…is having to pretend that things aren’t getting worse because if you say they are then you sound like the worst kind of anicent old gimmer. Not to mention a miserable, dreary old cynic.
But some times they are getting worse. That’s not just because I’m no longer 21. It’s because, well, they ARE getting worse.
We’ve had 30 years now of under investment in everything in this country and it’s hardly surprising that all isn’t what we’d like it to be. Also there’s been 30 years of the gap between rich and poor widening.
The worst of it all is that those driven by hate are blaming the cracks in our services and societies on those least able to defend themselves.
That’s what’s wrong here. Isn’t it? Not just me getting old? Right?
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April 25, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Mosh
Oh, come on. It’s so obvious it’s all those bloody foreigners that are causing the problems. Coming over here and taking our jobs. Can’t they just sit indoors, sponge off the state, spend all their money on beer, fags and drugs, beat their partners up, loiter on the street corners, rob houses, mug grannies and piss in the streets like proper English people?
Actually…
Can we please kick all the benefit scroungers into the North Sea and welcome in a shedload more hard-working Koreans, Chinese, Poles, Romanians, Slavs, Czechs, Indians, Bangladeshis…..
Here’s a deal for every immigrant: Learn English as a priority. Get a job. I’ll live next door to you and share garden parties, as we talk about the drowning chavs. Not hard, is it? Shame the crime-ridden scum infesting most of our estates don’t seem to be able to manage either of them when some penniless foreign guy can do it.
April 25, 2008 at 2:24 pm
L.
I’d really like one day to meet someone whose job actually was taken by a foreigner.
April 25, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Bob Piper
“We’ve had 30 years now of under investment in everything in this country”…
Not strictly true, comrade. Far be it for me to defend the Blair era, but the investment in the NHS has more than doubled in REAL terms over the last decade, and expenditure on schools and education has been even more dramatic. In 1996 the total capital expenditure on school buildings in the borough where I live was £700,000. In 2006 it was £43 million.
You m,ay question what we’ve got for the money in some cases, but under investment hasn’t been the problem in a lot of areas.
April 25, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Brian Haworth
OM, as ever I feel your Art is in the write plaice.
Life isn’t total shite.
Wait. We’re having a recount here.
A few hung Chavs or somethin’.
You know what the difference is.
You KNOW.
You’re seeing numbers and - apparent - non-delivery of results.
( I’m seeing crime, corruption and lies).
In VN you were seeing effort, toil sweat, brain, ideas… and results.
It ain’t all shite. But most of those who take the money from the electorate should go to Darfur.
And stay there.
April 25, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Brian Haworth
It is actually quite reassuring to hear someone else say suck sucks.
Let’s NOT quit.
Number 1 Bus?
No.
DON’T back off those shites.
Peace and Mars Bars all around.