County Lines

County Lines: A term describing the expansion of urban UK drug gangs into rural areas. These gangs sometimes exploit vulnerable people — including children — to push potent, cheap hard drugs like crack and heroin, flooding places where supply is usually thin. Then cuckooing, vunlenble people taking over someone’s home, is a common tactic used. The lifestyle is often glamorised by UK drill rap YouTube videos , where wannabe gangsters hanging around in council estates in groups wearing facemasks designer clothing flexing luxury watches worth more than flats houses and cruise around in high-end cars like Lamborghini Uruses. But behind the fake image and online persona the reality is simple: most of them end up skint, dead, or nicked, or doing long stretches in prison — basically, their life is ruined.