GTFO with your constant whataboutary.
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GTFO with your made-up fictional stories.
But he is the leader of the country, how do we expect him to survive on a plumbers wage, maybe he should have a word with Blair when he packs it in.
Still doing your "hundred times a year" trips from Scotland to East London to visit friends and relatives or have you knocked that on the head these days?
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What, asking to be treated as equals in society? What a bloody outrage!
I never did, and don't now. I've told you that repeatedly.
You have made up a fairy story and you like to repeat it. You have made up a fairy story and you like to repeat it. Repeating your fairy story is what you like to do.
Say that again.
You did say that when you were showing your location as Greenock in the Dawn Butler thread to demonstrate a white male in a nice car registered outside the area is never stopped in East London unlike poor black Dawn.
You said:
"I have friends and family in East London. I drive a nice car. It is registered outside the area. I am white. Per hundred trips (about a year's worth), guess how many times I have been stopped by police?"
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I do sometimes think the 'walk a mile in my shoes' analogy is at least partly valid in scenarios like this. If you're born and brought up in a middle/upper class household or beyond, through no fault of your own, you can never really know what it's like to live on a limited income, having to budget every £1 etc. Similarly, those lower down the economic ladder can never know what it's like to be very comfortably off with all the material and societal trappings that can bring.
I'm not using a broad brush on this, of course 'rich' people are capable of running the country including the financials and can no doubt empathise with the financial struggles of the masses. However they'll very likely never experience it first hand, otherwise in some areas their approach in terms of policy and strategy would maybe be different.
And it's nothing short of insulting when e.g. they announce something in the budget and say 'this will mean an average of £120 more in everyone's pocket next year!' wow that's great, thanks very much!
I'm not using a broad brush on this, of course 'rich' people are capable of running the country including the financials and can no doubt empathise with the financial struggles of the masses. However they'll very likely never experience it first hand, otherwise in some areas their approach in terms of policy and strategy would maybe be different.
And it's nothing short of insulting when e.g. they announce something in the budget and say 'this will mean an average of £120 more in everyone's pocket next year!' wow that's great, thanks very much!
of course you can.
though some might not.
of course they can.
though some might not.
The rouble will be strong again by the time Bozza retires. He'll be okski.
So how does that work then? Taking extremes, how do all the UK millionaires (that didn't come from nothing) politicians or not actually KNOW what it's like to scrimp and scrape? How do all those on the minimum wage struggling to get by (who don't come from monied stock e.g. hit on hard times) actually KNOW what it's like to be rich? Yes we are all, to varying degrees, capable of empathy for those in a negative situation. Equally, we can imagine what it's like to experience certain positive situations. However unless you live it, you'll never actually know what it's like. Rishi Sunak can empathise with those living on little money, however he knows diddly squat what it's like to live it 24/7. A family getting by on bread and dripping can IMAGINE what it's like to live in an 8 bed mansion with a few million in the bank, however they know diddly squat what it's really like to live it 24/7.
Some people have ups and downs.
? Missing my point entirely but that's cool, let's leave it there.
