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UK: Communities declining at 'fastest rate ever'
The Telegraph ^
| 4/14/2008
| Christopher Hope, Home Affairs Correspondent
Posted on 04/13/2008 9:31:59 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman
four pubs were going out of business in Britain every day.Depressing.
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posted on
04/13/2008 9:34:33 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(It takes a father to raise a child.)
To: bruinbirdman
Out of desperation they are going to have to cling to religion and guns.
To: bruinbirdman
An eloquent warning about the consequences of centralized government services.
Are the commissars in Whitehall in charge of everything in every tiny town?
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posted on
04/13/2008 9:42:12 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: bruinbirdman
Look at the bright side, I’m sure you don’t have to go far to find a mosque...
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posted on
04/13/2008 9:43:15 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: bruinbirdman
"This means that in the past four years, the distance residents must travel to use everyday facilities has increased, due in large part to closures. Every neighbourhood in England was ranked by the Oxford team on a "multiple deprivation" index designed to represent social exclusion. It's all part of the big plan by the Un tree huggers to remove man from the countrside and pack them into the main ant hill. The UK as a member country is signatory to these UN plans to reshape the world to their tree hugger visions- keeping terrible humans as concentrated as possible so they don't stink up the earth and step on bugs (which they call animals) in the countryside.
To: sinanju
"Are the commissars in Whitehall in charge of everything in every tiny town?"Yes! It's as if every sociology graduate is given a particular aspect of life to regulate.
yitbos
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posted on
04/13/2008 9:50:41 PM PDT
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds." - Ayn Rand)
To: bruinbirdman
To: JohnLongIsland
I see where the government (39% owners) has allowed British Energy (nuke plants) to be sold to ferners. The company couldn't raise necessary capital to meet the needs of UK.
yitbos
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posted on
04/13/2008 9:58:31 PM PDT
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds." - Ayn Rand)
To: bruinbirdman
Looking at Britain is like looking into the future. Read it and weep.
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posted on
04/13/2008 9:59:50 PM PDT
by
TheZMan
(What is happening to Texas.)
To: sinanju
It is more a condemnation of “free trade” and unelected councils run by NGOs created to ensure the consolidation of the European nations into the entity, the EU.
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posted on
04/13/2008 10:01:16 PM PDT
by
hedgetrimmer
(I'm a billionaire! Thanks WTO and the "free trade" system!--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: bruinbirdman
It appears that the UK is succumbing to socialism and virulent, metastatic, jihadosis..
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posted on
04/13/2008 10:17:07 PM PDT
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: bruinbirdman
So why is this happening? Is it due to dropping rural populations from migration to the cities and declining birth rates?
...new Whitehall rules are poised to withhold funding for hundreds of primary schools if they cannot fill their places.
This would suggest declining population has something to do with it.
To: TheWasteLand
"So why is this happening?"The central government can't afford it.
yitbos
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posted on
04/13/2008 10:27:38 PM PDT
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds." - Ayn Rand)
To: bruinbirdman
The central government can't afford it.God forbid the locals should be responsible for their own services. Of course, then the central government couldn't justify taxing them. I suppose this is yet another reason why I work with so many Brits - on this side of the Atlantic.
To: Jeff Chandler
They made smoking illegal in pubs just a short while ago.
I’m not surprised they are losing them. Why go if you can’t enjoy yourself?
On the other hand, a “financial desert” is more than 1.25 mile? Mine is about 3 miles, and I don’t think that’s far.
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posted on
04/14/2008 12:28:23 AM PDT
by
I still care
("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
To: TheZMan
Looking at Britain is like looking into the future. Read it and weep.
I think you are right...
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posted on
04/14/2008 12:37:10 AM PDT
by
chasio649
(sick of it all)
To: bruinbirdman
British Government Motto:
Just pushing the 'Palace' back in Whitehall and you back 500 years.....
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posted on
04/14/2008 2:08:02 AM PDT
by
BossLady
("People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul" - Carl Jung)
To: sheik yerbouty
IOW, the fast track to the 7th century.
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posted on
04/14/2008 2:12:57 AM PDT
by
Ezekiel
To: Nathan Zachary
“It’s all part of the big plan by the Un tree huggers to remove man from the countrside and pack them into the main ant hill.”
Same plan here, only it’s going to take another generation to accomplish it.
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posted on
04/14/2008 2:35:37 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Carbon is the fourth most abundant element on the planet.)
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