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"So what would you do with the problem drinking in Dover "
Really, and honestly. What we must get clear is just what the problem is.
An ASB issue, a problem of people being within the community, but not of the community. Not simply that they are outsiders, but because they do not share in the common goals of the wider community.
Now, if we were to reject all notions of forced removal/displacement. We could consider inclusion;perfect or imperfect.
a-Perfect:
All recognise the true extent of the problems faced by the individual;dependency, social and educational.
b-Imperfect:
Cater to them as a whole with a designated 'Alcohol Inclusion Zone'.
(a) This being a National issue* any town would have to act in small ways:swap the alcohol for breakfast-vouchers, so that the irate can moan on a full stomach. For there would be no reasoning with them otherwise.
(b) This is not really any better than removal/displacement, either way this all just becomes the problem of some other part of town.
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The National Issue.
Despair is widespread and the mechanisms humans employ to deal with it are many and varied, but cutting a long story short, a recurring realisation of the uselessness of these ploys does often end in a overwhelming desire to be numbed through drink or drugs. There is a case that many people go straight to the bottom, but these may simply have inculcated their sense of despair from their environment as they were growing up.
It may be that 'work will set us all free' (but I don't want to get into all that again) and I am all for the State creating employment (and increasing the dole, and regulating rents) simply to allow the seed of hope to germinate in as many people as possible.
Our collective inability or unwillingness to support the innate desire to thrive in all our fellow citizens leaves many wallowing in waywardness:You get what you refuse to pay for just as much as you get what you pay for.
You either have £ots of reasons to visit the bank and run the gauntlet of the great-unwashed, or you have slightly £ess reason to visit the bank, but also no such gauntlet to run.
