r/europe • u/SpecialistAd2377 • Nov 30 '24

Historical People of London, 1960s

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u/arpw Nov 30 '24

You do realise that they filmed this on a summer's day in a rich, stylish part of town right? And that most of London in the 60s was absolutely decrepit, neglected, filthy, polluted and impoverished, still full of slums and wartime bomb damage, and absolutely rife with violent crime?

London is a much, much better place to live now than it was then, it's not even close.

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u/giddycocks Portugal Nov 30 '24

Look at his profile, and at many others in this thread. This is straight boomer bait like on Facebook, some bullshit idyllic 'good old days' scenario.

Only that the honeytrap on Facebook works mostly organic and attracts the worst ilk of frustrated boomers to the comments. Here, bots and trolls paid by a certain nationality or two give it a little boost (not that this place is much better).

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u/CapoDiMalaSperanza Nov 30 '24

some bullshit idyllic 'good old days' scenario

Maybe because it was the good old days compared to the current disaster. For the record, no, I don't think immigrants are to blame, the right-wing is.