You can’t blame government for societal change. You have family breakdown, single households with multiple kids; absent fathers, parental dysfunction. Where did all that come from? The trajectory started in the 60s and the break from what was seem as the stultifying suppression of individual expression and pursuance of personal identity in priority over obligations to adhere to social norms and expectactions.
Fraser Bailey
4 years ago
This article might as well be in the Guardian given its endless platitudes and sympathy for these ‘teenagers with no money and no hope who yearn for £120 trainers’. These people have free education (albeit a very poor state education devoid of all reason, rigour or discipline), free healthcare, and live in a city that offers more opportunity than almost any city in human history. Meanwhile, their families are in receipt of all manner of welfare – most of them probably don’t even pay their own rent. Really, there is nothing ‘Unheard’ about this – we have heard it a million time on the BBC/CH4 and The Guardian. And we don’t want to hear it any more.
A Willis
4 years ago
“The county lines phenomenon is the manifestation of widespread government neglect“
No. The county lines phenomenon is the manifestation of widespread parental neglect. .
Iliya Kuryakin
4 years ago
As other have pointed out, poverty is merely an indicator of a deeper problem. How many of the county line kids come from families with two married parents?
stuuey
4 years ago
It’s a failure of schooling and parenting (as usual) 13 year olds know pretty much nothing at that age and yet are told squarely that they have nothing to look forward to whilst at the same time the bad guys are not shown as such but are glorified! No surprises then…the girls all want to be sex workers and the boys dealers!
You can’t blame government for societal change. You have family breakdown, single households with multiple kids; absent fathers, parental dysfunction. Where did all that come from? The trajectory started in the 60s and the break from what was seem as the stultifying suppression of individual expression and pursuance of personal identity in priority over obligations to adhere to social norms and expectactions.
This article might as well be in the Guardian given its endless platitudes and sympathy for these ‘teenagers with no money and no hope who yearn for £120 trainers’. These people have free education (albeit a very poor state education devoid of all reason, rigour or discipline), free healthcare, and live in a city that offers more opportunity than almost any city in human history. Meanwhile, their families are in receipt of all manner of welfare – most of them probably don’t even pay their own rent. Really, there is nothing ‘Unheard’ about this – we have heard it a million time on the BBC/CH4 and The Guardian. And we don’t want to hear it any more.
“The county lines phenomenon is the manifestation of widespread government neglect“
No. The county lines phenomenon is the manifestation of widespread parental neglect.
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As other have pointed out, poverty is merely an indicator of a deeper problem. How many of the county line kids come from families with two married parents?
It’s a failure of schooling and parenting (as usual) 13 year olds know pretty much nothing at that age and yet are told squarely that they have nothing to look forward to whilst at the same time the bad guys are not shown as such but are glorified! No surprises then…the girls all want to be sex workers and the boys dealers!