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Originally Posted by Ammi
..but that wouldn't be him making it about that though, it would be the people or person who defaced the war memorial who made it about that..whatever feelings people have about David Cameron or the Conservative party or if it had been any other party who won...because he wasn't the one who made it about that and neither did the majority of protesters either..protesting is good, uniting in one voice is good when you all feel so strongly about something but sadly as is so often the case, a minority of a few people distract from that voice by making it about something else/by making it about what they have done...and really isn't it those few who are taking a moral high ground in a kind of way because it's placing their heightened feelings above families of people who died for their country, there is no bigger sacrifice or 'hardship' than that..The women of WW2 and the memory of them have nothing to do with anything protested about, and if the focus is about that/the memorial... then it's whoever disrespected it that has made it so...
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No Ammi he will make it ALL about that. I'm not saying that it wasn't disgusting for a few of those people to do that, and he could (and should) address that whilst also acknowledging people's frustrations and fears and - one would hope - at least trying to reassure those frustrated and afraid people that he is there to do his best for everyone and that his government are not a bunch of bogeymen.
He won't do that. He will bleat on about the vandalism and only the vandalism, vilify everyone involved even those who were nowhere near the war memorial, not because he actually gives a stuff about the war memorial, but because it's a convenient excuse for ignoring the fact that people are genuinely horrified about the election results. Not disappointed, not "sore losers", but horrified. Scared. And the fact that he will have no interest in even trying to offer words of assurance, but will instead dismiss those people in a sweepy gesture as "vandals" and "scum", says it all.
Who knows, he might surprise me. I very, very much doubt it.