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LONDON - Then and Now

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  • DonniePeverley
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    It was a dump back then.   Now it's an awesome city. Central London at least has to be one of the best vibes in the world. The food from all around the world without doubt is some of the bes

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  • Summerinsiam
    Summerinsiam

    Great comment. It never ceases to amaze me how vitriolic and obsessive these anti-immigrant, hypocritical, brexiteer types are about a country that they have chosen to no longer live in. 

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On 7/30/2025 at 4:56 AM, DonniePeverley said:

 

Christ ... is it now just open to be racist on this forum ?

They hate diversity. 

On 7/30/2025 at 7:44 AM, CanadaSam said:

 

 

Hate it now, rarely see a white face amongst the crowd of browns and blacks.

 

Shocking a comment like that is condoned on this forum. 

 

Why does this matter to you what colour people are ? Are you okay amongst Thai's in Thailand with that attitude? You get good and bad people amongst all races and colours. 

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On 7/29/2025 at 7:31 PM, Gottfrid said:

But it looks like the Arabs have taken over, right? 😂

Says the Swede!

On 7/29/2025 at 7:00 AM, norsurin said:

I went to a holiday with my 2 kids in 2018 to London. Not a place I will go back to.

Agree, I use to fly USAF aircraft into RAF Mildenhall/Lakenheath and of course take some side trips as a tourist and visit Cambridge and London several years back. Last year, I visited London and was "SHOCKED" at how much it had changed with all the Middle Easterns there. This year, I will try and go to Edinburgh and make up my mind on visiting the UK ever again.

On 7/29/2025 at 5:20 PM, proton said:

Londonistan was a book by Majorie Wallace 20 years ago, ...

 

No it wasn't.

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6 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

 

No it wasn't.

 

Somebody already corrected the name, do try to keep up

 

 

1 minute ago, proton said:

 

Somebody altready corrected the last name, do try tp keep up

Why? I like playing catch out with the forum's "experts" on British life.

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Posted on: "NATIONAL DISGRACE Four in ten people charged heinous sex attacks in London are foreign" ("NOT RACISTS!!")

Robert Bates, Research Director at the Centre for Migration Control, said: “Our capital city is stuck in the depths of lawless decay. The spike in sexual offences against women and girls is directly attributable to our open borders.

 

We have the same problem in the USA with Biden's open borders that Trump finally closed and was voted in by the American citizens.  We will be living with this for many years till we get all the "Illegal Criminals" out!  On Friday, shortly after landing in Scotland, Trump warned that the “horrible invasion” of immigrants in Europe is “killing the continent”. “. On immigration, you better get your act together. You’re not going to have a Europe anymore. You better get your act together,” Trump said.   Europe warned of 'horrible invasion' of immigrants as crisis grows across the continent.

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4 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

Why? I like playing catch out with the forum's "experts" on British life.

 

You didn't, somebody beat you to it days ago 

4 minutes ago, proton said:

 

You didn't, somebody beat you to it days ago 

 

Yes, I saw that before I posted. You don't like being caught out do you?

7 minutes ago, Dan747 said:

Posted on: "NATIONAL DISGRACE Four in ten people charged heinous sex attacks in London are foreign" ("NOT RACISTS!!")

Robert Bates, Research Director at the Centre for Migration Control, said: “Our capital city is stuck in the depths of lawless decay. The spike in sexual offences against women and girls is directly attributable to our open borders.

 

We have the same problem in the USA with Biden's open borders that Trump finally closed and was voted in by the American citizens.  We will be living with this for many years till we get all the "Illegal Criminals" out!  On Friday, shortly after landing in Scotland, Trump warned that the “horrible invasion” of immigrants in Europe is “killing the continent”. “. On immigration, you better get your act together. You’re not going to have a Europe anymore. You better get your act together,” Trump said.   Europe warned of 'horrible invasion' of immigrants as crisis grows across the continent.

 

Christ @Dan747, you're a bit slow. That was in yesterday's papers.

26 minutes ago, Dan747 said:

Agree, I use to fly USAF aircraft into RAF Mildenhall/Lakenheath and of course take some side trips as a tourist and visit Cambridge and London several years back. Last year, I visited London and was "SHOCKED" at how much it had changed with all the Middle Easterns there. This year, I will try and go to Edinburgh and make up my mind on visiting the UK ever again.

 

Better hurry up. You may need a visa next time. You know, the steps needed to control this flood of foreigners?

On 7/30/2025 at 4:56 PM, DonniePeverley said:

Christ ... is it now just open to be racist on this forum ?

 

It may be racist, but I'll bet those folks in Cincinatti are regretting ignoring Scott Adams' advice.  The advice that got him cancelled...

 

Hell, even Jesse Jackson admitted to being a racist when he talked about feeling safer when he encountered a group of White folks late at night.

 

 

Want to take my wife to London, but given the current state, the visa hassles, broken Heathrow we will wait it out

 

London, Barcelona, Paris will be the last trips of our lives.

The western world is run by the CIA dictatorship. The UK and mainland Europe are militarily occupied. The US embassies control all the relevant ministries of most of these countries. Elections are nothing but a dog and pony show. The elections are real but the leaders have no power to change anything structural.

 

Allowing hoards of illiterate subsistence farmers from the 3rd world into Europe and the UK was done purposely to weaken the societies. And to ferment wedge issues to keep people from organizing. It really isn't a left vs right issue. The left supports immigration just for the virtue signalling. But they aren't pushing for it. 

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I Iived in London for 25 years and loved it.  Haven't lived there since moving to Thailand in 2005, but went back with my kid earlier this year.  It's still a fabulous city with amazing architecture, museums, theatres, parks and even restaurants (better than when I lived there).  The only problem I has was the cost of everything!

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Let's be honest, its not just London is it! The whole country has been transformed.

I left it all behind, burned the bridges etc when it became clear the country I knew was gone, it was no longer familiar and friendly.The neighbourhood was totally transformed.Foerign languages on cornershop windows.Abandoned furniture on the street, obvious enclaves of nationalities.Walking down what was the high street, didnt hear English being spoken during a 30 min walk of the town.

I felt like I was visiting a foreign country, it wasn't home anymore, that had sadly been consigned to memory and history.

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30 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

Let's be honest, its not just London is it! The whole country has been transformed.

I left it all behind, burned the bridges etc when it became clear the country I knew was gone, it was no longer familiar and friendly.The neighbourhood was totally transformed.Foerign languages on cornershop windows.Abandoned furniture on the street, obvious enclaves of nationalities.Walking down what was the high street, didnt hear English being spoken during a 30 min walk of the town.

I felt like I was visiting a foreign country, it wasn't home anymore, that had sadly been consigned to memory and history.

Something happened to me in 2014 on a visit back...went in a £ shop went to counter to pay and the guy said I am serving the lady behind you first...lady in bin liner...I threw the £ at him and walked out with my item...that is racism towards me, a white person...it's a cesspit of foreigners, raping, robbing and murdering their way through UK..Call me rasist, I don't care because the word means nothing anymore...still you can at least get a kebab or curry at 1am.. diversity must be a strength..what BS

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22 minutes ago, baansgr said:

Call me rasist, I don't care because the word means nothing anymore


Not sure that word ever meant anything …….. racist on the other hand !!

36 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

Thailand was a lot nicer in 1983.

 

It most certainly was, but that was before these pathetic, whiney Englanders cashed out, sold their homes, moved here and started moaning.

3 hours ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

Says the Swede!

Hell yeah! I know. That´s the main reason I left the country about 27 years ago. I saw what way it was going already then.

So, yes! This Swede can say things and talk about that.

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My home town, makes me Puke to see how it is now

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4 hours ago, nick supreme said:

London was largely homogenous in 1985. I'm pleased to see that it has become more diverse since then.

and more violent, more crime blah blah blah since some immigrants decided to import their own culture and low standards into the capital.

30 minutes ago, actonion said:

My home town, makes me Puke to see how it is now

 

No one likes change.  It's a generational thing.  

4 hours ago, nick supreme said:

London was largely homogenous in 1985. I'm pleased to see that it has become more diverse since then.

 
Your definition of diverse?

 

More Muslim in favor of turning the UK into Sharia Law?  (We don’t worry about that in America.  “Behind every blade of grass will be a rifle”. Adm Yamamoto)

 

Be careful, they’ll throw you off of Big Ben. 

15 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

 

No one likes change.  It's a generational thing.  

It's an Immigration thing,  with a <deleted>e government,  for me 

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