@JohnEdwards33
John Edwards
2 years
When I witness a guy in his 60’s with tears starting to smart in his eyes telling an interviewer that he’s worked all his life and can’t afford to buy himself a pair of shoes, I know that the UK needs social and economic upheaval on a revolutionary scale.
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@rosiethross
Rosemary.
2 years
@JohnEdwards33 It’s not going to happen John, sadly.
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@JohnEdwards33
John Edwards
2 years
@rosiethross I know Rosemary. That’s the worst part of it all..
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@drjanl
Dr Jan Langrod
2 years
@JohnEdwards33 Thanks for the follow I reciprocated Wishing you Jeremy Corbyn ,PM!
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@JohnEdwards33
John Edwards
2 years
@drjanl Thanks Jan.
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@Craig4P
Craig Ross
2 years
@JohnEdwards33 But you don't want to bother yourself with serious thought UNTIL this happens. How do employers manage to pay wages? What happens if a business is making unusually good profits? What's the average return on business investment? If a job is simple can wages be high?
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@JohnEdwards33
John Edwards
2 years
@Craig4P What makes you think I don’t want want to ‘bother myself’ with poverty? Your an idiot who can’t even be bothered to glance at my timeline. You need dumping. So you are.
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@w41gy
Craig Hall #GeneralStrike #Worldwide
2 years
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@Roy_Batty_Nex_6
🇬🇧 British Patriot 🇬🇧
2 years
@JohnEdwards33 @DaveDixon4 They've normalised food banks and called them a success story. Everything just gets normalised.
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@datglynn
dave glynn
2 years
@JohnEdwards33 Absolutely, the ostensible reasons proffered 2 justify further rounds of austerity are unacceptable. If they can't govern the country properly they have 2 be removed, by what ever means. I expected to be so minded in my youth, but not to be dreaming revolution in my 77th year
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@dream3r7
dream3r
2 years
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@fluffyollie
fluffy 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇵🇹
2 years
@JohnEdwards33 Totally. The state of the UK atm. When there are so many people who need and deserve support left completely. Capitalist cruelty at its ugliest.
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@customer_rough
Persona Non Grata 🇺🇦 🇬🇧🇪🇺
2 years
@JohnEdwards33 But he's voting Tory because foreigners and that
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@Baldilocks58
Adrian Willis
2 years
@JohnEdwards33 So what you’ve posted doesn’t really tell us much about my contemporary.., why can’t he afford shoes? And it isn’t “obvious”…
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@EJSDonald
Ed Donald
2 years
@JohnEdwards33 If I witnessed the same thing I’d take him to Lidl and buy him a pair of trainers. You might wait a long time for a government that is going to provide everyone with shoes. By the way, ‘working all his life’ tells us nothing about his economic priorities.
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@TheTiscaliFinal
Kevan Webb
2 years
@JohnEdwards33 I didn't retire to Thailand but came at 55 without a degree or TEFL to teach English for 6 months as a volunteer. I was offered a permanent paid position within a few months, remarried and made my home here. I took my pension at 65 but unaware till I was 67 it was frozen. Now 71.
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@Brexit_Refugee
Brexit Refugee
2 years
@JohnEdwards33 What's tragic as well John, there are full-time working parents who can't afford new shoes for their children too, let alone themselves. They all need the Tories out.
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@DHFabian1
DHFabian
2 years
@JohnEdwards33 I think Western economies are collapsing under the weight of decades of upward wealth redistribution. We simply cannot afford to keep our rich in the manner to which they have grown accustomed.
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@SeanPadraig1798
Sean Padraig
2 years
@JohnEdwards33 But our millionaire footballers will come to his aid…not
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@anthea_bailey
Anthea Bailey
2 years
@JohnEdwards33 Was he a Labour activist, they usually are
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@andrewlowdon1
Harold Hill of Harold Hill.
2 years
@JohnEdwards33 Do you think illegal immigrants should have preferential treatment ahead of the man you describe?
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