I'm talking about this:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007090140,00.html
(Yes I know the Sun is a crap paper - my other half bought it)
Are things really this bad? 17 year olds out of their boxes on drugs, shooting each other, carrying knives,living off crime with absolutely no hope of getting a job or doing anything with their lives?
I'm 35 and grew up in a poor area of South Wales where there was little work, and very little for kids to do. I remember underage drinking and smoking, petty crime and kids smoking the odd spliff but nothing like this! Has it got this much worse over time? Is it just in the large cities like London and Manchester that things are this bad?
What are the Government going to do (aside from wasting taxpayers' money on wars in Iraq and filling the job market with Polish immigrants that is)? What can they do to make things better?
As the mother of a 12 week old baby boy it scares me to think of him growing up in a country like this!
2007-02-24
06:53:03
·
26 answers
·
asked by
Anonymous
in
Current Events