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Things were so much better in the 70's says Red Ken
Failed and depressed former London Mayor Ken Livingstone has finally woken up to reality and admits Britain had got worse under the last Labour Government – Britain was better in the 1970s under Margaret Thatcher mused Ken.
For once I agree with Red Ken. London today is unrecognisable to the London of the 70's. Labour's nightmare vision of a multi-ethnic, multicultural ghetto has come to fruition, and even Red Ken doesn't much care for it.
Gone are the days when an Englishman can call England home, and gone are the days when the British working man could rely on British jobs and affordable housing. Thanks to a decade of New Labour, only immigrants and the very rich have flourished in London.
You reap what you sow Ken, so it's no good begging for forgiveness, because all of Thatchers hard work was undone by your lot in a long campaign of social engineering and e-cleansing. Complain all you want Mr Livingstone, but it's all too little too late. Britain R.I.P
For once I agree with Red Ken. London today is unrecognisable to the London of the 70's. Labour's nightmare vision of a multi-ethnic, multicultural ghetto has come to fruition, and even Red Ken doesn't much care for it.
Gone are the days when an Englishman can call England home, and gone are the days when the British working man could rely on British jobs and affordable housing. Thanks to a decade of New Labour, only immigrants and the very rich have flourished in London.
You reap what you sow Ken, so it's no good begging for forgiveness, because all of Thatchers hard work was undone by your lot in a long campaign of social engineering and e-cleansing. Complain all you want Mr Livingstone, but it's all too little too late. Britain R.I.P
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Are you certain? I could have sworn 1979 was in the 70's.
Brentmeister27 I still call England home.
Anyway - since I'm a product of the London multicultural ghetto, (where my Jamaican father and Irish mother met in the 70s
And if you think immigration started in 1997 you are even more clueless.
Yes Pope, it was the good old days before those free market right wingers buggered everything up.
Crackin post, absolute bollocks, but quite funny all the same,
I was 26 in 1979 whe "she" came to power, and brought to an end the best years of my life,
By the way,...Edward Heath, British Prime Minister: 1970-74 Tory,
Wilson (1974-76) and Callaghan (1976-79) Labour,
the full and devastating effects of 'Thatcherism' (on the 'industrial' working class) weren't felt until the 80s were under way,
I know this, because I LIVED through it and still remember, and will never forget the sheer soul destroying misery and the devastating effect she had on me, my family, and almost everyone I know/knew, as she waged class warfare against the working class,
So yeah, I can totally agree, life 'before Thatcher' "BT" was better for that working class of this great nation, than it was 'after Thatcher' "AT"
But I think it has very little to do with immigration, no matter how much you wish it had,
May 4th 1979 - but I somehow doubt he was referring to May - Dec 1979 but more likely 1974-1979 when we had first had a Labour government and then the Lib/Lab pact - and I think he is wrong that it was better. (IMHO)
In 1972 the electoral system was reformed to introduce single-member constituencies for the election after the 1973 contest, and extend the term of office to four years. Labour fought the 1973 election on a strongly socialist platform and won with 57 seats to 33 for the Conservatives. The Liberals won two seats.
The GLC's hopes under the Labour administration of Reg Goodwin were badly affected by the oil crisis of 1974. Massive inflation which when combined with the GLC's £1.6 billion debt led to heavy rate increases (200% in total before the next election in 1977) and unpopular budget cuts. Some months before the 1977 elections the Labour Group began to split. A left group, including Ken Livingstone, denounced the election manifesto of the party.
Such happy days,
....that's about it.
Only before 1975
Once punk came in it went rapidly downhill
I tried gettin' one of them "Darkie Cards" from Amazon....it was all going swimmingly until they asked fo photo ID. Bollocks !
That's me stuck with the fish n chips then ! Bugger.
On a recent trip to London I was accosted at least a dozen times from drugged up Jamaicans, creepy Nigerians and dodgy Romanians offering meth, crack cocaine, skunk and East-european (cheap cheap). Of course, being a decent, upstanding citizen I declined the offers and moved swiftly on.
Away from central London I noticed a plethora of Hookah bars, kebab shops, halal butchers, Masjids and clothing stores selling burkhas and Islamic head gear. I regret my days visiting London are now long over.
I don't.
Incidentally, how can they be "now long over", if you made "a recent trip"?
Maybe you should go to a nicer part of town. I was walking down Hampstead High Street and up Parliament Hill the other weekend and didn't notice any of this
Really? I get offered drugs on the street maybe once a week. I say no and get on with my life. Where were you when you were offered drugs at least 12 times by this seven-nation army?
And how did they 'accost' you? Because smart dealing technique is usually to mumble 'skunk, skunk, coke, coke' as pedestrians go past, not step out in front of someone and stop them from walking on, which is likely to attract police attention quite quickly.
Needless to say, there are a few elements to this tale that makes me think you're lying. Shocker!
Where on earth were you in London to go through this - I have lived there for 15 years and never been offered anything like this.
You will tend to meet these sort of people when cruising the streets looking for a 'temporary female companion'.
Must just be the way you look, never happened to me and I am in London every week. I did get offered coke once on a street corner but that was by some wide boy cockney type. My mate brought some only to find out later it was chalk powder
From your link..
It's nice that you agree with him but I have to say I'm a bit surprised.