This area really does surpass all expectation! Unfortunately nothing appears to have changed since the last article was posted.
Driving through the area (never walk), one is greeted by a deluge of under-age single mothers, nethanderals, drug addled pixies and various other problem vermin. Levels of educational attainment are rock bottom; a scant review of replies posted on the last review is testament to this. There is almost a unique dialect spoken throughout the area, decipherable only from the high number of single syllable words used. Various colloquialisms are copiously added to create a form of pigeon English that is without parallel in mainland U.K. and indeed much of the Commonwealth.
The area is clearly dominated by juvenile gangs; martyrs to a cause that people have neither the time nor inclination to care about. Unfortunately the root cause of all of this is parental background – ignorance breeds ignorance. The vast majority of children are being raised in dysfunctional families where there is either no father figure present, or the father is not in work and does not provide a positive role model. Family breakdown prevails in Kitts Green and the Glebe like a cancerous growth, stiffling any hopes or ambitions that may otherwise be realised in the civilised world.
The only solution? Cut the benefits and kill the dependency culture.
I would like to say I live in the heart of the Glebe. An guess what me an my partner both work. My children have manners and can talk english and do not swear (well not in front of us) we are not all vermin as this Chav Town says we are. There are bad and good everywhere please do not judge us all. Just because you have seen a bunch of lads hanging around a few shops.
This is true to a degree… Every city will have it’s bad places, you can’t help that, and yea the accent might be bad, and the people and all that but shiiiit. you can’t just cut benefits? what about the people who live in that area who genuinly are after jobs etc? makes me sick how people can think yeaa just f**k ‘em off. Nobody on here would ever say anythin like that to anyone from the Glebe ’cause they’d get hurt. All im sayin is you can’t just do one thing, to stop all different, key word ‘different’, problems. It’s not just places like kitts green, the glebe… theres hundreds n hundreds of them lol
I lived there for 9 years. Although a lot of the youths were thieving illiterate fools, not all the kids there are bad, and neither are their parents. A lot of the time it is either beat them or join them, and even the good kids who do join them stay away from anything too bad.
I’m in between the ages of the younger Glebe kids and the older ones, and never once was I robbed or beat up by anybody there, even when I first arrived -and I’m ginger which lets be honest says something. I don’t think any opinion where you generalise an entire group of people is very fair, there are two sides to this story.
I had the dubious pleasure of working in this area for 10 years… In the mid-90s there were some really nice people, lovely families. But they all moved away leaving a void that was filled by the people described in the article.
The Pub was a haven for drug pushers (it was pulled down), the kids walked around wearing gold jewellery so the repo man couldn’t get it. The adults were ill-educated, uncouth, gobby. The kids had half the IQ of their parents. Fighting was a daily occurrence in the playground – that’s the parents… Thieving was a right. Bullying was seen as normal.
A work experience art student went to the local school to paint a mural, and on the first day she was handed a ‘love letter’ from a 9-yr-old. ‘Dear panter girl, i want to shagg you.’ The word shagg turned into f**k on day 2 (spelled correctly…).
Poverty was high, education attainment low. Shouting and slapping were the usual forms of communication used by ‘parents’ although the word parent assumes some kind of responsible role. Gangs were the norm. Damage to personal property was rife. I drove an old banger to work because cars were regularly keyed.
But cutting benefits isn’t the answer. That would simply plunge more people deeper into poverty (although these people could afford to smoke, drink, buy recreational drugs and have Sky TV, but that’s another story). A full-on re-education programme for adults. A drug rehabilitation drop-in centre. Something for the kids to do. And the contraceptive pill for all 14-yr-old girls.
I have lived near this area all my life, i have also worked all my adult life and i must say you are absolutely correct, people who dont work that can work are scum, low life, parasites that should pick litter off the streets.
If you’re going to criticise low educational standards of achievement, you might like to take more care with your own language.
You could start by understanding the difference between ‘pigeon’ and ‘pidgin’.
And something is either unique or not, it can’t be ‘almost’ unique.
Thanks for noting, Shanghai! Shame on me for using the incorrect noun – how insulting to the poor, humble pigeon! If we’re going to split hairs over how we use the term ‘unique’, let’s use the word ‘rare’. Better still, let’s call the local accent/dialect an ‘abomination’.
To all the others who take exception to what I’ve said, what exactly did you expect from looking at this website? It is merely my view, having been to the area and witnessed the behaviour of locals firsthand.
Unfortunately, it appears the words ‘responsibility’ and ‘hard work’ don’t register in the mindsets of the people who have posted responses on here. No matter, let’s keep doling out the benefits. After all, I don’t have to live there.
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I had a good mate who lived right in the heart of the Glebe, his brother even used to work in the Glebe pub (which was quite frankly dreadful). He came from a single parent family but turned out to be a model student, employee and Dad.
Talk of taking money off the poorest people in society because they have bad taste and talk differently is way off the mark. Most of the pissheads/drug users I know have plenty of cash to feed their habits. They tend to have to visit areas like the Glebe to get their fix. A lot of the “chavs” as you call them (and believe me I hate these types – yes hate!) are victims a combination bad parenting, bad schooling and bad role models. Taking their TV’s, PC’s and phones off them would achieve more than removing their benefits. They are not getting the parenting that they should are they? The TV, phone, PC is a surrogate parent, the main source of info and the majority of it is fatally flawed.
Cut the benefits is it? you twat, and then what, eh tory boy?
And then get a job.
You might need to explain the definition of a job to Mark …
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No, it really isn’t a ‘kneejerk” reaction. Huge levels of public spending, requiring extremely high levels of taxation to fund the welfare state, have stiffled the entrepreneurialism required to create the very jobs you talk about. Mrs Thatcher did not destroy our industry; the Government simply did not (does not and never will) have its own money to prop up inefficient and uncompetitve, loss-making business.
The route forward must always be to cut taxation to encourage investment and create and grow new companies which are able to be competitive within the global market . Simply throwing vast amounts of public money at sink estate Britain will not create the jobs needed to lift people out of poverty.
The Labour government has demonstrated in its 13 years of power that readily rewarding people who do not take responsibility (i.e. having children and not being able to provide for them) has been a complete disincentive and made it easier not to work. Anyone who doubts this need look no further than the previous Government’s own records which show that the wealth divide in this country actually grew during their three terms in power.
The present Government has a huge task on its hands to sort out this mess, though it is not impossible.
This kneejerk reaction… cut the benefits of the disadvantaged… really is intolerable and people who think that way really need to have their eyes opened.
We had enough of that in the 1980s, under Thatcher, and that produced most of the problems we have today.
The answer is to create decent, skilled, secure and decently paid jobs, the kind we had before TYhatcher destroyed our industry.