should the government be ashamed

Being supportive of one's own family does not necessarily mean having no sympathy for others.

I never said it was. It was you that brought that up.

Some days I think I'm in a Monty Python sketch...

TopSec says she has no sympathies for strikers because she is from a military family.

You say she is probably supportive of her own family.

I said that being supportive of your own family does not mean being unsympathetic to others.

Its really not that hard to understand. Well, I thought not.

Disclaimer: I may have used words that were not used in the original posts, and I may have summarised the conversation. This in no way makes my current post inaccurate.

Sometimes I wish that big bare foot from Monty Python would come down and squish a few. I expect my choice of who to squish may not be the same as others. Wouldn’t it be fantastic though 😂😂

Oh yes. We all know people who could do with a good squish! 👣

Agree Avalon25 😂😂
Now, where can we get one from?

Wyllow3

It broke a bit of my heart when we "left" Europe. Our culture is embedded for centuries with Europe, not the USA.

We’re still in Europe.
We left the EU trading organisation is all.
We may or may not be embedded in culture with other European countries, just as much I bet with the US as they were all European who colonised it.
Each country within Europe is vastly different culture wise.

Wyllow3

It broke a bit of my heart when we "left" Europe. Our culture is embedded for centuries with Europe, not the USA.

Yes you are right.

Europe shares a common cultural heritage that binds us and has done so for centuries.

This commonality has developed and gradually progressed with the interruption of war and other hiccups on the way.

Brexit is yet another attempt to break with those bonds, but it is clearly now going the way of other efforts to cleave the natural bond.

We like to see American citizens as our cousins, but American culture, law and politics is different to European culture.

Wow, Volver.