After decades of opposition, Aldridge bail hostel set to be moved
Monday 30th May 2011, 10:19AM BST.
A bail hostel in a leafy neighbourhood looks set to be moved after calls from residents and campaigners. Work is going on to find a new site in the borough for the hostel which is now in Stonnall Road, in Aldridge.
The controversial hostel, which can house up to 12 offenders released from prison on licence, has been the subject of a long-running campaign to force it to close since the 1980s. The last staged protest was in May 2009, when 100 people gathered outside with banners.
Councillors are continuing to question the need for the hostel – officially called an “approved premises” – to be in Stonnall Road, a location they say is inappropriate due to the schools and the large number of families living nearby.
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put it in a liberal democrats constituency or by a solicitors house
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Ah, the hypocrisy of middle England.
So as usual, the poor are asked to shoulder the burden of the welfare state totally and utterly out of proportion to the amount of resources available in those poor areas.
Not only do poor areas have to deal with the pollution, the smog, the industry, the poor leadership and the noise; but they also have to take the misfits from society caused by the extraction of wealth by the rich – the mentally ill, the dispossessed, the criminal.
Crime exists because of inequality. Inequality exists because the rich steal from the poor.
Rather than paying something back to society for causing that inequality, what do the rich do? They want their cake and to eat it too.
This will simply exacerbate inequality and the further separation of rich from poor. The majority of people left in between simply become even more desperate to get into the rich camp – if they can’t afford it, they simply pretend to be rich by paying for everything on credit; or if they can’t get that they get it through fraud, crime or violence.
No wonder society has become so aggressive, so dishonest and so mean.
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Couldn’t agree more, or have put it any better. You have definitely hit the proverbial nail on the head !
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Another victory for the ” NIMBY’s “
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the do gooders at it again.i was there for three years in the 80′s and there was never any trouble for any body.go mone about something worth moneing about.
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