Its rather that their life experience, and experience of humanity, has left them predisposed towards people and the state
Some of this is to do with trauma they’ve experienced. Having been physically beaten, subject to terrifying abuse and threats, and pain and torture, and criticisms and chronic put-downs and neglect. The impact of this is… they are scared of everyone, don’t trust anyone, and will protect themselves to taking a hostile approach to almost everyone, and anyone they don’t know very well.
Some are also distressed with having many sources of immediate stress and hostility in their life. Child protection services threatening to remove their children. Debt collection agencies threatening to take away possessions. Benefits agencies threatening to withdraw their benefits. People, generally, disliking the look of them, and sneering at them or avoiding them, because they look bedraggled, miserable and hostile.
Some of them are struggling mentally and physically. Habits they have got into to cope with mental distress, are impeding their energy levels and physical.
Organisations or anyone calling people in this situation ‘hard-to-reach’ are adding insult to injury. It is a term reflecting a narcissistic apathetic and hostile predisposition – to a group of people – that one does not want to to have to care and think about what they need to do, to create a meaningful supportive relationship. As soon as one calls this group ‘hard-to-reach’ the deal is done, the taps of support are turned off, and the battle lines are drawn.
Does it cost money to engage people in this situation? Fuck, yes.
Who pays? The taxpayer?
And we don’t want people fluffing the money away – so we need to make sure that when we spend money on trying to do this – it is spent well. Not everyone who tries to build these relationships are going to be good at it.
But it does pay back alot of money. Hilary Cottam has demonstrated that. Cos families, and people, who are scared, unhealthy, hostile, who aren’t paying their bills – are people who the state engages in one way or another with anyway – even if not in a terribly productive way a lot of the time – through the police, prison system, welfare benefits agencies, social work and emergency health services.
So we can potentially save money by taking this approach.
But also, more importantly, by investing in relationships and people in this way – we create unity in our country – we create a country where everyone is included – this is what it means to be patriotic – to put Britain and British people first. This is what it means to be a united country. This is what it means to love your country – to the love the people in it.
By doing this – we invest in the health, well-being and education and development of all our people – we create a population and workforce, who can create the material wealth that future generations will depend on – we strengthen the economy, the well-being, the pride and standing and strength of the nation. If you claim to be a nationalist, a patriot, someone who wants to see Britain great once more, rather than the cesspit of broken towns and communities – this is what you need to invest in and vote for.