@@firehot006 That's because a Bi means two. A British billion is still a million million to anyone with a decent education. The Americans started calling a thousand million a billion as it wanted to create billionaires. Idiots.
Correct,some people used to say that a British billion was a million million and that an American billion was a thousand million. Understatement on one side vs hype on the other?
@@masterknife8423 It was a diff age and time. People who were alive in the 60s would say that was the best time. Or pre war babies would say the 50s were cool.
@@masterknife8423 It's nostalgia, London was a dump back then, people were clambering to get out, having said that, a pound went a long way and there was more opportunity
@Shlomo Golnenbaum Shekelberg rather exist on a diet of ham egg & chips and shepherd's pie and have my country back with a 1950s demographic and commensurate crime rate thanks
I miss the days of well-dressed well-spoken presenters and factual reporting. It's only when you see it you realise how far away from that we've come, 😭
There are plenty of interesting and informative programmes still around. One I've been watching a lot of recently on the much-maligned BBC is Simon Reeve's documentaries but there are numerous others.
Thank you for sharing such an insightful view on the Fabric of a city i have lived, worked and partied in for 3 decades but not threaded it all together..... the last paragraph perhaps the most poignant.
Does anyone know where you can get access to old videos like this that were official news broadcasts? I'd think that it would only be right that there is an archive somewhere that is available to the public
I don’t believe that a tiny few should be born into such wealth rather than earning it, but still, it was a very interesting and good point he made at the end that massive estates allowed beautiful coordinated areas to be built, wouldn’t like to see london without belgravia, chelsea, pimlico, mayfair etc🏠🏠🏠
@@organichuman care to elaborate? I can't make head nor tail of what you mean. Communism doesn't seem to bear any relation to replacement migration and neither relate to nepotism as far as I can tell
I'm pretty sure that you're only saying that because you don't have anything to pass on. If you worked your arse off and got a bit of something, you wouldn't want to give it away when you die would you? I mean, we should try to tax the super rich for sure, but they always seem to pay no tax at all.
@@pmacc3557 If your saying that it’s ethically wrong for them to accumulate wealth, I can also tell you that you are right, but if you are asking why they are interested in it, the answer is simple: secular power. The men of the Anglican church are all men like us and so they love money, wealth, power and all those bad things, they are not all saints that only thing about their soul. I’m Italian, so I can also talk about our church, the Roman one; do you think that our church is poor? The poop whit the Catholic Church is probably the more powerful and ancient surviving for-profit company of the world. Small anecdote: the roman church invested 20 milions on a company that produces morning after pills, while professing that abortion is the murder of an innocent. And last thing, the bank of the italian church, called IOR, translated in english as “Institute for the Works of Religion”, is used whit all the ensuing advantages by the rich italians and probably also by the leaders of the mafia.
@@spiridigliozzi544 yes grazie. Iv heard about their bank scheme. It crazy that they profess to be so pure but why don't more Catholics know about this? Also they own a good chunk of London property. Its far from the business of saving souls they are.
It's a rights issue. From the small amount visible, it looks like they were showing a painting or etching which would have it's own copyright. They could have just cut that segment out entirely, but then you'd lose the interesting voiceover, so they just blurred it out.
She doesn't own it in her individual capacity; i.e., she can't sell it, or if she were to ever abdicate, she wouldn't have rights to it. She's still essentially in charge of managing and preserving the Royal Estates. There's no UK government landlord coming in to tell her to trim the lawns or how many guest she can have at night.
But if you went to the worst council estate in the country you’d find all the houses look the same so there goes your argument in the bin. A nice area is a nice area, if each block is in a different style then you have more variety. It’s got nothing to do with uniformity and i find those pillared white blocks in belgravia quite tedious.
That old Thames TV 📺 intro & start brings back some memories., along with the voice of Trevor McDonut. Knew the church was awash with pedos' but not with high end property. Is this still the case?
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I miss London before the invasion. I cant go back and feel happy. I worked in the city and I loved it with all my heart, we were busy, happy and had a common goal. Now we have a group of selfish factions that have maimed the true heart of London, but I am so annoyed that Londoners have let it happen.
The City of London might’ve let it happen (and probably made a fortune) but ordinary Londoners didn’t have much power to stop it. 40 years of neoliberalism and deregulation.
@@stevelam5898 smart enough? Do you realise there is nothing wrong with selling property to someone who is no lt from England? That's how a globalized economy works, you sell to others.
For the most part I call myself an anarcho-capitalist. The free market is everything, Except I do think that inheritance should be taxed heavily. You can teach your kids to work hard and whatever belief system you want but there's zero moral purpose in a state where some kids randomly 'luck' into owning vast wealth. Inheritance should be treated as income: you inherit a £3m house you didn't ever pay for? You should pay £1m in tax, maybe have to sell it, but be glad you got anything.
@@benbenjan811 I’m saying the kid who did nothing to work/pay for it should be taxed as if it’s income. There is no benefit to society of having a leasure class, generations of a family that have never worked but use their wealth to pursue policies that only affect others and generally attack business owners.
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Neither the Church of England nor the Royal Family not even the Duke of Westminster are Muslim. It is only that the mayor is Muslim but he certainly doesn't own it
@@Ardass486 The UK is owned coast to coast by The Crown, except(but not realy) the City of London*, as are all the UK territories, including USA Inc.** *Sorry if i'm confusing you more, you probably don't know what the City of London is. **Yea the truth really hurts. ;)
@@SabMCMLXIX Oh really? I completely disagree. Now for me, my favourite thing to do when exploring England is “not” go and see London; instead I much prefer exploring the gorgeous countryside (e.g. beautiful historic villages/ market towns, medieval castles, churches, stately homes, ancient monuments, natural sites, gardens... etc), and “smaller” historic cities (e.g. Bath, York, Cambridge, Oxford, Canterbury, Chester, Salisbury, Durham, Wells, Lincoln, Winchester, Norwich, Ely, Brighton... etc) - despite all of this, I absolutely still LOVE London! I mean it truly is one of the greatest cities in the entire world and contains just about everything a tourist could possibly ask for (tonnes of history, countless architectural treasures - including many UNESCO sites, culture and tradition, world class museums, theatre and retail, fantastic food from all over the world, lively and safe atmosphere [for a city its size, e.g. New York has 2.5 to 3 times more murders per 100,000 people per year], great pubs, brilliant public transport, huge amounts of green space etc); certainly could *never* be labelled as “boring”.
