Excellent assessment of the last 40 year strategy to divide and conquer the masses.The basis of any good society is strong local communities and neighbourhoods where everyone has an interest in the wellbeing of those living nearby.
Growing up in the late 70s and early 80s you knew almost everyone on your street, it was an extended family. If anyone was having a hard time the community offered some support.
Then sometime in the mid 80s there was a change, we started to follow the American model of money being everything. Rather than looking at our neighbours as an extension of our families we started to treat them as someone to compete with, who's got the nicest house, best car, can afford skiing holidays etc. Follow that through to now where instead of it being just in your local area, you have the world posting what they have got and how they are living celebrity lifestyles, albeit mostly a façade.
What effect does that have on kids ? The sense of community doesn't exist and everyone being measured by what they have. Now think about being from a poorer background, it leads to crime both low and high level, whether it be taking out their frustration by vandalism or stealing to have things they see, but cant afford.
Apart from a very small number, criminals aren't born, they are a product of the society they grow up in.
Good exercise too, probably why they've a lower obesity rate.Excellent assessment of the last 40 year strategy to divide and conquer the masses.
If there is no community, there's no community spirit.
I marvel at France. If somebody passes even the smallest law to change society they torch the streets (can you imagine Brits rioting over pension age? we'd just collectively shrug, in fact thats what we did do).
Point is the UK isn't broke, there's plenty of money. Yet too many in poverty, on low wages, paying massive rents, an underfunded health service, sky-high train fares and so on.
They always do well in the shot put and javelin at the Olympics. So, fair play.Good exercise too, probably why they've a lower obesity rate.
I've reread this twice now and there's no mention of him getting his windows bricked or his bike torched...
That's all the window bricking and petrol bomb chucking.They always do well in the shot put and javelin at the Olympics. So, fair play.
Christ. Did you get hay for your horse in the price?It was half a Guinea four shillings and sixpence when you first started parking there!
You did, but you'd to pay some little urchin a tanner to make sure the hay didn't mysteriously catch fire.Christ. Did you get hay for your horse in the price?
Point is the UK isn't broke, there's plenty of money. Yet too many in poverty, on low wages, paying massive rents, an underfunded health service, sky-high train fares and so on.
Yep, divide and conquer. Watch the masses attack each other while the real criminals syphon off their money.Last week there was a very enlightening exchange at the Treasury Select Committee between Emma Hardy and Jeremy Hunt. She wanted to know why, when everyones data showed that every £1 spent on cutting out tax avoidance recovered multiple times more money than £1 spent on benefits fraud, did the government spend so little on stopping tax avoidance relative to benefits fraud? Hunt tried to side step the question but she persisted and asked how could what the government was doing been seen as rational.
Hunt isn't stupid, tried his best but in the end he simply said that in the governments view this was the right way of spending the money.
As far as I can tell that was an explicit admission by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that government policy is not to maximise treasury revenues but to pursue policies that are ineffective for the majority of the country but are assistive to wealthier organisations and individuals who sought to defraud the country. It appears not to be incompetence, it's deliberate policy.