When Will It End ?

[Beach Hut]

This spate of trouble with youngsters being killed in London is awful. There seems to be some sort of culture of violence which seems very difficult to stop.

Another murder happened last night

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6534231.stm

 

[dougdeep]

And...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6534375.stm

 

[bhaexpress]

Sadly it's not a new issue it's just gets more press now. The fact that thanks to the troubles in the old Yugoslavia has meant that there's more hand guns floating about doesn't help either.

The real problem is that many people see life as cheap and frankly most of the people who carry out these dreadful crimes aren't mature enough to realise how serious they are. Even if they get caught and get a 'Life Sentence' they actually get freed as relatively young people too, hence the punishment doesn't really fit the crime.

 

[William Chops]

We need to engage the youngsters a lot more, give them something to do, a structure to their young lives, something to aim for and some overall hope for the future. I do a lot of charity work in London, especially in deprived areas. The level of alienation is frightening. On some of the estates I work kids really do not see any hope and have little to do. they jump at the chance to get involved in some of the projects I am involved in.

 

[Braders]

We need to engage the youngsters a lot more, give them something to do, a structure to their young lives, something to aim for and some overall hope for the future. I do a lot of charity work in London, especially in deprived areas. The level of alienation is frightening. On some of the estates I work kids really do not see any hope and have little to do. they jump at the chance to get involved in some of the projects I am involved in.

see now i don't always agree with your opinions but that is spot on

also it doesn't help when some media "entice" the use of guns and other such weapons to make them look "cool" and "hard"

 

[bhaexpress]

We need to engage the youngsters a lot more, give them something to do, a structure to their young lives, something to aim for and some overall hope for the future. I do a lot of charity work in London, especially in deprived areas. The level of alienation is frightening. On some of the estates I work kids really do not see any hope and have little to do. they jump at the chance to get involved in some of the projects I am involved in.

That rather depends on individuals though, some of 'The Yout' are too disenfranchised and cynical to be interested in good deeds. Not really their fault as they are victims of their environment. To get the trappings of a good living they turn to crime as the only way they can see to better themselves. Frankly that situation is not new at all and can be seen throughout history. The methods of reporting are just better now.

 

[Bakesy]

We need to engage the youngsters a lot more, give them something to do, a structure to their young lives, something to aim for and some overall hope for the future. I do a lot of charity work in London, especially in deprived areas. The level of alienation is frightening. On some of the estates I work kids really do not see any hope and have little to do. they jump at the chance to get involved in some of the projects I am involved in.

Good post.

 

[Beach Hut]

We need to engage the youngsters a lot more, give them something to do, a structure to their young lives, something to aim for and some overall hope for the future. I do a lot of charity work in London, especially in deprived areas. The level of alienation is frightening. On some of the estates I work kids really do not see any hope and have little to do. they jump at the chance to get involved in some of the projects I am involved in.

Very good stuff it needs someone to drive forward a Princes Trust type thing - perhaps something for either Wills or Harry ?

 

[Yorkie]

We need to engage the youngsters a lot more, give them something to do, a structure to their young lives, something to aim for and some overall hope for the future. I do a lot of charity work in London, especially in deprived areas. The level of alienation is frightening. On some of the estates I work kids really do not see any hope and have little to do. they jump at the chance to get involved in some of the projects I am involved in.

I agree with you. I worked as a qualified youth worker two evenings a week on one of the toughest council estates in West Yorkshire for 17 years. I coached a great volleyball team and we had over 100 youngsters coming in to the club.

The council closed it because they couldn't fund it any longer.

 

[withdeanwombat]

We need to engage the youngsters a lot more, give them something to do, a structure to their young lives, something to aim for and some overall hope for the future. I do a lot of charity work in London, especially in deprived areas. The level of alienation is frightening. On some of the estates I work kids really do not see any hope and have little to do. they jump at the chance to get involved in some of the projects I am involved in.

You never get decent stuff like this in the Daily Mail.

There ,it's cut their goolies off.

 

[Ernest]

Stop giving them f***ing easter eggs for a start , thousands more children are dying from OBESITY but no one says anything about that

 

[junior]

I havent read the article or seen any news,but let me take a wild guess that the latest victim is BLACK?


If im right,there seems to be a bit of a theme going on.

 

[Braders]

Stop giving them f***ing easter eggs for a start , thousands more children are dying from OBESITY but no one says anything about that

again could be sorted out with a decent cheap sporting option from the bigwigs , more indoor sporting facilities (a few indoor astroturf pitches wouldn't go amiss round here, given the weather)

even something like decent priced gym membership could sort out obesity.

 

[Yorkie]

Stop giving them f***ing easter eggs for a start , thousands more children are dying from OBESITY but no one says anything about that

It's more likely to be diabetes but don't let that get in the way of your trolling.

 

[Ernest]

It's more likely to be diabetes but don't let that get in the way of your trolling.

You silly old woman , haven't you got your housework to do

 

[NMH]

You silly old woman , haven't you got your housework to do

you should leave the comedy routines to someone who is good at it

 

[Yorkie]

You silly old woman , haven't you got your housework to do

I've already done it Ernie old chap. Being a woman I can multi task.

 

[Ernest]

I've already done it Ernie old chap. Being a woman I can multi task.

I love your dominatrix act