'Angry young men' lack optimism

[Coito ergo sum]

It would except there is a vast web of family connections holding the insanity of the UK together.

Sounds positively dismal. What country would have a system like that? Sounds more like a backwards, third world country than a first world, industrialized nation....

[laklak]

Council houses. If you can't afford private rent you go to the council and they give you a cheap place to live, and enough dosh for a couple of beers and roll ups. Keeps the dependent class, well, dependent. Works well enough to keep them from rioting and murdering their betters.

[Coito ergo sum]

Council houses. If you can't afford private rent you go to the council and they give you a cheap place to live, and enough dosh for a couple of beers and roll ups. Keeps the dependent class, well, dependent. Works well enough to keep them from rioting and murdering their betters.

Oh, yes. I remember now. Much nicer place, that. A truly caring and considerate society.

[cronus]

Council estates are OK, a bit of a dodge actually if you want a easy life. It is only particular streets that are dangerous. I used to visit friends on a estate with reputation and never had any bother. It isn't like the US where entire neighborhoods are fucked up.