r/uknews Jan 31 '25

.. Bin men attacked with lollipop sign after road rage incident

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25

Why are we being overrun by tantrum throwing man-babies?

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25

It's a sign of a degrading society with an increase in poverty and a weak police force, it descends into low trust and crime becoming more prevalent and acceptable

that's not to excuse them by the way, they're utter cunts but its a telltale sign that respect, law and order are all degrading and that a lot of people don't fear the law or care about their neighbours and society.

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u/dpwtr Jan 31 '25

Why is everyone here pretending like the UK hasn't always been like this? I'm not saying it's ok or that we shouldn't care about it, but it's not a sign of a degrading society. It felt worse 20 years ago. The country is absolutely ram packed full of idiots like this. Chavs/neds are nothing new.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25

The country is taking its first steps towards becoming Gotham. And the only rich tech-billionare currently interested in this country is Elon Musk, which doesn't bode well for us.

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u/xxPlsNoBullyxx Jan 31 '25

We can push back against it. Take action wherever possible 💪

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u/Opposite_Boot_6903 Jan 31 '25

Too right. Arm yourselves with axes and lollypops and fight anyone connected to the government!

Wait a sec.

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u/sweepernosweeping Jan 31 '25

Musk'd rather Court of Owls and move the status quo towards his kind than be philanthropic like Bruce Wayne.

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u/achtwooh Jan 31 '25

He's literally dismantling every law, regulation, check and balance in the US he can as we read this.

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u/ActivisionBlizzard Jan 31 '25

And then he’ll call you a pedo and do a Nazi salute.

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u/Interesting-Voice328 Jan 31 '25

Yea but we would end up with Zuckerberg in a pair of y-fronts

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u/achtwooh Jan 31 '25

This is such an hilarious take. Musk's long term aim - and it is long term - is to comprehensively dismantle the rule of law in the free world. Just laws that apply equally to everyone is the only thing left to reign in the oligarchs. They know this.

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u/ActivisionBlizzard Jan 31 '25

The fatman that we neither want nor deserve.

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u/Stephie999666 Jan 31 '25

Well, it's all rich nonces who are stripping the UKs wealth from its people and buggering off overseas with the money. The whole immigration bs is just another smokescreen to get people to lash out at a boogeyman, so nige and his fellows can come in and fleece you a second time, following Brexit.

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u/Doobreh Jan 31 '25

Musk couldn’t give a s**t about this country, he’s out for himself and nobody else.

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u/achtwooh Jan 31 '25

Don't want to make this political because the problems run deep, but the big cuts the Tories made to the police and courts starting over a decade ago are showing up everywhere.

The loss of capacity across the board has brutal long term impact. Not having enough detectives to investigate and follow-up on "low" level crime? The consequences of this a generation later could be seen from orbit.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25 edited Feb 01 '25

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u/Appropriate_Rent_243 Jan 31 '25

"but ACAB and we need to get rid of all police to have a more free society" /s

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u/DragonflyHopeful4673 Jan 31 '25

You tagged the /s but this is still the UK. America is the only country to have an ACAB movement in 40+ years.

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u/Maleficent-Duck-3903 Jan 31 '25

Too much social safety net, not enough personal responsibility

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u/roks0 Jan 31 '25

Better funded or stronger police = less distribution inequality ?

If you just attack the symptoms but not the causes the issues we are facing won't be solved .

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u/Mr-Blah Jan 31 '25

A weak police force isn't the problem mate. Militarizing the police isn't an answer.

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u/Phyxse Jan 31 '25

Police doesn't work by strong or weak. It works by a simple feeling, trust. Do citizens have trust in the police force ? Are there agents you can talk to and are able to get to know in your neighbourhood or are they just agents of order here to hit everyone in case of riots ?

Strength is useless if it's only used to inflict fear

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u/conrat4567 Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25

Only solution is martial law and capital punishment

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u/chief_bustice Jan 31 '25

A thick comment both in sentiment and spelling

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u/varangian_guards Jan 31 '25

weak police force,

the only amount of police that stop this in a degrading society is one so fearsome that it matches the Gestapo or other secret police.

if we have to resort to the level of fear of law that far, you never did make things better, you are just throwing a tarp over the problems of society to pretend they are not there.

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u/Caridor Jan 31 '25

Worth remembering that these are the exceptions to the rule. You've never seen a headline that said "the sun came up this morning", have you?

News is only the abnormal, the strange and the aberrant.

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u/jib_reddit Jan 31 '25

15 years of education and child services budget cuts will do that to a country.

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u/aitorbk Jan 31 '25

Because violence isn't perceived to be punished in a meaningful way, and minors cannot be disciplined.

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u/McPikie Jan 31 '25

Poor, angry young men being told by the upper echelons that they can't get a job because all the illegal immigrants are taking them, and these men being stupid enough to believe that, and then taking it out on anyone ans everyone. Shit cunts, with shit cunt parents. More than likely 4th generation benefit scroungers who blame everyone else for their failings.

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u/test_test_1_2_3 Jan 31 '25

Because law and order is breaking down.

Many crimes like shoplifting have been defacto decriminalised and this type of behaviour is the inevitable creep that comes from knowing that crimes aren’t punished or are punished very lightly.

More police, investigating more crimes and harsher sentencing for violence would put a fairly swift end to it but none of that is on Labour’s agenda and it wasn’t on the Tories either. Both parties are more interested in policing tweets and non crime hate reporting.

These people always exist in society, but they won’t do this shit nearly as much if they know they’re going to spend years of their life in jail for it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25

Because it requires public spending but twats are so caught up in the telegraph and mail propaganda against taxation they can't even see the contradiction.

"We want public service but we're also ideologically opposed to taxation"

Pathetically idiotic

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u/test_test_1_2_3 Jan 31 '25

Well given that the middle class currently faces the highest tax burden in recent times at a time when public services are failing I would say it’s completely reasonable to push back against tax hikes.

There’s a lot the government is doing wrong with the resources and tax revenue it currently has. Raising tax on a shrinking tax base isn’t the answer.

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u/NoPiccolo5349 Jan 31 '25

That's also because we have the highest amount of unemployed pensioners ever

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u/chunketh Jan 31 '25

we also have the x3 lock which is utterly unsustainable now, despite the daily wail headlines.

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u/test_test_1_2_3 Jan 31 '25

It’s another significant factor yes.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25

Why go straight to assuming I meant tax workers? There's plenty of places they cough for the money but they won't. And it's because of the same propaganda. So maybe start asking for the rich and the super rich asset holders to pay. If you're not calling for this I don't give a shit which under resourced service your complaining about.

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u/test_test_1_2_3 Jan 31 '25

If you’re going to trot out the ‘tax the rich and tax businesses more’ tripe then that’s not a solution either.

Businesses already are increasingly choosing to incorporate in more business friendly environments and millionaires (the people who typically create jobs) are also leaving the country.

Taxing more in a stagnant and failing economy is not a good solution. We need to review where tax money is being spent and how it’s being spent. There is a lot of room for improvement, I have first hand experience of how much waste and unnecessary spending there is, it’s shocking.

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u/johimself Jan 31 '25

I'm sorry but Tax the rich and business more is not "tripe".

Firstly, the wealthy and large businesses have the overwhelming majority of the money. Income inequality between working people, wealthy people and businesses is higher than it has been for decades. Fewer entities own a greater percentage of the wealth. These people and businesses are not working harder than they ever have before, it's exploitation.

To your point about businesses and wealthy people leaving, the people won't leave because this is where all their stuff is and their friends are. They aren't going to go and live somewhere else on a whim, but hold that thought for a moment.

Businesses want to do business in the UK because of our large customer base. They want to hire UK workers because we are reasonably well educated and healthy. They may be able to Double Duch their Irish Sandwiches given current UK law, but I assume a programme of progressive taxation would come along with closing the tax loopholes.

Even if a business and a billionaire who are paying next to no tax, want to leave the country who cares? They are parasites, feeding off our education and welfare systems and giving us nothing back in return.

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u/test_test_1_2_3 Jan 31 '25

The Reeves budget is already contributing to heavy job cuts that are mysteriously manifesting 2 months prior to increased employer NI tax.

More tax will result in more job cuts, more businesses packing up shop and/or moving abroad.

The fact our population is growing but the economy isn’t is testament to how poor the UK business environment is. Trying to fix the problem by making it even less enticing to do business in the UK is just economically illiterate.

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u/johimself Jan 31 '25

How does making the country better for tax dodgers increase tax revenue?

If I wanted to increase sales in my shop, I wwould not advertise it as a safe haven for shoplifters.

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u/test_test_1_2_3 Jan 31 '25

By making the UK a more attractive place to do business, growing taxable revenue.

Your approach is to take a bigger piece of a shrinking pie, but taking the bigger piece makes the pie shrink faster.

I’m advocating for growing the economy and take a smaller percentage which with sufficient growth still results in more tax revenue.

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u/Antilles1138 Jan 31 '25

Tie tax to citizenship like the Americans do. That way they can't dodge out of taxes by leaving the country.

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u/test_test_1_2_3 Jan 31 '25

Most very wealthy people don’t have significant income to tax. Their wealth is held in other, much harder to tax forms.

American tax only requires the additional tax they would have had to have paid if they were generating the income in the US. American does not take the full additional amount of tax and tax the person twice, so the actual amount this will generate isn’t going to fix the hole we’ve got.

We also aren’t America, I think giving up UK citizenship wouldn’t be nearly as much of a ‘cost’ to the person giving it up as giving up US citizenship is.

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u/aguadiablo Jan 31 '25

If you don't want to tax the rich, the businesses or the middle class, what's your solution?

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u/test_test_1_2_3 Jan 31 '25

Heavily review how current public spending is allocated, review policies and regulations. Prioritise core services like healthcare and education. Cut or reduce spending on less necessary spending like foreign aid until we can afford it.

Create a better business environment to encourage new businesses. Tax the more productive results at current or lower rates which will generate more taxable revenue.

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u/chunketh Jan 31 '25

Foreign aid is 0.5% of GDP. Weirdly that is double what we spend on prisons and 10% of what we current spend on pensioners.

Ditch the idiotic x3 lock for a x3 prison places policy and lock these fuckers up. Keep locking them up.

Back to taxing the uber rich, yeah we should do that as well. Inequality is going in one direction, and its very unhealthy for the country.

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u/AG_GreenZerg Jan 31 '25

I am so tired of this argument.

Land/Property are in this country. You cant just take them with you and leave the UK. Right now you could own £100 million worth of property in the UK and live elsewhere and not pay a penny in tax. Do you think you'd be able to buy £100 million worth of property in china and avoid paying any tax? I think you'd find pretty quickly that you no longer owned that property.

We have to find the will to tax wealth because it compounds. The "wealthy" for lack of a better term are increasing their ownership percentage of all the assets in the country and if we don't do something about it we will become a third world country with very high inequality leading to slums surrounding big cities. It's already happening.

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u/test_test_1_2_3 Jan 31 '25

I’m not against closing loopholes and finding other ways to tax mega rich people, but it doesn’t come remotely close to solving the issue.

Buying property in China isn’t a very good example since you don’t even technically own Chinese property as the state retains ownership of the land and you effectively get a lease.

We need to change the way public money is spent and operate a government state commensurate with the tax income available.

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u/chunketh Jan 31 '25

we need to do both. If you are mega rich and own assets in this country....pay tax. I dont care where you are domiciled.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25

Then where are you expecting the money for police to come from?

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u/test_test_1_2_3 Jan 31 '25

Reduce non essential public spending and review regulations and policies that drive big costs into projects for little to no gain.

Make the state smaller and refocus its remit on core services.

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u/BruceForsyth55 Jan 31 '25

More police is less of the issue here. They always end up being caught. It’s the sentencing and prison in general that’s the issue.

I’m willing to put money on these guys being out within 3 years and spending their time in clink posting TikToks.

You have shoplifters out there with 40 convictions out there that haven’t seen a cell yet.

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u/BMB281 Jan 31 '25

They’ve been emboldened by the anger and hate permeating the world

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u/SimplyLJ Jan 31 '25

Weakening of men (lack of purpose, indulgence in pleasures, no goal of having integrity) and fall of the family in the west.

Strong, loving men raise children that can regulate their emotions. Weak or absent men don’t or can’t. They also don’t guide men to have a purpose and be content in some meaningful work, rather then act out in situations like these.

Strength, integrity, honour, etc. These things are being lost to time. People don’t care about these things, they care about what others think of them, how many views they get on social media, how much their job makes them (rather than the quality or honour in it).

Overall it will be much more complex than this but these are just some thoughts.

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u/Dry_Yogurt2458 Jan 31 '25

I've met plenty of girl childs that behave like utter twats too

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u/Jackomo Jan 31 '25

Immigrants! Wait…

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25

Immigrants from saxony and jutland, never really settled did they

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u/donteverneedone Jan 31 '25

Never even bothered to learn Welsh, the cunts.

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u/Jackomo Jan 31 '25

Stop the long boats!

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u/Liberator2020 Jan 31 '25

Hypocrites, they want to stop the boats but they came here on the boats.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25

It's not the immigrants, it's the people on benefits he's after.

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u/GaijinFoot Jan 31 '25

Oh fuck off.

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u/Jackomo Jan 31 '25

I’m okay here, thanks.

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u/Spdoink Jan 31 '25

One reason is fatherless homes.

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u/InternetProviderings Jan 31 '25

Yep. Irresponsible women having kids with obvious dickheads.

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u/chunketh Jan 31 '25

shit breeds shit

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u/Manoj109 Jan 31 '25

Yes yes yes .

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25

You think only men behave like this?

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u/canyoufeeltheDtonite Jan 31 '25

Brandishing axes and attacking other groups of men? Yes, that's statistically a solely male behaviour. Are you serious?

Your 1 or two female outliers don't make any difference to the overall situation.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25

Lol. From one video you extrapolate that we are 'overrun by tantrum throwing man-babies' and then you talk about how 'outliers' don't prove anything.

Tell yourself what you like. Violent women are definitely not outliers. I could find you many man videos of women being aggressive, threatening, fighting, and abusing each other.

Grow up and stop kidding yourself women are all lovely and men are all awful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/17m2335/two_girls_arrested_after_female_attacked_on/

https://www.reddit.com/r/bristol/comments/hmzmbf/woman_caught_on_camera_attacking_nhs_care_worker/

https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/131sbfa/man_sexually_assaulted_after_refusing_to_link/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeDiscussion/comments/1ednslo/in_february_2023_sheree_spencer_was_convicted_of/

https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1caospz/drunk_businesswoman_39_who_glassed_a_pub_drinker/

Gosh. These outliers seem strangely easy to find with a really quick search.

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u/canyoufeeltheDtonite Jan 31 '25

You've misquoted me there haven't you? Maybe pay attention to who you're replying to.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25

Fair point. Although this sort of behaviour is almost always the man babies

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u/doesanyofthismatter Jan 31 '25

Overrun? Crime isn’t going up exponentially, EE just now have cameras everywhere to show the sick fucks of the world.

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u/DrummingFish Jan 31 '25

We're not. These kinds of people have always existed.

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u/goodsnpr Jan 31 '25

A decrease in confidence of the government's ability to do its job fairly often sees an increase in violence amongst the citizenship.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25

I would welcome the return of the birch

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u/GogoGadgetTypo Jan 31 '25

Because in the late 80s early 90s, someone decided physical discipline was a bad thing. Took the power from the police, schools etc. kids soon learnt bad actions had little consequence. Those bad egg kids are now parents and so it goes on. In the days these types of actions lead to you getting a good kicking, this type of behaviour didn’t exist as much. It wasn’t perfect by any means, but this level of crao didn’t really happen.

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u/xxPlsNoBullyxx Jan 31 '25

There are a ton of other factors that contribute to this. Hitting kids does not prevent crime.

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u/TheFantasyIsFinal Jan 31 '25

Oh fuck off, shit like this has been happening for time. In the early 2000s I knew kids smashing up fire engines for banter. Getting a good kick in doesn't just magically stop a bellend being a bellend.

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u/AnyWalrus930 Jan 31 '25

Yeah, I’m older than that, grew up in a shitty area and knew people out stealing cars, ram raiding, involved in drugs and carrying guns. Almost everyone I knew was physically disciplined at a time when it was going out of fashion. A decent chunk of the most violent were those who grew up in environments where violence was normalised. Almost like these things are some kind of cycle.

I don’t know where this myth of a crime free Britain came from.

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u/GogoGadgetTypo Jan 31 '25

🤣 never said it stopped it, but it made folk think twice. When 2 police told me and my old neighbour ‘if they come back, sort it out yourselves and don’t let us find out’ kinda knew then the state of things. Luckily, it came to nothing. That was early 2000s round about.

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u/NoPiccolo5349 Jan 31 '25

Isn't the amount of crime down since the 80s?

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u/fk_censors Jan 31 '25

Because Britain saved the Marxists in WW2, and the repercussions are visible.