I'm fed up with this country and it's people; for those who have stumbled across this who ain't British, Britain isn't full of gentlemen with top hats who all live in castles and talk in really posh accents, most of us brits ain't like that. In fact if you believe the national newspapers the country is full of hooded, baseball capped, chavs, with the Crazy Frog ringtone, watching football, fighting, drinking beer, getting pregnant at 12, mugging old people, fighting old people, stealing, raping, grafitting, fighting, breaking windows and being a general nuisance.
Now, a lot of people are scared that going out will result in being mugged or worse. Worried that they too will become just another statistic for the News Of The World with the headline "yob fear shuts down the UK". And then they'll go on about how it's the schools fault and Tony Blair's fault for not fixing the problem, the chain continues when privately owned companies ban hooded tops and baseball caps in their premises enforcing the stereotype yet more and in turn causing more people to avoid doing anything that may result in coming across any teenager. it continues and it eventually ends up with the middle-classes having an irrational fear of the working class for they are the ones portrayed as such in the media.
But in my experience all this is unfound; I have never run into any trouble with anybody on the streets, no gangs have jumped out on me and tried to steal my money, no hooded teenager has started a fight with me and the troubles i have seen on the streets are few and far between. Sure you're going to get bad seeds in the world but not all teenagers in hoodies are out to get you! The media's propaganda only ever prints the crap things in life, you people don't want to buy a newspaper with the headline "teenager gets record number of A-level" - no, you people will buy the newspaper with the most threatening story on the cover, things with the words "murder" or "kill" in the title coz you all want to be scared, coz you want to justify buying that £1000 security system and to make you feel like your life is better than others. Then you sit in you're fortified houses and complain about society when in actual fact you have never even come across anybody outside of Rickmansworth.
Yes, there are some run down areas, and yes they do have a lot of crime. But instead of sitting there throwing blame on a subject you don't even understand - find a solution! "oh well it's not my problem, it's the governments fault for letting the country fall to this sorry state" No, bullsh*t! That isn't the answer, we live in a democracy, you can't sit there and expect some faceless beurocrats to solve anything. You have the chance to change things if you want to, that's the best thing about living in a democracy, but you really have to want to. You're the ones with the problems so you got to deal with it; find a solution, get out of your houses and work on making this country into a utopia, stop reading the propaganda in the nespapers, stop pointing fingers and experience real life.
That's all I have to say on the subject for now. Peace!