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Gordon Brown didn’t cause the financial crash but it didn’t work out too well for him. Fact is many people vote for selfish reasons and if they feel like they are worse off they are less likely to vote for the incumbent. The Conservatives try and win votes by painting themselves as the experts on the economy yet come ballot time everyone will remember this:
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Because, even ignoring the rise in house prices and cost of living, it’s not as easy to get a mortgage now as it was in the 90s when I got on the ladder. Buying a house for me was actually easier than renting. To rent you usually needed to pay a months rent deposit plus a months rent up front to even get a place. I bought a house when I had next to nothing in the bank, that’s just impossible today.
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I don’t think that’s fair. It’s incredibly hard for young people nowadays to get on the ladder compared to when I brought my first house, even for those with half decent jobs who are careful with their money. Renting is just throwing money down the drain so it’s only natural that many will be maxed out already and hit hard by the rate rise. Comparatively me and my parents generation have had it piss easy, many sat on massive equity with decent pensions just through riding the house bubble.
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I wasn’t moaning about my mortgage, I’m on a fixed for a while yet. My point was that if people are struggling financially they tend to take it out on the party in power when they vote. I would imagine they will this time particularly given how the Conservatives crashed the economy so spectacularly causing rates to shoot up. That spell it out clearly enough for you or do you want me to draw some pictures with crayons?
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Kensington Palace needs to employ someone better at Photoshop? It really is a load of fuss about nothing, pretty much everything you see is photoshopped to some extent, they have just done a shit job.
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It’s not that black and white though is it, one alternative would be to respond with a degree of concern for the welfare of the innocent people in Gaza. Maybe let them have water, food and medical supplies. What is going on there now is medieval. You have kids who have been bombed having their limbs amputated without anaesthetic or even pain relief. Women giving birth via C section under the same conditions. Kids staving to death.
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Short term they have reduced Hamas's capabilities but long term they have just made the situation worse. Hatred for Israel and support for Hamas in the region has grown and that will only end up with another situation like before.
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They won't eliminate Hamas and they know it. They are just handing out revenge in the form of collective punishment of everyone in Gaza.