odd...

Poverty is such an odd thing- or perhaps it is just political popularity.
I mean since Thatcher the great mantra of the governing classes is shit of the poor. New labour then added an extra bar in this mantra shit of the poor, but not the deserving poor. The deserving poor being those the Manx's son cold approve of (families, and Oap's mostly) the rest could and did go to hell ( try living off less that 5000 a year, and not being in those categories, will will have got poorer, quite alot poorer over the last ten years, i know I have).
Suddenly then this golden rule of British politics has changed. we are all worried about the poor. i mean the non deserving poor (like me). Or perhaps we are all concerned to allow other people are also deserving.. well at least some other...well at least something to tell the voter...
a guess that kind of inconstistency is the magic of democracy, it is certainly its prorogative!


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