Tooting Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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There is no way of saying this without sounding an 80-year-old Daily Mail reader (which I'm not), but I don't think I've ever been as depressed about the state of this country as this morning.
We've had all the bombings already, obviously - but these two terrible and senseless murders we've heard about in the past 36 hours just make you want to emigrate.
An 18-year-old lad in Liverpool, committed Christian, by all accounts an all-round good guy, gets an axe in his head walking his girlfriend to the bus-stop after some terrible racial abuse from a gang of bigoted fuckwits.
And then this story today about another psychopath throwing chips at everyone on a bus, when the boyfriend of a girl hit by them asks him to stop he stabs and kills him. What is especially chilling about this one is that I, and I suspect a lot of people, would have done exactly the same if it was your wife/girlfriend.
I'm sorry, things were not like this 20 years ago when I was a kid, and I can't believe the callous, cold-blooded nature of these crimes. What sort of youngsters are we producing, and how has this yob mentality been allowed to prosper?
We've had all the bombings already, obviously - but these two terrible and senseless murders we've heard about in the past 36 hours just make you want to emigrate.
An 18-year-old lad in Liverpool, committed Christian, by all accounts an all-round good guy, gets an axe in his head walking his girlfriend to the bus-stop after some terrible racial abuse from a gang of bigoted fuckwits.
And then this story today about another psychopath throwing chips at everyone on a bus, when the boyfriend of a girl hit by them asks him to stop he stabs and kills him. What is especially chilling about this one is that I, and I suspect a lot of people, would have done exactly the same if it was your wife/girlfriend.
I'm sorry, things were not like this 20 years ago when I was a kid, and I can't believe the callous, cold-blooded nature of these crimes. What sort of youngsters are we producing, and how has this yob mentality been allowed to prosper?
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