| Another victim 09:24 - Jan 28 with 567 views | Guthrum |
of this mindless and brutal "hostile environment" which exists as much in the benefits system as immigration: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/27/inquest-finds-mother-took-overdo
All entirely unnecessary, too. Lives lost for the saving of, at most, a few millions in a time when governments are happy to waste many times that much on overly generous contracts handed out to their mates. Or an ideologocal pandering to the heartlessly selfish (who, to be fair, have themselves long been lied to about a supposed prevalence of "scroungers").
Moreover, it is not a symptom of efficiency - quite the opposite. How much time and money is wasted on these bureaucratic attempts to punish the unfortunate? Part of the issue is the extra layers introduced by outsourcing. Companies trying to save the government money while still creaming off a profit for themselves. But much is simply down to policy and approach. |  |
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| Another victim on 09:51 - Jan 28 with 493 views | Steve_M |
Yes, there's a nasty sentiment in a small number of people which successive governments have been happy to pander too. It chimes nicely for a government who have the mindset that poor people deserve to be poor. |  |
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| Another victim on 10:20 - Jan 28 with 445 views | Swansea_Blue |
Heartbreaking stuff. At what point did we lose our humanity? |  |
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| Another victim on 10:35 - Jan 28 with 427 views | Guthrum |
| Another victim on 10:20 - Jan 28 by Swansea_Blue |
Heartbreaking stuff. At what point did we lose our humanity? |
About the time when libertarian individualism* became trendy and "building a strong and just society" passed out of vogue.
* People forgot that "greed is good" was originally a biting satire on a certain type of individual, not a valid aspiration. | |
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| Another victim on 11:03 - Jan 28 with 389 views | Churchman |
| Another victim on 10:20 - Jan 28 by Swansea_Blue |
Heartbreaking stuff. At what point did we lose our humanity? |
What a sad article. I don’t think we have lost our humanity. There plenty that never had it and never will. Nonsense Victorian values that if you are poor you deserve it but because of removable inequalities you could raise yourself up is still there in the background still exist. Selfishness and stupidity seem sort of fashionable, not least amongst politicians.
However, this pandemic has shown people of extraordinary courage and humanity. People doing stuff not because they have to but because they want to. Before that, 3 years ago this week when my mother’s life was ending I was humbled by the care and attention people in the care home and from outside it gave her. It went way beyond ‘well that’s their job’.
No, the good is alive and well, just as it was in Dickens time and before. It just needs to be praised and polished and those who abuse exposed. We live in an imperfect world with imperfect solutions and can only strive to make it better. And where there are failures, strive harder. |  | | |
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