They’re obsessed with stupid names these days aren’t they?
North and South Shore are now North and South Beach.
What used to be a called a centre is now a hub.
Public spaces by unimaginative designers are prefixed with The People’s.
Futuristic is apparently now synonymous with ugly looking.
Blackpool Council has come up with another stupid name for a new 4 million quid youth centre: Southpoint. Apparently it’s futuristic. It’s a hub. With a capital H. It’s in South Beach, too.
I was going to put a picture of it on here but I’ll leave it to your imagination. Think of the worst, most ugly building you can think of. Got it?
This place is uglier.
It’s like someone parked a yellow submarine in South Shore. Upside down.
The design of the building has been developed in consultation with local young people…
If they’d modelled it on the ideas of local yoof, it’d look like a litre bottle of WKD. With a straw in it.
and is intended to be innovative and to stand out within the streetscene.
What the fuck is the streetscene? You’re listening to the Streets, original pirate material? A congregation of alcohol fuelled coke dealing Palatine truants?
I jest, I jest. It’s an attempt from some out of touch council muppet whose experience of youth issues was 40 years ago to label misdirected youth with a “cool sounding name”. I prefer to use words like gangs, chavs, druggies and scum.
The streetscene is why old people are afraid to walk the streets in the evening. The streetscene is why good-mannered kids sit at home playing computer games and getting fat rather than playing out. The streetscene is why Blackpool is a crime capital. The streetscene is why Blackpool has some of the worst truancy records in Britain.
What we need is not a fucking youth club, it’s proper punishment and more Police officers to dish it out and take these scum bags off the streets. Why pander to these twats, spending more and more millions on appeasing them so they might think about going to play about on the decks at Southpoint than getting out of their tree and vandalising all the cars in the neighbouring Palatine Leisure Centre car park?
Can you believe they’re spending £4million to build a centre for cunts like 18 year old Dean McLaughlin, who only got a fucking ASBO for causing £100,000 of graffiti damage and followed it up by telling a police officer that he was going to slit his kids’ throats?
I fucking can’t.
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They dont need to spend that amount of money on centres for scroats like Mclaughlin, they already exist: Aushwitz,Guantanamo,Dachau etc
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I think ‘streetscene’ in this context is supposed to be councilwonkspeak for ‘urban landscape’.
Well, at least ‘Southpoint’ has been allowed a capital ‘S’. Very unconventional of them to do that, so I presume they’ve forgotten to be “down wi’ da kidz” for a moment by using all lowercase.
Notice how all this spending is taking place in South Shore? Callow helping to shore up the vote for his mate, Marsden. Humble must be pissed that there’s fuck all happening in North Shore…
Don’t get me started on this ‘South Beach’/ ‘North Beach’ bollocks that Kenji’s spouting from behind his desk. He actually had the gall to imply that was I being ‘precious’ about the protection of local place names and identities!
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Oh, and if you want some background reading in to how Lancashire Constabulary managed to present their handling of Dean McLaughlin as a prize-winning ‘success’, have a look at this report they submitted for a Goldstein Award:
http://www.popcenter.org/library/awards/goldstein/2009/09-11(F).pdf
They were runners up.
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Marsh Lane Massive! LOL! I wonder if they have any rap videos on Youtube!
You are a mine of information, sir.
I love all these bullshit terms they have these days, like Delinquent Peer Group. Surely “gang” is more concise. Seems like there has to be an acronym for everything.
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