Tony Blair tells Brits to stop self-diagnosing with depression as ‘UK can’t afford spiralling benefits bill’

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1. To be fair, who better at telling people about the benefits of pushing their feelings down than an unrepentant war criminal? He never let life’s small obstacle, like a normal human conscious over having his hands caked with children’s blood, get him down.

2. Tony ‘must say something every month to pretend I’m still relevant’ Blair combined with media ‘must find some dross click bait every day’.

   What a time to be alive.

3. Its so funny that the great majority of the West still believes in the greater good.

   Somehow in the process of humanity achieving incredible technological capabilities, exponentially boosting production in all spheres of society, the populace just accepted that it came with a deterioration of purchasing power and of relative wealth for the masses.

   As if the technological gain meant that much could be squeezed out of people. Because “thats how it is”. And for so many, self-deception is the way to cope with their powerlessness. To the point where they will fight to protect their shackles.

   So yeah. *buckle-up* Brits, *you* can’t afford shit.

4. I mean, he made up Weapons of Mass Destruction to deceive the public into supporting an illegal invasion that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and he is now worth £60 million – but I’m sure it’s people with depression and anxiety who represent the real problem in society.

5. It’s a weird one. lots of people suffer from depression and continue working.

   Depression probably shouldn’t be something you can be deemed “not fit for work” with.

6. It’s certainly true that depression and anxiety, even factoring in other variable, are notably higher in rich countries than poor.

   Of course you will have more diagnosis in a rich country, but then you look at other indicators like suicide and they’re very much a result of high development.

   On the one hand it does seem like something we need to talk about. On the other, living in the UK I know what he means. There were definitely groups of friends, usually young girls, who would eek each other on with self harm, suicidal thoughts and depression.

   I’m not sure what the solution is. It may well be that mental health is contagious and the more we talk about it the worse it gets for some. We simply don’t know.

7. Perhaps maybe instead of victim blaming, Tony and his band of merry men should be thinking why there is an increase in mental health diagnoses.

   I mean if I couldn’t heat my house in the recent weather or if I didn’t know where my next meal was coming from due to the poverty wages being taxed to oblivion by the current government, its likely to start or worsen my anxiety and/or depression.

   But Tony wouldn’t know how that feels with his 60 million odd worth.

   Theres a lot more to this epidemic that isn’t being addressed and the UK is the only country like this.

8. Rich retired war monger says “suck it up bitch” to entire generation that his war mongering and ceo ass licking forced into perpetual austerity and destitution.

   Claims uk “cant afford treatment for mental illnesses” because the funds from the nhs his ilk spent the last 2 decades trying to dismantle will have to be spent on actual services people require, instead of another suite of middle management jobsworths with no medical experience there to assign numbers to every patient because like everything else neolibs touch “hurdur profit line must go up”

9. Perhaps he should hire Duncan Campbell as his PR man again, if he wants to talk about depression.

   Perhaps he shouldn’t have been a party to one of the darkest turns in modern history, then fewer of us would be looking at the world in despair. Invading Iraq and Afghanistan, and all justified by naked lies. That’s depressing. Blowing billions on murdering millions of people might have cost us a few million on serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Thank you, Tony, you absolute cock.

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