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Is there even one? Are they effectively becoming day-release prisons for their occupants? And is this what their occupants deserve anyway?
The bus I catch from Bolton goes through one of the worst five council estates in Salford, the metropolis of Kenyon Way and Madams Wood. A couple of miles of utter social desolation.
Council estates never used to be this bad. When home ownership was still a dream for middle-class-aspiring families, council estates provided a home. As prosperity grew, the lower middle class purchased out some of the better (parts of) council estates, partially funded by the government, and left the rest to sink. No problem. Anyone else would do the same.
So what we are left with is the scum of the earth living in no-go areas, wielding rifles on buses (yes, the one I was on today), bringing on salivating pitbulls (ditto) and creating social unrest for miles around. The spiral of violence leading to poor schools, poor education and a lack of opportunity leads to more violence. Drug-taking and severe alcohol abuse are rife. Vandalism commonplace.
Of course I'd love it if we could find a couple of terrorists in these estates so America could bomb them to pieces with lots of collateral damage, but the only real solution is more and more effective policing. 3-strikes and you're out. Bring in Rudy. Enlarge our prisons system so it can take twice as much.
Next, decent apprentice systems for those that have failed education, or vice versa - as in Germany. Not everyone can work with their brains so why is the only possible advancement in this country thorugh intellectual means. Technical schools to push those 14 year olds who obviously don't want to learn into.
It will be easier to sort out Britain's mess sooner rather than later. Birth rates are much higher amongst council estate dwellers than than elsewhere (no stats yet). The problem will spread and envelop areas around it - already happening.
(Local) government investment in one area works on the micro scale. it works in that estate. But it just pushes the crap in to other estates, which then sink as well.
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The bus I catch from Bolton goes through one of the worst five council estates in Salford, the metropolis of Kenyon Way and Madams Wood. A couple of miles of utter social desolation.
A town has become a no-go zone for buses, leaving vulnerable people to face a dangerous walk home.
The First bus company has suspended all its services through Little Hulton, Salford, after 6pm because of a wave of vandal attacks.
Angry residents say "anarchy" by a minority of hooligans has caused major disruption to scores of law-abiding people.
Gangs of youths have smashed windows of buses with passengers on board. Most attacks have happened in the Madams Wood Road and Kenyon Way areas.
The First company said they were left with no alternative but to divert service numbers 12, 31, 36
, 37, and 68.
The First bus company has suspended all its services through Little Hulton, Salford, after 6pm because of a wave of vandal attacks.
Angry residents say "anarchy" by a minority of hooligans has caused major disruption to scores of law-abiding people.
Gangs of youths have smashed windows of buses with passengers on board. Most attacks have happened in the Madams Wood Road and Kenyon Way areas.
The First company said they were left with no alternative but to divert service numbers 12, 31, 36
, 37, and 68.
So what we are left with is the scum of the earth living in no-go areas, wielding rifles on buses (yes, the one I was on today), bringing on salivating pitbulls (ditto) and creating social unrest for miles around. The spiral of violence leading to poor schools, poor education and a lack of opportunity leads to more violence. Drug-taking and severe alcohol abuse are rife. Vandalism commonplace.
Of course I'd love it if we could find a couple of terrorists in these estates so America could bomb them to pieces with lots of collateral damage, but the only real solution is more and more effective policing. 3-strikes and you're out. Bring in Rudy. Enlarge our prisons system so it can take twice as much.
Next, decent apprentice systems for those that have failed education, or vice versa - as in Germany. Not everyone can work with their brains so why is the only possible advancement in this country thorugh intellectual means. Technical schools to push those 14 year olds who obviously don't want to learn into.
It will be easier to sort out Britain's mess sooner rather than later. Birth rates are much higher amongst council estate dwellers than than elsewhere (no stats yet). The problem will spread and envelop areas around it - already happening.
(Local) government investment in one area works on the micro scale. it works in that estate. But it just pushes the crap in to other estates, which then sink as well.
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