Dear Charlotte Metcalf, you poor poverty-stricken woman

[smellmytootsies]

The amount of times I watched you saying 'poor'

Ahhh, your accent :3

[GrouchoMarxist22]

@smellmytootsies

Yeah, I think that word is quite prevalent and relevant in that video.

And I'm glad you liked my accent.

[TheLifthrasir]

Won't lie, I read her article and my first thought was "Either this is satire or I'm not as adept with the English language as I thought ", this woman is ridiculously well off, this woman probably hasn't seen poverty outside of the television screen

As you said, she should go see poverty. Then she may realise that there are people with problems in your country like the choice of heat or food.

Though she's Daily Mail and as such I as a foreigner's opinion is likely worthless in her eyes.

-Juuso

[GrouchoMarxist22]

@TheLifthrasir

Do you want to know the ironic thing? As part of her televisual work, she did documentaries in Africa! You'd like to think that she would have seen some truly awful poverty there in order to humble her. Evidently not.

[TheLifthrasir]

@GrouchoMarxist22 If this article is anything to go by she seems the sort of person for whom it would reinforce her feeling of entitlement.

Honestly she wouldn't be able to claim to be poor in my homeland which is notoriously expensive to live in.

[miksedene]

In addition, the mere fact that we're expected to sympathise with her and her friends inability to satisfy their children's brattish whining for an ipad or Nikes is excruciating.

[GrouchoMarxist22]

@miksedene

I'm quite sure that those spoiled children won't be told that Santa didn't come this year and be left to toss a ball outside their house.

[miksedene]

I'm not really in a position to empathise but I agree whole heartedly. When the article opened with her decrying the fact that she can no longer shop at Harrods of all places I almost vomited.

[GrouchoMarxist22]

@miksedene

Can you imagine, the poor woman feels that shopping at Marks and Spencer for Christmas is a step-down down her social pedestal.

[aluphoss]

i'd swop cash levels with her.... were on 14k while my wife supports me through uni and we have 2 kids + mortgate, I hate people like her

[GrouchoMarxist22]

@aluphoss

I'm pretty sure a lot of people would be delighted to be in this level of poverty. Especially those that have lost their jobs and unable, through no genuine fault of their own to gain employment and are living hand-to-mouth. Their Christmas, as well as your own, is going to be painfully tight and I have every sympathy for you and them and hope that you have a joyful Christmas with your loving family.

[steelhamster]

The problem as I see it, the working class time and again, vote against their own best interests. How anyone earning less than 30 grand a year buys into the ethos of papers like the Daily Mail, The Sun etc. boggles the mind.

Yet they will happily vote for the party of privilege (AKA The Tory Party) expecting them to serve the interests of the many, when it is clear they serve only the few.

[gingergreek]

@steelhamster Well said mate!!

[steelhamster]

@gingergreek Ta mate.... (even though secretly I know you love Cameron :-P )

[gingergreek]

@steelhamster well he is dreamy!!

[GrouchoMarxist22]

@steelhamster

It's almost like the same in America, where the working and lower middle-classes voted against healthcare reforms despite the fact that it would benefit them!

The thing about papers like The Scum and The Hate is that they thrive on fear and hatred. Even just looking at the headlines in the Hate makes my blood boil.. for different reasons, at their own stupid, ignorant prejudices.

[steelhamster]

@GrouchoMarxist22 My blood boils when my union calls a strike and members of the same said union cross picket lines. Do they not realise that management are exploiting them while they undermine their jobs. Makes me wonder why our forefathers bothered fighting for the rights of workers when those same said workers, just piss on their graves. Shame on them.

[GrouchoMarxist22]

@steelhamster

The three rules in life my grampa taught me:

1) Never hit a woman.

2) Never cross a picket line.

3) Always get a round in at the bar.

But yes, crossing a picket line organised by your own union is a terrible thing to do. It shows cracks in what they stand for which can be wedged open by management. At the same time, it is even worse when you go to your union for support and you don't find them backing you.

[steelhamster]

@GrouchoMarxist22 Fortunately, I belong to one of the few unions that have teeth (RMT) and they fight hard for their members. What annoys me, are how certain members of the union who will happily take any pay rise negotiated on their behalf, but when it comes to standing side by side with their comrades, they turn their backs and cross a picket line. If you call them a scab, you can be fired.

[GrouchoMarxist22]

@steelhamster

Good for you. When I was going through a disciplinary hearing at work, the support I got from the head of the union was absolutely pitiful. So terrible was their attitude that our area level union representative resigned in disgust and protest.

At least your RMT are willing to fight the just cause and with these cuts that the ConDem government are imposing on us, i'm at least a bit pleased with the action being taken on the streets by protesters and they need our support.

[steelhamster]

@GrouchoMarxist22 The way things are going, civil disobedience will become a criminal act. Vive la revolution

[Answersinbooks]

Well said and well done.

[GrouchoMarxist22]

@Answersinbooks

Thanks very much.

[DarkTheAtheist]

Ah good old Daily Fail.

[GrouchoMarxist22]

@DarkTheAtheist

Daily Fail, Daily Hate. A paper that is only good for scaremongering and encouraging prejudice and fear.

[DarkTheAtheist]

@GrouchoMarxist22 You seen Russel Howard's Daily Mail song?

[GrouchoMarxist22]

@DarkTheAtheist

Yes, I have. The Hate's obsession with things that cause/prevent cancer is borderline OCD. I'd love to put out a Hate lookalike paper with the headline "READING THE DAILY MAIL CAUSES CANCER, YOUR HOUSE PRICE TO PLUMMET AND ASYLUM SEEKING GYPSIES TO MOVE NEXT DOOR" and see if the fools *still* buy the paper.

[abbynormal0ne]

Excellently said! FFS, people like this make me absolutely sick. Thank you for sharing those stories. Very powerful.

[GrouchoMarxist22]

@abbynormal0ne

You're very welcome. Judging by the comments page on her article, there are quite a few people angry and upset over this article. And rightly so.

[cestrianvlogger]

just subbed as gingergreek told me, i earn 15,000 per annum and its shit, i work nights in retail and i live on a housing estate... its people like Charlotte that really do my tits in.. she should try doing my job for a couple of years, she'd probably end up hanging herself

[GrouchoMarxist22]

@cestrianvlogger

Cheers man. Mate, i'm not too far above that scale either. It's quite sickening the level of income she thinks is "poverty level". And bear in mind, she's not a single parent, she has a partner... and of course, four fucking properties. IF YOU'RE THAT HARD UP, SELL ONE OF THEM! YES, EVEN IF IT'S IN NEGATIVE EQUITY YOU DESERVE THAT BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE YOU HAVE CAUSED THE PRICES OF HOUSES TO BE OVER-INFLATED!

[gingergreek]

These people crack me up. Bunch of fucking ignorant, bigoted morons who think the only thing that lies outside of the m25 is an ocean and Monte Carlo!! :X

[GrouchoMarxist22]

@gingergreek

Yeah mate, this woman needs to have a serious look at herself and get her priorities straight. She thinks shopping at Marks & Spencer is a step down down the social ladder.  What a pretentious, ignorant bitch.

[briafromxbox]

well said

[GrouchoMarxist22]

@briafromxbox

Thanks.

[briafromxbox]

@GrouchoMarxist22 your welcome