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    WTF is happening in my country?

    Awful news about a 9 year old girl dying from multiple stab wounds in Boston. No not in the US but Lincolnshire!

    The Times stated:

    In 2016 figures published by the Home Office showed that Boston was the worst place for homicides in England, with a rate of 15 murder-related crimes for every 100,000 people.

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    Wonder the same thing myself daily. Shocking news that thoughts with the family.

    Spent around 6 months fishing the Boston drains never particularly thought it was a rough area but then compared to where I grew up nothing ever seems too bad.
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    Apparently the area has a very high immigrant population from various European countries and there is tension not just between them and the locals but among each other.
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    Here's food for thought...

    BP have just announced quarterly profits of £6.9bn. Can I just re-emphasise that the figure is a quarterly one.

    Assuming that's the 'modern' billion we're talking and not the traditional (ie 1bn = 1,000m and not the old 1,000,000m), that figure looks like this:

    £6,900,000,000. Per quarter, ie in 12/13 weeks.

    That extrapolates to £27,600,000,000 in a year, almost £1000 per UK household.

    And that's one oil company.

    And that's leaving aside the gas companies and the electricity companies.

    A 50% windfall tax on BP alone would generate almost £500 per UK household. Instead, our own taxes will rise in order to pay for the government giving households a roughly similar amount.

    The whole energy payment thing is a complete con trick imposed on us because the government is willing to let energy companies play fast and loose with the economy.
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    Kids getting stripped searched in London is unpleasant. While a teenager in London I actually got caught with a spliff.

    I remember being frog marched to the local custody, where some perverted copper got his gloves on ready to give me a good fingering.

    I kicked off and never let it happen, pride intact, but it involved wrestling with about 10 coppers in a police cell, until they eventually gave up.

    I am white and this was 20 years ago when I was 16. How do the police continue to get away with it?

    I see a representative of the black community claiming black kids aren't given the same respect and decency as white kids.

    While clearly it happens more to black kids from what I saw 40 percent of the incidents were white teenagers.

    So a bit unfair to forget them in all this but no real surprise I guess that white kids don't take centre stage in policing debates in this country, especially not in London.

    I would rather they addressed the injustice as a whole without someone claiming if you are a white kid it can't happen to you.
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    What percentage of the total population are white teenagers?
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    Quote Originally Posted by an capall View Post
    What percentage of the total population are white teenagers?
    I haven't a clue, An.

    I'd hazard a guess in the total population white teenagers are probably 80 percent of the total teenage population.

    London probably considerably less than that.

    As I say, they should tackle this issue as a whole, as the injustice that it is, although I understand black teenagers are disproportionately affected by this issue in places like London.
    Last edited by Marb; 8th August 2022 at 3:01 PM.

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