We know that all groups act in their own self interest....for obvious reasons people with money are able to do that far more easily.

Moving beyond the reasons why we are here with higher crime and murder rates we can look at where we are in terms of house price segregation and where we are heading with eventual gated communities.

People with money are able to create the environment they want and hence as the social policies continue to fail more of those with money will simply create their own physical barriers.....For the social liberals among them it means that they can continue with their filtered la la land from there.

However, gated communities can only be temporary. If you think about it they won't survive long term. They are a reaction to unpleasant reality not a solution to it.

As population numbers expand and pressure increases what has happened in history will just repeat itself....a lack of social cohesion allied to increasing wealth inequality will mean eventually gated or not those walls will come a tumbling down.

This country was lost back in the sixties.....Powell was right and we are just watching it in slow motion.

In terms of what I think the best course of action is....Don't be poor.....and there is strength in numbers. So do what all those non racists do and move to Essex.

But longer term....I don't really want to think about it and we need the picture to be clearer......maybe automation will come and save the neo liberals via universal basic income or make it even worse....we will have to see.

Edited by Stirlingsays (12 Jul 2019 3.30pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

340,000 decent ordinary folk left London last year. Now multiply that by a decade and we will be living in Detroit.

Eze Peasy at Anfield....

Out of interest, who are these 340,000 decency ordinary folk and where is this stat from?

"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit

Yes but what is?

"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit

The worst of it are the decent but poor who feel trapped in those inner cities and surrounding areas.

It's like the nice but dim ones trapped in low set badly behaved classes.

Edited by Stirlingsays (12 Jul 2019 6.42pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

You might upset them by thinking they cant or havent changed their ways.
Minority report is the way forward