Is the Middlesbrough area the hardest place in Britain?

Redwurzel

Redwurzel

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While posters wait for transfers and info on the new season.

I thought I'd ask a random question - Is the Middlesbrough area the hardest in Britain?

Based on the daily headlines from the Gazette website of large gangs of postcode fights, mayhem, violent court cases, drugs and sexual abuse.

While other working class areas of the UK gentrify - many areas of Teesside if anything appear to harden.

I won't go into reasons, just posters observations to begin with, especially posters who have lived for the last 50 years on Teesside.

Or is it the media focusing on the bad and its not as violent as the past, but nowadays every little incident is reported and made headlines?
 
Increase in knife crime is worrying. I read Teesside is worse than London per capita. The young desire to appear hard is almost laughable but when carrying a knife is part of that, many lives can be destroyed from the refusal to back down.
 
I used to live in Longsight during the mid-late 90's. That was rough.

I was in Hounslow yesterday evening for work and my colleague (who is local) told me that I shouldn't hang around after the shops close.
 
There is a very simple way to tackle knife crime -

Anyone caught in public with a knife regardless of reason age etc if it not for work purposes ie a chef

Mandatory 10 year prison/youth offender sentence

No excuses

And back this with a one year knife amnesty no questions asked.

Simple
 
Jedi boro said:
There is a very simple way to tackle knife crime -

Anyone caught in public with a knife regardless of reason age etc if it not for work purposes ie a chef

Mandatory 10 year prison/youth offender sentence

No excuses

And back this with a one year knife amnesty no questions asked.

Simple
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Given it can take literally years for even simple cases to come to court, thanks to the govt underfunding of the criminal justice system, plus the over crowded prisons, Im not sure this solution, direct from the front page of the daily mail, is going to work...:rolleyes:
 
Why use the adjective hardest apart from than if your reveling in talk of violence. There are far rougher inner cities than teesside it's drugs and gang related and frankly a nightmare for innocent people who through no fault of their own are living with violent crime on their doorstep.
 
Ironops said:
Given it can take literally years for even simple cases to come to court, thanks to the govt underfunding of the criminal justice system, plus the over crowded prisons, Im not sure this solution, direct from the front page of the daily mail, is going to work...:rolleyes:
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And that is why nothing will change

Direct from the daily mail what stopping carrying knives err ok

Do what reason does anyone have to carry knives then ??
 
Ironops said:
Given it can take literally years for even simple cases to come to court, thanks to the govt underfunding of the criminal justice system, plus the over crowded prisons, Im not sure this solution, direct from the front page of the daily mail, is going to work...:rolleyes:
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Ok then what’s your idea ???
 
It's definitely deprived. I 'come home' a few times a year and it appears to be getting worse.

I stay clear of most of the usual areas. Yet even walking down Middlesbrough high street is a site for sore eyes. I'd say far worse than when I was growing up.

That said you can pretty much cut and paste any city local rag and it's the same or worse. The local stories from Liverpool / Manchester / Birmingham etc are equally as bad if not worse.

One of the worst looking places I've been was Blackpool last season. Step one foot off the strip and it's like stepping into the set of The Walking Dead😂. Just everything borded up and rubbish flying through the air. Also loads of really unsavoury looking individuals.
 
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