Grim Britannia
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luka
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"stumbled on"Just stumbled across a forum dedicated to Jeremy Bamber.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Surfeit of grimness in this delightful little story.
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Wife and care worker found guilty of enslaving disabled husband in Chichester
Sarah Somerset-How and George Webb charged under modern slavery laws for treating her partner ‘like property’
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Murphy
cat malogen
Local horrors, apologies for the grauniad but local news sites have too many pops ups, chat functions and other toss to close
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Benefits sanctioned, acute mental health crises, little £ for food, heating cut off and then Nottingham City Homes eventually sent the bailiffs in. Bloke had been dead for 6 years
Chances were missed to save man who starved in Nottingham, report finds
DWP, GP surgery and social landlord failed to spot risks for Errol Graham, who had benefits cut despite being severely mentally ill
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Benefits sanctioned, acute mental health crises, little £ for food, heating cut off and then Nottingham City Homes eventually sent the bailiffs in. Bloke had been dead for 6 years
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
It was nothing if not expected.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Fucksake. The law in this country is a joke.
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Farmer who damaged River Lugg released from prison after three months
John Price's actions were described by the judge as "ecological vandalism on an industrial scale".
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Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Your daily dose of grim!
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Food bank volunteers to wear body cameras after being spat at
Gillingham Street Angels say users of the food bank should "not bite the hand that feeds".
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Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Funny that this thread started off talking about the historic grimness of the 70s - I'm feeling like grim is increasingly the defining state of 2020s Britain. Maybe it's an actual post-Covid, post cost-of-living crisis, post-Brexit, post-Tory effect, maybe it's just that I've moved from Cambridge to Sheffield so I'm less insulated from it, but it feels like everything's basically falling apart and no-one has any concrete idea for how to do anything about it - or at least, anyone with any concrete idea for how to do anything about it is getting told to fuck off, stop being unrealistic and accept the endless grim reality.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
It occurred to me the other day that, as a rule, in Europe I think you can divide the countries into those where nothing really works properly, but at least booze and fags are cheap; and those where booze and fags are expensive, but at least things work properly. The exception being the UK, where everything costs an arm and a leg and, increasingly, the whole country seems to be falling apart at the seams.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Here's some further grimness from your old endz:
Basically an entire new "town" (read: gigantic dormitory) with no GP surgery, cafe, pub, or even a single shop.
Northstowe: The broken-promise new town built 'with no heart'
Northstowe will be the UK's biggest new town since the development of Milton Keynes in the 1960s.
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Basically an entire new "town" (read: gigantic dormitory) with no GP surgery, cafe, pub, or even a single shop.
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Randomly, a friend of ours is actually the mayor of Northstowe - him and his partner were one of the first households to move in and he's always been involved in organizing stuff and trying to make things happen. AIUI one of the issues there is that the land for commercial properties has already been passed on to the local council so they can re-sell it to another developer, but they've spotted that prices for building land in this country tend to go up rather than down so they're sitting on it in the hopes that they'll get more for it later. At least, that was the complaint about a year ago.
It's a shame, because the locals do seem to be genuinely trying to make stuff happen and organizing as much stuff as you realistically can with no actual infrastructure, but they've been horribly fucked over by developers and the local council.
It's a shame, because the locals do seem to be genuinely trying to make stuff happen and organizing as much stuff as you realistically can with no actual infrastructure, but they've been horribly fucked over by developers and the local council.