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Is it not possible to discuss this as adults? I don't think anyone has been childish here.
I certainly am not offended. Exasperated, maybe, but not offended. But surely it is only by dialogue on difficult subjects that we get to understand the other guy's viewpoint. I can see, for example, that it can't be easy for anyone having to drive 350miles a week just to go to work. But then that leads to question of why we have built a society where people have to do that to earn a living. I would rather ordinary people engage in a non-personal rantette than their countries do, well, what's been done throughout history, and is still being done today I won't mention the I word). Or is that too political a statement?
As far as I can see, this has not been Political at all, (Labour, Tory, Democrat, Republican etc.) more a discussion on the reasons why we are in the position we are and how each of us is experiencing it differently in the wallet.
Shall I shut up now? OK, fair enough.
Cheers
Steve, no offence intended nor taken.