“It is the third most deprived local authority in England, after Blackpool and Knowsley, according to the government’s indices of deprivation.”
May be worth pointing out that Knowsley is to a large extent just East Liverpool. Certainly Kirkby and Huyton are as Scouse as anywhere in Liverpool.
Liverpool was badly bombed during WWII due to it being a major port and our link to USA and Canada. Thus during the 60s and 70s inner city Scousers were rehoused to the large new housing estates in Kirkby and Huyton. I know this because my mother and her family were among them!
Malcolm Knott
1 year ago
It’s like the fable of the frog and the scorpion. The Tammany Hall system of graft and corruption only works because people look around them, survey the decay and squalor that years of voting Labour have wrought on the city, and say, ‘Yes, but we have to vote Labour because that’s what we do.’
It is amazing how much corruption, nepotism, poor governance and hunger for power is tolerated in the pursuit of socialism and virtuousness. Whether it’s Labour here, Democrats in the US, Greens in Germany….
Jorge Espinha
1 year ago
Poverty is a big industry in wealthy western countries. Armies of teachers, social workers, policemen, and all sorts of managers and specialists live out of poverty. And the answer is always more money for more “soldiers” in the war against poverty. By now we were supposed to know that it’s pointless and detrimental to subsidize people to stay in places that offer no jobs, but we do it anyway. We also know that subsidizing children born out of wedlock causes all sorts of incentives that perpetuate cycles of poverty but so many worthless middle-class professionals depend on it. So the war goes on and on. Public education is another fine example, the left-wing do-gooders have given up educating the poor or teaching anything worth teaching, they mainly teach them to be victims and feed the ever-hungry machine of the poverty industry. The balkanization of society serves its purposes. If the newcomers in our societies never fully integrate and become dependents of the state, the Poverty Industry will live on forever.
“It is the third most deprived local authority in England, after Blackpool and Knowsley, according to the government’s indices of deprivation.”
May be worth pointing out that Knowsley is to a large extent just East Liverpool. Certainly Kirkby and Huyton are as Scouse as anywhere in Liverpool.
Liverpool was badly bombed during WWII due to it being a major port and our link to USA and Canada. Thus during the 60s and 70s inner city Scousers were rehoused to the large new housing estates in Kirkby and Huyton. I know this because my mother and her family were among them!
It’s like the fable of the frog and the scorpion. The Tammany Hall system of graft and corruption only works because people look around them, survey the decay and squalor that years of voting Labour have wrought on the city, and say, ‘Yes, but we have to vote Labour because that’s what we do.’
It is amazing how much corruption, nepotism, poor governance and hunger for power is tolerated in the pursuit of socialism and virtuousness. Whether it’s Labour here, Democrats in the US, Greens in Germany….
Poverty is a big industry in wealthy western countries. Armies of teachers, social workers, policemen, and all sorts of managers and specialists live out of poverty. And the answer is always more money for more “soldiers” in the war against poverty. By now we were supposed to know that it’s pointless and detrimental to subsidize people to stay in places that offer no jobs, but we do it anyway. We also know that subsidizing children born out of wedlock causes all sorts of incentives that perpetuate cycles of poverty but so many worthless middle-class professionals depend on it. So the war goes on and on. Public education is another fine example, the left-wing do-gooders have given up educating the poor or teaching anything worth teaching, they mainly teach them to be victims and feed the ever-hungry machine of the poverty industry. The balkanization of society serves its purposes. If the newcomers in our societies never fully integrate and become dependents of the state, the Poverty Industry will live on forever.