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[–]salamanderwolf 91 points92 points93 points  (19 children)
Overall, that amounted to 590 extra suicides, 279,000 additional cases of mental health problems and an additional 725,000 anti-depressants across England as a whole.
How is this not a national outcry? any other country that had been show to be systematically punishing its most vunerable we would be decrying in the media.
[–]Upright__Man 76 points77 points78 points  (18 children)
because most people don't give a shit about anyone else...
[–]NotTheNewsLancashire 69 points70 points71 points  (17 children)
Which is exactly why we have a Tory government.
[–]TotallyNotGwempeck 31 points32 points33 points  (15 children)
To be fair, you never have shown yourself to be overflowing with the milk of human kindness, Lolly.
[–]Lolworth -26 points-25 points-24 points  (14 children)
I believe in a tough love which is altogether kinder.
[–]TotallyNotGwempeck 29 points30 points31 points  (8 children)
I'm willing to hear the argument.
[–]YellowbenzeneGlasgow, city of litter 42 points43 points44 points  (7 children)
It involves taking all your money and public services away.
[–]TotallyNotGwempeck 10 points11 points12 points  (6 children)
Come on now, Lolly is a regular here and is capable, when coaxed, of intelligent discussion. I'm sure their argument is a tad more nuanced than that...
[–]Upright__Man 16 points17 points18 points  (5 children)
I have mine and fuck the rest?
[–]MiserygutGreater London 12 points13 points14 points  (2 children)
Yer, tuff luv for the disabled!
[–]RedofPawUnited Kingdom 15 points16 points17 points  (1 child)
How will people learn to walk unless we take away their wheelchairs? Checkmate, Atheists.
[–]MiserygutGreater London 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
See, that's all they need. A little push is all it takes to get them out of the chair and on to the floor.
[–]Jimmni 10 points11 points12 points  (0 children)
I seem to have you tagged as "pathetic troll". I assume that was the result of some previous tough love.
[–]AndyPandy66 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Let's start getting some tough love in action with our MPs and take away their huge subsidies. They bang on all the time about how they're public servants and imply they're doing their work out of altruism. In which case, then, they'll do their jobs for the national minimum wage.
Exactly. I didn't think so either.
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