I saw the changes happening when I was a Black Cab driver between 1974 and 2016. I got the f*ck out of there in 2006 and commuted from west Cornwall to work weekends only for my last 10 years. One of my last passengers before I retired, an Australian visitor, told me that I was the first actual Brit that she had met in the 2 weeks she had been there on holiday.
Lived in Peckham in 1973, you could not pay me to go back. Last time at Heathrow an African 'border force' officer demanded - where you come from? going through immigration. mm I could have well asked him the same question.
I was born in London but my family moved when I was still very young. I often returned to London and always had this feeling of returning home. In the last few years I've grown to absolutely despise the place and once I'm in London, I just cannot wait to leave and that saddens me.
Thank you Simon for pointing out the hidden additional population in London. There is a huge additional population in the UK that the census did not pick up which some people reckon is 20 million or more. Some evidence such as sewage outfalls and the level of house price inflation strongly suggest a true UK population of around 92 million.
The 'unofficial' population of at least 85,000,000 dates back to 2015. Evidently that figure was based on actual food consumption bought that year in Tesco's by their in house analysts. Frightening especially as other supermarkets are available. So fast forward to 2022 an unofficial UK population of at least 90,000,000 would appear very reasonable. Based on the fact that "officially" around 13% of the population live in Greater London (The City & London Borough's Of) that make the population of London currently at least 11,960,000. Looking at heaving masses of people & volume of traffic in South East London that would not surprise me one iota. Best thing about London nowadays is the getting the hell out of there as quickly as possible back to the outer Shires & Folk's as far as I am concerned.
I am currently in the process of moving out of London, cannot wait. I went through a period several years ago where I had to move house quite a lot and was forced into accommodation with Polish and other Eastern European nationalities. There were sometimes up to 15 people in a 5 bedroom house (living room was also converted into a bedroom as was the conservatory). I reckon the population of London alone is pushing 15 million
It's a certainty that law and order will break down. Fortunately it will also affect those that think mass immigration is a great thing, until it arrives on their street
Back in the fifties we had a school outing by rail from Yorkshire to London we were mightily impressed Museum land. Buck house , Downing street, even a trip on the Thames , The capital city gave us a sense of pride . I wouldn`t give you tuppence for the place now .
I was walking in London and was a bit lost so I tried asking the way to a station , nobody I asked spoke English, until I asked a Polish bus inspector who helped me out.
Very sad. My daughter has a British friend who moved to the states. My daughter said she always wanted to visit London. Her friend said don't bother, it is no longer London.
Yes it is true that London is bursting at the seems, I live on the border of Finchley and Mill Hill, and Mill Hill has been designated as an area of high housing development, there once stood an Army Barracks in Mill Hill and today thousands and thousands of new builds have completely changed the area, open land is disappearing at an alarming rate all over this part of north London, God knows what is happening in other more central areas! the sad situation is also that these new builds are are erected so quickly that they will be slums in a few years!
Yes and once back in the late 1970s worked in Building Regs and since then have either for my self, relatives and friends checked out new builds. The decline of building standards in terms of life expectancy, quality, site organization, checking and the skills of those building such builds is just beyond belief in how bad they are now. I know the Engineer I was a junior to back then would have just not have passed such builds, he would as I once witnessed condemn and have it knocked down and started again. The only time that happened was when we went out to check the roof trusses on a Muslim centre in Hyson Green, Nottingham.
I visited Tottenham a few years ago. It looks like the area still hasn't recovered from the 2011 riots. A man git stabbef not far from where I was sleeping and I haven't even been back in the country since let alone London. A shame as there does seem to be a lot of genuine, hard-working Englishman in the city. Granted, I don't talk to people from Mayfair and the likes, but every Englishman that I know who has left has said that the city has turned into a shit-hole. Sadly I don't think that there's any way back for London anytime soon as if you even try to speak up about it you can lose your job for being "racist". It really does feel like 1984 .....
I was born in Plasitow many years ago . We lived in custom house , it was a great community and I had a great childhood. I went to Hallsville school . It never seemed busy to me then . I went back about 5 years ago . It was dirty , overcrowded, noisy and felt dangerous. I left sharply. I also didn’t see one white face .
I remember a few years back when Jim Callaghan was PM. Either he or one of his ministers was accused by an Indian government official of not treating Indian migrants fairly. The reply came that stated it was just not possible to fit half the population of India into South London.
Having visited Hong Kong about twelve times between 2013-2019 I was always impressed by the civilised atmosphere (closely resembling London up to around the 1960's-70's) and the low crime figures (also comparable with London as it used to be). Now look at what purports to be the 'English' Capital today! I'm in close contact with a delightful Hong Konger who, like many of her compatriots, came to the UK when Hong Kong started losing its 'British' identity only to discover that the same had happened to London. Her disappointment is nothing compared with the outrage of indigenous Londoners who haven't yet been able to get the hell out of the place.
@s Coronavirus is a immigrant from that part of the world ( East Asia) if we recall , not everything from that part of the world is a gold encrusted trinket, unless you like that sort of thing, or have a fetish for a little China doll, as some white men do.
The UK has the second highest population density in Europe after Holland. Yet the liberal message is that we must take evermore immigrants as our “fair share” to keep up with other countries. What is the definition of “fair” in their eyes? What is the point at which we have done our fair share? When we have the same population density as Macau? When did we agree to that? I don’t remember. Put it to a democratic vote and see what the outcome is.
I remember Diane Abbott on Question Time in 2015 at the start of the migrant crisis complaining that “we are not taking our fair share”. Sensible people don’t share shit out - they flush it down the toilet into the sewer where it belongs.
It's only going to get worse as we've seen already the near collapse of the NHS and the sewage treatment works which are already over loaded not to mention the schools
I remember visiting London on school trips throughout the 80s and early 90s, and back then it was an enjoyable experience, but nowadays the capital seems more like a giant overbearing monster, which is a great shame. (Some others from up north have described London as another country...I live just 50 miles away and think the same thing!) ...It's great that you mentioned Bodgers department store in Ilford, as I delivered a van there when I worked for a vehicle hire company. (They became part of a furniture supplier based in my home town, as it happens). That leads me to your mentioning of housing. I think the same problem exists throughout the country, as my home town is like a massive building site at times. Trouble is, a lot of them here get snapped up by outsider speculators who just rent them out to tourists who come to visit a hoyty-toyty designer outlet on the town's outskirts. (Housing shortage? What housing shortage?!)
I recently priced a job in central London and was curious on my second visit as to why it was so quiet in the building. I asked the concierge how many flats were in the building, he replied “26, but only 4 are occupied full time” Foreign ownership is ruining the city and artificially inflating prices, not to mention the vast number of empty buildings that are mothballed by wealthy investors.
I was born in Charlton in 67, live in Greenwich now, English parents, grandparents, great grandparents etc. London, is not English anymore, the demographic change is enormous, it is the cultural destruction of a country. We are pushed out of homes, pushed out of jobs, the back of the queue and we were never, ever asked if we wanted this. We had legal immigration far lower than the number crossing the channel for decades, we didn't want millions from the EU, didn't want millions from Africa, Asia, Windrush was for their benefit not ours, it is always for their benefit and not ours. London is lost, the country is lost, immigration figures tomorrow will show just how bad things have got and they won't ever get better because we won't get rid of those that come here.
💯. They want a low wage service based economy so they saturate the labour market with low/semi skilled people while sinking us more into debt through more borrowing and having artificially low interest rates. The UK is a good textbook example when plutocratic elites take over and ruin a country before moving on to the next one.
@@Africa1000 Difference is Aboriginies get special minority privileges now, white English people will have no special minority privileges, even when we become the minority.
I have lived and worked in London (including Kensington) a few times over the years, the earliest being the early 80s and the last in early 2000s. The difference between the two in number and demographic of the population is astonishing, especially in East and South-East London. I never liked being in the place anyway, but the last time I was there it was more like visiting another country.
Next time you hear that 15 minute cities are required to maintain sustainability just remember that the same people are saying that the free movement of people is a positive thing Next time you hear that the same people claiming they can save the planet from global emissions are the same people incapable of preserving a green belt Next time you hear that the same people saying that you should stop eating meat and consume bugs are richer than ever before. On that note I’ll leave you with a pun. It’s all food for thought
@@theenglishman8668 there is a valid concern, regarding the creation of a redundant class by increasingly advanced AI. There’s arguably major environmental concerns and concerns regarding the spread of WMD ( something which few talk about now) but I just don’t believe the leadership and their objectives coincide with seriously dealing with these issues. In fact in my view their cure’s seems more harmful than the actual diagnosis, a bit like a Dr telling you to smoke more to clear your lungs
I can relate. Living in a red state in America, I've seen my little town become more like Atlanta. It used to be almost rural, but now it's clogged with traffic and more people than I've ever seen. People from all over the US, especially blue states, are pouring into this small area, which has lesser tax rates. You can't take any little back road or alley without being in a traffic jam. They're building houses by the thousands, and nobody builds on the south side of town, everybody builds up here on the north side. I think the land is cheaper. It's disgusting. Makes me want to live way out in the country.
@@rosanneshinkle4133 When I was younger, and even just a few years ago, the thought of living in the country was repugnant. I thought how lonely and isolated that would be; no excitement.. Now I seek it!
True. I still casually wonder if you anonymously polled all Native Brits (or any native Europeans in Europe) asking whether they support what's happening I suspect that the vast majority would say no. Then it's amazing to think that a civilization has destroyed itself with essentially no one wantimg it destroyed.... But the decision was still made. It's a rather unique social and historic time we are going through.
A trip to London from the provinces was an exicitng adventure in the 1970s. Express buses or the train took you there in an hour or two. Iconic destinations beckoned and friendly Londoners abounded. All that has evaporated, save for misguided foreign tourists who haven't caught up yet. I haven't been to London in decades and have no plans to go ever again.
Last time I visited London was in 1987. The time before that was around 1976. I could see a lot of changes in that time. I have no plans to visit again, unless it's to collect my lottery winnings, or if I need a specialist hospital that's not available anywhere else! London in the sixties was lived in and familiar. Now, it's an inhospitable place where you dare not look at anyone for fear of 'offending' them with your eyes.
@Levis Ludus Yeah, because there is no crime in London. London is not the most dangerous city in England, but the whole of the UK. There is little to no knife crime now. It is perfectly safe to walk the streets at night, safe in the knowledge that you will not be mugged, stabbed, or "grabbed" by anyone. It is a haven for the meek and mild. Everywhere you go, there are literal rainbows welcoming you to their sweet and pleasing land, and you don't even have to agree with their religion for them to accept you into their warm and friendly embrace. Sorry, I thought today was the opposite day. My mistake.
@@ronnietexan wow' what a meek attempt at sarcasm, I dont think for one moment anyone believes London isn't grappling with issues that afflict most megacities.
But anyone who doesn't want every town and village in the uk , becoming as overcrowded and diverse as London, is deemed a rascit, once you reach a certain point, how can more and more people add to the quality of life
Having been borne in Hackney, London 1953, parents moved out when I was five, I moved back to work there in 1978 for five years, ditto 1999 and have not been back since, so I totally agree with you about the state of London from the 1950s to the 1990s. Since then have watched much news, documentaries and many TH-cams showing what life is like now and the number of migrant people in the streets - no way is London any more British.
Hackney is becoming more Gentrified and mostly white English professionals are moving in and displacing the immigrants.Hackney is nothing like it was in the eighties and the nineties.
I read in an article a few months ago that a plan to build an estate and associated infrastructure in west London, had been thwarted at the planning stage. This was due to the fact that the electricity supplier said they were unable to supply sufficient power to the new build and it would need a major investment costing huge sums of money to fix the problem. Maybe, if this is replicated across the country, it will bring a halt to expansion. I’m sure this infrastructure problem applies equally to other services such as water, drainage, gas etc.
In my country tower blocks are a rarity, they are demolishing tower blocks left and right and building single family housing now. I can't believe that the British are actually repeating the mistakes we should have learned from half a century ago. It's like all the disadvantages of urbanisation without the advantages.
Tells it how it is. A true patriot and historian. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting this. It's like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. I learn today from the BBC website that more than a fifth of student visas went to Nigerians - with half going to partners and children. Nigerians had more family visas than any other nationality. This foreign student racket is now the preferred method to bypass the points based immigration system. And they wonder why there's a chronic housing shortage and why no one can get a GP/dental appointment or a place in primary school.
They will find another way for sure to come and remember at immigration counters they too are immigrants so will let them through its a people trafficking operation fact many immigration officers have been bribed to let certain people through on certain flights arriving fact .
In 1979 I bought a flat in Islington on a mortgage subsidised by the Greater London Council and offered only to those who worked in central London ..... a place that became a ghost town after 7pm when city workers caught the train to the suburbs. As a result pubs, restaurants and shops were closing by the droves as there wasn't enough business to sustain them ...... hard to imagine now.
If you compare the 1981 and 2021 census for London you will see how much the city has changed. While the population has increased by about 4 million, the number of native British has dropped by approx 1.7 million. Food for thought.
Sadly for Bristol, it has become an overflow for London ... in particular Hackney and similar areas. The effects on Bristol are noticeably similar to those occurring in London ...
The centre of Tokyo is definitely more crowded than London if you go by people in the street. However, in Tokyo people self-organise, so that there are distinct flows leading to stations, stores or cinemas. Moving along the pavement there is one flow on one side and the opposite flow on the other. All this makes moving about relatively less stressful than London, where you can guarantee that someone will walk across your path every five seconds. The difference is that in Tokyo everyone (except a handful of Westerners) is Japanese.
The Japanese understand efficency on a fundamental level. Japanese cities aren't beautiful but they've avoided most of the problems we have in the West.
Because the British keep voting into power complete morons who lie and destroy our country. They keep saying diversity and more diversity. In reality its making London a shit hole.
@Stephen Varcoe Have you taken the time to do a Google Earth search of some of the London suburbs? It's quite eye opening. There is a huge proliferation in the number of extensions and back gardens built over. Loft and cellar conversions cannot be seen. Someone on another channel brought this to my attention. Evola ^ might spare some time to fill in the blanks, but he's not noted as being particularly conversational. I'm off to swap out a hot water cylinder's expansion vessel for a customer with a house in multiple occupation. The landlord is struggling to make ends meet from his tenants, but therein is another story. I've discussed his options for remedying this, but he is resolute that SERCO will not be one of them.
I believe Islington is one the most densely populated areas in Europe - awful place to be now compared to even 15 yrs ago, like London generally.. only getting busier
Just on a point of information, Simon, most of Hong Kong, where I live, is mountainous. The inhabitable area is quite small . to take district as you did, Mong Kok has a population density of 130,000 per sq. km.
About 10 years ago I returned to North London, as I was born there just after the war.I hadn't been there for many years and was curious as to how it may have changed. The first shock I had was thst a large playing field or rec, as we called it, had been built on.This was the size of about two football pitches and it now had blocks of flats built on it. Like most of the kids in that area,I spent hours there, particularly during the school holidays.I recall games of football being played on almost every part of the park,especially on nice sunny days. A thought crossed my mind - where do youngsters go to let off steam in that area ? I then went to look at another park and that too had been built on. Our kids have nowhere to play, so they spend all their spare time on their laptops.Then we wonder why we have an obesity crisis?
Already happened, my formerly, small rural town is expanding like crazy and engulfing nearby villages. Lots of people of a different hue, wandering around in town centre, daytime. Clearly, none of them work. "Vey narce living Englan"
@@brianbadonde8700 never it’s a wide expanse here. People are still on heating oil here as the houses are so dispersed. I think we are safe for a few more generations at least.
I went to Hong Kong back in 2002. I liked the energy of the place and was knocked backed by it (being my first time to the Far East and I remember thinking how crowded it was. Thought London was bad but atleast not that bad as in HK with its crowds everywhere BUT now (certainly central London) is getting similarly crowded. As someone once said "over stimulating"
No definitely not up to speed overfilled by this rodents and they are stealing electricity hooking up dangerous connections to outdoor ghetto shanties .
I remember when 'overspill' from London came into Milton Keynes in the 70,S 80,s They have cleared out our people, and stuffed it full of the third world and anyone who they can im so sad about it London has been destroyed What a lovely place it used to be
Where i live they are building hideous skyscrapers left right and centre which when done tastefully can be exciting and cool. No such luck here. The council in a rare moment of sanity rejected some rabbit hutch flats. But the fucking government swooped in on appeal and approved them. Ive now lost some lovely evening sun from my garden due to them insisting on massive people hives. What annoys me the most is that the government arent just reacting to a natural population explosion but reacting to something they have caused and in doing so making other peoples lives miserable.
Speaking of tower blocks, I'm sure in the 1980s we were told this was not a good idea for social housing and many older blocks were demolished. Now our treacherous government are rebuilding them on an incredible scale in every bit of space they can. Over crowding causes anti social behaviour and much more crime.
Whilst London is naturally going to be ahead of the curve in such regards, it unfortunately the case that this situation is one which is being "worked towards" in all of our cities. In my own locality, the option to expand outwards has been taken. For the first time in several decades, this has seen rural areas lost to development (usually in the form of ugly, identikit housing).
It seems to me that most cities were a response to the Industrial Revolution, -- places to keep the workers overnight. People flooded in from the countryside where they had previously been growing food, and became dependant on shops for all their needs. This mass movement of people has given rise to many of the problems we see today, and given the reduction of industry and the pressing need to provide more of its food, I wonder if Britain would not be well advised to reverse this movement and create smaller, self-sufficient rural communities ?
In 1939 London population was 8.5 million, by 1981 London population went down to 6.8 million, in 2022 Londonstan population has accelerated up to 9.5 million that's near 3 million people in just 41 years, all down to mass immigration.
@@Africa1000 Thousands visit Tyneside every week. When I'm in the Town at Weekend, i hear accents from all over Britain. We Geordie's are famous for our freindly nature's. We also are famous for taking no sh*t from mouthy a** h*les!
It's like rush hour all the time, where are the people going, what is their purpose, they are obviously not working, just driving around, years ago in day the roads were empty including pedestrians, everyone was at work or school 👹💸💰🤮
Good morning Simon I remember London of old during 1970 s 1980 s great times no trouble no violence but unfortunately this has now changed and unfortunately for the WORSE.
You only have to get on the DLR Docklands Light Railway where I live at King George V station, and get on a train to Bank Station. There are literally dozens of new multi storey buildings crammed alongside the railway as you go along, that have recently been built, and many more multi storey buildings everywhere you look. London is getting to the point where you wont able to get anywhere, because of the massive population explosion
With all these people building in number. Eventually the system that's in place to process wastewater and provide potable water to residences and businesses. Will become so over burdened that it will fail to provide this necessary service. Of course there are other systems that keep a city civilized and they are likely to fail as well.
in 1981 i was lucky enough to have a holiday in Hong Kong i found this to be a fascinating place, you mention crowded conditions and i would say they were much more populated at that time than London. The accomodation that residents had was very small due to high costs and limited space but people spent much of their time in the amazing shopping malls and eating out, certainly a 24/7 place and they had money to spend. I guess that high rise building will have increased since then and no doubt the population. If you walk around the expensive areas of London, Kensington,Chelsea Mayfair etc you can find beautiful houses, quite peaceful and open spaces there is certainly nothing like that in Hong Kong every square foot is used!!
When will they ever learn? Never. The ways of avoiding such problems of urban planning and the subsequent chaos are known. But Ideology triumphs over reason.
I'm glad I'm in my sixties and was around to see our country ( including London) when it was a great place to be brought up in and live. My heart aches for my grandchildren who will grow up in an a completely different Britain who will have far fewer opportunities for a decent life than my generation had, all because of immigration - illegal or otherwise.
I endorse this video, I lived and worked in London . 80s and 90s. Decreasing population benefits, So easy to get work and buy a house. We were protected by Russian Iron curtain, and strong strict immigration to stop effluent flooding in from France.
I wonder how the infrastructure can support this many people. Wasnt London built with infrastructure to support about 2.5 million people? I thought this was why the Thames overflows with sewage during parts of the year with the heaviest rains? They are still adding more housing?
Like Japanese Knotweed. Once it gets a foothold it devastates local ecosystems, turning once beautiful localities into beastly messes. Ironically its a case of new species creating less diversity because it obliterates the original web of life. One has to be very persistent and quite brutal to get rid of it, and even then it takes many years for a more balanced ecosystem to reestablish, and it's never the same.
It's all about population density, France could double its population and still have a lower population density than the UK. We don't need more people to work, there are plenty of lazy people here already who need to have there benefits cut and forced to work.
What was that they were saying about the need to reduce population? Over population or some such nonsense? Climate change? Funny how it’s only white people, a global minority, that they advocate this for. Just look at their precious minority countries. Billions of people. They multiply like Mogwi: Just add water. And of course look what happens when you feed them…. These people are so full of sht. There are country’s out there whose reproduction rate is on par with egg-layers. Of course the west has a lot to do with that. Seems if you airdrop a surplus of food into a poor country their population explodes, as it doesn’t regulate itself anymore. You end up creating a population crises due to lack of resources and then those excess humans swarm wealthy countries like locusts in search of resources. Remember the commercial showing starving African children and how it was our DUTY to save them….so they could grow up and flood our countries. You know, “We are the Worllld!” Yea, I gave zero fcks. I give zero fcks now. Their manipulation didn’t work. R.I.P. little Kumba MaToTo!(He choked on a grain of rice😥) It’s quite convenient for those who stand to benefit and have an agenda against indigenous populations in the west. Too convenient. Like it was planned…..
I last took a train to London in 2019 (into Liverpool Street Station from East Anglia). It had been a few years since I last took the same train journey. Was astonished as to how close some of these newer build blocks of flats were built in proximity to the railway line.
Immigration has everything to do with population density of London and a few London born friends of mine have moved out of London, headed north, primarily not because of population density/increase or even cost of living in London, but because in ever increasing numbers, you have more and more gangs roaming the streets and more and more gang on gang violence, particularly as my friend noted between immigrant gangs, so Ethiopian vs Eritrean vs Somali gangs. One of my friends said that you simply don't nip out up the local high street at night, just too dangerous. Probably why take out deliveries are so popular now. But it does show that this utopian idea that everyone can be welcomed and everyone will be happy and live in harmony in ever increasing numbers is complete and utter nonsense. Ultimately, chaos and violence will increase in major cities, particularly London.
Most crime in London is Black on Black because they can't stand the sight of each other. They can't stand the sight of each other because they know they don't belong! The Negros obsession with white people is going to destroy us.
Thank God I am retired and will never have to visit our foul and beleaguered capital for work purposes again. No way would I ever have visited for pleasure or social purposes. In the late 1990s I once had to go to the Royal Courts, so I travelled from Manchester to Euston, then as walked past Tavistock Sq and Russel Sq down to Chancery Lane and on to Fetter Lane and The Strand I noticed that I heard, in the incredible bustle, no cockney accents and the very little English I did hear was heavily accented in African And Indian overtones. That was 25 years ago in the first years of the Blair/Brown invitation to everyone to come and settle. It must be like Hell on Earth nowadays!
Successive Governments have let every country come in huge numbers to London. I'm a high earner but cannot afford to live there. But low income immigrants can afford it. I believe they are all claiming absolutely huge rent handouts.
Bicycled around England in the 80s. For a kid from Canada it was magical. Rarely do your expectations match what you get. But in the 80s England was England. At that time, the landscape, people, Architecture was beautiful. I go back to England occasionally for work. It's now filled with Chinese tourists, and populated with Eastern Europeans and Asians in bummers. It now is a grayer and more seedy place. Everytime I fly to Britain, I mourn it's death.
I was born in 1967 and was lucky enough to grow up in SW14. I emigrated to Australia in 1989. I’ve been back many times-but not since 2017. I can’t believe how much the UK in general has changed, and London doesn’t sound like a great place to live at all. The UK is unrecognisable to the one I left.
The low point for London population in modern times was 1983 at 6.58 million. This year it will surpass 9 million. Up 37% in forty years. An extra million in inner London and 1.5 million in outer London. In 1991 20% were foreign born , but 2011 white British were a minority and now down to 36%. This despite millions of young British moving to London for work or education. London also has 75,000 foreign diplomatic staff, 25,000 non dom millionaires and 700,000 tourists at any one time. Pushing it to ten million without adding the daily commuters.
But all of these foreigners are much needed to fill the jobs. Boris promised to control immigration and only allow highly qualified immigrants to be allowed in, so the firs thing he did was to drop the earning threshold and stop the practice of employers advertising only in the UK to fill their vacancies! Interestingly EU migration to the UK is now net minus.
It's not just London. There are many towns & cities now packed I'm just back from Spain & France, both noticeably less dense. Even allowing for land mass, it's unbelievably better
Funny you say that Simon, I thought everybody arriving were heading for my village. Mind, don't think there is plans to build skyscraper flat blocks here just yet!
Londons population was said to be around 7 million in the early 80’s, now they try to pass it off as 10 million, we know that number is nigh on impossible with the building and expansion that has gone on. It’s still ever growing and millions are overcrowded in their homes, if they didn’t complain so much we wouldn’t know about it. The government and their census numbers are away with the leprechauns as well, my mother remembers exactly how empty the country was with 57 million living here. Around a decade ago she speculated that it was nearer to 90 million and yet the ants keep pouring in on top of each other, she’s openly said to folk we’ll be know as land of the bricks with all the house building going on.
Everywhere you look currently in London are huge skyscraper residential newbuilds, yet somehow the cost of housing, mortgages and rent never falls. Makes you wonder.
It's ok for a city to grow like a beautiful well kept garden or forest. London though is like a garden that's over run with weeds, litter and dog poop.
WE DO NOT NEED MORE FLATS WE NEED LESS PEOPLE
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Thanks Martin.....if I hear one more dumbshit politician mention more housing I'll scream !
I saw the changes happening when I was a Black Cab driver between 1974 and 2016. I got the f*ck out of there in 2006 and commuted from west Cornwall to work weekends only for my last 10 years. One of my last passengers before I retired, an Australian visitor, told me that I was the first actual Brit that she had met in the 2 weeks she had been there on holiday.
I want out but I don't know if Billericy is far enough x
Lived in Peckham in 1973, you could not pay me to go back. Last time at Heathrow an African 'border force' officer demanded - where you come from? going through immigration. mm I could have well asked him the same question.
Perhaps he was doing his job
@@levisludus9177Peckham is becoming more gentrified and becoming more white .
@@fjtpersian6566 so it's reverting to its natural state, well' they had a good run
I was born in London but my family moved when I was still very young. I often returned to London and always had this feeling of returning home. In the last few years I've grown to absolutely despise the place and once I'm in London, I just cannot wait to leave and that saddens me.
Same here, grew up around woolwich and Abbey wood in the 70’s and early 80’s. Went back recently for old time sake and was horrified!
Thank you Simon for pointing out the hidden additional population in London. There is a huge additional population in the UK that the census did not pick up which some people reckon is 20 million or more. Some evidence such as sewage outfalls and the level of house price inflation strongly suggest a true UK population of around 92 million.
Yes, I reckon 92 million is a more honest figure than 66, from my various researches into this matter.
I believe supermarkets, as well as water/sewage companies , provide data suggesting a high "unofficial" population
The 'unofficial' population of at least 85,000,000 dates back to 2015.
Evidently that figure was based on actual food consumption bought that year in Tesco's by their in house analysts. Frightening especially as other supermarkets are available.
So fast forward to 2022 an unofficial UK population of at least 90,000,000 would appear very reasonable.
Based on the fact that "officially" around 13% of the population live in Greater London (The City & London Borough's Of)
that make the population of London currently at least 11,960,000.
Looking at heaving masses of people & volume of traffic in South East London that would not surprise me one iota.
Best thing about London nowadays is the getting the hell out of there as quickly as possible back to the outer Shires & Folk's as far as I am concerned.
I am currently in the process of moving out of London, cannot wait. I went through a period several years ago where I had to move house quite a lot and was forced into accommodation with Polish and other Eastern European nationalities. There were sometimes up to 15 people in a 5 bedroom house (living room was also converted into a bedroom as was the conservatory). I reckon the population of London alone is pushing 15 million
99 million
Simon you can shorten the title of the video to "London has become hideous".
...or perhaps "The population bomb destroyed London"
Beware of the "Inner-city youth"
It's a certainty that law and order will break down. Fortunately it will also affect those that think mass immigration is a great thing, until it arrives on their street
Immigration has done more damage than all the wars put together.
Back in the fifties we had a school outing by rail from Yorkshire to London we were mightily impressed Museum land. Buck house , Downing street, even a trip on the Thames , The capital city gave us a sense of pride . I wouldn`t give you tuppence for the place now .
ghengiscant nor me & i was born there in 56 got out in 1992, had enough will never set foot in the city of my birth ever again.
All due to the political classes, I wonder if they look at London rubbing their hands saying Great Job we've done!
I was walking in London and was a bit lost so I tried asking the way to a station , nobody I asked spoke English, until I asked a Polish bus inspector who helped me out.
Lamentable.
Watch you don't step in any camel or goat shit 💩💩💩
Maybe illegals, afraid to open their mouths.
That's London !
Thats the norm now I'm afraid.
Governments are supposed to protect countries not help ruin them .
Very sad. My daughter has a British friend who moved to the states. My daughter said she always wanted to visit London. Her friend said don't bother, it is no longer London.
Yes it is true that London is bursting at the seems, I live on the border of Finchley and Mill Hill, and Mill Hill has been designated as an area of high housing development, there once stood an Army Barracks in Mill Hill and today thousands and thousands of new builds have completely changed the area, open land is disappearing at an alarming rate all over this part of north London, God knows what is happening in other more central areas! the sad situation is also that these new builds are
are erected so quickly that they will be slums in a few years!
CHANGE WHO WE VOTE FOR REMEMBER BLAIR STARTED IT
@@PoppiesAndPride Blair didn't start it; he just put his foot on the accelerator.
Worked near Mill Hill Broadway early 2000s.. The contrast between there and 3rd world Burnt Oàk was astounding
Yes and once back in the late 1970s worked in Building Regs and since then have either for my self, relatives and friends checked out new builds. The decline of building standards in terms of life expectancy, quality, site organization, checking and the skills of those building such builds is just beyond belief in how bad they are now. I know the Engineer I was a junior to back then would have just not have passed such builds, he would as I once witnessed condemn and have it knocked down and started again. The only time that happened was when we went out to check the roof trusses on a Muslim centre in Hyson Green, Nottingham.
I used to work at the private school there back in the 80s I really enjoyed the area,very sad to hear the area is changing so quickly for the worst.
London has been a place to avoid for 25+ years.
I visited Tottenham a few years ago. It looks like the area still hasn't recovered from the 2011 riots. A man git stabbef not far from where I was sleeping and I haven't even been back in the country since let alone London.
A shame as there does seem to be a lot of genuine, hard-working Englishman in the city. Granted, I don't talk to people from Mayfair and the likes, but every Englishman that I know who has left has said that the city has turned into a shit-hole. Sadly I don't think that there's any way back for London anytime soon as if you even try to speak up about it you can lose your job for being "racist".
It really does feel like 1984 .....
That term is what's being used to defeat us and let it happen.
I was born in Plasitow many years ago .
We lived in custom house , it was a great community and I had a great childhood.
I went to Hallsville school .
It never seemed busy to me then .
I went back about 5 years ago .
It was dirty , overcrowded, noisy and felt dangerous.
I left sharply.
I also didn’t see one white face .
Strange to think that Covent Garden, just a few decades ago, was deserted in the evenings.
Most of the people around Covent Garden are tourists
500 years ago it was even quieter.
It was a Convent Garden.
True ....... after the market shut in 1974 for a few years there was no reason to go there apart from the theatre or Stamford's map shop.
In the eighties even during the day it wasn't busy.
@@stephfoxwell4620 Yes i remember
I remember a few years back when Jim Callaghan was PM. Either he or one of his ministers was accused by an Indian government official of not treating Indian migrants fairly. The reply came that stated it was just not possible to fit half the population of India into South London.
Having visited Hong Kong about twelve times between 2013-2019 I was always impressed by the civilised atmosphere (closely resembling London up to around the 1960's-70's) and the low crime figures (also comparable with London as it used to be). Now look at what purports to be the 'English' Capital today! I'm in close contact with a delightful Hong Konger who, like many of her compatriots, came to the UK when Hong Kong started losing its 'British' identity only to discover that the same had happened to London. Her disappointment is nothing compared with the outrage of indigenous Londoners who haven't yet been able to get the hell out of the place.
The only person I have met from Hong Kong referred to himself as Hong Kongalese, always puzzled by "Hong Kongers."
@s Coronavirus is a immigrant from that part of the world ( East Asia) if we recall , not everything from that part of the world is a gold encrusted trinket, unless you like that sort of thing, or have a fetish for a little China doll, as some white men do.
@@corsair919 'Kongalese' is a bit jarring, sounds like someone from central Africa.
I will be going to Hong Kong next month for a week holiday so it will be very interesting.
Wog I want to know is when this is all gollying to be sorted out.
London, the city that never sleeps, due to those that live in the shadows and only come out at night.
The UK has the second highest population density in Europe after Holland. Yet the liberal message is that we must take evermore immigrants as our “fair share” to keep up with other countries. What is the definition of “fair” in their eyes? What is the point at which we have done our fair share? When we have the same population density as Macau? When did we agree to that? I don’t remember. Put it to a democratic vote and see what the outcome is.
My mum always told me to beware of those, of who would take advantage of your good nature.
Never, unfortunately
@@johnfrancis2215 🎯💯%
"Never" is ever enough.
England, not UK.
Scotland,Wales and N Ireland have huge empty bits.
I remember Diane Abbott on Question Time in 2015 at the start of the migrant crisis complaining that “we are not taking our fair share”.
Sensible people don’t share shit out - they flush it down the toilet into the sewer where it belongs.
It's only going to get worse as we've seen already the near collapse of the NHS and the sewage treatment works which are already over loaded not to mention the schools
Yes the country is sinking in the excrement Beaches that once were beautiful are now not fit to swim
It's total madness and will end in disaster😢
Don't worry children write a postcard to Aunty Val Singleton at the Beeb👹💰💸💸🤮
I remember visiting London on school trips throughout the 80s and early 90s, and back then it was an enjoyable experience, but nowadays the capital seems more like a giant overbearing monster, which is a great shame. (Some others from up north have described London as another country...I live just 50 miles away and think the same thing!)
...It's great that you mentioned Bodgers department store in Ilford, as I delivered a van there when I worked for a vehicle hire company. (They became part of a furniture supplier based in my home town, as it happens).
That leads me to your mentioning of housing. I think the same problem exists throughout the country, as my home town is like a massive building site at times. Trouble is, a lot of them here get snapped up by outsider speculators who just rent them out to tourists who come to visit a hoyty-toyty designer outlet on the town's outskirts. (Housing shortage? What housing shortage?!)
Bicester by any chance?
@@Wavygravydressedinnavy Yep.
I recently priced a job in central London and was curious on my second visit as to why it was so quiet in the building. I asked the concierge how many flats were in the building, he replied “26, but only 4 are occupied full time”
Foreign ownership is ruining the city and artificially inflating prices, not to mention the vast number of empty buildings that are mothballed by wealthy investors.
70,000 empty luxury flats in London now.
Could be housing illegal immigrants soon!
I was born in Charlton in 67, live in Greenwich now, English parents, grandparents, great grandparents etc. London, is not English anymore, the demographic change is enormous, it is the cultural destruction of a country. We are pushed out of homes, pushed out of jobs, the back of the queue and we were never, ever asked if we wanted this. We had legal immigration far lower than the number crossing the channel for decades, we didn't want millions from the EU, didn't want millions from Africa, Asia, Windrush was for their benefit not ours, it is always for their benefit and not ours. London is lost, the country is lost, immigration figures tomorrow will show just how bad things have got and they won't ever get better because we won't get rid of those that come here.
💯. They want a low wage service based economy so they saturate the labour market with low/semi skilled people while sinking us more into debt through more borrowing and having artificially low interest rates. The UK is a good textbook example when plutocratic elites take over and ruin a country before moving on to the next one.
Imagine how an Australian aboriginal feels
@@Africa1000 Difference is Aboriginies get special minority privileges now, white English people will have no special minority privileges, even when we become the minority.
Patronised?
@@Africa1000 have you asked them?
I have lived and worked in London (including Kensington) a few times over the years, the earliest being the early 80s and the last in early 2000s. The difference between the two in number and demographic of the population is astonishing, especially in East and South-East London. I never liked being in the place anyway, but the last time I was there it was more like visiting another country.
Next time you hear that 15 minute cities are required to maintain sustainability just remember that the same people are saying that the free movement of people is a positive thing
Next time you hear that the same people claiming they can save the planet from global emissions are the same people incapable of preserving a green belt
Next time you hear that the same people saying that you should stop eating meat and consume bugs are richer than ever before. On that note I’ll leave you with a pun. It’s all food for thought
Maybe they should practice what they preach!!
Excellent comment 👏👏👍
@@johnfrancis2215 thank you
@@theenglishman8668 there is a valid concern, regarding the creation of a redundant class by increasingly advanced AI. There’s arguably major environmental concerns and concerns regarding the spread of WMD ( something which few talk about now) but I just don’t believe the leadership and their objectives coincide with seriously dealing with these issues. In fact in my view their cure’s seems more harmful than the actual diagnosis, a bit like a Dr telling you to smoke more to clear your lungs
@@Anthony-g5b6r 🎯💯%
Not only is it becoming crowded, it’s become a ghetto!
Certainly seems like every pub or factory that closes ends up being demolished and flats built in its place!
Mainly empty flats owned by Chinese, Arabs, Russians etc.
I can relate. Living in a red state in America, I've seen my little town become more like Atlanta. It used to be almost rural, but now it's clogged with traffic and more people than I've ever seen. People from all over the US, especially blue states, are pouring into this small area, which has lesser tax rates. You can't take any little back road or alley without being in a traffic jam. They're building houses by the thousands, and nobody builds on the south side of town, everybody builds up here on the north side. I think the land is cheaper. It's disgusting. Makes me want to live way out in the country.
Way out in the country is the best way.
@@rosanneshinkle4133 When I was younger, and even just a few years ago, the thought of living in the country was repugnant. I thought how lonely and isolated that would be; no excitement.. Now I seek it!
Yet STILL, we all allow it to happen. We've become worryingly docile.
Fluoride
Not docile lad, steaming angry just too reduced to poverty and criminalised to do much about it.
True. I still casually wonder if you anonymously polled all Native Brits (or any native Europeans in Europe) asking whether they support what's happening I suspect that the vast majority would say no. Then it's amazing to think that a civilization has destroyed itself with essentially no one wantimg it destroyed.... But the decision was still made. It's a rather unique social and historic time we are going through.
A trip to London from the provinces was an exicitng adventure in the 1970s. Express buses or the train took you there in an hour or two. Iconic destinations beckoned and friendly Londoners abounded. All that has evaporated, save for misguided foreign tourists who haven't caught up yet. I haven't been to London in decades and have no plans to go ever again.
I see Simon has done his job on you, no doubt he'll come and check under the bed for any monsters, for the right price ' .
I see loots monsters ; but not under the bed , all around me dressed as Somalians ! 😱
Last time I visited London was in 1987. The time before that was around 1976. I could see a lot of changes in that time.
I have no plans to visit again, unless it's to collect my lottery winnings, or if I need a specialist hospital that's not available anywhere else!
London in the sixties was lived in and familiar. Now, it's an inhospitable place where you dare not look at anyone for fear of 'offending' them with your eyes.
@Levis Ludus Yeah, because there is no crime in London. London is not the most dangerous city in England, but the whole of the UK. There is little to no knife crime now. It is perfectly safe to walk the streets at night, safe in the knowledge that you will not be mugged, stabbed, or "grabbed" by anyone. It is a haven for the meek and mild. Everywhere you go, there are literal rainbows welcoming you to their sweet and pleasing land, and you don't even have to agree with their religion for them to accept you into their warm and friendly embrace.
Sorry, I thought today was the opposite day. My mistake.
@@ronnietexan wow' what a meek attempt at sarcasm, I dont think for one moment anyone believes London isn't grappling with issues that afflict most megacities.
When you fill anything to capacity it starts to spill out everywhere if you don’t stop.🇬🇧🏴
sewage into rivers being an example..
But anyone who doesn't want every town and village in the uk , becoming as overcrowded and diverse as London, is deemed a rascit, once you reach a certain point, how can more and more people add to the quality of life
Having been borne in Hackney, London 1953, parents moved out when I was five, I moved back to work there in 1978 for five years, ditto 1999 and have not been back since, so I totally agree with you about the state of London from the 1950s to the 1990s. Since then have watched much news, documentaries and many TH-cams showing what life is like now and the number of migrant people in the streets - no way is London any more British.
Hackney is becoming more Gentrified and mostly white English professionals are moving in and displacing the immigrants.Hackney is nothing like it was in the eighties and the nineties.
Enoch Powell and George Orwell were both right. Now jg ballard is right
Concentration City; a great short story.
I read in an article a few months ago that a plan to build an estate and associated infrastructure in west London, had been thwarted at the planning stage. This was due to the fact that the electricity supplier said they were unable to supply sufficient power to the new build and it would need a major investment costing huge sums of money to fix the problem. Maybe, if this is replicated across the country, it will bring a halt to expansion. I’m sure this infrastructure problem applies equally to other services such as water, drainage, gas etc.
In my country tower blocks are a rarity, they are demolishing tower blocks left and right and building single family housing now. I can't believe that the British are actually repeating the mistakes we should have learned from half a century ago. It's like all the disadvantages of urbanisation without the advantages.
where are you from
@@angelagardner5230 China guessing by the Kanji ?
Well you are a intelligent race. They here cant see the wood for the trees.
@@allseeingotto2912 Everything I see clearly indicates this person is Vietnamese.
@@thinkingallowed7042 Could be ?
You are a voice of reason; one of the few in the UK.
Thank you!
Tells it how it is. A true patriot and historian. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting this. It's like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. I learn today from the BBC website that more than a fifth of student visas went to Nigerians - with half going to partners and children. Nigerians had more family visas than any other nationality. This foreign student racket is now the preferred method to bypass the points based immigration system. And they wonder why there's a chronic housing shortage and why no one can get a GP/dental appointment or a place in primary school.
@@enochpowell27 👍👍👍
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb Alex Bellfield must be screaming into his porridge. That was his byline!
Good news, as from Jan. 2024 there is a ban on relatives of students being allowed to live in the UK.
At last someone is listening!
It will be appealed and dropped. Against human rights!
Good, but a bit late in the day. In any case, I expect they’ll find a way to surmount this problem, they usually do.
That means a surge advancing a couple of years worth of students in the next 6 months .. the govt is the best advertiser for Mickey Mouse unis
Only undergraduates.
We have 400,000 postgraduate foreigners here.
They will find another way for sure to come and remember at immigration counters they too are immigrants so will let them through its a people trafficking operation fact many immigration officers have been bribed to let certain people through on certain flights arriving fact .
In 1979 I bought a flat in Islington on a mortgage subsidised by the Greater London Council and offered only to those who worked in central London ..... a place that became a ghost town after 7pm when city workers caught the train to the suburbs. As a result pubs, restaurants and shops were closing by the droves as there wasn't enough business to sustain them ...... hard to imagine now.
If you compare the 1981 and 2021 census for London you will see how much the city has changed.
While the population has increased by about 4 million, the number of native British has dropped by approx 1.7 million. Food for thought.
Sadly for Bristol, it has become an overflow for London ... in particular Hackney and similar areas. The effects on Bristol are noticeably similar to those occurring in London ...
I noted on a visit several years ago to Bristol, that this once pleasant place, was dirty and felt less welcoming. Now I believe it's a second London
The centre of Tokyo is definitely more crowded than London if you go by people in the street. However, in Tokyo people self-organise, so that there are distinct flows leading to stations, stores or cinemas. Moving along the pavement there is one flow on one side and the opposite flow on the other. All this makes moving about relatively less stressful than London, where you can guarantee that someone will walk across your path every five seconds. The difference is that in Tokyo everyone (except a handful of Westerners) is Japanese.
The Japanese understand efficency on a fundamental level.
Japanese cities aren't beautiful but they've avoided most of the problems we have in the West.
I'm so grateful I got to see London in the 1970s, when it was still English. It was lovely!
Only the older generation know. The young are growing up to accept this mess as the norm.
Funny idea of lovely!
Hey Michelle! Loon pants and an Afghan coat at the Hammersmith Apollo?
Particularly the East End.
Morning Mr Sunglasses.
Why, we the people......,True brits why are we letting this happen. I am sure our children and grand children will thank us for doing NOTHING.
The children and grandchildren have been brainwashed into thinking immigration is a good idea
Because the British keep voting into power complete morons who lie and destroy our country.
They keep saying diversity and more diversity. In reality its making London a shit hole.
Our leaders: "we must increase GDP figures at ALL costs".
All our problems are just SYMPTOMS of our financial and banking system.
@Stephen Varcoe Have you taken the time to do a Google Earth search of some of the London suburbs? It's quite eye opening. There is a huge proliferation in the number of extensions and back gardens built over. Loft and cellar conversions cannot be seen. Someone on another channel brought this to my attention. Evola ^ might spare some time to fill in the blanks, but he's not noted as being particularly conversational. I'm off to swap out a hot water cylinder's expansion vessel for a customer with a house in multiple occupation. The landlord is struggling to make ends meet from his tenants, but therein is another story. I've discussed his options for remedying this, but he is resolute that SERCO will not be one of them.
Always amazing how you can take a turn off a main road in London and it can be deathly quiet.
Yes indeed.
@@stephfoxwell4620 I walked up that way on Easter Sunday and sat quite near the Guildhall. Was like a monastery cloisters. Blissful
@@stephfoxwell4620 Though we've probably ruined it now by pointing it out
My Grandad and Grandma born Poplar 1910 and 1912 respectively would be heart broken 😞
I believe Islington is one the most densely populated areas in Europe - awful place to be now compared to even 15 yrs ago, like London generally.. only getting busier
Heartbreaking to see where I was born and brought up, my mother still lives there, I moved out years ago just visit now and again.
Streatham High Road. Europe's longest, noisiest and busiest High Street.
I'm a Londoner and also lived in Islington both used to ge great, ruined now
Just on a point of information, Simon, most of Hong Kong, where I live, is mountainous. The inhabitable area is quite small . to take district as you did, Mong Kok has a population density of 130,000 per sq. km.
Birmingham is also on the same path if not alresdy there. Dreadful town
City.
Yep, I'm leaving here very soon and cannot f'ing wait
About 10 years ago I returned to North London, as I was born there just after the war.I hadn't been there for many years and was curious as to how it may have changed.
The first shock I had was thst a large playing field or rec, as we called it, had been built on.This was the size of about two football pitches and it now had blocks of flats built on it.
Like most of the kids in that area,I spent hours there, particularly during the school holidays.I recall games of football being played on almost every part of the park,especially on nice sunny days.
A thought crossed my mind - where do youngsters go to let off steam in that area ? I then went to look at another park and that too had been built on.
Our kids have nowhere to play, so they spend all their spare time on their laptops.Then we wonder why we have an obesity crisis?
Soon coming to a town near you.
Already happened, my formerly, small rural town is expanding like crazy and engulfing nearby villages.
Lots of people of a different hue, wandering around in town centre, daytime.
Clearly, none of them work.
"Vey narce living Englan"
Come move to Shropshire guys it’s awesome here! Big houses for half the price of London! Also stuff to do outdoors mostly.
For now until everyone does that and the problem repeats
@@brianbadonde8700 never it’s a wide expanse here. People are still on heating oil here as the houses are so dispersed. I think we are safe for a few more generations at least.
@daniel.....Well you have let the cat out of the bag now , your friendly SERCO rep. will be checking it out now for enrichment .
@@bengunn3698 time to get out the pitch forks lol
We need to get our people out of the big cities and create something new. Bulkanization coming
I went to Hong Kong back in 2002. I liked the energy of the place and was knocked backed by it (being my first time to the Far East and I remember thinking how crowded it was. Thought London was bad but atleast not that bad as in HK with its crowds everywhere BUT now (certainly central London) is getting similarly crowded. As someone once said "over stimulating"
I wonder if the water supply, electricity supply and sewage systems are in-step with the population increase.
No definitely not up to speed overfilled by this rodents and they are stealing electricity hooking up dangerous connections to outdoor ghetto shanties .
I remember when 'overspill' from London came into Milton Keynes in the 70,S 80,s
They have cleared out our people, and stuffed it full of the third world and anyone who they can
im so sad about it
London has been destroyed
What a lovely place it used to be
Where i live they are building hideous skyscrapers left right and centre which when done tastefully can be exciting and cool. No such luck here. The council in a rare moment of sanity rejected some rabbit hutch flats. But the fucking government swooped in on appeal and approved them. Ive now lost some lovely evening sun from my garden due to them insisting on massive people hives. What annoys me the most is that the government arent just reacting to a natural population explosion but reacting to something they have caused and in doing so making other peoples lives miserable.
Speaking of tower blocks, I'm sure in the 1980s we were told this was not a good idea for social housing and many older blocks were demolished. Now our treacherous government are rebuilding them on an incredible scale in every bit of space they can. Over crowding causes anti social behaviour and much more crime.
Whilst London is naturally going to be ahead of the curve in such regards, it unfortunately the case that this situation is one which is being "worked towards" in all of our cities. In my own locality, the option to expand outwards has been taken. For the first time in several decades, this has seen rural areas lost to development (usually in the form of ugly, identikit housing).
It seems to me that most cities were a response to the Industrial Revolution, -- places to keep the workers overnight.
People flooded in from the countryside where they had previously been growing food, and became dependant on shops for all their needs.
This mass movement of people has given rise to many of the problems we see today, and given the reduction of industry and the pressing need to provide more of its food, I wonder if Britain would not be well advised to reverse this movement and create smaller, self-sufficient rural communities ?
There will come a time where an Englishman will be to frightened to speak in his own coutry. Quote. My Mother 1963
I live in Westminster. Full of empty properties owned by wealthly foreign nationals.
In 1939 London population was 8.5 million, by 1981 London population went down to 6.8 million, in 2022 Londonstan population has accelerated up to 9.5 million that's near 3 million people in just 41 years, all down to mass immigration.
Roads here on Tyneside are getting more gridlocked by the week.
That would be the roads leading out of it! You don't think that anyone would actually want to visit Tyneside do you?
@@Africa1000 Thousands visit Tyneside every week. When I'm in the Town at Weekend, i hear accents from all over Britain. We Geordie's are famous for our freindly nature's. We also are famous for taking no sh*t from mouthy a** h*les!
@Superblack what do you know of it?
It's like rush hour all the time, where are the people going, what is their purpose, they are obviously not working, just driving around, years ago in day the roads were empty including pedestrians, everyone was at work or school 👹💸💰🤮
@@Africa1000
You'd rather live in Tyneside than Africa...
Being English but being and feeling like an outcast or foriegner in our own cities and country
We English have had our identity taken away. We are even shamed if we show our English flag. And yet no outcry for our identity being destroyed
Good morning Simon I remember London of old during 1970 s 1980 s great times no trouble no violence but unfortunately this has now changed and unfortunately for the WORSE.
I have no intention whatsoever of visiting Londonistan any time soon. Its attractions have become somewhat diminished.
You only have to get on the DLR Docklands Light Railway where I live at King George V station, and get on a train to Bank Station. There are literally dozens of new multi storey buildings crammed alongside the railway as you go along, that have recently been built, and many more multi storey buildings everywhere you look. London is getting to the point where you wont able to get anywhere, because of the massive population explosion
When one looks at the inhabitants it demonstrates a true concrete jungle
With all these people building in number. Eventually the system that's in place to process wastewater and provide potable water to residences and businesses. Will become so over burdened that it will fail to provide this necessary service. Of course there are other systems that keep a city civilized and they are likely to fail as well.
in 1981 i was lucky enough to have a holiday in Hong Kong i found this to be a fascinating place, you mention crowded conditions and i would say they were much more populated at that time than London. The accomodation that residents had was very small due to high costs and limited space but people spent much of their time in the amazing shopping malls and eating out, certainly a 24/7 place and they had money to spend. I guess that high rise building will have increased since then and no doubt the population. If you walk around the expensive areas of London, Kensington,Chelsea Mayfair etc you can find beautiful houses, quite peaceful and open spaces there is certainly nothing like that in Hong Kong every square foot is used!!
At least it's not as bad as the most extreme overcrowded city in the world, the rich areas are ok, so that's good.
When will they ever learn?
Never. The ways of avoiding such problems of urban planning and the subsequent chaos are known. But Ideology triumphs over reason.
Observe the crammed cities in India. Great Britain is doomed to become the same!
Why anyone would want to live in London baffles me🙃
I'm glad I'm in my sixties and was around to see our country ( including London) when it was a great place to be brought up in and live.
My heart aches for my grandchildren who will grow up in an a completely different Britain who will have far fewer opportunities for a decent life than my generation had, all because of immigration - illegal or otherwise.
London is no longer English.
You are so refreshing Simon Your bang on! I blame tony Blair and his wife.
I endorse this video, I lived and worked in London . 80s and 90s. Decreasing population benefits, So easy to get work and buy a house.
We were protected by Russian Iron curtain, and strong strict immigration to stop effluent flooding in from France.
I wonder how the infrastructure can support this many people. Wasnt London built with infrastructure to support about 2.5 million people? I thought this was why the Thames overflows with sewage during parts of the year with the heaviest rains? They are still adding more housing?
That's why the Thames is brown.
ONCE MOULD TAKES A GRIP -- IT GETS EVERYWHERE .
It's similar to cancer...
Same can be said with Lice, Pox, Cockroaches & Rats
@@D.I.sgusted 👍
And "venomous snakes"
Like Japanese Knotweed. Once it gets a foothold it devastates local ecosystems, turning once beautiful localities into beastly messes. Ironically its a case of new species creating less diversity because it obliterates the original web of life. One has to be very persistent and quite brutal to get rid of it, and even then it takes many years for a more balanced ecosystem to reestablish, and it's never the same.
Bleach cures mould and turns things white.
It's all about population density, France could double its population and still have a lower population density than the UK.
We don't need more people to work, there are plenty of lazy people here already who need to have there benefits cut and forced to work.
You watch GBNEWS don’t ya?
@@JH-lf4ql I watch BBC news in the mornings.
Are you up for a debate on population density?
@@JH-lf4ql All patriots should.
@@JH-lf4ql Ah, the art of ignoring the argument and attacking the person instead - always the purview of those who can't construct an actual argument…
What was that they were saying about the need to reduce population? Over population or some such nonsense? Climate change? Funny how it’s only white people, a global minority, that they advocate this for. Just look at their precious minority countries. Billions of people. They multiply like Mogwi: Just add water. And of course look what happens when you feed them….
These people are so full of sht. There are country’s out there whose reproduction rate is on par with egg-layers. Of course the west has a lot to do with that. Seems if you airdrop a surplus of food into a poor country their population explodes, as it doesn’t regulate itself anymore. You end up creating a population crises due to lack of resources and then those excess humans swarm wealthy countries like locusts in search of resources. Remember the commercial showing starving African children and how it was our DUTY to save them….so they could grow up and flood our countries. You know, “We are the Worllld!” Yea, I gave zero fcks. I give zero fcks now. Their manipulation didn’t work. R.I.P. little Kumba MaToTo!(He choked on a grain of rice😥)
It’s quite convenient for those who stand to benefit and have an agenda against indigenous populations in the west. Too convenient. Like it was planned…..
I worked for a time in London during the early 90s and found it hideously over crowded back then.
I last took a train to London in 2019 (into Liverpool Street Station from East Anglia). It had been a few years since I last took the same train journey. Was astonished as to how close some of these newer build blocks of flats were built in proximity to the railway line.
Immigration has everything to do with population density of London and a few London born friends of mine have moved out of London, headed north, primarily not because of population density/increase or even cost of living in London, but because in ever increasing numbers, you have more and more gangs roaming the streets and more and more gang on gang violence, particularly as my friend noted between immigrant gangs, so Ethiopian vs Eritrean vs Somali gangs. One of my friends said that you simply don't nip out up the local high street at night, just too dangerous. Probably why take out deliveries are so popular now. But it does show that this utopian idea that everyone can be welcomed and everyone will be happy and live in harmony in ever increasing numbers is complete and utter nonsense. Ultimately, chaos and violence will increase in major cities, particularly London.
The amount of people murdered in London dropped last year
Most crime in London is Black on Black because they can't stand the sight of each other.
They can't stand the sight of each other because they know they don't belong!
The Negros obsession with white people is going to destroy us.
listen to the rivers of blood speech.Enoch Powell warned of this situation in 1968.nobody took ant notice.
There are no rivers of blood and his speech was the ramblings of a racist maniac. We are the most successful multicultural democracy in the world.
Thank God I am retired and will never have to visit our foul and beleaguered capital for work purposes again. No way would I ever have visited for pleasure or social purposes. In the late 1990s I once had to go to the Royal Courts, so I travelled from Manchester to Euston, then as walked past Tavistock Sq and Russel Sq down to Chancery Lane and on to Fetter Lane and The Strand I noticed that I heard, in the incredible bustle, no cockney accents and the very little English I did hear was heavily accented in African And Indian overtones. That was 25 years ago in the first years of the Blair/Brown invitation to everyone to come and settle. It must be like Hell on Earth nowadays!
Successive Governments have let every country come in huge numbers to London. I'm a high earner but cannot afford to live there. But low income immigrants can afford it. I believe they are all claiming absolutely huge rent handouts.
It's a nice walk from Holborn down to St Paul's via Chancery Lane.
I remember in the late 80s/well into the 90s, going to London was something of a magical experience. No longer I'm afraid.
Their were still black people living their .Also during that period London was just as violent,but the suspects were older .
Bicycled around England in the 80s. For a kid from Canada it was magical. Rarely do your expectations match what you get. But in the 80s England was England. At that time, the landscape, people, Architecture was beautiful.
I go back to England occasionally for work. It's now filled with Chinese tourists, and populated with Eastern Europeans and Asians in bummers.
It now is a grayer and more seedy place. Everytime I fly to Britain, I mourn it's death.
@@fjtpersian6566 No it wasn't and what does suspects were older mean?
You mean "White"
I was born in 1967 and was lucky enough to grow up in SW14. I emigrated to Australia in 1989. I’ve been back many times-but not since 2017.
I can’t believe how much the UK in general has changed, and London doesn’t sound like a great place to live at all.
The UK is unrecognisable to the one I left.
The low point for London population in modern times was 1983 at 6.58 million. This year it will surpass 9 million. Up 37% in forty years.
An extra million in inner London and 1.5 million in outer London.
In 1991 20% were foreign born , but 2011 white British were a minority and now down to 36%.
This despite millions of young British moving to London for work or education.
London also has 75,000 foreign diplomatic staff, 25,000 non dom millionaires and 700,000 tourists at any one time. Pushing it to ten million without adding the daily commuters.
But all of these foreigners are much needed to fill the jobs.
Boris promised to control immigration and only allow highly qualified immigrants to
be allowed in, so the firs thing he did was to drop the earning threshold and stop the practice of employers advertising only in the UK to fill their vacancies!
Interestingly EU migration to the UK is now net minus.
You will also find,the more people are unemployed in those areas,the higher your council tax is.this happens all over Britain
4 million have come to live in London, 2 million Londoners have left, to live in new identiket housing estates blighting rural towns and villages.
This is what people voted for. Because they all voted Lib/ Lab/Con 🙄😤
It's not just London. There are many towns & cities now packed
I'm just back from Spain & France, both noticeably less dense. Even allowing for land mass, it's unbelievably better
Funny you say that Simon, I thought everybody arriving were heading for my village. Mind, don't think there is plans to build skyscraper flat blocks here just yet!
Londons population was said to be around 7 million in the early 80’s, now they try to pass it off as 10 million, we know that number is nigh on impossible with the building and expansion that has gone on. It’s still ever growing and millions are overcrowded in their homes, if they didn’t complain so much we wouldn’t know about it.
The government and their census numbers are away with the leprechauns as well, my mother remembers exactly how empty the country was with 57 million living here. Around a decade ago she speculated that it was nearer to 90 million and yet the ants keep pouring in on top of each other, she’s openly said to folk we’ll be know as land of the bricks with all the house building going on.
Everywhere you look currently in London are huge skyscraper residential newbuilds, yet somehow the cost of housing, mortgages and rent never falls. Makes you wonder.
Large foreign families
Possibly the easiest place in the world to get a cash in hand job with an employer who won’t ask questions
It's ok for a city to grow like a beautiful well kept garden or forest. London though is like a garden that's over run with weeds, litter and dog poop.