21-03-2016, 03:55 PM
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What kind of man...?
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...-a6942741.htmlThis will be one of those columns that leaves the writer, and possibly the reader, wanting a shower. How could anyone with pretensions to compassion attack a man who has been through hell with a desperately disabled child, for his treatment of the disabled, without feeling dirty?
On the other hand, how can anyone with an average share of humanity look on the Ultimate Cage Fight between George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith without feeling baffled and enraged by the Prime Minister?
Cameron not only regards himself as a Christian. He has experienced levels of stress, anxiety, exhaustion, agony, misery and grief, as the parent of a severely disabled child who died, that most of us could imagine in only the barest outline, if at all.
He was, by all accounts, a magnificent father to his son. In general, so far as one can tell, he is not a callous person. Yet somehow, he has sat back these past years and committed a terrible sin – charitably, one of omission – by failing to prevent the disabled being implicitly slandered as scroungers. He let them be stigmatised, leading to an unconscionable surge of verbal and physical assaults. He allowed their lives, and those of their carers, to be made bleaker for the loss of respite care. But why am I falling into that lightning rod trap of using the passive tense? This buck, if no other, stops with Cameron. It is he, as Prime Minister, who has made those lives bleaker.
...within a few years Cameron will leave office all the same. And when he does, long after the feuding of recent days is forgotten, when the scorching heat of lightning gives way to the cooler judgment of history, he will be remembered as much as anything for how chillingly he was able to separate the personal from the political
21-03-2016, 04:10 PM
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Re: What kind of man...?
Originally Posted by Morticia
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What I want to know is when is Azz going to add an arcade?We can have dart board games with images of the despised and despicable to throw darts at.
21-03-2016, 04:22 PM
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Re: What kind of man...?
Originally Posted by Morticia
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What I want to know is when is Azz going to add an arcade?We can have dart board games with images of the despised and despicable to throw darts at.
Hilarious, you do make me laugh.
When I disappear off for a while I can see me sneaking a peep at your posts.
21-03-2016, 04:24 PM
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Re: What kind of man...?
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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I remember when Michael Portillo was in government. He also attempted to rid the disabled of any financial help. Now that he is a successful tv presenter, I can't see that it has harmed him in any way.
Some of us have longer memories than others - he was a sh*t then, and he's still a sh*t now
21-03-2016, 04:33 PM
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Re: What kind of man...?
Originally Posted by swimfeeders
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HiHilarious, you do make me laugh.
When I disappear off for a while I can see me sneaking a peep at your posts.
For those here who might benefit from some cathartic expunging of nastiophobia.
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