Why is the recent gun and knife crime phenomenon mostly associated with certain parts of the UK?
From what little I know of the current spate of gun and knife crime, it seems largely to be associated with deprivation and the poorer areas of our towns and cities. Social housing here in UK is quite dilapidated for the most part. Some of it, the best bits, have been sold off either to the former tenants or developers. When the UK.gov speak of building 90,000 new affordable homes in a single year, I am not impressed. When I was a boy of 12 in 1953, the Conservative UK.gov of the day, lead by Harold Macmillan, better known as Supermac, built 3-million homes in that single year. Nothing that present day politicians say or do ever really impresses me. Gawd Brahn has just splashed out and spent 50 billions of our cash proping up Nawfin Wok – a Chinese bank somewhere near Geordieland. Now I’m not opposed to helping people out, but this is madness. At best, I may have offered depositors about 25% of the value of their deposits and no more than that. UK.gov can easily squander 40-million pou
