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(0955) Just Rupert, unembellished, on London. (0955)
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It’s certainly not the bright, beautiful city that I remember as a child. Mum and Dad took us kids there the year England won the World Cup. Being in London in 1966 was simply amazing. Throughout the World London was the centre of popular culture; they called it the “swinging sixties”, and it was fab – you wouldn’t think that half of it had been blown to pieces just a couple of decades before. I’ll be up there a week Saturday, with some friends from my days in the Her Majesty’s Forces. We were all once part of a ceremonial quarter guard that marched in No.2 dress uniform through the streets to the Guildhall in London’s Square Mile – a great honour for our regiment. Sadly Rupert is correct, London is a dump now. It is also a dumping ground for Third World migrants, legal and illegal. Today the English are an absolute minority in their own capital city, it took the political class less than one lifespan to achieve it. That is all.
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JH: Yes … unlike how Kazan’s hordes in Russia were stopped by Ivan Grozni in 1552, unlike how those parts of Espagna were overrun until the Reconq reversed it … sadly, today is more like the Barbarians ransacking Rome … Londinium has fallen to the hordes of today. It’s going to take more than voting. I look at my current age and think how I would manage a route march now. Be with the artillery?
It’s certainly not the bright, beautiful city that I remember as a child. Mum and Dad took us kids there the year England won the World Cup. Being in London in 1966 was simply amazing. Throughout the World London was the centre of popular culture; they called it the “swinging sixties”, and it was fab – you wouldn’t think that half of it had been blown to pieces just a couple of decades before. I’ll be up there a week Saturday, with some friends from my days in the Her Majesty’s Forces. We were all once part of a ceremonial quarter guard that marched in No.2 dress uniform through the streets to the Guildhall in London’s Square Mile – a great honour for our regiment. Sadly Rupert is correct, London is a dump now. It is also a dumping ground for Third World migrants, legal and illegal. Today the English are an absolute minority in their own capital city, it took the political class less than one lifespan to achieve it. That is all.
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JH: Yes … unlike how Kazan’s hordes in Russia were stopped by Ivan Grozni in 1552, unlike how those parts of Espagna were overrun until the Reconq reversed it … sadly, today is more like the Barbarians ransacking Rome … Londinium has fallen to the hordes of today. It’s going to take more than voting. I look at my current age and think how I would manage a route march now. Be with the artillery?