In which Sam Tom is alarmed
Aug. 7th, 2011 02:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sam_tom_samAll this, five minutes away from my old flat in Tottenham! Just as well I sold it last year. The estate where it all started, the Broadwater Farm, was a short walk up the road from where I lived. I liked the modern ziggurat buildings there and it always seemed very quiet. Almost too quiet actually, like a sleeping tiger that would probably be in a bad mood once it woke up. Looks like the police prodded it again.
I thought things would go downhill in the 'nham after the Tories got in but I didn't expect it to happen so quickly. All this has a very 80's flavour to it I have to say. A policeman was hacked to death on "The Farm" during riots in that decade. I never felt unsafe living there but I always wished the government would invest more money in the area to drag it out of the doldrums. Money has recently been lavished on the deprived and no less horrid parts of East London, but any boroughs not connected with the Olympics have been completely ignored.
I thought things would go downhill in the 'nham after the Tories got in but I didn't expect it to happen so quickly. All this has a very 80's flavour to it I have to say. A policeman was hacked to death on "The Farm" during riots in that decade. I never felt unsafe living there but I always wished the government would invest more money in the area to drag it out of the doldrums. Money has recently been lavished on the deprived and no less horrid parts of East London, but any boroughs not connected with the Olympics have been completely ignored.
