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January 31st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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David Baker
Last updated at 9:24 AM on 30th January 2012
The shadow health secretary has criticised David Cameron for appealing to the middle classes over his ongoing happiness drive.
Andy Burnham believes that by promoting happiness as a goal, which is all too often defined by wealth and possessions, the prime minister is ignoring the working classes.
In today’s Observer Burnham criticises both Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg for bypassing the working classes and ignoring the dangers of mental health.
Happiness: Shadow health secretary has lambasted Cameron’s ‘happiness agenda’ for focusing on the middle classes
He said ‘Cameron and Clegg have done this whole thing about happiness, and I am not against the principle, but I think that is the wrong word.
‘There is a slight danger that it sets people up – you have got to be happy, If you are not happy, you are failing.
‘It is slightly in danger of being a middle-class construct there, builds a bit of materialism into it. I think what we are talking about is resilience.’
Last year David Cameron announced that a ‘happiness agenda’ would see
ministers trying to measure how happy Britain is.
Among the methods expected to be used includes a survey of more than 200,000 people.
How happy is Britain: Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, makes a speech on responsible capitalism last week defending the market and free enterprise as ‘the best imaginable force for improving happiness’
The results could be used to pit local authorities against each other to see who is happiest around the country.
But Burnham is concerned the drive is setting people up for a fall and says that encouraging ‘resilience’ would be a more appropriate goal.
The former Labour leadership candidate is expected to make a major speech this way to look at how the NHS can promote mental health and the changes in lifestyle which means more help is needed to protect people from the stresses of modern living.
With depression on the up and news that the World Health Organisation predicts more people to suffer from it than any other health problem by 2030 Burnham added that the NHS needed to ‘wake up’ to new challenges.
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As usual Burnham is spouting piffle, he has it down to a fine art. He is almost insulting to intelligence watch, however when on TV almost riveting to watch to see stupidity in motion.
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You can always tell when Nu-Liebour are down in the polls. They always bring up the old class warfare bit. In the 70`s Michael Meacher took the Observer Newspaper to court because they `dared to say that Meachers father was not working class`. In fact Meachers father was an accountant and also a farmer. How many of you lads in Liverpool and the North East think that an accountant with a farm is working class??? Of course he lost the case. It did not prevent Meacher from opening his big mouth again by declaring `it is immoral to own more than one home`. The DM had front page pictures of 8 of his houses and there were four more. Do you remember Prescotts TV programme on `class`. He knocked on a door of one the sink estates and asked the teenage single mother what class she thought she was. `Middle Class` she said . Surely not he replied, you must be working class. She said `I have never worked`. Absolutely priceless, you couldn`t make it up.
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It makes a change from 13 years of a Government focusing of anyone but the British.
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As a middle class person I must have missed the bit where I felt Cameron was doing bit all for me and mine. To be fair though Burnham has got the sort of face that would make for a pretty encouraging punch bag.
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What can anyone say regarding this idiot . There really is not much to say about a man who has never had a proper job in his life. The middle classes are keeping this country running, they are the ones who get hammered in taxes and keeping the vast numbers of people who have never had a job and dont even want one on benefits
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Let’s get this straight, It’s the middle classes that pay for their own Housing, full Council tax, University fees plus providing the wealth and the Taxes that provide the money, that keep the lower classes with their benefits and allowances.
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I knew his dad well [a level 1 manager at BT Manchester] had insight into Burnham’s formative years…. Years of privilege that those he claims to represent can only dream about. How does somebody who has never held a “real” job prior to entering politics and armed only with a degree in history become chief secretary to the treasury and health secretary despite having no financial or medical credentials? Go figure….
Broken Britain – too right, thanks for nothing Andy I don’t know how your lot sleep at night.
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“Burnham too focused on CHAMPAGNE SOCIALISM” blasts Anon_Wales.
Idiot!
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Given its the middle class that pays most of the bills, why shouldn’t they get a little attention. Let the voice of the givers be heard above the din of the takers for a change.
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I always think that he should wear a anominous mask and join the Ocuupy movenment. Sorry MR Burham it was people like you that made me take my vote elsewhere. I would assume tha I am middle class if we talk about wealth ,but what I have I have worked for and saved. You and your buddies just gave millions to scroungers to breed and let all and sundry come into this country. History will prove that 13 years did the worse damage to our young and to our general well being. We have been hit harder than the rest and the lesson is ” we will look after ourselves but do NOT EXPECT US TO GO ON LOOKING AFTER and paying for the society of freckless citizens that you and yours created,
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