Northerners: no work + blight, but why?

Even in the South you have neglected suburbs.

Not sure there are easy answers obviously wealth is a factor though very few want to pay more tax and those that could tend to move borders.

Previously acknowledged that state industries sucking up unskilled labour brought wealth to less salubrious areas now those industries have gone they struggle.

I personally think even in the South there is a dearth of part-time jobs, everyone wants full time and then we have automation factors.

Even harder if you are worn out and an ex-alcoholic like one in your clip.

Personally like what Jersey used to do, pay people an allowance of over £100 per week (a decade ago) to be on call for emergency events like dealing with emergency weather re blocked storm drains or clearing snow. Here the councils tend to play the lowest as a contract job.

It is becoming 'No Country for Old Men.

Baron von Lotsov   


There has been a concerted effort over the past 20 or 30 years, to condition the public to leave everything to the State, and often to punish them if they attempt to involve themselves in improving or rectifying a situation.

It is visible in every aspect of life, residents warned or fined if they tidy up grass verges or areas that Councils have neglected or allowed to become eyesores, even in sport when a player or players have tackled or removed pitch invaders ….the player themselves has then been sent off, as the approved reaction is to stand and watch until a couple of overweight slow and bulky stewards chase the miscreant around the pitch for 10 minutes in an attempt to catch them. Attempt to apprehend or fight off a burglar in your home and you could be liable, particularly if the burglar trips on a loose paving slab in your garden while making off with your hifi … you can phone the Police but that’s all … the State will, or more likely will not, deal with the situation.

The kids next door being beaten up and abused by Mum’s latest boyfriend ? … in the past the neighbourhood men would sort the situation out …. or the local Bobby … now people tell themselves it’s not for them to get involved and Social Services monitor the families…. it’s all been taken under the Government’s wing.

Think back to last year and Rod Stewart had the temerity to fill in some potholes …. Rod was probably still in his thirties when the Council said they’d assess how bad the potholes were and might eventually get around to some repairs …which naturally never happened …. yet so predictably, as night follows day …. you knew that within 24 hours Rod would be portrayed as the bad guy, officialdom stating that he had no right to pick up his shovel, get some gravel, and get the pothole problem sorted.

The State controls almost everything, and daily takes control of more … it would take generations to change Society to cultivate a mindset of doing things for themselves ….. Big Brother has successfully warned them off.

What you do is encapsulated in the word omertà, which is Sicilian and is said to derive from the Spanish meaning manliness. What they don't know about they can't do anything about. Applying this code on your local council estate would wipe out social workers and thieves virtually overnight. It would help create a common bond between residents. Everyone could run their own business and the council would see the estate as the model citizens: zero crime, zero family disputes, zero sexual harassment and zero every other negative their fiendish minds devise. The result would be these useless cretins would be out of a job and they too would need to survive then through self-employment. 

I was referring why part time jobs are in short supply due to the availabilty of full benefits for spongers who work part time

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I think you inadvertently mentioned another issue here which is part of the problem, and that is travel. Lets say you are poor and either you own a car and spend a large proportion of your income keeping it on the road and paying petrol or you rely on the shoddy public transport system, then the obvious problem staring you in the face is inefficiency, which is why you are so poor. In short, you are being dicked about with by stupid faceless officials who care zero about your welfare. The solution is of course to think locally. Say you live in a poor community. You have inputs and you have outputs. You buy stuff in and sell products beyond the local community. You want an efficient system locally, so people can source cheap supplies of what they use locally. One could rebuild local industry from the ground up. You want to try and replace corporate products where the money flows out of the community and try and source locally, so if something goes wrong you also have local assistance. It's doing essentially what we did in the past before we had socialism. For example how London rebuilt itself after the war. The land was cheap, just as those northern lands are. You can buy a house of five grand in some areas like Doncaster for example. The depressed prices are due to the crime and decay of the properties and upkeep of the streets. So what you do is if you have the time and not the money, you buy cheap, put your graft in, improve the housing, make the streets safe through community groups of security and in a few years you will find the house you paid 5 grand for is now worth well over a hundred grand.

Indeed what I speak of is in part similar to what has been going on in my area. It was very cheap to live and all falling into disrepair, but in the last ten years you see many independent businesses start up and now you can tell people are doing better as house prices have risen substantially and the place is buzzing with trade and activity. You would be hard-pressed to find one commercial or shop premises which is vacant. It bucks the trend of the entire country. 

Yes I've seen both sides scammers and those on the other side too.