From Elsewhere: How one idiotic and delusional local council decision can thoroughly destroy a community.

 

Saw this heartbreaking story on the X account of someone called Sal Robins. It tells the terrible story of how a stupid ideological decision by a local council and the council’s failure to admit that they were wrong, can utterly destroy a well established and happy British community.

What’s horrible about this particular story is that it is unlikely to be singular in nature. There’s probably a whole host of councils who are imposing societies drek on the people who don’t want them, don’t need them and truly don’t deserve them. Councils across the UK are pulling idiotic and counterproductive stunts like this not just with ASBO wallahs as in this case, but also thieving junkies, out of control mental cases, ‘problem families’ and individuals from that ever increasing number of dinghy rapists and similar scum allowed in by the national government.

Please excuse the formatting of the quoted article from X but I do not wish to change it to read and look better in case my editing detracts from Ms Robins’s powerful and sadly true words.

Ms Robins said:

In the late 1990s my parents’ local council implemented a policy. To dilute the rising issue of crime, violence & anti social behaviour in problem areas they moved offending council tenant (ASBO) families into nice areas. The theory was the nice families would have a positive 1/ 
effect on the ASBO families.

My working class parents bought their council house in 1981 & spent years refurbing it & making it their own. They were few years shy of paying off their mortgage when they moved an ASBO family into their quiet street in a village that had rarely 2/ 

known violence, crime & anti social behaviour before. It was a community where you still left your front door wide open to pop to the shop. No need to lock your car. No need to padlock the garage or shed.

Within a few weeks the trouble began of the new family moving in from 3/ 

the city. *Sorry muddled my words there.

Within a few weeks of them moving an ASBO family from the city to my parents’ quiet village, the trouble began.

First the thefts began.
Bikes, tools, items from inside cars, stuff left out on the front or back garden. Then a 4/ 

neighbour had cash stolen from inside her house.

Police came. Crime reference numbers given out. Insurance claims made for those who had it. Otherwise not much else could be done. They KNEW who it was but after paying them a visit could find no evidence.

So, the villagers 5/ 

started changing THEIR behaviours. Locked doors. Locked cars. Padlocked sheds & garages. Everything put away at night from the garden. No leaving possessions in their cars. Security lighting put up. & suspicion & fear crept in.

Then there was the noise. Loud music into 6/ 

the early hours of EVERY morning because none of them worked so they could lie in bed all day the next day. My Dad had worked 7 days a week for decades. Up every morning at 6. Bed every night by 10pm. He liked his job & enjoyed life. Until the ASBO family moved in & robbed him 7/ 
& everyone else in the street of sleep. Complaints to the council fell upon deaf ears. Complaints to the police led to “It’s a council matter” & so they went around the merry go round & my parents carried on as best they could, with little to no sleep.

Then came the violence. 8/ 

One Friday night the music was blaring as usual & then a commotion started & fighting spilled out into the street. Police were called. Sirens, lights, vans, cars, screaming, shouting, blood & vomit everywhere. No one in the street slept a wink that night. Bear in mind 9/ 
Almost all residents in the street were middle to old age. None of them had experienced anything like this before. They were traumatised. But they thought it was a one off.

They were wrong.
My parents quiet village street was turned into a battle ground between rival drug 10/ 

dealers. Two of the teens in the family already had criminal records as long as their arm & it turned out the police were involved in moving this family away from the city because the violence between them and other drug dealers was out of control. The rival drug dealers had 11/ 
found out where their enemies had moved to & brought the fight to a peaceful, family community. It was like a riot in the street almost every weekend. The police kept coming. They kept arresting them. Then they were let out & only minor charges or no charges were pressed each 12/ 
time. Council meeting after council meeting after council meeting brought about no change. The street was nicked named “The Bronx”.

My father’s health declined. He took early retirement. He had to take sedatives to sleep. My mother was on medication for anxiety. They could 13/ 

not even sit in their beautiful garden anymore because not only were they afraid of the ASBO family, but they kept letting their dogs out to sh!t on the corner right outside their house & leaving it there, right next to the council dog 💩 bin! 14/ 
Eventually people who owned sold their houses~at a great loss~& moved, my parents included & council tenants BEGGED the council to move them elsewhere, to no avail. Those poor people were trapped & I know for a fact that it led to the earlier deaths of some of the old people. 15/ 
The stress killed them years before they should have died.

My parents moved on & my Dad’s health improved, but they grieved the loss of the home they’d worked so hard for & raised their children in, & for the wonderful community they lost.

All these years later my Dad 16/ 

still drives by the “old house” to have a look & take a trip down memory lane now & then.

There are different ASBO families there now & the street I grew up in is a slum that decent, law abiding people won’t walk through let alone live in if they’re given a choice. The 17/ 

council literally created countryside ghettos for anti social families to be housed in all across the borough & destroyed decent, law abiding people’s lives in the process. My parents’ street was one of many they did it to.

Was it some sort of social experiment?

Who knows? 18/ 

All I know is that when I read about the effects of mass immigration on communities that simply can’t deal with the huge pressure of an influx of people who have vastly different cultural values & beliefs to theirs, & who have no knowledge of the etiquette & laws of the land 19/ 
they’ve moved to, I think of what happened to my parents & their community & I understand what they’re going through.

They’re not racists. They’re not haters.
They’re not N@zis.
They are just people who feel like they’re losing everything, including their sanity. 20/ 

They’ve done nothing wrong.

All they want is to be listened to & taken seriously.

No one listened to my parents & their friends so they moved or died.

I think governments really must start listening & acting soon, or there’s going to be serious trouble ahead because 21/ 

entire communities can’t pack up & move, and they’re not going to lay down and die. 22/ 

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