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Some factors, as always, are common to the poorest listed neighbourhoods. For one thing, many of them are dominated by the council; in fact in several cases (Queenslie, Barlanark etc.) they were invented, built and managed by the council. Interesting that the same council that has preserved for generations these neighbourhoods with their heritage of poverty and deprivation is the same council that cannot preserve the Greek Thomson heritage, is strangely muted/silent on the struggle to reform and preserve Scottish Opera and over several years has 'redeveloped' city parks like Tollcross into car parks with attached leisure centres. Of course all this has nothing to do with politicians who harvest votes from the poorest neighbourhoods and few votes from culture, arts and decent civil society. Oh, and the responsible Scottish Executive Minister for Communities was 'nat available' for the Riddoch programme at lunch time today to discuss the index her department published... a bit like Jack McConnell's golf club dinner displacing the D Day memorial?
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