hunk wrote:@MootRoujin wrote:Imagine if instead of printing messages begging kids to stop stabbing each other, the government actually bothered to put stone money into making the world these kids live in a lot less desperate and shitty and devoid of opportunities to try and make a better life for themselves? This is as stupid as the radio adverts where Kevin used to be in a gang but then he got a job delivering stuff, or went to college, so pls just go knife free kids and make your life better somehow, even though we took most of your access to things that would improve your lives away over the last 10 years.
It's not just the racist thing, it's the whole dumb 'it's not austerity' preaching angle. 'We can't help it you don't have any outlook on life'.
Moot_Geeza wrote:Interesting take. Perhaps I need to have a word with myself but I still don't quite get the level of hate for the campaign. Part of the problem seems to be that 'chicken shop' makes many people think 'black people' (and only black people), whereas in my experience they're easily the most multiracial take-away outlets if we're focusing on teenagers (which this campaign is). Chicken shop = young people, ergo an anti knife crime scheme could do a lot worse than starting off there.
“I also get a little bit annoyed when we have people in those sorts of countries pointing the finger at Australia and say we should be shutting down all our resources sector so that, you know, they will continue to survive,” he said.
dynamiteReady wrote:Where we agree (along with Goober), is that something should be done. But if people want to bring numbers into the discussion, take the same money, and use it to pay for counselling and monitoring for kids who are flitting around with exclusion at school.
Laura Brosnan wrote:So looking at the marketing company that behind this #knifefree campaign together. Wtf "Ethnics"?
LivDiv wrote:I was wondering where this idea came from. Clearly they didn't consult victim groups, social services and those that run youth projects. I reckon these pair of cunts pitched this to Gov. Wonder how much they got paid.
davyK wrote:Local government can be very effective. But we are at a cycle where funding is all at the centre. There has always been a tension. Central government think they know better when they don't. Local government dont think nationally but then that;s what central gov is for. Finance local gov properly and they will have a big impact on tackling this sort of thing.
Roujin wrote:Austerity has been a great way for the conservatives to shrink the state while being able to blame Labour as the reason it was required.
Diluted Dante wrote:What if we cut local government funding in half, that will surely solve the problem?Local government can be very effective. But we are at a cycle where funding is all at the centre. There has always been a tension. Central government think they know better when they don't. Local government dont think nationally but then that;s what central gov is for. Finance local gov properly and they will have a big impact on tackling this sort of thing.
Never has there been an opportunity that can target the youth, ethnics and urban city audiences with ease. Never has there been an opportunity to target them at a time when they're traditionally hard to reach.
LivDiv wrote:When these things happen I like looking at Companies House to see who is actually behind it all. The woman isn't white, she speaks Tamil so would assume her family originate from Sri Lanka or that area. The guy is harder to find anything on because he shares his name with the guitarist from Manfred Mann's Earth Band. There is a third director who bought in for a 26% share in October 2018 and moved the company into his offices for his main company which is considerably more slick but still full of cunts talking marketing bullshit. https://www.travlrr.co/
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