Death Of London

[spygirl]

And ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12389745/Police-launch-crackdown-threat-Oxford-Street-TikTok-crime-wave-Officers-arrest-youths-outside-McDonalds-cops-ramp-patrols-shopping-district-viral-social-media-posts-urged-followers-rob-JD-Sports.html

 

[Bien Pensant]

11 minutes ago, Ash4781b said:

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/08/khan-tells-people-to-shun-nonsense-tiktok-craze-on-oxford-street
 

“The force said it is aware of online speculation “about opportunities to commit crime around Oxford Street”.

A dispersal order has been put in place from 11am on Tuesday to 10am on Thursday, giving police officers the power to exclude people from the area for 48 hours. Anyone who does not comply can be arrested.”

What on earth was this all about? 

Probably nothing but IIRC this was actually how the 2011 riots started.

Edited August 9, 2023 by Bien Pensant

[spygirl]

It's all black people.

 

[Errol]

5 minutes ago, spygirl said:

It's all black people.

London mostly is now. Whites are the minority.

Edited August 9, 2023 by Errol

[Calcutta]

The glory days for shoplifting on Oxford Street were back when the buses were still open at the back.

By the time security have realised the alarms are going off you're already gone. 

Edited August 9, 2023 by Calcutta
Fucking phone.

[Yadda yadda yadda]

48 minutes ago, Bien Pensant said:

Probably nothing but IIRC this was actually how the 2011 riots started.

Not how they started but how they spread. I understand blackberry messenger was the method of choice back then. These days there is a whole smorgasbord of apps to choose from. Some supposedly encrypted, some not.

[Bien Pensant]

4 minutes ago, Yadda yadda yadda said:

Not how they started but how they spread.

Well, there was that shooting but, IIRC, it was being reported that people were talking about using it as an opportunity for "going out to eat", which, apparently, meant 'looting', and that's really what the bulk of people were doing.

[Calcutta]

24 minutes ago, Bien Pensant said:

Well, there was that shooting but, IIRC, it was being reported that people were talking about using it as an opportunity for "going out to eat", which, apparently, meant 'looting', and that's really what the bulk of people were doing.

The police were fucked off with Theresa May.

After the shooting they had a little bit of trouble at one station and instead of handling it they just ran away and hid.

Gave the green light for people all over the country to try it. The police kept hiding and let it happen.

They only decided they should put a stop to it on the 3rd night when videos started being posted of large groups of white men armed with baseball bats etc going to settle it themselves.

The police force has been sacrificed to diversity in the time since. AFAIK so have a lot of inner cities. So I don't know how it would play out this time.

 

[honkydonkey]

23 hours ago, Calcutta said:

 

The police force has been sacrificed to diversity in the time since. AFAIK so have a lot of inner cities. So I don't know how it would play out this time.

 

I'm looking forward to finding out. 

[Talking Monkey]

1 hour ago, honkydonkey said:

I'm looking forward to finding out. 

The cops will have no chance this time round. A lot of noodle armed coppers are going to get found out. As for the wimmin coppers, oooof. 

[Virgil Caine]

On 09/08/2023 at 23:23, Calcutta said:

The police were fucked off with Theresa May.

After the shooting they had a little bit of trouble at one station and instead of handling it they just ran away and hid.

Gave the green light for people all over the country to try it. The police kept hiding and let it happen.

They only decided they should put a stop to it on the 3rd night when videos started being posted of large groups of white men armed with baseball bats etc going to settle it themselves.

The police force has been sacrificed to diversity in the time since. AFAIK so have a lot of inner cities. So I don't know how it would play out this time.

 

In London it is almost nailed on that there will be inter ethnic violence between different immigrant groups if there is rioting. There was a fair bit of it in 2011 but the mainstream press did not cover it. 

https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2011/08/09/turkish-shopkeepers-stand-firm-rioters-dalston-hackney/

 

[spygirl]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12508057/Big-Smack-Moment-two-women-brawl-ugly-clash-Leicester-Square-fight-carries-inside-McDonalds-restaurant.html

I can see her slip ...

 

[One percent]

49 minutes ago, spygirl said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12508057/Big-Smack-Moment-two-women-brawl-ugly-clash-Leicester-Square-fight-carries-inside-McDonalds-restaurant.html

I can see her slip ...

 

Pikies.  

[Stuey]

44 minutes ago, spygirl said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12508057/Big-Smack-Moment-two-women-brawl-ugly-clash-Leicester-Square-fight-carries-inside-McDonalds-restaurant.html

I can see her slip ...

 

There's just no reason to be out and about past 7pm these days. 

[spygirl]

Emptying Canary Wharf: How the financial district's iconic tower blocks are increasingly unoccupied as it struggles to bounce back from Covid and the WFH boom

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12597099/Canary-Wharf-offices-unoccupied-Covid-WFH.html

[Chewing Grass]

2 minutes ago, spygirl said:

Emptying Canary Wharf: How the financial district's iconic tower blocks are increasingly unoccupied as it struggles to bounce back from Covid and the WFH boom

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12597099/Canary-Wharf-offices-unoccupied-Covid-WFH.html

More like being found out, AI'd, and hollowed out.

[AWW]

On 10/08/2023 at 23:55, Talking Monkey said:

The cops will have no chance this time round. A lot of noodle armed coppers are going to get found out. As for the wimmin coppers, oooof. 

I know a woman copper who was on TSG at the time of the London riots and cracked plenty of skulls. She said that's what she had to do, because if she got into a wrestle with 80% of blokes, she'd lose. She took great glee in recounting a story of how she found three youths in the Brixton branch of Currys during the riots - she left on foot, they all went home in ambulances. There was a good photo of the aftermath in one of the papers, but I can't find it now.

The rank and file were all well up for a scrap.

[wherebee]

12 hours ago, AWW said:

I know a woman copper who was on TSG at the time of the London riots and cracked plenty of skulls. She said that's what she had to do, because if she got into a wrestle with 80% of blokes, she'd lose. She took great glee in recounting a story of how she found three youths in the Brixton branch of Currys during the riots - she left on foot, they all went home in ambulances. There was a good photo of the aftermath in one of the papers, but I can't find it now.

The rank and file were all well up for a scrap.

100% correct.

WERE

[Bilbo]

London hasn't got a chance with Khan

 

Edited December 5, 2023 by Bilbo

[snaga]

17 minutes ago, Bilbo said:

London hasn't got a chance with Khan

 

never asked someone what they think, it's a free hit to the person to say whatever they like.

Better to ask "Is London safer" not "do you think London is safer".

If they say "London is safer"  when it's demonstrably not, then you can at least accuse the person of lying, possibly even of perjury if under oath?

but you can't disprove what someone "thinks". 

 

 

[spygirl]

Ɓack to the office last week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67883173

WFH this week.

I don't think the Unions have grasped they are digging their grave.

[onlyme]

9 minutes ago, spygirl said:

Ɓack to the office last week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67883173

WFH this week.

I don't think the Unions have grasped they are digging their grave.

Now they know loads more money coming in from the disgusting ULEZ green tax they want some of it.

 

[Bien Pensant]

I wonder whether the new-towns will link up to form a rival economic centre, a Greenbelt Powerhouse, so to speak.

There's been a proposal to build some sort of public transport system, as yet undefined but probably a tram, linking towns in Hertfordshire and Essex together and another to build a tram system spanning the river in the Thames Gateway area.

There's quite a bit of abandoned/underused railway that could be used for the western alignment. From Rickmansworth to Broxbourne there's almost continuous trackbed: the Metropolitan line chord from Rickmansworth to Croxley ; the abandoned BR branch from Croxley to Watford Junction ; the Abbey Line from Watford Junction to St Albans ; the former rail line, now Alban Way, from St Albans to Hatfield ; a branch line from Hertford to Broxbourne. And then, plenty of open fields to, say, Harlow, Brentwood and Grays, where it could join up with the Thames Gateway project to Ebbsfleet International.

Such a scheme would make travelling around the periphery of London much simpler and facilitate interchanges between a huge number of rail and tube lines: the Chiltern branch to Aylesbury (which may ultimately be included in the East West Rail, 'Varsity Line', project, linking Oxford and Cambridge) ; the Metropolitan Line ; the Bakerloo Line ; the London Overground ; the West Coast Main Line ; the East Coast Main Line ; the Great Northern route ; the West Anglia Main Line ; maybe the Central Line via a reopened Epping to Ongar line ; the Elizabeth Line, the Great Eastern Main Line ; the London, Tilbury and Southend line ; the Chatham Main Line ; and HS1 to the Continent.

It would also create a new Metroland and, for many people, remove the need to go into London and its general shitness altogether.

The depressing thing is that it's such a no-brainer and you know that China would have done it yesterday. We, by contrast, won't be able to do anything until after teleportation is commonplace because we'll be expected to literally spend a generation bikeshedding the effects on the view from some building where a medieval warlord once farted or commissioning 'experts' to tell us whether or not the birds can just fly somewhere else.

Edited January 8 by Bien Pensant

[Rare Bear]

22 hours ago, onlyme said:

Now they know loads more money coming in from the disgusting ULEZ green tax they want some of it.

 

And with the election coming up they have Khan by the short and curlys.

[spygirl]

Look at those smart, hard working 1990s traders - 

 

2020s - Jane STreet, hwo are hovering up all the money and winning

 

It’s a Jane Street world

We’re all just its counterparties

https://www.ft.com/content/c5dcaa5a-22eb-4283-8721-d7fdb3c95250

We got another reminder of that overnight from Bloomberg News, which has gotten its mitts on some financials that the otherwise secretive Jane Street revealed as part of its borrowing programme: Jane Street Group LLC reeled in $7.3 billion of net trading revenue in the first nine months of last year, as the proprietary trading giant benefited from market swings and an expansion of its products.

The figures — disclosed to investors as part of a debt deal — also showed the company expected to generate $3 billion to $3.5 billion of net trading revenue in the fourth quarter, according to people familiar with the matter.

That would bring it close to the $10.7 billion it made in the full year of 2022, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private information. . . . The firm’s total trading revenue for the first three quarters of 2023 was more than $15 billion, after accounting for dividends and interest among other items, the people said. It also delivered about $4.9 billion of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization during that period, compared to $7.9 billion for the full year 2022, according to the people. Jane Street estimated fourth quarter Ebitda in the $2.2 billion to $2.7 billion range, which would put the full-year figure around $7.1 billion to $7.6 billion, less than the year prior.

Those are gobsmacking numbers for a small trading firm that is still virtually a cipher even in swaths of the finance industry. The more widely-known Citadel Securities reportedly generated revenues of about $7.5bn in 2022, and $4.5bn in the nine months through September 2023. Wot losers.

For comparison, Coalition Greenwich estimates that the entire combined revenues of the bond, currency, commodity and equities trading businesses of -deep breath- Bank of America, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, SocGen, UBS/CS and Wells Fargo will clock in at about $141bn this year. In other words, Jane Street alone makes about 7 per cent of the revenues of the combined trading armies of Wall Street’s biggest firms.