2018. A Soup Kitchen.

[bainbrig]

Mrs B went into our local Catholic church to buy a mass card, and found a Soup Kitchen in progress.

We live in a relatively prosperous north London suburb.

What the hell is going on? Once a month, the soup-kitchen volunteer said, they give out food parcels, but they’ve recently started this daily soup kitchen.

All the neighbourhood scroungers wanting something for nothing?

Or hungry people queuing up for a free bowl of soup.

And you ask why I’m a socialist. I ask why you’re NOT?

[bainbrig]

Swan about, Talbot, swan about.

[Theland]

What do Socialists do? Really?
Well they yearn for a system that rewards work, but protects the less fortunate.
Anybody trying to take advantage of the magnanimity of society is made to join those who contribute.

[naomi24]

bainbrig, //Rhetoric, judge, rhetoric. //

And you say what? Apart from the usual phony virtue signalling, precisely nothing. You haven't been to a socialist/communist country, have you. You haven't a clue about the reality. Ever fed your family for a week on a couple of stewed cabbages? Common sense should tell you If it was all so wonderful the people who have lived under such regimes wouldn’t have been so eager to kick them into touch – but common sense, it appears, is at a premium. Go and read 1984 - and think about it.

Theland, just think, if banks and financial institutions weren’t bailed out by governments, that little old man who’s worked hard all his life and has been saving his shilling every week would be the next in line at the food bank because his money would be gone and his pension would be gone. Just think – for a change.

[Old_Geezer]

Aren't you making the case for government control of banks and financial institutions ? Hadn't realised you were such a leftie naomi. :-)

[bainbrig]

She gets paid by the word, I think, geezer, so they haven't got to make sense.

[naomi24]

Not at all, OG. Simply a case for common sense.

No experience of socialist/communist countries then, bainbrig?