all this new money supposed to come from? You can’t keep cutting social spending indefinitely. Why not embrace the reality of a rapidly worsening climate and start producing technology for renewable energy here? It could create so many jobs. The UK is still an innovation powerhouse. If life keeps getting worse though, educated people will not only stop coming here but start to leave. Then there will be nothing left here

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        3 years ago

        Won’t somebody please think of the shareholders!? And spare a thought for those poor CEOs who might have to sell a Ferrari in order to eke out a meagre living if the taxes go up by 1%!

        • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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          That’s the rub, they wouldn’t have to sell anything. There would be absolutely zero change to their lifestyle. The only difference is that the impossibly high numbers on their profit statements would be a little lower. They’d only be able to hoard away enough money for 1000 lifetimes of unimaginable luxury instead of 1001 lifetimes. It’s so ridiculously preposterous that governments are catering to the biggest misers on the planet instead of helping people who are literally starving and homeless.