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E5, E9, E8, N16, N1. These are London postcodes. There are many problems in Hackney with the gangs that live in different postcode areas. It is not what race you are, or what football team you support, but it is the different postcode you live in. |
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Sometimes friends living round the corner from each other belong to different postcode gangs and are battling against each other. |
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I think there's a problem with the media always hyping up these issues. A gang is a gang is a gang, whether you call it a postcode gang or wheher you know yourself after the nearest railway station.
DIANE ABBOTT MP
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Don't you think we should be helping each other, not battling each other? For example, there are two postcodes close together. Are they rivals or are they friends? Who knows? |
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A number of these gangs are not violent, criminal gangs, they're just groups of young people who like to hang out together.
DIANE ABBOTT MP
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There is no need for postcode gangs. We need to work together, not against each other. So many people have been hurt over it all and so many innocent lives have been taken. What is the point of all this? It is just childish. |
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