"It's your community - be part of its better side. Complaining doesn't achieve anything. Inspire people or get off yer bloody arse. PAL!"

Nice. Alpha male bullshit.

The only way forward for many communities is the people making the place better themselves, and the town I live in has been transformed culturally and economically in recent years due to the action and determination of a number of it's citizens. I've been an active part of this (as you'd know if you knew me), and will continue to do so as long as I have my health. It's a wonderful thing seeing a community rediscover itself and realise it has massive potential, and it's made our town an interesting place to live. Here's a shock, many of those folk are YOUNG and engaged with local issues and politics. Yay!

There are plenty of lazy gits in every community, plenty of complainers and moaners whose sense of entitlement is worn with pride like a medal. We get the naysayers a lot, but ignore them. As Bob said, if you can't lend a hand, get out of the way. He was right, was Bob, your sons and daughters are beyond your command.

That your generation condemned them to breathe flithy air in a warming, littered world whilst the farce of Brexit condemns them to living in a country that has less taken back control,and more become the lickspittles of demagogues, dictators and dilettantes. My generation is fucking it up too for sure, but I think the tide has turned with the younger folk (see last election) who understand compassion and community matter.