Re: How the UK has changed and not.
The UK has changed - but it always has and it always will. After all, we don't have Dickensian times anymore with children working up chimneys and down mines. We don't hang them either. We don't have workhouses for the poor or send single mothers into the nearest asylum.
Maybe there are vast differences between areas in the UK because, to be honest, Sol Invicticus, the examples you cite are really rare in my neck of the woods. We've got Christmas lights on; good schools with teachers who are perfectly capable of controlling pupils; kids who are working on community projects and although there are estates, I wouldn't class them as anything like 'sink' estates with feral children. I live in a town of some 20,000 inhabitants and we've got a police station that closes at 5pm. Two bobbies patrol from time to time - but that's about it.
There are things that aren't ideal, I agree, but it isn't really correct to say that all of the UK is as you describe.
Last edited by Allie; 12-11-2008 at 08:49 PM.
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