Britain 2006 - He Who Mugs The Piper Calls The Tune
"Well I'm afraid the Government is dragging its feet on giving us the funds so we can give him the support he needs."
The support he needs. That's Britain 2006.
In conversation with a 'small businesswoman' of my acquaintance this morning:
"Well you know I'm from Milton Keynes. When my kids were at school we had a huge problem with gypsies. Every so often there'd be a huge influx, they were violent, wrecked wherever they parked their caravans, and then there kids would come into the school, they were so badly-behaved, violent as well. And the school would find the funds and draft in extra staff to teach those kids for a few months and our kids' education would suffer accordingly."
Now thats about three-four years ago. Anyone think Milton Keynes isnt still laying out the welcome mat for those colourful gypsy folk with their colourful habit of turning pleasant green land into rubbish-choked wasteland? They come to Kings Park in Boscombe every year now, because Dorset County Council laid out the welcome mat a few years back and explained how it wanted to spend our money on 'reaching out' to these kings of the road. So now every year the community wearily awaits the few weeks when most of the park becomes a no-go area, when the grass which has just recovered from the previous year's depredations will be blackened and churned into mud again, when bouncers outside Bournemouth's clubs try to make sure they are on duty in another county in case the charming gypsy chappies start another round of drive-by shootings directed at the staff of whichever club they were turned away from the night before.
All at our expense. That's Britain 2006. Whoever makes the most noise and the most mess gets the resources.
When will the rest of us learn to start breaking things and shouting? It's the only form of communication that this or any future Government seems to understand.
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