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Talk about a pointless job.

If you are lonely find a a better hobby for goodness sake.

Yes,and it is also the notion that central government can or should do or appear to do anything regarding an emotion...

Still it sounds positive and may distract some from all the other rubbish going on...

wyot wrote:
Yes,and it is also the notion that central government can or should do or appear to do anything regarding an emotion...

Still it sounds positive and may distract some from all the other rubbish going on...

They give permission for houses to be turned into teeny tiny flats and give landlords as much rent as they like for the teeny tiny flats so they can build more, and then they throw people out of their teeny flats into even teenier ones because of the bedroom tax, so everyone vulnerable has no choice but to live on their own without even room for family to visit, and then they have the CHEEK to employ a loneliness minister?
What did they expect? They can sod off!

Nothing to do with that, honey - really.

It's a brave effort to help the 9 million with the severe lonliness - of so many in a different world: UK, now.

1.2 million are chronic, meaning nothing will change for them, ever.

Many live near you, and me - should we (our government/taxes) not try to do something?

Spee wrote:
Nothing to do with that, honey - really.

It's a brave effort to help the 9 million with the severe lonliness - of so many in a different world: UK, now.

1.2 million are chronic, meaning nothing will change for them, ever.

Many live near you, and me - should we (our government/taxes) not try to do something?




You are right, Spee. Of course we should do something. (I do actually do something)
I am just cross that it was perfectly obvious what was going to happen, and it is still happening. If we physically isolate people they often become mentally isolated too.
If this minister can do anything to help I am glad, and at least it has made people aware.

Agree with last two posts...I suppose my main point was that government programmes wont scratch the surface...How do you instill values of community in an atomised society with superficial values and a culture of self-centredness celebrated as a virtue, in a context where social media passes for human interaction?...No chance..unless people wise up and kick back locally and individually...