Helen, “I notice you are happy to talk about your own circumstances whilst

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by Sarah in the Desert.

Helen,

“I notice you are happy to talk about your own circumstances whilst casting dispersions on me and ‘my little world’ whilst knowing absolutely nothing about me.”

You’re a UK based health worker, so assuming public sector? You think it’s in your interests for Labour to stay in power as they are the source of your income and you believe they will stay true to the NHS. You’ve quite possibly enjoyed above the national average pay increases since 1997. I’m an expat keeping out of the way until Labour are out!

“In 1997 why did you associate your DSS office with Labour?” It was a strong Labour run council and Labour had just come to power.

“When you talk about the majority, do you mean the same ’stupid population’ you refer to in another post?” Unfortunately, yes. People have short memories and tend to vote for the party that they believe will make their own lives better without actually looking at the finer detail of how the prospective Government would go about it, what they have previously promised and reneged on and at what cost it would be further in the future.

You’re correct, Bupa cover isn’t cut out for everyone and the NHS should be very thankful that people like us have it and don’t drain the service instead of getting the hump and treating us like dirt when we are about to be transferred!
I will stick with my point that people should take more responsibility for themselves and their health.

This doesn’t include those with hereditary or long-term illnesses that are through no fault. The NHS needs to change, it’s a money drain, it’s abused and it’s too big; the NHS is absolutely brilliant for emergencies and can’t be faulted. Those people who have already paid into it for their working lives should be entitled to it’s full use but this should now be scaled back. I have an ideal but it would involve writing a manifesto that I just don’t have time to do!

“If you can’t respect other people’s opinion and my perspective (and that the forum is about how we form our own political opinions) then what is the point in reading it and posting on it?” I originally answered your first post quite factually upon which you came back with some wishy washy paragraph about how it wasn’t what you meant and you were talking about your values not the economy and the EU.

People read this forum and form opinions hopefully based on fact which wasn’t what you were giving out with the “Labour inherited a mess”, you didn’t really give any fact at all about “the mess” apart from waiting lists on the NHS.

I am not ashamed of where I came from to the life that I have now – we have a wonderful life (which we didn’t have in the UK) because we educated ourselves, took opportunities, took risks, made sacrifices and worked really hard.