Britain is Broken protest in London

You are wrong MOnica this country is vulnerable on the election issue

I didn't go but a dear friend of mine did. She marches regularly. I am ashamed to say that the last march I did was to support the Peace Women from Northern Ireland.

I don't know what's wrong with me. I am totally fed up with this rotten government but can't seem to stir my stumps to protest.

It’s all just worn you down albertina

demand that more is done to move the country towards no carbon emisssions and help for smaller poorer nations

Well that happened too, but they get dismissed as "ecorabble".

They aren't protesting against petrol cars. Theye protesting the hypocrisy of this government who pay lip service to net zero but grant licences for new oil and gas exploration, propose opening new coal mines, and dallied for a while with fracking.

I don’t know anyone living a broken life. I used to volunteer at Crisis teaching teenagers in a hostel. They rarely turned their lives around so it was dispiriting. Taxpayers are giving me £900 for utilities so I will actually be much better off this year.

Annofarabia

I don’t know anyone living a broken life. I used to volunteer at Crisis teaching teenagers in a hostel. They rarely turned their lives around so it was dispiriting. Taxpayers are giving me £900 for utilities so I will actually be much better off this year.

I should have a reply to this, but sometimes I just can't be bothered. This is one of those times

It partly depends on your health. We can't maintain the level of physical "joining ins" we used to. I can't - but I can write/email give what money I can bring it up in conversation where appropriate etc.

I can understand the feeling of odds sacked against tho.

With a lot of younger people I come into contact with sadly it seems to me it's more like trying to get them to believe it's worth bothering to listen to the news and turn out to vote. I can see their POV as well, but was brought up to literally be unable to see myself as separate from the political process, ie, if we let "them" have their way by our inaction then its partly our responsibility. ....but it was a lot simpler in the 1960's, when a national government actually had more control over what was happening in its own country, less international ownership of companies and capital ventures.

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Annofarabia

I don’t know anyone living a broken life. I used to volunteer at Crisis teaching teenagers in a hostel. They rarely turned their lives around so it was dispiriting. Taxpayers are giving me £900 for utilities so I will actually be much better off this year.

I should have a reply to this, but sometimes I just can't be bothered. This is one of those times

Annofarabia because you don't know any individuals, that doesn't mean they dont exist. the evidence from most respected bodies like the Rowntree Trust and local evidence in terms of numbers using food banks, numbers of homeless, waiting lists for housing, waiting lists for care and waiting lists for vital operations on the NHS are all evidence easily accessible to you.

weeducky

Maybe all you Gransnetters should step up to the mark and put yourselves forward to run the country! This site is getting far too political just look in the forums page as to how many times politics has been discussed compared to other topics. Do you remember Liam Byrne's (? spelling) "there's no money left" comment when handing over to the Con/Lib coalition. All I am saying is be careful for what you wish for.

This site is getting far too political...

This site? We are on a news_and_politics forum and this particular thread is about a rally with a political message.

How do you suggest we discuss the event without getting "too political"?

Do you remember Liam Byrne's (? spelling) "there's no money left"

... hmm. I think that explains it.

Annofarabia

I don’t know anyone living a broken life. I used to volunteer at Crisis teaching teenagers in a hostel. They rarely turned their lives around so it was dispiriting. Taxpayers are giving me £900 for utilities so I will actually be much better off this year.

This is a bit confusing. On the one hand you say you don't know anybody living a broken life, then you say you taught teenagers with broken lives.

It’s the start of civil unrest and is bound to get bigger as the winter digs in.

Electing Corbyn to be leader of Labour and creating such an obvious target for the Right wing media and other Tory friends shows Labour members to be more than naive. It fits the classic Left wing moan after losing at GEs that if only the Party had put forward a more radical manifesto they would have won. The only hope is that the Tories continue to mess up so Labour wins next time regardless of its leadership and manifesto. Rachel Reeves is a bright, rising star who deserves to be Chancellor if not PM.

Could be, Grantanow but I don’t have faith in any of em.

Grantanow

Electing Corbyn to be leader of Labour and creating such an obvious target for the Right wing media and other Tory friends shows Labour members to be more than naive. It fits the classic Left wing moan after losing at GEs that if only the Party had put forward a more radical manifesto they would have won. The only hope is that the Tories continue to mess up so Labour wins next time regardless of its leadership and manifesto. Rachel Reeves is a bright, rising star who deserves to be Chancellor if not PM.

Pretty much parallel to the Tories appointing Liz Truss as leader really *Grantanow, deaf to public opinion. Actually no, it was less serious than that, as at least Corbyn wasn’t the Prime Minister.