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Official: right-wing governments bad for your health

Spatula Clarke

14:12 / 22.09.02

Thatcher guilty of manslaughter?

Right-wing governments may sap some people's will to live and result in more suicides, conclude studies in Britain and Australia...

on average, suicide rates were 17 per cent higher when the Conservatives were in power...

Both studies reached their conclusions after taking into account other factors that affect suicide rates, such as economic slumps, wartime, and even a surge of suicides among women in the 1960s when sedatives became widely available.

Favourite line: Britain's Conservative Party declined to comment on the findings.

Turk

18:44 / 22.09.02

Favourite line: Britain's Conservative Party declined to comment on the findings.

They don't yet know who the victims tend to be, i.e. whether to think it's a good thing or not.

SMS

19:26 / 22.09.02

Look at it this way. When conservatives are in power, liberals are going to have more problems with the government, and be, on average, more depressed. When the liberals are in power, conservatives will tend to be more depressed. But the liberals actually off themselves, whereas the consevatives don't.

fluid_state

21:09 / 22.09.02

Look at it this way. When the focus of a nation is (relatively) peaceful economic plenty, people are happier than when said focus is militaristic dominance over another people for economic reasons. The latter nation-view tends to incite feelings of unescapable impending doom, a resurgence of the old Cold-War nuclear armaggeddon panics. I beleive people are more likely to kill themselves when they feel the world is careening straight to a state of either unavoidable war or mindless slavery. That the parties lablelled "conservative" are at the helm in such times is unremarkable, a little ironic, and totally unsurprising.

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