It’s such a fascinating film and does rather demonstrate the issue of the nimby mindset. They walk out of the National – which presumably he was OK with, being a theatre and all – and he knocks the IBM building, which is now listed and undergoing redevelopment. The Southbank was a post-industrial dump and now it’s one of the most lively and loved parts of town, in effect, an urban park.
And yet Daily Mail readers will blame immigrants.
King shit
Ironic because most of the children and grandchildren of the people speaking now probably had to move away because there *wasn’t enough* development in London. Everyone in the world is moving to cities like London. If you don’t build enough it becomes too expensive for the current population. Probably half the people I knew have left the city since I was a kid.
I preferred him in the Long Good Friday, where he was a gangster / rapacious property developer.
He complains about the new builds in Wapping but 40 years later I say it was a success, having lived it.
Unfortunately right to buy messed things up but there are still a lot of council houses in a good area benefitting Londoners that can’t afford to buy.
My turn to post this next week.
It’s funny that he complains so much about lack of access to the river but the redevelopment of the southbank has made it much more accessible and pleasant
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London looked like complete dogshit back then
Same shit, different decade
It’s such a fascinating film and does rather demonstrate the issue of the nimby mindset. They walk out of the National – which presumably he was OK with, being a theatre and all – and he knocks the IBM building, which is now listed and undergoing redevelopment. The Southbank was a post-industrial dump and now it’s one of the most lively and loved parts of town, in effect, an urban park.
And yet Daily Mail readers will blame immigrants.
King shit
Ironic because most of the children and grandchildren of the people speaking now probably had to move away because there *wasn’t enough* development in London. Everyone in the world is moving to cities like London. If you don’t build enough it becomes too expensive for the current population. Probably half the people I knew have left the city since I was a kid.
I preferred him in the Long Good Friday, where he was a gangster / rapacious property developer.
He complains about the new builds in Wapping but 40 years later I say it was a success, having lived it.
Unfortunately right to buy messed things up but there are still a lot of council houses in a good area benefitting Londoners that can’t afford to buy.
My turn to post this next week.
It’s funny that he complains so much about lack of access to the river but the redevelopment of the southbank has made it much more accessible and pleasant