Rising tide of bad debts will flood over banks

morg_monster

i like the wolf children idea. then all you need is up to date tetanus and rabies jabs, maybe some shinpads, steel capped boots, and you are effectively safe.

tintaja

Woolf children? I am thinking Tarzan...

Kez100

Wolf children wouldn't kill their own.

LisbonLaura

There are ways to clean up the UK, but I doubt the will is there to do it.
It requires an authoritarian regime, zero tolerance & the willingness to dump unrepentant anti-social sub-humans elsewhere, permanently*.
The UK has been too soft for too long. Now it is payback time. The innocent will suffer the injustice, whilst the mob run amok. It's only an extension of what been happening for years. Deep down you all know this but do not wish to look at it, & who could blame you.


*.......unless anyone has any better ideas?

amcluesent

England is heading for the scrap-heap.

Two generations given dumbed-down schooling
The infrastructure left to crumble with hardly any new motorways for years
We have been mortgaged to the tune of £150,000,000,000 on dodgy PFI wheezes to get new schools and hospitals
2,000,000 middle-class people have fled in the last decade
6,000,000 or more on incapacity/JSA, the figure can't be relied upon, three generations of 'can work, won't work'
70% or more of 'employed' in NE and Wales are in government jobs, not in productive economy
AT LEAST 5,000,000 more illegal immigrants than NuLabour admits to
AT LEAST 150,000 criminals at large who should be banged up in jail
AT LEAST 100,000 sympathisers of islamic terrorism - a huge fifth-column in our midst
NuLabour have done nothing to prepare England for the energy famine post peak-oil

Yes, England is finished.

m00m00

the rot started long before blair slimed his way to the top.

tomstickland

I have a lot more faith in society. The people who live near me are all friendly, whilst still keeping themselves to themselves most of the time. If I'm ever doing any work outside then people will stop and say hello.

I do, however, agree that some people will not be properly prepared for the challenge of existing without buying endless tat. I'd say that some people will come out of it better, but others will take on an attitude of despair.

I predict an increase in boiling over of frustrations. Many people are feeling squeezed from multiple angles, so when over zealous parking wardens ticket someone for having a wheel 1" over aline etc. and that person can just afford to exist, their fuses will be shorter.

m00m00

feral is nothing to do with wolves

feral means anything which is usually domesticated, running wild

and it's a perfect description for the feral hoodie wearing hordes infesting estates and town centres.

neverdespairgirl

Sapphire wrote: »

We are heading into a slump as bad as the Great Depression. But this time around, we have a feral and violent society that will not be pulling together to get out of this mess.

I wish the outlook wasn't so grim, even for those who had not participated in the financial scams of the last few years. Can anyone tell me anything (reliable) that will reassure me, i.e. by saying that the situation is not actually that bad?

If England were what England seems,
And not the England of our dreams,
But only putty, brass and paint,
'Ow quick we' d drop her....,
But she ain't.

Rudyard Kipling.


("But what should they know of England,
Who only England know?")

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Back in WWII times people didn't move about a lot. People tended to grow up around family, go to school and stay with the same people in the same areas so still see those people regularly out and about.

There was a society.

We've no sense of place any more ... and if we have, then the rest of the street don't have it.

I'm not sure it was quite as defined as that.

Looking at my own family - my parents and 3 of my grandparents were all born in and around Liverpool. But their parents, my great-grandparents, were born in Wales (2) Somerset, Kent, Lancashire, Liverpool, East Sussex, and Northern Ireland.

There was massive migration in Victorian times, which continued - my great-grandparents were born in rural places, (apart from 1 in Liverpool) between 1865 and 1892, and moved all over the place. I don't think that's very unusual either, because my great-grandparents weren't exactly jet-setters.

Although my parents and most g-parents were born in Liverpool, they moved around as well. My Dad was from a solidly working class family, born in 1950, and went to Bristol to go to uni, then moved to London. My mother was a middle-class bank manager's daughter, born in Wallasey, and she lived in Wallasey, Buxton, Liverpool, Shrewbury, Birkenhead and Manchester, before her parents settled down in Surrey when she was 14.

OH's ancestors were far more impressive in their locations. OH and his parents and grandparents, the 7 of them, were born in 7 different countries. How's that for migration!