Originally posted by Weebler I
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And as to the last bit, did it occur to you that maybe we all hold different things dear about this country? Myself I ain't particularly fond of being spied upon, like my NHS, support free education for all, support unionisation and workers rights and am in favour of nationalising strategic industries. So yeah. Those were the things I did hold dear. What I ain't fond of is increasing encroachments on our civil liberties, increased poverty even amongst working families, zero hours contracts and the government signing away our rights and freedoms stealthily through trade deals like TTIP.
You see this is the kind of **** that bothers me:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7703451.html
https://www.theguardian.com/society/...rking-families
....not the anachronistic hangover from an imperial past in Northern Ireland that only continues to bite us on the ass because we didn't sit down and come to a negotiated solution 30 years previously. Sad thing is the Tories jumping into bed with one faction from that benighted little corner of the world is pretty much guaranteed to make sure their problems continue for a good while to come. And frankly, man, for me, the untold misery, health problems and potential loss of life that will be the inevitable result of the creeping privatisation of the NHS far outweigh the relatively minor depredations of Irish insurgents and Islamic nutters, no matter how loud the headlines scream or the undoubted horror of those caught up in such atrocities.
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