The managed decline of Liverpool

Some Liverpudlian | 31.12.2011 20:34 | Workers' Movements | Birmingham | Liverpool

After the working class took to the streets and rioted the last thing the ruling class wanted was an unmanaged decline of working class areas...

After the working class took to the streets and rioted the last thing the ruling class wanted was an unmanaged decline of working class areas. Plant some trees on the avenue, make some more land available for Lord this or that.

For anyone in Liverpool during the 80s and early 90s it was obvious what was happening. We were called paranoid and accused of being inward looking. Now you can see what was happening..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-16355281

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oh how things are twisted on indymedia

31.12.2011 22:31

The "let liverpool decline" was about not spending more money on policing because of all the rioting there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It wasn't about, letting liverpool decline, it was about saying that spending vast amounts of money on foriegners who just burnt it all and needed lots of policing was an uphill struggle and why bother

Idiot

Extract:
More than 70 buildings were demolished or burnt down as tensions boiled over between the police and the district's Afro-Caribbean community.

anon

Don't make the same mistake again - Don't trust them!

01.01.2012 21:48

Don't trust any of them, politicians, rich twats, police. If in doubt just off them for the sake of the rest of us.

All their lies will be exposed eventually, but meanwhile we need to act in our interests not theirs because everytime they get away with their bullshit they make more time for themselves.