NottyImp
Vital Football Legend
It’s all very easy to critique, when the side you voted for aren’t in charge.
I’ll change who I vote for, depending on who’s policies I agree with on the most.
DMing some one, on a topic that they haven’t even responded to it’s quite bizarre.
On this topic, it’s more than just letting children go hungry (which shouldn’t happen) and it’s sickening that the MPs get subsidised meals and voted this policy down - wrong on every level.
But when do we start taking responsibility, yes there are people who fall on hard times and these people absolutely need the help, but then you get the serial abusers of the system - with their sky tv, designer clothes and fags who are only further encouraged by this.
Children should never go hungry and if this is the only solution - then it should never have been voted down and I wouldn’t have myself as I certainly cannot think of a way of feeding the most vulnerable, without also having scum bags take the mick out of the system.
I've never really bought this narrative, in the sense that the number of people who abuse the system are no where near as large as the tabloids paint them to be.
I also think, given humanity tends to follow normal distributions in most of its attributes, there isn't that much sense designing policy that seems geared more towards the extreme ends of the curve than the vast majority of people who don't take the piss. As the phrase goes, "hard cases make bad law".
I also think it matters what kind of society we collectively build and how that changes people's perceptions and behaviours.
I don't see these points as being especially idealistic - in fact, I see them as being pragmatic. We don't do well at "virtuous circles" in this country.