If one looks around, one has a picture of public squalor.
The squalor is everywhere and it has a profound effect on people, their minds and attitudes, and how they look at life.
Squatters cause major extra costs because of the vandalism that they do and the filth and squalor that so many of them leave behind them.
The political difficulties are considerable, and they are causing distress, squalor, ill-feeling and violence.
It is not just the squalor; it is the psychological effect that it has.
It is unacceptable that our children should continue to be placed in the squalor of our local prisons.
Instead, a large number of them are passing their lives in a forlorn condition in camps, railway wagons, huts, in filth, squalor and dirt and in subhuman conditions.
While some squatters bemoaned drunken shepherds on their sprees, others despaired of their inability to rise above the squalor of shepherding to become thrifty yeomen farmers, even squatters.
