I enjoyed living in London, but don't regret moving out 4 years ago. Kent is a fantastic county, and my breathing has improved 3 years on the trot, which isn't supposed to happen when you've got COPD. It would be impossible to do the unskilled jobs I did, while paying rent, having a decent lifestyle and saving up and buying a flat in Sydenham. I don't know who will be able to afford to live in London soon. ATM it's not totally fvcked, it's still got life in it, but the future is uncertain.
I agree. Moved out to a nice countryside village in Kent a year and half ago. Like it there. Green, peaceful. Have space. Don't enjoy spending £5,000 on a commute. Hoping to get more remote in a few more years
Surprisingly yes, although when PC Fred Harris retired it was not the same. The last of a breed was PC Fred.
I cringe when I see the kids at the state schools in inner London these days. This country is about to create a lot of problems for itself. It will go the way of America very soon - actually it’s started already - where all the civilised people move out of the city, leaving only young liberals who stay until they themselves have families, and the feral underclass.
I can't understand why the Police just stood by and did nothing … it was the groups stated aim to cause chaos in London... isn't it the police's duty to stop such things?
I first lived in Orpington in 1986. While still not quite “gone” in the way most other parts of Sadiq Khan’s London have, it is now totally unrecognisable to what it was 32 years ago...and not in a good way. That’s the Hight St and Town Centre BTW, property prices are still protecting the surrounding areas. All of these sh1t areas have one common factor ........
Traditional displacement activity of the Left ...like when Cooper & Miliband tried & failed to blame mass EU immigration on unscrupulous employers not paying the going rate.
I was watching one of those house relocation programmes the other day...a trendy young couple in their late 20s with a baby ..had bought an ex local authority place in Camden ....done it up and made a huge paper profit. They were looking to move out to commutable Hertfordshire ....when asked why there was an embarrassed silence & staring at the floor, followed by “We are thinking of the schools” Ha ha
I grew up in the 70s living on the largest council estate in the U.K., let alone South London (not far from @baraettmattesvensson ). I went to the local state school at the end of my road. My memory is that all of the kids were working class and many “poor”, but 95% turned up smart in school uniform every day. Arguments between the boys (there were many) were settled with fists not knives) either at lunchtime or after school. The boys all had two things in common (apart from the obvious) - white working class English kids who lived & schooled in the same community and had a common interest in football & girls, as well as language , religion (lack of) and other cultural identities. Fast forward 40 years and all of those common ties have been deliberately broken - with disastrous consequences. All so “the Left” can feel good about itself. People like me who actually lived the life, as opposed to reading about in the Guardian, saw the real damage that was done.
Daft comment See my last post. Don’t be guided by your kids & how they see Britain today ...many of them don’t know any better...
Another of the great old commentators bites the dust on Saturday when Ian Robertson does his last commentary. When asked how a Scot could get get so excited by England winning the W/C he pointed out that he had put £20 on England to win, at very good odds at the beginning of the tournament.
