"Boltar" wrote in message
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John B wrote:
Perhaps I was overly harsh on the original poster - however, if you're
not aiming to be racist, it's probably worth avoiding words that began
as racially abusive terms when describing someone of the ethnic group
that the term was originally used to describe.

Pikeys only suddenly became an "ethnic group" because then they could
suddenly jump onto the racial victimhood bandwagon that people like you
are so happy to cheer as it trundles past into the pit of social
collapse. Most people would cal them workshy lazy troublemaking scum
(and yes I've had firsthand experience of their type twice in the last
5 years) but each to their own.

Tory whose name escapes me). Either you send everyone who's ever done
anything bad to jail forever, or you delay the problem until they
escape. The former is barbaric and ruinously expensive; the latter is
merely useless.

Newsflash - when someones in prison its very difficult for them to
commit a crime that will affect anyone outside the prisons walls.

And it's very difficult for them to give back to society. Prisons are not a
holding station - they're supposed to rehabilitate people. This is not the
1700s. People in prison cost money, people outside of prison make money.
Getting those in Prison outside is of top-priority for the nation as a
whole. Make the criminals not criminals, and you're set. Or we could just
spend tens of thousands a year per criminal, and not even try to help them,
even though poor circumstances are usually the cause of criminal behaviour.

Where the hell do you live? I'm in a not-especially-rich bit of
northeast London; I've never seen any of that kind of thing (I have

Well being a liberal lefty you naturally have your blinkers on so you
wouldn't. I live in a flat in north london and in the last 12 months
we've had thieves dumping a car in our carpark and youths with knives
and knuckle dusters smoking pot in the communal garden on at least half
a dozen occasions. Though I suppose in Cloud Cuckoo Land Avenue where
your house resides I suspect nothing of the sort happens.

OH ****! Crimes that didn't hurt you! You poor baby! Awww! How hard it
must have been, sitting inside, knowing someone's smoking POT nearby once
every 2 months! Oh no! We'd better declare marshall law, as there is
obviously no turning back from youths smoking weed! The end of days is upon
us!

I guess if you see kids and are scared of them, nothing is going to change
that. As has been pointed out before, you're not likely to be a victim of
crime, and even less likely than you were a few years back.

I live in North London too, and I see a much different view of the outside
world. I guess poor evil in my book - it's obviously a different story
for you.

B2003

dave