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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Margaret, you speak as if there is a lot of difference between the parties......and we know that this is no longer true.
The days of a party with a conscience for social responsibility are long gone....socialism is dead and has been for a long time.
The poverty you speak of is not the same poverty that you and I knew when we were growing up.....when there was no help unless you went on the Parish.
Today's poverty is a different animal altogether.
It would not matter which party got into government....none are interested in the common man, the worker. These days the politicians sitting rarely have a background of real working life, most have had a privileged upbringing, with a public school,education, most are the offspring of wealthy families.....which is the main reason why they do not understand or even care about the likes of you and me...we are just means to an end....And prior to getting,our vote they can promise us anything.....they know that once elected we can do burger all about what they do!
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Margaret, I don't think it is any different today, regarding the status of politicians, than it was 70years ago. In the general election of 1945, Accrington elected Walter Scott-Elliot who was recruited by the Labour Party to be their candidate. He was from a aristocratic Scottish family, educated at Eton, married to a Austrian Baroness, and a very wealthy Scottish landowner. A far cry from the working class of Accrington, but a big winner for the labour party