Residents of Ashtead in the Surrey stock broker belt have being trying to oppose planning permission for a hostel in their area.
What is it that have got these Not-In-My-Back-Yard bigots up in arms ? A half-way house for released sex offenders, somewhere for recovering addicts, or emergency housing for asylum seekers ? No - it's a hostel for the families of injured servicemen who are patients at a local military hospital / rehabilitation centre.
Ashtead is the sort of area where you get a funny look if you're not wearing a poppy in November and old gits in blazers pontificate in saloon bars about the merits of national service. I would also imagine that support for the war in Iraq is also probably higher than average as well.
No doubt if it had been any other sort of hostel the residents would be reaching for their hoods, getting out the old fiery cross and preparing a lynch party.
These people are small minded NIMBY scum whose greatest concern in life is the level of house prices.
And before anyone asks - yes, actually we do ourselves live opposite a hostel for people with mental health problems. In all honesty I would rather it was something else but, contrary to the great Thatcher lie - there IS such a thing as society and I AM my brother's keeper, so I wouldn't dream of opposing it.
And if you don't feel the same way, frankly you should just fuck off and live on your desert island somewhere.
What is it that have got these Not-In-My-Back-Yard bigots up in arms ? A half-way house for released sex offenders, somewhere for recovering addicts, or emergency housing for asylum seekers ? No - it's a hostel for the families of injured servicemen who are patients at a local military hospital / rehabilitation centre.
Ashtead is the sort of area where you get a funny look if you're not wearing a poppy in November and old gits in blazers pontificate in saloon bars about the merits of national service. I would also imagine that support for the war in Iraq is also probably higher than average as well.
No doubt if it had been any other sort of hostel the residents would be reaching for their hoods, getting out the old fiery cross and preparing a lynch party.
These people are small minded NIMBY scum whose greatest concern in life is the level of house prices.
And before anyone asks - yes, actually we do ourselves live opposite a hostel for people with mental health problems. In all honesty I would rather it was something else but, contrary to the great Thatcher lie - there IS such a thing as society and I AM my brother's keeper, so I wouldn't dream of opposing it.
And if you don't feel the same way, frankly you should just fuck off and live on your desert island somewhere.
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Communism seems that bit much more attractive, day-by-day. The bourgeoisie will eventually ruin this country, if something isn't done to check them sooner, rather than later.
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