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Perhaps, but I think the wider area of Medway is still scarred to this day by the Dockyard closure, with relatively high unemployment and attendant social problems still lingering even through to today.
I'm not sure I agree that the dockyard closure is root cause of medways current problems.
Overspill of problem families from London, rise of county lines drug gangs and a lack of law and order being any real deterrent to anti social behaviour are far more relevant I suspect.
The towns now have three universities, great connections to London and some high skilled job opportunities for locals.
What it needs is a council that moves beyond its obsession with dickens and invests in the future to attract more job opportunities.
To me the towns are no worse than any other town in the UK. They are some deprived areas but that's the same everywhere.