Britain is still a nation of gamblers
and drunks, the times may have changed, but people haven't; they still feel
the need to have and make money and escape from the mundane, they
are prayed on by big business with it's cheap supermarket booze and
chains of bookmakers.
The disappearance of pubs is another
nail in the coffin of true community, not some forced Big Society
Localism agenda, were in order to create communities they destroy
pieces of existing ones.
In my town centre there was a Pub
called the Edward The Confessor, or Ted the Grass as locals called
it. A Badgers arse was smooth compared to this place, When North
London Country Punks The Rockingbirds came to town for a gig in the
nineties, they popped in there for a beer and witnessed a fight they
said going in there was like pissing blood. The pub has been closed
for a good few years now, although recently the YMCA had been using
the property for a drop in advice centre, until they were asked to
leave because a developer had been found, and the place is going to
become a Paddy Power Betting Shop. WHAT THE FUCK! An organisation
that helps people who are in trouble through things like debt
problems caused by gambling have had to move to make way for a
company that makes money from peoples greed and desperation, this
must be the Big Society they are talking about. The YMCA are looking
for a new home for their drop ion centre, but the council could have
let them be and told Paddy Power to find somewhere else to profit
from the poor, like another town
Gambling is now a new national pass
time thanks to government and media approved promotion, there's never
an advert break on TV that isn't telling us about another new online
gambling site. We are living in a wireless world with a toxic
landscape of dependency and addiction in full view of anyone that
wants to play. Lets drink to the future!
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