I remember going to a meeting at which Justine spoke not long after she became MP, so we're going back a bit. She spoke about gang culture and the role of postcodes in stabbings and killings. I think she said that as part of the initiation process into a gang you have to stab someone, and if in the process you cut a crucial artery or vein, that's it.Postcode is crucially important. A friend who taught in an FE college in North London spoke of a lad who was too scared to visit his grandmother because she lived in a "wrong" postcode. I read in the press that the 15 year old who was murdered in Oxford St on Saturday lived south of the river, but had strayed north.How you combat this, I have no idea. And, of course, there's drugs.
Elizabeth Balsom ● 2067d