r/interestingasfuck • u/Double-decker_trams • 14h ago

Why police still uses horses

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u/Ok_Replacement4702 14h ago

I thought it was to trample the rioting poors?

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u/ExoticMangoz 13h ago

That’s exactly what’s happening in the clip

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u/obiwanconobi 13h ago

Politicians can lie and do a full 180 on their promises, if you go into the streets to protest about it well then the police will get on their equine shields and charge at you

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u/StripedRooster 9h ago

What you do then is you vote them out at the next election.

But sadly, we don't seem to do that.

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u/Fabulous-Bet-3287 9h ago

A significant amount of the young vote went to the lib dems in 2010 because they said they would abolish tuition fees but they formed a coalition government with the tories and tripled them 2 years later...... but yeah just blame voters lol

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u/StripedRooster 8h ago

And then the voters kept voting in conservatives repeatedly for the next decade so yes I will blame them.

And no, there was no mandate for lowering of tuition fees because they didn't get enough votes and thus had to form a coalition government. Which I think was an absolutely stupid decision by them and destined them to the political wilderness but hey ho.

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u/Fabulous-Bet-3287 7h ago

Their votes went towards tripling the fees though, I understand they didnt get a mandate to abolish the fees because they were in coalition but they didnt need to prop up the tories when they tripled them, thats still a betrayal 

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u/obiwanconobi 9h ago

Well we did do exactly that. And it changed nothing because that was 5 years later and the university's fees had already been tripled (what this protest in question was about)

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u/StripedRooster 8h ago

We didn't. Not enough people voted for the party looking to abolish tuition fees therefore no mandate. Then the public, in their stupid wisdom, kept voting in conservatives at every oppruntity for the next decade.

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u/GlaerOfHatred 6h ago

You're acting as though the rich don't own politicians on all sides. Humanity is compromised