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Thread #159827   Message #3789389
Posted By: punkfolkrocker
09-May-16 - 02:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Subject: RE: BS: (UK) Whither the Labour Party
Bobad / Keith - sorry but when I'm consumed with worry about my old mum's health care,
how long we wait for appointments, how reliable the diagnosis by an overtired and stressed Dr might be,
if the medication will be the correct one, how the hell we will cope if and when the dementia worsens
and we need to find any remaining affordable day care... etc.. etc.. etc..

.. under such circumstances.. the theoretical academic concerns on the finer points of anti-anything-ism will not be our families greatest priority...

Now, I'd hate to sound like a petty minded insular nationalist xenophobe..

... plenty enough real ones of those to point at in UKIP and the tories..

but our votes for the UK Labour Party are for fairer Health, social welfare and working conditions that are more immediately relevant to our needs...

I'd guess the same counts for most other ordinary Labour supporters...

We can't be oblivious to what is happening on the other side of the world, and how it might impact us at home,
but it can't be pragmatically as important to us as it is to the over vociferous zealots obsessed with making a meal of it for their own self absorbed ends...

Btw bobad - why do you keep wasting your time linking to articles in specialist interest international media
that few if any of us subscribe to and are able to read...??????