It's grim oop north

[DimPrawn]

The 135 places in Britain where one in seven boys will not live to retirement - Telegraph

And Wales
And London


And everywhere.

So no point worrying about a pension really.

[minestrone]

Champions again.

Think I'll have some vodka and fags to celebrate another win.

[scooterscot]

Well that says it all.

It is no coincidence where the worst standards of living also happen to be places where the Labour party has the highest majorities at general elections, highest number of people on benefits and the worst education, with upwards of 50% illiterate by the time they leave school. Also, where people die younger than on average, also, happen where people have the worst diets and the most take aways on average to feed the most over weight and obese in the UK. Why they need more food banks, when many will eat bags and plateful of chips that will provide more than their daily requirement of fat, salt and carbohydrates.

I've met some poor souls in my time. And those that indeed fall into the description above. Whose to blame? The state? The individual? Both? Whatever, whoever, it's a sad state of affairs for a modern country such as ours.

[doodab]

I could murder a proper bag of chips.

[stek]

That's bollox, when I lived in Bolton almost everyone went at 65-70, then I moved to Dumfries and everyone was like 90.....*

Yet both are 15% on that table.

* Evidence empirically gathered by what I remember at the time by reading the Deaths column in The Bolton Evening News and the Annandale and Eskdale Observer respectively....

[lilelvis2000]

Well it is damn wet and miserable in the NW. No surprise people are unhealthy when it rains sideways 150days a year and its tulipe the rest of the time.

[speling bee]

That's bollox, when I lived in Bolton almost everyone went at 65-70, then I moved to Dumfries and everyone was like 90.....*

Yet both are 15% on that table.

* Evidence empirically gathered by what I remember at the time by reading the Deaths column in The Bolton Evening News and the Annandale and Eskdale Observer respectively....

Are you trying to say that pasty and peas is not a well balanced diet?

[stek]

Are you trying to say that pasty and peas is not a well balanced diet?

Went home to Bolton for my brothers 50th last week, cracking grub, hmmmmm

[Bunk]

[speling bee]

Went home to Bolton for my brothers 50th last week, cracking grub, hmmmmm

D'you want a bit of wet on that, luv?