Originally Posted by
Harry
Liverpool will never, ever reach its full potential because of this type of bloody-minded attachment to all things old and rotten by its insular population.
Too many people simply think they are doing everyone else a favour by burdening them with their own cockeyed sense of marvellous history, be it stale 1960's music, ugly old warehouses, decrepit transport or, in this case, obsolete housing made of rotten red bricks.
Liverpool people ramble on about "the Community" when in reality all this is is people who just happen to live in the same place. Real community disappeared years ago and is alive only in tiny pockets nowadays.
When did Liverpool people become so parochial, so out-of-touch with development in the rest of the world? This city used to be outward looking and progressive, its people much travelled and worldwise but its stagnated disgracefully to the point where we seem to be stuck in a bubble, a stinking, blinkered timewarp, especially on local radio and newspapers, where everything is wonderfull and the rest of the world thinks we're great.
We've actually started to resemble the bigoted scouse stereotypes that have been doing the rounds for decades.
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