I was living on planet earth, location England.

You're not facing up to the facts of what damage you colluded in doing to this country if you colluded in Thatcher's reforms by voting for her.

The beggars on the street and the hard drugs came from when we lost a lot of semi skilled and unskilled work - a huge part of our economy. Previously people who were only bothered about buying fitted carpets for the houses they could only just afford to buy or rent, were in economic free fall. Family's just disintegrated in the stress. Yes poverty had happened in the 1930's but not to a chorus of abuse from politicians and media, not with conspicuous consumerism piped into every home by means of the TV - telling you you were a failure and a bum. This is when kids started getting beaten up for not wearing the right trainers.

The hard drugs transformed the mining villages of North Notts where I was working. They had always been tough places, but they became the places where the drug dealers from Sheffield and Leeds came to make deals and do business. The only success story amog the school leavers from one school was the BMW driving drug dealer. (probably another tory!)It was the start of the gang wars.

By the time I was working in Nottingham city, the kids in classes couldn't tell you with any certainty what the name of the vehicle was that took people to hospital - but they all knew what an Uzi was.

Don't tell whart I've seen and witnessed didn't happen or it was my fevered imagination or because I'm a lefty.

A few mods and rockers on purple hearts hardly equates with the hell brew of organised crime and cultural and economic poverty that we have now.