On Friday, 11 April 2014 19:20:22 UTC+1, Joe Egginton wrote:
I was on the bus today, an old woman stood up with heavy shopping, and fell over when the bus braked. The woman said she couldn't get up, yet people on the bus just stared at her, like she was a freak. As I walked towards her, I saw blood on the floor. I sat her up and could see she had cut a vein, and the blood was pumping out. I put my hankie on the cut and pressed hard, and shouted to the driver to call an ambulance. The chattering middle class liberals are very concerned about gays and illegal immigrants, yet couldn't give a fig, that a sense of community has been lost. All they want is for people to be subservient. People's subservience is so deep into the culture of this country now that people expect to be looked after from cradle to grave. It's very corrosive to the sense of community were people help each other, and not calling the police or suing over the least problem.

Joe Egginton Wolverhampton.

Well, Thatcher said there was no such thing as Society and did much, directly and indirectly, to promote individualism and the weakening of community values. From your evidence I'd say she has succeeded. How on earth you can attribute any of this to middle-class liberals is beyond me and I don't envisage the bus being exactly full of these.
The people on the bus may have been reluctant to intervene on the grounds that they were not qualified first-aiders and might get prosecuted or sued if something went wrong. Keep well away! You are far more important than a poor old lady! All that matters is *you* and of course your money! The state will deal with it. This, again, is a symptom of selfish non-involvement.
The situation you describe probably has more prosaic explanation. The bus was probably full of mainly women shoppers and seeing you as a man take charge of things thought it better not to get in the way especially as some physical strength may be needed to lift the old dear back on to her feet.. But it does reveal your mindset that you can jump straight into a rant, using this as a provocation.
Nothing to do with the weather, of course. Why didn't you post it somewhere else?

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.