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I think most people have the same distaste.
I don’t think you’re putting your point of view across in a way that people either understand or appreciate.I didn’t know Ian Duncan Smith made such comments, so perhaps my memory is slipping too?
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I didn’t know Ian Duncan Smith made such comments, so perhaps my memory is slipping too?
It was a decade ago. He said "Work actually helps free people.". Context seems to be "Welfare 'trapping' people in poverty says Duncan Smith" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8707652.stm
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I didn’t know Ian Duncan Smith made such comments
He didn't. He did say 'Look, work actually helps free people...' in the context of unemployment benefits. In 2010. As part of a much longer sentence in which other words were used.
I can't stand IDS but there are much better grounds on which to attack his record than this.
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I didn’t know Ian Duncan Smith made such comments, so perhaps my memory is slipping too?
He made the comment a few times, with subtle variation to different groups of people. Seems the idea of the words were not lost on him when he visited Dachau in 2009, even writing a sort of blog about the experience. He went as part of (invitation) the holocaust education trust. The history of Dachau (from when the Nazi came to power) and horror of the term work will set you free. The camp, with the motto was to reclaim supposed 'degenerates' and re educate them.
@jellybaby Also five years later at a party conference this time about the disabled, https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tory-conference-anger-over-ids-work-your-way-out-of-poverty-call/
You can also look at the other rubbish he has come out with like claiming to be able to live on £53 in 03, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/01/iain-duncan-smith-live-benefits
But is this covid related no.
Does the covid idiots poster sink to a new low. No, IMO it doesn't.
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Probably, some really hateful nazi like comments from political people have really stuck with me and in my naivety/stupidity believe that others feel the same distaste that.