Comments on: What young people want

By: Beehive

Beehive — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:41:39 +0000

sorry, posted before I was finished-
Having moved to live in Oxford from a rural area I am constantly amazed at how good the facilities for young people seem to be in comparison. Just because rural Oxfordshire is pretty and leafy and full of Tory voters doesn’t mean it’s OK for it to treat its young people like they don’t exist.

By: Beehive

Beehive — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:35:21 +0000

Not all rural areas are affluent. And if you’re a teenager in a rural area without a car, there is literally nothing to do- no youth clubs, no Connexions, no “streetsports area”, no nothing. In comparison with a vilage Rose Hill is a pretty good place to be a teenager.

By: lovely

lovely — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:59:58 +0000

the more i think bout this, the more i get stuck in despair..maybe i m just being bitter…but truly,i cant seem to find any answer or direction in today’s young generation habits!

By: jdc

jdc — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:38:37 +0000

Much better allowances though, so it’s probably worth doing, and you’d be surprised what you can achieve from opposition if you know what you’re doing (well, you wouldn’t, you’re already doing it, but it’s a bit different when you’re the opposition with more seats than the administration).

It would help, of course, if the Government were a bit more joined up, and their own damn inspectorate didn’t slam counties that provide services in a different way in affluent rural and deprived urban areas* (like, say, directly in the latter and through the voluntary sector in the former).

I may just be speaking from bitter experience, of course, that’s always possible.

* Not that all urban areas are deprived and all rural areas are affluent, obviously.