Hartlepools finest chapter 2

mr ben · February 20, 2019, 09: PM

Just when you think it cant get any worse!! a fresh batch of unemployable morons rising from the sh1t pile ..

Lucy Lass-Tick · February 20, 2019, 10: PM

A form of (un) natural selection?

Johnny Bongo · February 20, 2019, 11: PM

Please, do tell! I'm not psychic......yeh, psychotic, maybe

....but still need a clue!

Land Phil · February 20, 2019, 11: PM

Just goes to show Hartlepool isn't tropical cruises for all.

The program showed Hartlepool in a bad light and our politicians deserve the negativity

fred c · February 21, 2019, 05: AM

I wonder if the Dear Leader will be "Livid" about this episode......

Inspector Knacker · February 21, 2019, 08: AM

What makes me livid about this series, is rather than than talk to people with problems in their everyday life, the producers of these programmes gravitate towards a percentage of attention seeking pantomime 'characters' that end up with the TV audience ridiculing the very problem the programme is supposed to be highlighting.
The programme is actually making the situation worse as these sensationalised scenarios feature unsympathetic characters who blight the programme. The viewing public see it and the clowns antics overshadow the genuine cases in their memory and diminish their concerns.
Much more could be achieved by taking a more measured approach, but that doesn't achieve the ratings, whereas these portrayals do.
Just as bad is the stigmatising of the town in these absurd Hogarthian scenarios that portray the town as a cross between a post apocalyptic wasteland inhabited by the Chuckle Brothers on spice and a Monty Python sketch that went wrong.

Stig of the Seaton Dump · February 21, 2019, 09: AM

I saw the first new "joke" about Hartlepool since the monkey yesterday.
Shamima Begum has been offered a house in Hartlepool but has decided to stay in Syria.
That was a comment on a national site not a local one.

Considering Hartlepool's first couple are on a cruise and Mike Hill spent thousands refurbishing his rented offices at our expense, I don't think wearing a tracky over a suit makes a difference.

The scallys are just a distraction from the bigger problems.

Inspector Knacker · February 21, 2019, 10: AM

Quote from: Stig of the Seaton Dump on February 21, 2019, 09: AM

Considering Hartlepool's first couple are on a cruise.

I wondered why I hadn't seen the Dredger recently. Mind it's got a big load on.

DRiddle · February 21, 2019, 11: AM

I watched a bloke robbing drug dealers with a Stanley knife, lads shoplifting Minstrels and a bloke lighting fires in a back alleyway, then when Kevin Cranney popped up in the background i thought to myself, "He looks a dodgy b@$tard" . . .

diSme · February 21, 2019, 04: PM

The guy who was supposedly robbing local drug dealers was doing no such thing.... As Inspector Knacker pointed out, this was pure pantomime.

He actually went out to 'score' drugs for himself and his missus. This is quite plain to see.

The consequences, (people looking for him) were as a result of drug debts, not as a result of him 'taxing' drug dealers.

Again,, pure pantomime, and not a fair representation of the true situation.

mr ben · February 21, 2019, 09: PM

Had a drive around the places that where on tv last night !! its like a scene out of max max .Sh1te walking around off their heads with drugs and drink .. houses boarded up windows smashed . its not the town of 20 years ago and never will be until them houses and streets are bull dozed and the scutters are forced to move out .... its sh**e the brings a place down to its knees and the sh**e has won ..... well done the council / social services/ drug rehab centres !!! you have failed !!!!!
The decent people of the town are picking the bill up to keep the sh**e breeding and taking the p**s out of ever service we provide .. WHEN IS IT GOING TO STOP ?
i am really find it hard to pay my council tax to fund this ..

Lucy Lass-Tick · February 21, 2019, 09: PM

Quote from: mr ben on February 21, 2019, 09: PM
Had a drive around the places that where on tv last night !! its like a scene out of max max .Sh1te walking around off their heads with drugs and drink .. houses boarded up windows smashed . its not the town of 20 years ago and never will be until them houses and streets are bull dozed and the scutters are forced to move out .... its sh**e the brings a place down to its knees and the sh**e has won ..... well done the council / social services/ drug rehab centres !!! you have failed !!!!!
The decent people of the town are picking the bill up to keep the sh**e breeding and taking the p**s out of ever service we provide .. WHEN IS IT GOING TO STOP ?
i am really find it hard to pay my council tax to fund this ..

Had a drive round? Did you have outriders?

Owen Jones · February 21, 2019, 10: PM

Someone said move these scutters out but where would you put them?

Lucy Lass-Tick · February 21, 2019, 11: PM

Quote from: Owen Jones on February 21, 2019, 10: PM
Someone said move these scutters out but where would you put them?

'Scutters'? May have missed a quote but such a description is not exactly polite. Where do you suggest that such unfortunates should be placed?

mk1 · February 21, 2019, 11: PM

Quote from: Owen Jones on February 21, 2019, 10: PM
Someone said move these scutters out but where would you put them?

I think they should set aside a certain number of houses in each Ward for these people instead dumping them all in the town centre area. The pain should be spread about instead of all being rammed into 2 wards. I realise that all those unaffected by the problems will be outraged by the suggestion and prefer the status quo.