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Topic History of: Minister for Loneliness
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Green Man	Wyot wrote: [quote]Green Man wrote: Jean 98 wrote: However a gentleman near me always says "Hello" when he walks his dog near my house. However I wouldn't want him round for afternoon teas. Dear me no wonder people are lonely.. Invite him around for a cuppa one day GM. You may find he has a rare collection of Genesis records and you get on marvellously! Thing is Wyot, I have too many in my social circle. Again you hear people befriending other people only to be taking a advantage off. They even lose their home to drug dealers or get bludgeoned to death like a trout on a fishing lake. People are not swans or elephants or dolphins. Even though we could learn a lot from them! As you know my good friend Tubs is now in very poor health due to cancer. So I am putting things on the back burner to see him. Credit to him he wants to die at home with dignity no treatment or hospice. He wants to be surrounded by peace and the fish tanks, not death. He gave away his possessions and money early. Tubs read out a list. He didn't want people to argue over what is what over inheritance. I had to fight tooth and nail to get my grandmother's silver plated little ornaments. They are worth nothing apart from a few pence at a car boot. However they were promised to me. When I got them back my middle sister didn't talk to me for years. Despite her having nearly all the antique and vintage jewellery. I wanted everything to be divided up equally, she didn't have favorite grandchildren nor did like rows. There was rows and my grandmother's will was challenged also. Greed can cause breakups and loneliness Wyot. I still think smartphones and horrible people is why people are wary one another.
Wyot	JK2006 wrote: Worth linking this thread to the Sixth Commandment one! I haven't seen it yet but am deginitely going to start it this evening.
Wyot	hedda wrote: I've felt lonely all my life..was a lonely child. Even among a group of pals I can feel lonely but I've come to like solitude despite being invited out socially. What does the Minister actually do to combat loneliness which I believe in tough Britain can be a real social problem?. You can always pop round for a cuppa when next in the UK Hedda! I have not been successful in finding out what the Minister does. He publishes strategies, measures loneliness and hold meetings in the UK and with his Japanese counter part: www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-message...loneliness-ministers I think the problem is - like so many areas of public policy in the UK - that they look at the symptoms and not the causes. The causes are too complicated and structural. I really don't want to be glib as it is a real problem, and I remember moving on my own to London as a young man and being horribly lonely for a time... But I can't find any real action; just presentation as usual here.
JK2006	Worth linking this thread to the Sixth Commandment one!
Wyot	Green Man wrote: [quote]Jean 98 wrote: However a gentleman near me always says "Hello" when he walks his dog near my house. However I wouldn't want him round for afternoon teas. Dear me no wonder people are lonely.. Invite him around for a cuppa one day GM. You may find he has a rare collection of Genesis records and you get on marvellously!