Oink

If its not one thing, it's another. Britain as country is morally imploding these days. The extent and blatancy of chav behavior in Britain is simply appalling.

So, in an effort to help fellow Brits who may be dithering about leaving the UK, post your chav stories here and it might help those to make up their minds. Depending on the response, we might make this a wiki article.

Chav baby smokes

Pincher

No, can't be a proper chav baby. No earings.

Alan2005

What about this.

"Dad at 13"

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle2233878.ece

Turned out to be untrue in a bizarre chav love triangle.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8056700.stm

Oink

Whether the story was true or not, it was disgusting and just more evidence of a failed society.

Good stuff people keep them coming.

iaink

Yup, no teenage pregnacies in Canada....

Pincher

Chav appears to be a British phenomenon ( or problem depending on how you view it) but under age parenthood isn't. There must be similar reportings in Canada too?
However, I'm pretty sure that if we reduced benefits given to teen mums, then maybe the incidences would reduce. The Oz Gov give a $6,000 'Baby Bonus' to new mums regardless of age.

ExKiwilass

6 grand? I gave birth in the wrong country.

msi64

Chav Britain, Please come on. Whilst this country has problems and we have many, why focus on the bad. Its a story in the Sun FFS!!!

Why not go the whole hog and quote the Daily Mail, Imigrants are taking over, its not safe to walk the streets, drugs and gun crime rife in kindergarten.
I know its the British way of life to look onthe bleak side, do we really believe its any worse than has been in the past?
Im leaving the UK to give my family a better standard of living, for every horror story from the Sun or any other tabloid I can give you a pleasant story that never gets reported on.
Bad news sell more papers.

Pincher

Apparently when her 12 year old daughter gave birth, her mum was 'pleased' because of the money they would receive. Supposed to be a form of assistance not an incentive me thinks.
However some of our Antipodean friends have other ideas:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/kiw...-1225792760998

iaink

According to the canadian council on social development the cost of raising a child to age one is $10k, and the total to age 16 is about $166k...

No wonder I'm brassic. $6k would be a drop in the bucket at best.

Auld Yin

Have you checked the dates on each page. The Sun is dated January 19th.2010 whereas the BBC article is dated January 19th.2009.

Someone is playing silly beggars. I remember this story from last year and the correction/refuting a few days later.

Alan2005

Chav's are a UK phenomenon. Teenagers are getting pregnant in droves so they can sponge off the state by being given a free house and then by use their benefits to buy fags for their kids.

It's a disgrace - people should be aiming to get out before the place is overrun.

Alan2005

Eh? The date on the sun story is 13 Feb 2009 and the BBC follow up is dated 19 May 2009.

Oink

Just prove this isn't just an isolated "tabloid" story now we're facing uber-chavs. Where do we go from here?

"It is very difficult, almost impossible, to take these people now and provide basic social and work ethic skills."

unteachable 'uber-chavs'

Sally Redux

It's just as Nietzsche predicted.