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LONDON - Then and Now

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I have seen few, if any of these English, "I hate my home" confessionals ever stating their actual home town or suburb. For example, London is enormous so that's an awfully broad brush there. I believe that Barnet and Epsom are really nice and desirable suburbs. Of course there's really sh*t bits of most towns and cities in the UK, but that's not necessarily because they've been overrun by Muslims, immigrants or those of a non-white ethnicity either. I visited Durham earlier this year and thought it was great.

 

All this negativity contributes to the self-feeding, self-destructive and self-loathing fake narrative of the whole country being like some Third World country, which it most definitely is not.

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  • DonniePeverley
    DonniePeverley

    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 7/29/2025 at 3:20 PM, falangUK said:

0:16 Even the chicks were hot, tall, slim, and short haired back in those days! Unlike the fat cows you see today.

 

I don't think that the English male consistency of bad teeth, spotty skin, and poor hygiene is anything to celebrate. Like their women, the males have also become obese. Perhaps, back in the day, smoking all those unfiltered Players and Woodbines suppressed appetites. 

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I go cycling at night in London to avoid the traffic and so I can suck in clear air. No set route and no restrictions on where I go. Always discovering and rediscovering. Not once has anyone approached me with a knife to stab me nor has anyone even looked threateningly at me. No attempts at criminality, nothing. 

What does happen is that every single person that I encounter, gives me a positive response to my greetings of good morning when the sun begins to rise. Every single person, regardless of colour, gender and age. In the parks, on the streets, everywhere.

 

Another thing, via the grapevine I heard that my mum needed help with putting up a new fence and pruning her trees(mum doesn't complain nor tell me), so I put the feelers out to find someone to do the job for her. Next thing I hear was that a couple of boys of the neighbours down the road were over and offered to do the job. They didn't want paying. My mum insisted on giving them something. I didn't ask as what colour they were. Likely they saw mum climbing up the tree and sawing away.

 

Treat people like humans and they will act like humans. London is great if you make it so. The miserable ones can make their way to Thailand, grab themselves a brown woman and throw stones at their country from afar. Miserable hypocrites.

 

 

 

 

I lived in London in the 1950s as a Yank kid.  Post-war London was actually a wonderful place to grow up as a kid.  I have many fond memories, and some not so fond.  That line in Pink Floyd's The Wall, "You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat." All true by golly. God only knows what we were fed in school lunches, but I can still remember the vein sticking out of a piece of grisly meat that the school authorities tried to force me to eat, and which I refused.  Even called in my father who fell squarely into my camp. And my dad was a WWII POW, and he flatly squared off in my corner, "My son's not eating that and I wouldn't eat it either."  But I get it.  Rationing was still in the minds of those Brit adults who survived the WWII bombing and rationing.  But - it was still a wonderful place.  Back then you could walk around Stonehenge unimpeded by fences. Sailed model sail boats in Kennsington's pond. We traveled to Scotland and Wales - I still remember it - just beautiful in its own grey, damp way.
Now? 
It's all descending into third-world bovine-excrement and Orwellian totalitarianism that has the sack to call itself a democracy with a little "d." You can have it.  America and Europe too.

On 7/30/2025 at 2:26 AM, ThreeCardMonte said:

Sad.

 

Trump was absolutely right in his comments to leaders during his Scotland visit.

 

The leftists DEI supporters should be here soon voicing their support.


No, he wasn't.

The video is disgracefully presented as if that is London all over. It isn't. It is manipulated so people like you watch it and go "Londonistan".

The poster on the bus is not promoting Islam. It is a charity organisation that is trying to help with the negative image of Islam among certain sectors of the UK and helping people affected by the Syrian civil war.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/muslim-charity-islamic-relief-allah-is-great-posters-buses-islam-positive-light-a7019396.html

Then there is a small festival for EID, their biggest holiday and celebration, so of course it is full of Muslims - it is an EID event. It lasts for 6 hours every year at Trafalgar Square and is open to everyone.

https://www.london.gov.uk/events/eid-square-2025

Just like if you go to an organised event for Hanukkah in North London it would be full of Jewish people but no one would post a video suggesting London is over run by Jews. Go to an organised event for Diwali in Neasden and it would be full of Hindus having a great time. No one would be posting videos suggesting London is overrun with Hindus. Likewise Buddhists at Buddhist Lent etc etc. 

Then finally a video of some Muslim people exiting a Mosque - shock horror!!

The video is nothing more than anti-Muslim propaganda and I am surprised an admin would post such a skewed and biased thing on here. 

On 7/30/2025 at 3:56 PM, DonniePeverley said:

 

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


Yes it is, and look at all the positive reaction it got. Sad.

14 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:


No, he wasn't.

The video is disgracefully presented as if that is London all over. It isn't. It is manipulated so people like you watch it and go "Londonistan".

The poster on the bus is not promoting Islam. It is a charity organisation that is trying to help with the negative image of Islam among certain sectors of the UK and helping people affected by the Syrian civil war.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/muslim-charity-islamic-relief-allah-is-great-posters-buses-islam-positive-light-a7019396.html

Then there is a small festival for EID, their biggest holiday and celebration, so of course it is full of Muslims - it is an EID event. It lasts for 6 hours every year at Trafalgar Square and is open to everyone.

https://www.london.gov.uk/events/eid-square-2025

Just like if you go to an organised event for Hanukkah in North London it would be full of Jewish people but no one would post a video suggesting London is over run by Jews. Go to an organised event for Diwali in Neasden and it would be full of Hindus having a great time. No one would be posting videos suggesting London is overrun with Hindus. Likewise Buddhists at Buddhist Lent etc etc. 

Then finally a video of some Muslim people exiting a Mosque - shock horror!!

The video is nothing more than anti-Muslim propaganda and I am surprised an admin would post such a skewed and biased thing on here. 


You’re replying later than I anticipated.

 

Not too late to convert.  They love old white liberal men.

8 minutes ago, ThreeCardMonte said:


You’re replying later than I anticipated.

 

Not too late to convert.  They love old white liberal men.


Sorry to keep you, I don't spend my life on this forum and only noticed the thread.

So which of my points do you disagree with?

1 hour ago, connda said:

I lived in London in the 1950s as a Yank kid.  Post-war London was actually a wonderful place to grow up as a kid.  I have many fond memories, and some not so fond.  That line in Pink Floyd's The Wall, "You can't have any pudding if you don't eat your meat." All true by golly. God only knows what we were fed in school lunches, but I can still remember the vein sticking out of a piece of grisly meat that the school authorities tried to force me to eat, and which I refused.  Even called in my father who fell squarely into my camp. And my dad was a WWII POW, and he flatly squared off in my corner, "My son's not eating that and I wouldn't eat it either."  But I get it.  Rationing was still in the minds of those Brit adults who survived the WWII bombing and rationing.  But - it was still a wonderful place.  Back then you could walk around Stonehenge unimpeded by fences. Sailed model sail boats in Kennsington's pond. We traveled to Scotland and Wales - I still remember it - just beautiful in its own grey, damp way.
Now? 
It's all descending into third-world bovine-excrement and Orwellian totalitarianism that has the sack to call itself a democracy with a little "d." You can have it.  America and Europe too.

Your post was good till you went a bit over the top at the end. 

4 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:


Sorry to keep you, I don't spend my life on this forum and only noticed the thread.

So which of my points do you disagree with?


The one I replied to.  About 3 or 4 posts UP.

 

Cognitive issues affecting your memory?

 

Not to worry.  I’ll help my elders.

 

 

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1 minute ago, ThreeCardMonte said:


The one I replied to.

 

Cognitive issues affecting your memory?


You didn't respond to any of the posts I made about the video, what was actually being shown in there, and the way it was slanted. You just made a childish remark about converting or something. 

You guys can never ever respond to simple questions or evidence. You only come out with insults and name calling and nothing more. And then you giggle and think it's clever. 

So I assume you agree with everything I said then, excellent.

13 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:


You didn't respond to any of the posts I made about the video, what was actually being shown in there, and the way it was slanted. You just made a childish remark about converting or something. 

You guys can never ever respond to simple questions or evidence. You only come out with insults and name calling and nothing more. And then you giggle and think it's clever. 

So I assume you agree with everything I said then, excellent.


I had no need to reply to any video.

 

I replied to your post after you replied to me.

 

No reason for you to make it more complicated.

 

It's that simple.

 

Besides, Churchill wouldn’t stand for that nonsense.

 

 

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10 minutes ago, ThreeCardMonte said:


I had no need to reply to any video.

 

I replied to your post after you replied to me.

 

No reason for you to make it more complicated.

 

It's that simple.


More of the same. Got it, thanks.

2 hours ago, SMIAI said:

 

I go cycling at night in London to avoid the traffic and so I can suck in clear air. No set route and no restrictions on where I go. Always discovering and rediscovering. Not once has anyone approached me with a knife to stab me nor has anyone even looked threateningly at me. No attempts at criminality, nothing. 

What does happen is that every single person that I encounter, gives me a positive response to my greetings of good morning when the sun begins to rise. Every single person, regardless of colour, gender and age. In the parks, on the streets, everywhere.

 

Another thing, via the grapevine I heard that my mum needed help with putting up a new fence and pruning her trees(mum doesn't complain nor tell me), so I put the feelers out to find someone to do the job for her. Next thing I hear was that a couple of boys of the neighbours down the road were over and offered to do the job. They didn't want paying. My mum insisted on giving them something. I didn't ask as what colour they were. Likely they saw mum climbing up the tree and sawing away.

 

Treat people like humans and they will act like humans. London is great if you make it so. The miserable ones can make their way to Thailand, grab themselves a brown woman and throw stones at their country from afar. Miserable hypocrites.

 

 

 

 

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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5 minutes ago, Summerinsiam said:

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. 

 

 

"Brexiter types"

 

 

You really are a sad ar5e.

8 minutes ago, Summerinsiam said:

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. 

Stupid comment..........:coffee1:

11 minutes ago, Summerinsiam said:

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. 

Good comment.........

31 minutes ago, ThreeCardMonte said:


Read my edited version.


Still no answer to any of my points.

10 minutes ago, transam said:

Stupid comment..........:coffee1:


Hey!  I agree with you.  WTF!  That’s not supposed to happen.
 

Is the ☀️ sun and 🌖 moon in newly discovered eclipse.

6 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:


Still no answer to any of my points.


I have answered.  You just can’t read.

Removing the muslims and jews might make London more livable. 

6 minutes ago, ThreeCardMonte said:


I have answered.  You just can’t read.


I have checked all your posts in reply to mine where I dissect the video and point out out how and where it is being deliberately misleading. 

Your responses to that post have been "Not too late to convert.  They love old white liberal men." and then a picture of Churchill. Pretty much nothing else. No substance. No rebuttal of anything I said, just silly insults.

We may as well leave it here unless you want to try and engage in a discussion about the content of the video which is what my post was about.

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Still a great city IMO.  So much to see and do.  There are some dodgy areas (as there are in most large cities) but there aren't many better places of a similar size.  Bloody expensive though!

 

The UK as a whole is still a very nice place to live.  

5 hours ago, NanLaew said:

I have seen few, if any of these English, "I hate my home" confessionals ever stating their actual home town or suburb. For example, London is enormous so that's an awfully broad brush there. I believe that Barnet and Epsom are really nice and desirable suburbs. Of course there's really sh*t bits of most towns and cities in the UK, but that's not necessarily because they've been overrun by Muslims, immigrants or those of a non-white ethnicity either. I visited Durham earlier this year and thought it was great.

 

All this negativity contributes to the self-feeding, self-destructive and self-loathing fake narrative of the whole country being like some Third World country, which it most definitely is not.

 

The thread is about London, for a long time a white minority city with hundreds of Mosques, daily stabbings, rampant shoplifting, phone, bag and watch snatching, graffiti all over the place and tens of thousands of illegal immigrants. Do you live there?

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Visited London a few weeks ago and it was still amazing
The video is nothing like what i experienced 
Still a great city and enjoyed it .
London was amazing and to be honest apart from getting ripped off by a Turkish ice-cream seller outside the National history museum it was a great experience

Went to show my son Villa Park, now that was a different story. Rubbish everywhere 

I was expecting the UK to have changed like in the video but it was nothing like that (Maybe parts of Birmingham)
Liverpool/Manchester /Wales /The Cotswolds and Scotland were almost the same as 20 years ago apart from far far more expensive

I will never say Thailand has started to get expensive again
Greggs and fish and chips were great for 2 weeks
 

20 minutes ago, proton said:

 

The thread is about London, for a long time a white minority city with hundreds of Mosques, daily stabbings, rampant shoplifting, phone, bag and watch snatching, graffiti all over the place and tens of thousands of illegal immigrants. Do you live there?

A white minority city?

 

"In London, 53.8% of the population is white, according to the 2021 census. This includes those who identify as White British (36.8%) and those from other white backgrounds."

31 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

A white minority city?

 

"In London, 53.8% of the population is white, according to the 2021 census. This includes those who identify as White British (36.8%) and those from other white backgrounds."

 

It's 38% BRITISH white according to the 2021 census

4 hours ago, Packer said:

Removing the muslims and jews might make London more livable. 

When have the Jewish population made problems, such as raping young girls?

7 hours ago, NanLaew said:

I have seen few, if any of these English, "I hate my home" confessionals ever stating their actual home town or suburb. For example, London is enormous so that's an awfully broad brush there. I believe that Barnet and Epsom are really nice and desirable suburbs. Of course there's really sh*t bits of most towns and cities in the UK, but that's not necessarily because they've been overrun by Muslims, immigrants or those of a non-white ethnicity either. I visited Durham earlier this year and thought it was great.

 

All this negativity contributes to the self-feeding, self-destructive and self-loathing fake narrative of the whole country being like some Third World country, which it most definitely is not.

Give Bradford a visit next time you are in the area. 

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