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perhaps you could explain in simple terms why it bought a smile?
presumably you would have preferred they had higher aspirations and actually firebombed a couple of places
Poundland store not mean anything?'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Possibly because they're born that way. More likely because of their early upbringing. To a large extent they can be spotted by the time they start school.I grew up on a South London council estate and living the life does not give you much insight as to why some do fine and some are complete !!!!less wrong uns.
We were being told recently that some kids start school without knowing their own names. You have to think that some kids' home lives are about as much use as a Romanian orphanage as far as their mental development is concerned. It doesn't just happen.
But there's a huge political can of worms here because we don't have a solution to the problem of useless parents."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
It's a turn-up anyway - Daily Mail is fan of Muslim district judge. Coming soon - Daily Mail supports Sharia law.It looks like they have torn up the sentencing guidelines."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
Possibly because they're born that way. More likely because of their early upbringing. To a large extent they can be spotted by the time they start school.
We were being told recently that some kids start school without knowing their own names. You have to think that some kids' home lives are about as much use as a Romanian orphanage as far as their mental development is concerned. It doesn't just happen.
But there's a huge political can of worms here because we don't have a solution to the problem of useless parents.
Well, it might help if at least two generations hadn't been brought-up by the 'progressive' doctrine that morality is relative, two parent families are an anachronism and that any view is as valid as any other 'because it's all subjective, innit?'
Guido ripped Harman (and that vile imbecile, Hewitt) a new one today, very deservedly. http://order-order.com/2011/08/13/harriet-harman-is-gangsta-mutha-1/ She and the rest of that '70s Nu Labour crowd didn't start the rot - but they certainly accelerated it!0 -
I grew up on a South London council estate and living the life does not give you much insight as to why some do fine and some are complete !!!!less wrong uns.
It's not about poverty etc, it's about a sense of entitlement and instant gratification, and I must say a sense of victimhood which has been self perpetuated amongst some communities. The only thing that will control much of this recent underclass is fear of consequences of their actions along with a high chance of getting caught.
I agree ILW. FWIW you can live in a bad area and be a good parent, as I'm sure yours were. My mum used to have a chat with me at least once a year that went "if you get into trouble and I find out, I will shop you to the police but most importantly I'll never stop loving you". Then she'd give me one of her scary looks. No matter what cr&p is going on around you, you can still set boundaries.
What I find most frustrating is woolly liberals who have never lived anywhere like you who want to put you in a social petrie dish and start experimenting on you when they haven't got a flying f*ck what they are talking about and have just read a couple of books. I can't begin to tell you how patronising I find this. It's like being a circus freak sideshow. Governments of all colours as well as civil servants and local governments can be good at this.
I do however have the highest respect for those who have lived there and try to work to improve their communities, there's a massive difference when you can walk the walk and not just talk the talk (yes I do mean MPs). I sincerely help that they are the ones listened to.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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It's a turn-up anyway - Daily Mail is fan of Muslim district judge. Coming soon - Daily Mail supports Sharia law.
I should imagine the BNP and other far right nutters are looking on with approval at cases like this, shouldn't do ant harm to their recruitment campaign
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
perhaps you could explain in simple terms why it bought a smile?
presumably you would have preferred they had higher aspirations and actually firebombed a couple of places
I might have known that Dev would thank that moronic post, he has previous for thoughtless, vitriolic and totally unfounded allegations
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Of course you can. My mother was raised in a slum. But a lot of your neighbours are liable to be people who're living in a bad area because they can't get their act together. Nothing is solved by wishing those people didn't exist, calling them names, or confronting them with demands they'll never be able to meet.vivatifosi wrote: »FWIW you can live in a bad area and be a good parent"It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
But it obviously is, and it isn't a problem. Societies have functioned with different rules from ours. Some have glorified human sacrifice.Well, it might help if at least two generations hadn't been brought-up by the 'progressive' doctrine that morality is relative
What is a problem is lack of socialisation - people's failure to absorb the norms of the environment they live in.
They are. If follows from the change in the nature of work, which has opened up the labour market to women, including mothers, on almost equal terms. Two-parent families existed because they were economically efficient in some societies. Other societies, with a more extreme distribution of wealth, favoured a system where a minority of men had multiple wives and the rest of the men didn't marry. Other societies favoured other systems.two parent families are an anachronism and
But we should bear in mind that before the industrial increase in life expectancy, the average duration of a marriage was less than it is now, even though there was little or no divorce. Only a minority of kids reached adulthood with both natural parents still alive. Multiple marriages and step-parenting were normal. Nothing odd about those Biblical references to women with 5 or 7 husbands."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
Of course you can. My mother was raised in a slum. But a lot of your neighbours are liable to be people who're living in a bad area because they can't get their act together. Nothing is solved by wishing those people didn't exist, calling them names, or confronting them with demands they'll never be able to meet.
Encouraging them financialy to breed more of the same is surely not the answer though.0
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