Alternative York

One hundred years ago Walmgate was a slum. It was an overcrowded, filthy, diseased version of Gin Lane. Then, over the 20th century, the area was cleared and new housing built. Businesses started to flourish and the area became a nice place to live within the city walls. Now, wholly due to City Of York Council’s appalling disregard for the law-abiding residents of the area, Walmgate is fast on its way to going full circle and becoming a slum once again.

It all started when York Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (YACRO) was, without resident consultation, thrust on Walmgate in the 1990’s. This started the domino effect of disaster for the area. Instantly there was an increase in crime. Street drinking, drug dealing, theft, car crime, vandalism and late night disturbances became the norm as the tracksuited masses gathered outside the One-Stop (which now only sells strong cider) and intimidated the locals as they went about their business. It can be no co-incidence that the terminal decline of York’s once finest pub, The Spreadeagle, began shortly after YACRO’s arrival.

I have lost count of the number of times I have complained about anti-social behaviour in the area. Yet nothing is ever done. Last night I overheard a youth on a moped discussing a drug deal he was about to complete. I have a scumbag living in my own block of flats. (I would elaborate further but there is currently a process going on to evict him and I would hate to jeapordise it). Two Saturdays ago I found a man sitting outside my flat smoking heroin out of tin foil. Most mornings there is evidence of car crime on the roads near my home. Youths constantly gather and cause a nuisance. Last Wednesday lunchtime two men were openly smoking cannabis on the steps to Medway House. Street drinking is rife, despite it being a no-drinking zone? Not forgetting, of course, last year’s bonfire night teenage rampage which, unsurprisingly, resulted in zero arrests and a burnt out flat.

So what do the long suffering residents get to make up for all this disturbance and reduced quality of life?

Well surprise surprise! Nobody could have imagined that approval would be given for moving Crime Reduction Initiatives (CRI), otherwise known as a drop-in centre for smackheads and other scumbags, away from its current home in “nice” Peckitt Street to “dirty” Walmgate, a street already awash with a multitude of lowlives and wasters. Of course, I’m sure the approval of the move has nothing to do with the fact that whilst the centre is on Peckitt Street there is a distinct possibility that tourists viewing Clifford’s Tower or taking a riverside walk along the Ouse may be inadvertently pricked by a discarded syringe or subjected to begging and abuse.

The final insult comes with the relocation of the Peasholme Centre for the homeless to Fishergate (so that Galloway et al don’t have to see these people out of their new office windows) from it’s current, perfectly fine location on Peasholme Green. The only people round here who will be happy will be the management of the Postern Gate Wetherspoons on giro day!

Have any of you got any idea how much provision there is for the homeless/drug addicts/street drinkers/offenders in York? You’d be surprised. As well as Peasholme and the new “Homeless Hilton” (AKA Arclight), there is the Melbourne Project and Orwin House (alcohol), Ordnance Lane, Crombie House and Howe Hill (single mothers and the lazy unemployed) and plenty of other hostels and freebies funded by taxpayers. What is there for the rest of us? What about the elderly? That will be charities like Help The Aged and Age Concern that rely on generosity from the public.

I am utterly sick of seeing York become a magnet for every scrounging scrote in Britain. I once read that, in Britain, you have a 1 in 10 chance of standing in dog dirt in the street every time you go out. In York you have a 1 in 5 chance of seeing a beggar or a street drinker instead. As usual I am going to be accused of being “uncaring” and “insensitive”. Well I don’t care! I thought we, as a nation, were getting away from the idea of a Welfare State and moving, inevitably, to a Competition State where self help rather than state support was encouraged.

If we are then there’s little evidence of it in York, especially Walmgate!

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Well done to the York Press thought police who have, once again, upheld their tradition of suppression of free speech.

My legitimate thoughts and concerns about the re-location of a drug addiction clinic to Walmgate obviously didn’t meet with editorial approval.

Though I note that liberal, wishy-washy, points of view on the subject are allowed to remain.

What a joke of a newspaper. It’s a communist regime. If they had an election there would only be one candidate!

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Gordon ‘Fagin’ Brown, in a withering and desperate attempt to avoid huge Labour losses and a humiliation in this Thursday’s local elections, today apologised for his huge 10p tax blunder. The bungling PM, when asked if he regretted the decision to abolish the 10p tax rate for the lowest earners said “Of course, because it’s unfortunate when things go wrong for people and we’ve tried to sort that out immediately over the last few days.”

The bad thing is for Gordon, the electorate don’t believe anything he says any more. The unfortunate “people” to whom he refers are not the taxpayers and workers who he has stolen money from, but the 200 or so Labour councillors who are going to lose their seats this week. Brown doesn’t care about the average working man. The Labour Party is now the most ironically misnamed organisation in Britain. If The Labour Party was an animal it would have been put out of its misery months ago. A friend of mine was telling me that this week his mother, who is on minimum wage working in a canteen at a large multi-national company, got her pay slip and found that she had paid £13 more in tax in April due to Labour’s thievery. Unfortunately there are no elections in York this year so she can’t protest via the ballot box. However I’m pretty sure that across the rest of the country there will be thousands of other low paid workers letting Mr Brown know exactly how they feel come Thursday.

Perhaps paying a bit more tax for a short while is a small price to pay to get rid of this government of sleaze and lies?

It’s the end of the road for our unelected PM and his cronies.

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Today’s news is dominated by a truly horrible story. A story of horror far worse and much more disturbing than Stephen Lawrence or any other “hate crime” - because this wasn’t about hate, it was about what Britain has become under New Labour - a country where the yob rules; a country where there is always an “expert” ready on demand to defend the actions of people who challenge the very definition of being a human being. I am, of course, talking about the mindless and sickening murder of Sophie Lancaster. Her crime? Looking “different”. Well let’s look at this parade of low-lives, smashed out of their faces on cheap cider and alcopops, who firstly attacked Sophie’s boyfriend and, when she begged them to stop, kicked and stamped her to death.

Perhaps I’m being harsh on these pieces of excrement, as they look different to me and I want to kick them to death too, so am I any better than them? Well yes I am, because at least I can say it when I’m sober, and mean it!

These five oxygen thieves are the direct result of a failed social experiment where children are given far too many rights at far too young an age. Teachers can’t touch them, parents can’t touch them - even the courts can’t do anything. The whole “rights” obsession has created a monster; and as a result a young, innocent, girl is dead and her boyfriend’s life is in tatters.

Passing sentence at Preston Crown Court, Judge Anthony Russell QC described the attack as “feral thuggery” which raised serious questions about the “sort of society which exists in this country”.

He added: “This was a terrible case which has shocked and outraged all who have heard about it.

“At least wild animals, when they hunt in packs, have a legitimate reason for so doing, to obtain food.

“You have none and your behaviour on that night degrades humanity itself.”

At last, a judge who says what most of us think. Their sentences, ranging from four-and-a-half to eighteen years will never bring back Sophie or appease her family in their quest for justice, but unfortunately Judge Russell didn’t have the option of donning the black cap, which if it could ever be justified, could surely be in this case.

I fear many more stories like this in Britain as the liberal brainwashing experiment bears it’s ugly fruit.

None more uglier than those five grotesque faces above.

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There was once a Labour MP called Hattersley. He was useless and dribbled down his chin when he spoke. Therefore I never expected to praise anyone with that surname but today I am very happy to say that a York businessman, David Hattersley, has finally had enough at the woeful inaction of City of York Council and the police to tackle the issue of York’s streets being plagued by drug and alcohol addicted beggars. After reading the full details of Mr Hattersley’s anger and frustration and what he is doing about it, one cannot help but wonder why someone like him is not leading our council instead of that useless crook Galloway. Mr Hattersley is bang on with his concerns and dead right in saying that CoYC are doing nothing about it. Galloway is in fact exacerbating the problem by supporting the building of the new “Homeless Hilton” on Clarence Street which will attract even more of this human waste to our city. Surely the money could be better spent on a simple chemical weapon to get rid of the lot of them?

I look forward to following the progress of this story as I am sure Mr Hattersley is going to make life very uncomfortable for certain people in positions of power. And about time too.

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