Overwhelmingly, the impression I got from this film is that the trouble with the girls who were the subjects of the film, Shona and Abbie, is that they are the sub-class that is dragging this country into the gutter and leaving it to die there.

They’re career criminals, as young as they are, and expend a great deal of energy in committing petty crimes. Petty that is unless you’re on the receiving end of their crimes. If they put as much energy and thought into getting a job as they do actively avoiding one, most of their ‘problems’ would be solved.

Abbie who’s 17 and Shona who’s 20 – though filmmaker Jo Hughes sounded like she was saying “Shauna” but the copy says, “Shona” – are poster girls for everything that’s loathable about Britain today. They’re arrogant, they’re aggressive, they have no respect for anyone or anything and believe it’s their right to have, have and have some more, without having to lift a finger – other than a light one – to achieve gain. Read more & comment »