So, the Guardianistas have been telling us for decades that we’ve got to have poor living alongside rich. We must not have ghettoes. This is why we have council flats in the middle of Westminster.
A Guardian analysis of figures from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government – looking at the most and least deprived 10% of areas in England – reveals how deep inequality can run, sometimes across nothing more than a few metres of asphalt, a line of hedges or, in this case, a 6ft wall.
Years of austerity and underinvestment mean almost two-thirds of councils now contain a neighbourhood that ranks as one of the most deprived in the country, compared with just under half in 2004. As deprivation has become more geographically widespread, there has been a stark increase in the number of places where deprived and affluent people find themselves living side by side.
Now they’re complaining about the poor living cheek by jowl with the rich.
Sigh.
No-one in the UK is “deprived”. ‘Disadvantaged’, perhaps; but not “deprived”.
I have the solution
1. Moar Tax
2. Greater expenditure on Welfare, especially for those that contribute f£&k all
3. Increased public sector pensions
4. Unlimited immigration
5. Moar DEI and greater discrimination against Whites, including their removal from the electoral roll and sequestration of their assets as reparations for slavery
6. An increase in the Courageous State, possibly utilising the Quantum economics theories
7. An immediate Spot in the Lords on a lifetime peerage for a ‘Tax Justice’ campaigner whose ongoing efforts to combat ‘neoliberalism’ have made him a hero to millions
8. Said campaigners YouTube videos to be made mandatory for all school children in years 1-13
9. Expansion of the Ukraine War to invade Russia with nuclear strikes on key targets – ‘Slava Ukraini’ – we can win
That will of course fix all the problems noted here – number 5 in particular will help end these divides as all whites will be made homeless.
They’re depraved on account of they’re deprived:
““Our school run takes an hour – if I could just go through then it would take 15 to 20 minutes,” said Colley. “And if you have a car on this estate, you are actually quite lucky to have that car, so lots of people try to jump over it.“
Somewhat undermines the leftist argument that success in life is only because you are lucky enough to live on the “magic soil”, where all the good jobs and decent educational opportunities are.
“ reveals how deep inequality can run, sometimes across nothing more than a few metres of asphalt, a line of hedges or, in this case, a 6ft wall.”
Its almost as if the ‘poverty’ relates to the type of people who are living either side of the boundary, rather than anything to do with physical barriers, or the mythical ‘austerity’.
I was just about to comment that any article or research that invokes “austerity” as a cause as can safely be ignored.
Where we lived in Huddersfield in the late ’60s had a council estate with 3 private housing estates and open country surrounding it. The behaviour of large section of the council estate was what we could most politely call anti social, despite the example all around them.
Well good old Dame Shirley Porter did her bit to move the poor out of Westminster and therefore alleviate this ‘problem’.
It’s called Gerrymandering.
“Years of austerity and underinvestment.”
How is that this austerity coincides with years of ever rising taxes and government borrowing? Something doesn’t add up.
Like that doctor on the wireless this morning insisting “we need another 29% on top of the 25% already had because our pay has gone down since 2008”.
Presenter: No it hasn’t, it’s gone up. And since 2015 it’s gone up faster in real terms than any other part of the public sector.
Yebbut, SINCE 2008!!!!!
Presenter: Your pay has gone up, hasn’t it?
2008!!!!!
I’ve been tracking the figures they’ve been using in their arguments, and the reality is that they haven’t been pulling away from the plebs as fast as they used to be. They are still getting more pay, and their pay is still going up, and it’s still going up faster than the rest of the public sector and the private sector, but it’s not going up as fast as it used to be.
If you start in 2000 with both the private sector and the public sector paying £100, by 2022 the private sector were on £189.22 and the public sector on £189.99. Yes, the last seven years were increases of less than the private sector increases, but the public sector were having lower increases from a higher level.
I haven’t completed the calculations to this year, but a ballpark estimate would put doctors on £252 and the private sector on £195. So, they’re just plain grasping moneygrabbers.
That’s very interesting. On this basis, despite putting it up to just under a psychological limit, since 2000 and after inflation of 115% the purchasing power of my hourly rate overall has declined by around 40%. Along with the loss of real-terms equity in my flat of 30%, no wonder I may not be able to afford Wells.
You sure your figures are properly representative?
“almost two-thirds of councils now contain a neighbourhood that ranks as one of the most deprived in the country, compared with just under half in 2004”
I wonder how much of that is due to spreading colonies of immigrants on benefits around the country.
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Why is the KKK in that picture?
Oh, wait: it’s an honest representation of the demographic whose votes Reeves & Starmer are trying to buy. Poor, deluded fools: having banked the extra bennies these women are going to vote for the local headchopper in 2029.
And on another note, that picture is terrifying. More extreme than anything I’ve yet seen in London. Where was it shot? Luton? Dewsbury? Bradford?
Probably, just a photo-shopped or AI meme…?
Damn! After 20 years, and spending a fortune, England still has a has a most deprived 10% of areas.
Yeah, well. As soon as I saw someone from the University of Oxford being quoted…
You are a balanced personality: you clearly have a chip on both shoulders…
I am willing to bet that the rubbish coming from the rich side was thrown over from the poor side and is just being returned.