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"Why should I?"

Seems to be a popular phrase these days out there in the big wide world.

Reading Newspapers and listening to the radio you'd be forgiven in thinking that it has become the new mantra for modern British society.

Nobody seems to want to take responsibility for anybody else's problems these days. Hell, it seems nobody even wants to acknowledge that anybody else even has any genuine problems.

Apparently everybody is to blame for their own misfortune so when people are asked to express some sympathy for others "Why should I..." has become their default setting response.

Ok so I'm being bleak here.

We had Live 8 where we all went along to a pop concert and tried to appease our collect guilt about the millions starving to death in Africa by listening to Madonna swear in time to the beat.

But on a National level it seems that it's just too difficult to really give a toss about anybody else these days.

Case in point is one Danny Johnson-Green a disabled father who had his disability benefits stripped from him after completing a charity bike ride to raise money for a leukaemia research charity after his twin sons were diagnosed with the disease.

Anywhoo some charitable soul didn't think a disabled should be able to ride a bike AND receive benefit entitlement and reported him on the DWP Bat Phone. Sadly the DWP agreed and now he not only has had his benefit ended but has to repay £2,500.

Makes you warm to the cockles of your heart doesn't it?

In the new Utopia in which we live I don't have any social obligation to really give a fuck about you.

Why should anybody else get any money when I don't? Why should anybody have an easier ride than me? If a disabled man wants to get extra money the least he can do is sit in the corner and be a good cripple like everybody else.

Yeah I know I'm being bleak again.

Why shouldn't I be?