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Mental Health Awareness Month 2024

It's the last day of Mental Health Awareness Month, thank goodness! The UK is mental health obsessed, especially since the pandemic. One recent example is  this LibDem poster making the rounds.  There are more important things to address, like making sure people have a decent place to live so they can lead flourishing lives and enjoy good health; nutritious food to eat for their physical well-being; and enough money to live a dignified life important for their emotional well-being.  Universal Basic Income would be better money spent than the money the government wastes on all manner of unnecessary projects. Hitting a certain industry with extra tax to raise money to compensate for their poor governing isn't a solution. That's all politicians come up with. They spend their time thinking who can we heavily tax next? πŸ€”πŸ’·πŸ’° How about sorting out antisemitism (and homophobia, transphobia, racism and poverty) in universities and wider society. Mental Health will immediately i...