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“get a job” “get a bath” “bloody students” “wanton criminality”
The above has always been so. Add the newspaper favourites "pond life" and "work-shy" to the list.
Asking permission to protest, hmmmmm right yeah can see how that works and who it suits.
It's funny how quick, British people, once they get a few quid and feet under table drop all their principles and stand for nothing. Oh except when there's fracking, a new build estate, recycling facility or new runway near their house.
I dunno, maybe it’s because their parents’ generation priced them out of university tuition, home ownership, public transport and pensions; blocked them from working or studying abroad; will retire early and sponge off them for thirty+ years; and then have the temerity of accusing them of being apathetic and uncaring about their lot?
This. Plus the small matter of screwing up the planet.
The sort of stuff that used to happen. Protests on the street. Poll tax, miner’s strike, that sort of thing. Precious little sign of now
When people try that now they get sentenced to years in jail.
It’s funny how quick, British people, once they get a few quid and feet under table drop all their principles and stand for nothing.
Yep, was saying to wife only yesterday how we should really be selfish tories by now as we are both in our 50's.
It is not really surprising though as you become more settled, less angry and have seen it all before that most become less protesty or principled.