Of course there are differences of deserving and undeserving between people. Not only for the poor but for every socioeconomic demographic. To deny this is to deny that people have any agency over th… (View Post)

You seem to be sympathetic to scum who prefer crime to work. But hostile to train drivers who have got themselves a skillset and work. (View Post)

Then you have the left behind WWC types in the video I linked to previously. No job, no aspiration, no hope. As Foxy points out, sure housing is cheap, but opportunities for social mobility are zero.… (View Post)

I suspect every town and city has more, better and more varied bars and restaurants than it did three decades ago. And fewer shops, especially big shops. (View Post)

We do tend to notice things which have declined easier, or just fear that they have. Whereas the bad things of the past are forgotten about or even romanticised. In 1974 for example there was pretty … (View Post)