working class
Being black or Asian in the UK no longer means you will be automatically disadvantaged, Communities Secretary John Denham has said. Well, as a member of a minority group, I'm bloody pleased to hear it. I can hang up my writing gloves (After this blog Post). I can stop worrying about my childs future because racism is totally dead and the world (well Britain at least now totally works on a meritocratic system).
I have been chastised on this site for being anti working class. That in itself is utter twaddle. When I was a bit younger I was a working class through and through, I loved working class culture and its ways.
Blurton gets a reprieve - finally
02 Dec 2009
A run-down retail block in one of Stoke's forgotten communities is about to be rejuvenated in a £7 million project. Ingestre Square, in the back streets of Blurton, has been allowed to decline into disrepair over a span of years, and has been awaiting redevelopment promised for the last ten years. Now, finally, Kier Group (the contractor responsible for maintaining Stoke's social housing) Aspire Housing and the city council are clubbing together to regenerate the plot, with plans for new shops,
