Death Of London

[The Generation Game]

1 hour ago, Austin Allegro said:

True...but you don't get many real 'Wethermen' in either of those pubs, in my experience. Knights Templar is not a typical Spoons pub as it seems rammed full with bankers and lawyers whenever I visit.

The Montague Pyke and Shakespeare's Head can both get rowdy. 

[SNACR]

2 hours ago, The Generation Game said:

The Montague Pyke and Shakespeare's Head can both get rowdy. 

Always surprised how unrammed The Montagu Pyke usually was considering the drinks are such a fraction of the price of any nearby. Don’t think there are that many Wetherspoons in London think I’ve been in another in Hammersmith and one in a station and can’t recall any others. Considering they charge similar to elsewhere in the UK can’t imagine they’re a big earner.

[Yadda yadda yadda]

1 minute ago, SNACR said:

Always surprised how unrammed The Montagu Pyke usually was considering the drinks are such a fraction of the price of any nearby. Don’t think there are that many Wetherspoons in London think I’ve been in another in Hammersmith and one in a station and can’t recall any others. Considering they charge similar to elsewhere in the UK can’t imagine they’re a big earner.

There are plenty in the suburbs. Centralish I can think of one at Holborn. The Lord Moon of the Mall on Whitehall. The Hamilton Hall at Liverpool Street. The suburban ones include The Angel, Islington. If you want a rough pub then The Surrey Docks fits the bill, at Surrey Quays.

[The Generation Game]

1 hour ago, SNACR said:

Always surprised how unrammed The Montagu Pyke usually was considering the drinks are such a fraction of the price of any nearby. Don’t think there are that many Wetherspoons in London think I’ve been in another in Hammersmith and one in a station and can’t recall any others. Considering they charge similar to elsewhere in the UK can’t imagine they’re a big earner.

The Grid Inn in Southfields got taken over by an independent a decade ago. The King's Tun in Kingston was another one that was often lively. 

I enjoyed my local when I lived in Putney, The Rocket. Right on the Thames. Full of football fans when Fulham are playing at home. 

[Rare Bear]

2 hours ago, SNACR said:

Always surprised how unrammed The Montagu Pyke usually was considering the drinks are such a fraction of the price of any nearby. Don’t think there are that many Wetherspoons in London think I’ve been in another in Hammersmith and one in a station and can’t recall any others. Considering they charge similar to elsewhere in the UK can’t imagine they’re a big earner.

There's the big one in Liverpool Street, the Hamilton Hall.

Edited April 29, 2021 by Rare Bear

[Bien Pensant]

10 hours ago, Agent ZigZag said:

Social engineering implemented by Governments, Planners and Architects have pock marked more urban spaces in towns and cities throughout the land than the Luftwaffe ever managed to achieved. 

Our architecture since post war has been in my opinion heavily influenced by socialistic philosophies with our homes and workplaces looking very boring drab and mundane boxes of clean lines. The right of centre thinking,  in architectural terms, again in my opinion, favours the classical orders seeking individual design and embellishments both internally and externally, 

How right you are.

Have you ever seen A Clockwork Orange? It was partly shot on the Thamesmead estate. May I invite you to watch the Greater London Council promotional film for the project, below, before watching it again.

It’s like Kubrick made Clockwork Orange as a piss-take of it.

 

[Bus Stop Boxer]

On 28/04/2021 at 21:00, Yadda yadda yadda said:

They have quite a few in London. There is one on Fleet Street, The Cheshire Cheese. The Cittie of York, Holborn. Chandos at Trafalgar Square. Several others. I don't know of any with a beer garden so they're all still shut.

Ive staggered out of the one in Gt Portland Street a few times. Dont know the name...

Please hold caller....

Horse and Groom.

 

[Bus Stop Boxer]

On 27/04/2021 at 12:20, wherebee said:

I used to know Soho very well.  Had a real buzz about it.  Loved the Ronnie Scotts.

All gone now, in terms of enjoyability I fear.

Marquee, Wag, Madame JoJos, lucky to visit all in their pomp. Though the Marquees pomp was the 60s really.

Worked just north of the west end in a variety of jobs (quite odd that it happened that way) for 20+ years.

I miss it ,and i miss the life, and none of what i enjoyed is ever coming back in the same form.

 

[chicker]

7 hours ago, Bus Stop Boxer said:

Marquee, Wag, Madame JoJos, lucky to visit all in their pomp. Though the Marquees pomp was the 60s really.

Worked just north of the west end in a variety of jobs (quite odd that it happened that way) for 20+ years.

I miss it ,and i miss the life, and none of what i enjoyed is ever coming back in the same form.

 

70s Marquee was still good. Saw AC/DC and Eddie and The Hot Rods in same week. 45p entrance I think.

Summer of 76 - great time to be young. Unfortunately ruined me for ever. 

[spygirl]

Sadiq Khan bucks national trend as Labour set to dominate in London

Polls suggest mayor will be re-elected as capital’s population does not reflect pro-Tory national mood

https://www.ft.com/content/f0ceb0b5-39f0-4b41-ae45-e169b1c7beda

Data from pollster YouGov suggest that across the UK, the ruling Conservatives enjoy about 44 per cent support, 11 points more than Labour. But London, for years a barometer of voters’ mood, “has shifted towards being a Labour city”, according to Tony Travers, director of the London School of Economics’ London research group.

 

Because theres few Brits actually working in London.

All foreign, public sector, retired etc.

All get huge subs on services compared to the rest of the UK.

Time to remove subsidies from London.

Bring in a HB cap - Ideally 400/m. But Id accept 800/m as a start.

 

 

 

[spygirl]

Can London reinvent itself after the pandemic?

Businesses and residents want a coherent vision for the UK capital’s recovery, but no return to ‘business as usual’

https://www.ft.com/content/952df035-d857-4c65-a91f-c33157eb0c14

More people have contracted Covid-19 and more have died from the virus in London than any other region; of 127,000 deaths nationally, nearly 15,000 were in the city. More jobs have been lost, with a 5.2 percentage point increase to 8.2 per cent in people claiming unemployment benefits or universal credit. More people have been furloughed too, a total of 710,800 by February — 2 per cent above the national average.

Many of those workers could yet join the ranks of the unemployed when the government eventually unwinds its job protection scheme later this year, one of several emergency buffers that have kept things in limbo but that, once withdrawn, could trigger a crisis. The extent of the damage has raised fundamental questions about London’s future and whether it can recover its 30-year trajectory. Beginning with the financial “big bang” of the mid-1980s, it has grown into one of the world’s foremost global cities, a world centre for finance, law, technology, culture and cuisine that has regularly contributed about a quarter of UK economic output.

[spygirl]

London started rising ,rapidly in ~1984ish, as chair were arranged for Big Bang.

Covid, although a biggy, is not the main problem for London.

Thats the rise on non Brits i..e no to few votes for Cons, and th fall of Rd Wall.

Cons are more likely to spend money outside of London.

Lodn residents do get massive spend relative to elsewhere on stuff like transport.

Chuck in stuff like HB, and London looks positive communist rather than capitalist.

 

 

[spygirl]

[spygirl]

Eehhh the ungrateful shortarse Northern oiks

Ant and Dec take aim at 'London-centric' television industry

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56993225

 

[spygirl]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9575635/More-80-40s-England-one-Covid-vaccine-dose.html

Almost like the population of London is totally different from the rest of the UK -selfish, backwards, not really british....

 

[Stuey]

Just now, spygirl said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9575635/More-80-40s-England-one-Covid-vaccine-dose.html

Almost like the population of London is totally different from the rest of the UK -selfish, backwards, not really british....

 

The effniks will be our saviour on this one IMO. 

[feed]

15 minutes ago, Stuey said:

The effniks will be our saviour on this one IMO. 

Diversity is strength

[spygirl]

'Levelling up' must be more targeted, say peers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57175982

 

 

In my adult life (30y) money has poured into London.

https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/01/09/the-coming-splurge-on-northern-infrastructure

 

he wait for a train at in North Yorkshire has been a long one. The station closed in 1930. Over the past 20 years, as the town has grown and traffic has clogged up the roads around York, various schemes have been proposed to reopen it. One even got the go-ahead in 2009 only to be put on hold again a year later. But since the general election, there has been a growing belief that the train will finally arrive.

Farther north, the former coal mining towns of Ashington and Blyth lost their railway links in the 1960s. On January 6th Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, popped up in Blyth announcing “we will get this line reopened”. Blyth elected a Tory mp for the first time last month and in neighbouring Ashington, the Labour majority fell from over 10,000 to just 800.

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Treasury insiders argue that the problem is not the economic analysis, but political decision-making. Transport projects related to London have a habit of getting approval ahead of others, even when the raw numbers suggest more value could be found outside of the capital. The most recent assessment of reopening Haxby station, for example, scored the benefit to cost ratio (bcr) at 3.0 and yet the scheme remains closed. By contrast, the extension of the Docklands Light rail to City Airport received a greenlight with a bcr of 1.7. A former Treasury official explains that ministers respond to pressure and that London-based businesses find it easiest to get heard. Chancellors are more likely to cross paths with a chief executive who wants a quicker journey from the airport to Canary Wharf than one troubled by congestion on the York ring-road.

 

 

 

Its bad enough when the spend is on Southern Brits but ....

‘My life’s on hold’: inside the UK’s hostile environment for hidden migrants

Hundreds of thousands of people survive on the margins of society

https://www.ft.com/content/c4379314-dbc3-4069-bcc1-f4cfac106d3c

*ALL* countries are fucking hostile to illegal migrants FFS.

These people have moved into one of the worlds most expensive cities and expect to be welcomed???

Yet their numbers seem to be swelling. Statistics on a group that is hidden are hard to come by, but the US’s Pew Research Center estimated that in 2017 the UK’s population of unauthorised migrants was between 800,000 and 1.2 million — a 56 per cent rise from its estimate 10 years earlier. More conservative estimates reach at least 600,000.

 

As a result, Britain has one of the highest proportions of unauthorised migrants in Europe — perhaps almost 2 per cent of the total population. Christine Bernard, headteacher of St Mary’s Church of England primary school, which some of Bilqis’s children have attended, estimates that at any one time about 15 or more of her 230 pupils — nearly 7 per cent — live with people who have no legal right to reside in the UK. The concentration is typical of poorer areas in big cities, especially London.

i trh head teacher wants to spend her own money teaching these kids then fine.

She needs to go to prison if shes spending public money FFS.

London public services are a vast make-work scheme for public sectors workers supplying very expense  services to a load of foreign  people.

These people need kicking out - or at least billing/

And the public sector need sacking if there no legally resident people to supply service to.

This is why:

2003:

https://www.economist.com/britain/2003/06/05/charles-clarke-fails-the-test

With schools returning from their half-term break, teachers across the country are discovering how many of their number are to be made redundant at the end of the term: present estimates indicate that it could be at least 800. But the real picture is much worse: there will be many unfilled vacancies, while support staff on short-term contracts will quietly disappear.

In the early 00s UK was so expensive the natives had fucked off out of London,. leaving part empty schools.

So the Labout cretins opened the gates to create work for their voter base.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Yadda yadda yadda]

18 minutes ago, spygirl said:

With schools returning from their half-term break, teachers across the country are discovering how many of their number are to be made redundant at the end of the term: present estimates indicate that it could be at least 800. But the real picture is much worse: there will be many unfilled vacancies, while support staff on short-term contracts will quietly disappear.

If I was being made redundant I would be please to know that there are unfilled vacancies in my field. Get made redundant, pocket tax free cash, get a new job easily. Lovely. Vacancies are the opposite of redundancy. Or are the vacancies in schools that teachers don't want to work at or subjects they aren't qualified to teach?

[spygirl]

1 minute ago, Yadda yadda yadda said:

If I was being made redundant I would be please to know that there are unfilled vacancies in my field. Get made redundant, pocket tax free cash, get a new job easily. Lovely. Vacancies are the opposite of redundancy. Or are the vacancies in schools that teachers don't want to work at or subjects they aren't qualified to teach?

This was 2003.

Those vacancies were outside if London, where the plebs without a cushy public sector job n weighting had moved to.

Or, worse, the North.

 

[spygirl]

Every now n then you get  glimpse of the real London

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9626125/Thousands-flood-Chinatown-vaccine-bus-advertised-Covid-jabs.html

 

[Siggy]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/27/traffic-lights-london-will-automatically-set-red/

The green revolution continues apace. Enjoy!

[The Generation Game]

12 hours ago, spygirl said:

Every now n then you get  glimpse of the real London

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9626125/Thousands-flood-Chinatown-vaccine-bus-advertised-Covid-jabs.html

 

Does the bus come back in a few weeks and provide second jabs and certificates for those without ID?

[satch]

12 hours ago, Siggy said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/27/traffic-lights-london-will-automatically-set-red/

The green revolution continues apace. Enjoy!

How to kill people in London – Lesson 1

Instead of children learning that roads are dangerous let’s change the way they cross the road.. Children are taught to cross where there are lights and check for the green man. If there is a red man wait until he turns green. In most cases at the crossing the little man will be red, children know to wait until he turns green and it is safe to cross. Mayor Khan has decided that the green man will always be on unless a car is approaching. Children will quickly learn that the man in always green and will stop checking … splat.

Translation for our London Viewers

Instead ah pickney learning dat roads a dangerous mek wi change to how dem cross di road. Pickney a taught tuh cross weh deh a lights an check fi di green mon. Eff deh a ah red mon wait he turn green.  Eena most case at di crossing di lickkle mon will bi red Pickney kno tuh wait until he turn green an eh a safe tuh cross. Mayor Khan hav decided dat di green mon will eva deh bi pan unless ah cyar a approach.  Pickney will quickly learn dat di mon eena eva deh green an will tap checkin … splat. .

How to kill people in London – Lesson 2

Introduce electric bikes capable of nearly 30mph in London where councils decided not to enforce the laws regarding cycling on pavements or footways to use the legal term or cycling in pedestrian areas. So in addition to normal cycles for pedestrians to be aware of there will now be silent running electric scooters and bikes travelling at high speed dodging in and around pedestrians. These bikes will be on the pavements but probably be capable of breaking the legal road speed limits.

Translation for our London Viewers

Not required as it is mainly white people who cycle

[MrLibertyRedux]

23 minutes ago, satch said:

How to kill people in London – Lesson 1

 

Instead of children learning that roads are dangerous let’s change the way they cross the road.. Children are taught to cross where there are lights and check for the green man. If there is a red man wait until he turns green. In most cases at the crossing the little man will be red, children know to wait until he turns green and it is safe to cross. Mayor Khan has decided that the green man will always be on unless a car is approaching. Children will quickly learn that the man in always green and will stop checking … splat.

Translation for our London Viewers

 

Instead ah pickney learning dat roads a dangerous mek wi change to how dem cross di road. Pickney a taught tuh cross weh deh a lights an check fi di green mon. Eff deh a ah red mon wait he turn green.  Eena most case at di crossing di lickkle mon will bi red Pickney kno tuh wait until he turn green an eh a safe tuh cross. Mayor Khan hav decided dat di green mon will eva deh bi pan unless ah cyar a approach.  Pickney will quickly learn dat di mon eena eva deh green an will tap checkin … splat. .

 

How to kill people in London – Lesson 2

 

Introduce electric bikes capable of nearly 30mph in London where councils decided not to enforce the laws regarding cycling on pavements or footways to use the legal term or cycling in pedestrian areas. So in addition to normal cycles for pedestrians to be aware of there will now be silent running electric scooters and bikes travelling at high speed dodging in and around pedestrians. These bikes will be on the pavements but probably be capable of breaking the legal road speed limits.

Translation for our London Viewers

 

Not required as it is mainly white people who cycle

Outstanding.