Have I said this before?

I might have done this one. But....if you want an excellent definition of a 'deprived' area its anywhere you see an adult riding a kid's bike.

I guess you could make this a more sophisticated 'modelling tool' (in some people's lives this is nothing to do with a hobby shop or knives of any kind by the way). You could add...

1. Are they standing up?
2. Do they have a dirty white jacket?
3. and baseball cap?
4. Apparently moving as far sideways as forwards?
5. Are they riding diagonally across a dual carriageway?

Well, I haven't got time to develop the idea but if it's all the above its a very deprived area. Incidentally, what you do with a deprived area is this...

1. Take out a million pounds in tax and lottery tickets
2. Give 5% of it to a variety of 'regeneration initiatives' and organisations to spend on having meetings with each other.
3. Make the residents jump through hoops and fill in forms to get tiny grants they must account for.
4. Make the representatives of the regeneration initiatives write reports to ensure they're 'accountable to the public'. This must say either a) We've done something useful, honestly; or b) 'Gosh its complicated, its not all that easy to fix' is it?
5. Continue to redistribute wealth to the rich.
6. Wring hands and / or crack down on the poor scum you've just shafted once again.
7. Remember to make the poor people account for that £5,000!