allenlondon "Question Author It would be nice if some of you would step out of your 'I'm all right jack' bubbles, your 'everything's alright if only these lefties would stop wingeing', your 'people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps' mentalities and see that society has deteriorated, largely thanks to Thatcher and her goons, from a caring place of sharing people to a bear-pit where the winner takes all and the losers can go to hell. "
I just absolutely do not think that is true, or ever has been. Through my life my family and I have been both givers and receivers of kindness under very different circumstances and in different parts of the country and actually different parts of the world. We aren't especially "good" or "lucky". Yes we have met nasty folk, selfish folk, bullies, cheats and criminals but they have been in the absolute minority.