This in a nutshell. Even the far left hipsters in Brighton can't stand them. Anyone that has had the misfortune of living in the vicinity of one of their sites for more than a day would feel the same.
When I was little, there was a grassy bit of wasteland in the estate....was there for years. The fog fell one night, and when it cleared it was like waking up to a pre battle morning during the Boer Wars......50 odd caravans, washing hanging up, chickens, horses, daggs, kids, smoke, shit cars the fucking full monty.
I was actually stopped and robbed a few days later by an old lady, who tried to nick my Falcon Pro but settled for the handle bar pad as I screamed Fuck Off and peddled over her feet and home.
Spend the next few weeks shitting it, thinking the whole site was after me....thanks to my mates fanciful stories.
Well after a dead doberman turned up, the swimming pool nearly went bankrupt after stories spread about "them" washing in it, a horse that got loose and went on a rampage (because the cunts took its foal away), kids swinging chickens around by their heads and a near riot with the local dads from the manner, about 40,000 Old Bill came one day and moved them on. They just went, quietly too.
So Thamesmead could return to being..........well, actually it was still shit when they left.
Ahhhhh thems the days.
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