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Thread #120821   Message #2631486
Posted By: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
14-May-09 - 06:50 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Glasgow Council kills Paddy's
Subject: RE: Folklore: Glasgow Council kills Paddy's
Thanks for that Jack, terribly sad. Just another story amongst so many of councils disregarding the fully functioning working class communities they aught to be serving. I still recall when the council some years ago eradicated a community of river gypsies that had lived on the banks of the Deben at Woodbridge. One fell swoop and nothing to show for a part of local culture that had endured and evolved over the past two hundred years.

So markets which serve affordable food and items to less well-off locals, and river homes which house the homeless, are of less value than crappy little craft boutiques full of nice but uninspired graduates, and paved walkways serving as riverside pedigree toilets.

You'd think that this picture might start to change considering what it's succeeded in achieving thus far?