[Closed] Lefties, what have you done today?

Paid my tax bill.

I have reported you to the Committee for Re-education.

Chairman Hora will be round to instruct you on the error of your ways shortly.

It's for your own good Comrade.

Haven't gone around infecting other people with Covid.

EDIT

Not a lefty though, leftish.

Obeyed the lockdown rules.

Went for a 260 mile trip to check my eyesight. Returning tomorrow!

Stuck 20 quid in a card for our cleaners at work, a lovely couple who are having to shield themselves due to the lady having breast cancer, and are as such on stat sick pay.

Asked again, as I do daily, if my 95 year old neighbour needed owt.

It's not virtue signalling, it's just what decent people do, I admit to getting more pleasure out of helping others than I do from personal gains, so I'm a selfish **** really.

What have you done OP?.

I read the Guardian while tutting and drinking a fairtrade, organic, soil-association-approved skinny, decaff frapamochachino.

Then signed PP's re-education request. We'll be round to take you to the gulag shortly cmrade

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Ta Binbins.

Makes me giggle. Every single time.

It's your finest work.

Sat in my flat listening to rap music working from home while my partner (also a leftie) goes to work in a hospital. We also just donated a portion of our salary we saved last month to a local food bank to help those who are not as lucky as us.

watched a tory get agitated but felt pity not contempt, then donated (despite my own income falling off a cliff) to a hospitality/food magazine run by a friend who is currently earning nothing as no advertising to pay for the magazine publication but has contacted advertisers to donate and organised care packages for those without income in the industry.

Paid tax. Donated the proceeds of selling my old turbo to the local food bank. Lent my strimmer to my neighbour. Sent out signals of my virtue.

I'm more of a social liberal than a lefty per-se,

But I've been working from home supporting IT systems for several vital public services, whilst paying the correct amount of tax.

I loaned some money to a friend as a bridge till their grant came through - as a self employed hairdresser who rents their house, they got absolutely shafted by the Conservative government. I don't expect them to pay me back although they probably will.

What have you done, Mr righty tighty?

In the last month? Given £60 to a couple of deserving charities that are trying to perform the impossible helping those really struggling in the current environment. I've given money rather than making a physical action because they are in a much better position to make it work than I am.

I have also helped keep the local footpaths clear of much of the significant levels of rubbish that has started appearing on a daily basis in the last couple of months, including filled dog poo bags, used tissues, disposable gloves, etc.

Mrs. P has been helping to upkeep the local flowerbeds, giving away the excess fruit and veg plants she has grown and helping out neighbours with shopping when I've been working.

Other than that, nothing.

Why do you ask OP? What have you been dong that you're obviously so desperate to tell us about?

What have you done OP?.

Obviously nothing, as I'm a selfish Tory, but this isn't about me, it's about the self-congratulatory do-gooders.

My wife, who is obviously a much better person than me, has spent a good portion of lockdown contacting people through a Facebook group who needed help and has made numerous shopping trips, despite not being able to drive. Guess who she voted for?

Whatever happened to Hora?

Tried to be a decent person same as every day.

Signed my work up to the Zero Waste Scotland scheme to try and reduce our company's carbon footprint.

Helped identify an old landfill at a site next to a brook that needs cleaning up (my job involves cleaning up ground contamination for the beenfit of the environment, because looking after the environment is a good thing).

Stayed at home to protect the people who live near me.

Adjusted my weekend plans to my detriment in line with the latest advice from the Scottish Government on social distancing and seeing other households.

Planned my shopping for the next month so I only go to a supermarket once to protect other people.

It doesn't take much, I just try and think about others in how I act.

Litter picking, where-ever and whenever out for family walks. There's a few local beaches looking a bit spiffier for my efforts and our son thinks it's a great game (not had to explain any dubious 'balloons' to him yet).

Oh, and I also take every opportunity to explain to my wife why her right-wing dad is WRONG.

Obviously nothing, as I’m a selfish Tory, but this isn’t about me, it’s about the self-congratulatory do-gooders.

I see. This is about goading people so you can then accuse them of virtue signalling.

My wife, who is obviously a much better person than me

In fairness, it's a low bar.

As a dyed in the wool Blairite (Champagne) Socialist I have chosen to donate to my local foodbanks - both human and animal. However I have simultaneously invested in companies that will prosper once the restrictions lift. Notably Greggs and Mcdonalds, lets get the plebs people back to work so they can afford to buy their lunches there.

it’s about the self-congratulatory do-gooders.

I don't see anyone self congratulating I see people answering a questions that was asked of them. Why assume they are self congratulating? If they were all jumping on here starting threads about how wonderful they've been doing this stuff then fair enough but accusing them of it because you asked the question comes across as a bit strong to me.

Personally I think that someone criticising others of trying to help when doing nothing themselves is more than a little hypocritical.

And I don't really see who you voted for in this situation has anything to do with it. some people are just more thoughtful than others, who in some cases are very selfish.

Ah now I see what this thread is.

Why assume they are self congratulating?

To be honest, I hadn't really thought about any of those things when I did them as being "good". It was only when STR kindly asked me to reflect on what a nice guy I am that I realised that, acutally, I'm alright and I do look after others and do practice what I preach.

So, while I wouldn't normally, I'm going to congratulate myself - well done me.

Being left or right doesn't mean you do or don't do bad things- my mum is (at the moment) a Tory and made 3,000 sets of scrubs for the local hospitals. Yet she's still a bit racist, and still voted for a party that doesn't like immigrants despite having one for a daughter in law that cried in her kitchen when Theresa May's ridiculous policy on spouse visas meant her indefinite leave to remain was rejected.

I'm a lefty but still do things people don't like.