So i was scrolling through facebook last night and one of my friends posted this up:
there's no magic money tree to support those dying on our streets, to help students who can't afford to eat, to help young businesses function, feed starving mothers, fathers and children. but we can muster up a modest "maybe £40m" to restore a clock that i highly doubt anybody in the 21st century relies on to tell the time.
the government we didn't vote for holds no care in their hearts for the people in need in this country.
the conservative approach is killing the humanity in our society. don't appease the facist tory/republican regime. we will not stand for this.
What are your thoughts on this?
Edit: i will post my opinion on this matter once we hit trending.
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Several things. For starters, the conservatives aren't fascist. In fact, they're almost centrist at this point. Fascism is a term used far too lightly. If I'm interpreting this correctly, he's also calling the Tories 'republican'. They're not. I'm surprised he would consider that a negative trait, given how the monarchy sucks up so much public money which could go to the needy. Unless he's referring to the American Republican Party, which is completely irrelevant to his point. Unless Donald Trump is funding Big Ben? And, if he's a Green voter, as I've seen OP say in a reply, then he can drop the pretence of caring about businesses. They're the only party who want 3 day weekends IIRC. Not to mention a 60% 'wealth tax' to completely wipe out anyone's desire to own a successful business. If the greens get in, we'd all be living in agrarian communes. They're 'property-is-theft' communists hiding behind the face of a dying polar bear. It also irks me how he says there are people 'dying on the streets' when we have free healthcare for the most part. Very few people go without treatment if they need it desperately. There's also a large number of food banks, charities, shelters, and aid schemes that make people starving to death a much smaller issue than this lad thinks it is. IMO, Big Ben is worth repairing. If a nation can't afford to keep its seats of power and major tourist attractions in good repair, it's a sorry state of affairs.