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Poor London..

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Athame57:
I mean....really!  ::) :o ;D What have we come to?  :-\

Otis:
So sad to see what has become of such a wonderful city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJLESaA_XrA&list=RDxJLESaA_XrA&start_radio=1

SumpMagnet:
Also, ironically, if you were to ask the average Joe Public which one of the two in that picture is a law breaking hazard to the good folks around....they would pick the wrong one.
Those horrid electric scooters are illegal, unsafe, usually unlit, and the only time they show a decent level of illumination is when the lithium polymer battery pack goes nova in the hallway.

Laverda Dave:

--- Quote from: Otis on November 28, 2025, 07:53:56 AM ---So sad to see what has become of such a wonderful city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJLESaA_XrA&list=RDxJLESaA_XrA&start_radio=1

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I am a Londoner, lived here for 63 years having been born in south London and moving to west London in 1971.

I recognise all the places in that video and sung by Jackie Trent who was married to Tony Hatch who was a composer (he wrote the Crossroads theme tune and was a panellist on New Faces and went on to discover Showaddywaddy, Roger De-Corsy with Nokkie Bear, Marti Webb and others).

Who ever made the video didn’t pay much attention to continuity, she walked through Aldgate station (the terminus of the Metropolitan line of the London Underground) and goes down to the platform to get on a train but then it cuts to her crossing Blackfriars Bridge on the Southern Railway! The guy is on a 1938 tube stock train.

Anyway......London in my eyes has become a lawless dump during the past 10-15 years, central London is Ok (as long as you don’t have a nice watch or a phone on show in Oxford Street or Bond Street) but the suburbs are becoming areas of filthy untidy streets with derelict shops and unregulated building (mostly illegal extensions to existing homes for extended families or for rent). Our high street that is no more than 600 yards in length has seven barbershops (there used to be one), ten convenience stores,  four vape shops, a tattoo shop, two ‘hole in the wall’ pubs and six sweet/booze/newspaper shops. These places last for six months at best, close down and within two weeks another one will open in its place, it is obvious what is really going on and our wonderful mayor turns a blind eye to all of it (he is just back from a trip to South Africa where he and his 11 'advisors' flew business class at the taxpayers expense). Meanwhile the leaders of this country live in leafy Islington and other expensive suburbs of north London and tell us we are misinformed of what is really going on.

I know this isn’t just happening in London but all over the country and the net migration figures released yesterday tell the real story, forget the headline illegal migrant figures, the really damaging figure is the one detailing the people leaving this country, mostly a younger generation and those who can afford to invest and run a business, they’ve had enough and have chosen to leave taking their talents with them.

We are in the process of finding somewhere else to live and at least 75 miles away from London!

Rant over.......... :-X

Athame57:

--- Quote from: Laverda Dave on November 28, 2025, 12:45:33 PM ---
Rant over.......... :-X

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Nice rant Dave, I know how you feel living in East London. My favorite gripe is the lawless cycling and E-biking, they seem to think the law is beneath them, a mere option. Alas the mayor and his jackal Mete Coban want to 'encourage' cycling, maybe immunity from police is one of their incentives?  :o

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