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Abandon northern English cities to the rats and pigeons, argues Tory-influencing think tank
Proving conclusively that the phrase ‘think tank’ is misleading in suggesting that such influential groups actually involve any thinking, a think tank has announced that northern England cities such as Liverpool, Sunderland and Bradford are ‘beyond revival’ and residents should move south. Policy Exchange is a very influential right-wing think tank credited with many ideas taken up by the Conservative Party under David Cameron.
Policy Exchange said current regeneration policies were ‘failing’ the people they were supposed to help, and that a mass migration to London, Cambridge and Oxford would stop them becoming ‘trapped’ in poorer areas. One of the report authors, Tim Leunig, a lecturer in economic history at the London School of Economics, has acknowledged this may be seen as ‘barmy’. A Liverpool Labour MP, Peter Kilfoyle, has called it ‘utter nonsense’.
tags: Bradford, Cambridge, Conservatives, Liverpool, London, madness, northern, Oxford, policy, southern, suburban, Sunderland, think tanks, urbanAdding insult to the injury of rape
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority has acknowledged its rules were applied ‘wrongly’ when 15 rape victims who had been drinking on the day of their attacks were told they deserved only three-quarters of the compensation the law provides for them. The full figure is a paltry £11,000. That’s how much the UK legal system holds our bodies to be worth should we be intimately violated. Yet, while the news channels are rightly making a huge stink over the insult the CICA added to extreme injury for these people, there’s another, just as outrageous, factor to consider: how many rape victims, male and female, ever get told they can make a claim for compensation? And that they can apply even when their attacker is never caught?
tags: assault, bigotry, compensation, crime, justice, police, prejudice, rape
