Gang members and criminals have street doctors; they don't go to hospital unless it's absolutely critical or a third party has called the emergency services. Also, people don't bother calling the police any more, even for serious crime. I know people, all young men, who've been mugged at knifepoint and who think the idea of even calling the police is a complete joke. The man who thinks he may have been stabbed by the Huntingdon attacker back in September said the police dropped the investigation after two days and he was informed by text. Did they even turn up to that barbershop when he was waving a great big knife around?
I know people who have burgled, mugged, had their cars stolen, their businesses raided, and they just get a crime number, even when they can provide the police with CCTV footage. It feels like we are living in some kind of frontier town with no law enforcement and people just have to fend for themselves.
19 year old Lily Whitehouse was found murdered on the streets in Birmingham on Wednesday. 41 year Mohammed Azim has been charged with her murder. Apparently he was known to her. The age disparity makes me question exactly how he was known to her.
I imagine Labour will be feeling a personal state of emergency as the Red Wall they took for granted is going Reform and their studenty-metropolitan back-up plan is turning to Green-Red-Green parties. All that sucking up to a lunatic fringe at the expense of their heartland and they can't even rely on that vote any more. Great, we're going to be landed with Nigel Farage in charge of the NHS.