Huh I had to go there recently. Atmosphere wasn’t as threatening as Luton but still wasn’t pleasant in a way I couldn’t put my finger on. Drop offs and pick ups at the station had angry confrontations between taxi drivers and other motorists.
I dunno what’s going on these days. I grew up in a small town with nothing to do and none of us ended up carrying knives
I was taken there on holiday as a kid, horrible how these seaside towns are going so bad.
It’s almost as if cutting local authority budgets as part of an ideological attack on the state under the auspices of “austerity” has hidden costs that take time to come to light.
This isn’t about right or left this is about a complete lack of interest in governing, of building futures for people, of doing the small unglamourous stuff that makes a huge difference to peoples lives, because the people in charge, who happen to be Tories in this case but definitely are not Conservatives any more, are owned and run by people who are unable to empathise with the poor/average earners even if they wanted to.
We, as a nation, decided that this stuff did not matter because we were far too busy pwning each other in a culture war that means nothing.
Cutting all those youth services is now being reaped
Ow yay, Paignton! Torquay’s shitter sister town!
Sadly down here we’re prime for underage pregnancies, drugs, poverty, and the base of county lines. Its a seasonal area and its gotten shite here!
Majority of the youth centres, and other services have been cut or removed and this shit happens.
I live in a small seas side town in Kent and the kids here are fucking terrible people, just absolute shit bags.
This isn’t news for anyone from Devon. Paignton and Torquay have always been the biggest shit holes in the county. I used to get into clubs in Torquay when I was 14, even though I looked like Charlie Bucket.
Thought it was cleethorpes till I actually looked at the picture
As always, the lack of parenting in the UK is shocking.
Who will win the local seagull coming for your chips or a nine year old with a knife
As usual, people dribbling about ‘the council’. I’ve known council people – they are not merely human like the rest of us, but sub-average specimens, being people who do not have anything more dynamic to apply themselves to. These problems exist *because* of people thinking ‘the council’ is going to make their locale a shipshape place to live. It isn’t, and you will either take matters into your own hands or forever be whingeing about ‘the council’ – who will either ignore or laugh at you from their opulent chambers.
Like a lot of towns in the South west, thousands of new houses are being built without any upgrade to the existing infrastructure of schools, surgeries and work.
Whenever I see kids running rampant I wonder if they’ve ever been to a museum. Going places where you have to behave helps train kids to not be little animals. But, no. Kids rage and pound while their parents just look on. It’s not just poor people, every class does it.
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It’s Paignton, Devon if you don’t want to click.
This is why we need more youth centres and public basketball courts…
A relevant youtube video of someone going to Paignton to check it out after numerous headlines of this kind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx4VEi4e1X8
Huh I had to go there recently. Atmosphere wasn’t as threatening as Luton but still wasn’t pleasant in a way I couldn’t put my finger on. Drop offs and pick ups at the station had angry confrontations between taxi drivers and other motorists.
I dunno what’s going on these days. I grew up in a small town with nothing to do and none of us ended up carrying knives
I was taken there on holiday as a kid, horrible how these seaside towns are going so bad.
It’s almost as if cutting local authority budgets as part of an ideological attack on the state under the auspices of “austerity” has hidden costs that take time to come to light.
This isn’t about right or left this is about a complete lack of interest in governing, of building futures for people, of doing the small unglamourous stuff that makes a huge difference to peoples lives, because the people in charge, who happen to be Tories in this case but definitely are not Conservatives any more, are owned and run by people who are unable to empathise with the poor/average earners even if they wanted to.
We, as a nation, decided that this stuff did not matter because we were far too busy pwning each other in a culture war that means nothing.
Cutting all those youth services is now being reaped
Ow yay, Paignton! Torquay’s shitter sister town!
Sadly down here we’re prime for underage pregnancies, drugs, poverty, and the base of county lines. Its a seasonal area and its gotten shite here!
Majority of the youth centres, and other services have been cut or removed and this shit happens.
I live in a small seas side town in Kent and the kids here are fucking terrible people, just absolute shit bags.
This isn’t news for anyone from Devon. Paignton and Torquay have always been the biggest shit holes in the county. I used to get into clubs in Torquay when I was 14, even though I looked like Charlie Bucket.
Thought it was cleethorpes till I actually looked at the picture
As always, the lack of parenting in the UK is shocking.
Who will win the local seagull coming for your chips or a nine year old with a knife
As usual, people dribbling about ‘the council’. I’ve known council people – they are not merely human like the rest of us, but sub-average specimens, being people who do not have anything more dynamic to apply themselves to. These problems exist *because* of people thinking ‘the council’ is going to make their locale a shipshape place to live. It isn’t, and you will either take matters into your own hands or forever be whingeing about ‘the council’ – who will either ignore or laugh at you from their opulent chambers.
Like a lot of towns in the South west, thousands of new houses are being built without any upgrade to the existing infrastructure of schools, surgeries and work.
Whenever I see kids running rampant I wonder if they’ve ever been to a museum. Going places where you have to behave helps train kids to not be little animals. But, no. Kids rage and pound while their parents just look on. It’s not just poor people, every class does it.