Hello Ann Arky,
Have you by any chance heard of a thing called ‘inner city deprivation’?
This thing came into quite regular use in the 1980s, after the early 1980s
events in St Paul’s in Bristol and later in Brixton, Lambeth.
The 1981 events that followed in some big cities including Birmingham, London showed the state that people were not happy.
And the state allowed some churches, like those working in Hackney say, to share their concerns at deprivation.
This is not the case now.
Deprivation is now being sued in the context of creating a legitimacy about envying the deprived.
Back in the 1980s, the reference was much more genuine.
Another thing that is different from the 1980s and now is the presence on various local councils of faces that are ethnic. Even a few MPs are ethnic.
Back in the 1980s, there weren’t any ethnic councillors to mention nor were there any MPs.
This changed later in that decade and things have never looked as ‘good’.
With the arrival of the ethnic quota of councillors and MPs, the clamour against deprivation subsided.
It was on the subsidence scale when an extra bonus to the PR against society was added by the USA informing us about a thing called Islam and whatever that word represents.
Suddenly, there was talk of terrorism.
No time to talk about inner city deprivation!
Next time we looked we found that Charles Dickens had been reincarnated by the Neo Cons!
We have been conned by the Neo Cons and are now being herded towards the work house and to even worse concentrations!