The past was never as clean and as happy as you remember it.
This was the 80’s too right? So they probably finished tagging and lit up a cheeky Benson to celebrate… Youth is wasted on the young…
It was very bad, then it got better, now under SK it is bad again. Perfectly reasonable to criticise him for it given that he is the incumbent mayor.
The guy on the left (where else?) *is* Mayor Khan! Checkmate libs
There’s a sub-section of this sub who have a crusader like zeal for protecting Khan. Really fucking weird.
Things we shit back then – so it doesn’t matter that we’re still experiencing this! I am so clever
That looks like a sponsored post from 5-hour ENERGY promoting their *Confetti Craze* flavor, comparing it to cake. Do you want me to help you come up with a witty or engaging comment you could drop under it?
Can we agree that both are bad?
Sadiq Khan is the best mayor ever and he definitely should be in power for a 4th, 5th and possibly 6th term. There’s no way anything is his fault, and no improvements are possible from the present situation.
am I the only one not seeing a problem in tagged tubes ? would much prefer seeing clean seat and tagged windows than clean windows and gross seats.
I used the tube in London recently for the first time in about 2 years and it was very noticeable how absolutely covered in crap tags the carriages are now. Didn’t use to be pristine obviously, but was never anything like this. It’s a real mess. No idea what the cause is.
Edit: I have nothing against Khan, and I doubt that graffiti on tube trains is something the Mayor has any direct control over anyway, it’s an issue for TFL. My comment was just an observation.
I remember graffiti being 1000 times worse everywhere in early 2000’s than now. And phone muggings (just not via moped)
It has nothing to do with the mayor and is just due to a shortage of trains. Graffiti would always happen but on some lines there aren’t enough trains to replace them while they get cleaned up so they have to run anyway.
I don’t doubt it’s no worse than in the past. But what is it about Khan than makes you back him?
Imma be honest, graffiti is the last thing I care about when it comes to problems in London.
You mean to say there was graffiti in the 80s? that settles it then
This is different, though, no?
The issue they’re having now is that modern spray paint is etching into the metal itself and causing structural issues
Instead of (presuming) permanent markers that come off easily?
Trains have always been covered in filth and “tags”.
No idea what copium Reform are huffing which causes them to think that trains were clean utopias in the 70s and 80s.
Maybe if the police stopped arresting pensioners holding Palestine Action signs they would be able to investigate actual crimes that impacted residents.
Someone out there in Essex is looking at this and already drafting up a tweet about how this is Khans London
Online safety laws? Outrageous! The parents should teach their children better, the government shouldn’t get involved!
Graffiti in a capital city? Outrageous! It’s the government’s fault!
What is Khan doing about ginger children with pens?!?!
Time to paint a roundabout and shout at a hotel.
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There was a time where people smoked in the carriages too
Nigel, retired from Leeds, who last visited London for a weekend with his wife to see Miss Saigon in 2007, will be along soon to tell you what a terrible job Khan is doing.
I read a hilarious comment from a bloke on Facebook, who lives in Blackpool, saying “You can see the effect Khan the rat is having all over this country”.
Part of me absolutely loves how much the mayor annoys white, provincial boomers just through existing.
It’s weird we have plenty of police arresting people for flags or social media posts but not enough to arrest pick pockets or graffiti snobs
I grew up in that ere. The trains were battered with Graf during 80s-90s. I remember it quite fondly. It broke up the grey.
ITT: people what don’t English good
You have to see the video of the Glasgow girl with a knife and axe shouting you can’t touch me I’m a kid!!!!!!
It doesn’t bode well for the next generation 😒
Not judging. But for you that was a generation ago. For me it was yesterday.
I was incredibly lucky. I didn’t have too experience the excesses of police aggression or racial profiling but perhaps the pendulum has swung too far the other way. Where young people can get away with anything.
This makes them a target for the criminal element who rob them of their chances and saves up a world of pain for when they turn 18.
It would be better if we could find a way to disconnect them from the scum and direct their energy into something of value or of beauty.
This is what tubes looked like during my childhood
Everybody is training to be the next Banksy so revel in your calligraphic dystopian wandering .
But those caught ..clean it all off – 2 years minimum .
Oh boy, I was heavily in to graffiti in the early 2000s. The graffiti “group” I was a part of completely destroyed London. Looking back at it now, we were just little fuckers causing criminal damage.
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The past was never as clean and as happy as you remember it.
This was the 80’s too right? So they probably finished tagging and lit up a cheeky Benson to celebrate… Youth is wasted on the young…
It was very bad, then it got better, now under SK it is bad again. Perfectly reasonable to criticise him for it given that he is the incumbent mayor.
The guy on the left (where else?) *is* Mayor Khan! Checkmate libs
There’s a sub-section of this sub who have a crusader like zeal for protecting Khan. Really fucking weird.
Things we shit back then – so it doesn’t matter that we’re still experiencing this! I am so clever
That looks like a sponsored post from 5-hour ENERGY promoting their *Confetti Craze* flavor, comparing it to cake. Do you want me to help you come up with a witty or engaging comment you could drop under it?
Can we agree that both are bad?
Sadiq Khan is the best mayor ever and he definitely should be in power for a 4th, 5th and possibly 6th term. There’s no way anything is his fault, and no improvements are possible from the present situation.
am I the only one not seeing a problem in tagged tubes ? would much prefer seeing clean seat and tagged windows than clean windows and gross seats.
I used the tube in London recently for the first time in about 2 years and it was very noticeable how absolutely covered in crap tags the carriages are now. Didn’t use to be pristine obviously, but was never anything like this. It’s a real mess. No idea what the cause is.
Edit: I have nothing against Khan, and I doubt that graffiti on tube trains is something the Mayor has any direct control over anyway, it’s an issue for TFL. My comment was just an observation.
I remember graffiti being 1000 times worse everywhere in early 2000’s than now. And phone muggings (just not via moped)
It has nothing to do with the mayor and is just due to a shortage of trains. Graffiti would always happen but on some lines there aren’t enough trains to replace them while they get cleaned up so they have to run anyway.
I don’t doubt it’s no worse than in the past. But what is it about Khan than makes you back him?
Imma be honest, graffiti is the last thing I care about when it comes to problems in London.
You mean to say there was graffiti in the 80s? that settles it then
This is different, though, no?
The issue they’re having now is that modern spray paint is etching into the metal itself and causing structural issues
Instead of (presuming) permanent markers that come off easily?
This photo was taken in 1989 [https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/na7gqp/two_young_men_tagging_a_london_underground_train/](https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/na7gqp/two_young_men_tagging_a_london_underground_train/)
Trains have always been covered in filth and “tags”.
No idea what copium Reform are huffing which causes them to think that trains were clean utopias in the 70s and 80s.
Maybe if the police stopped arresting pensioners holding Palestine Action signs they would be able to investigate actual crimes that impacted residents.
Someone out there in Essex is looking at this and already drafting up a tweet about how this is Khans London
Online safety laws? Outrageous! The parents should teach their children better, the government shouldn’t get involved!
Graffiti in a capital city? Outrageous! It’s the government’s fault!
What is Khan doing about ginger children with pens?!?!
Time to paint a roundabout and shout at a hotel.
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There was a time where people smoked in the carriages too
Nigel, retired from Leeds, who last visited London for a weekend with his wife to see Miss Saigon in 2007, will be along soon to tell you what a terrible job Khan is doing.
I read a hilarious comment from a bloke on Facebook, who lives in Blackpool, saying “You can see the effect Khan the rat is having all over this country”.
Part of me absolutely loves how much the mayor annoys white, provincial boomers just through existing.
OP is a bad faith actor.
And all the bridges over the tube that have had covers added to them because [kids used to throw bricks at them.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3802587.stm)
It’s weird we have plenty of police arresting people for flags or social media posts but not enough to arrest pick pockets or graffiti snobs
I grew up in that ere. The trains were battered with Graf during 80s-90s. I remember it quite fondly. It broke up the grey.
ITT: people what don’t English good
You have to see the video of the Glasgow girl with a knife and axe shouting you can’t touch me I’m a kid!!!!!!
It doesn’t bode well for the next generation 😒
Not judging. But for you that was a generation ago. For me it was yesterday.
I was incredibly lucky. I didn’t have too experience the excesses of police aggression or racial profiling but perhaps the pendulum has swung too far the other way. Where young people can get away with anything.
This makes them a target for the criminal element who rob them of their chances and saves up a world of pain for when they turn 18.
It would be better if we could find a way to disconnect them from the scum and direct their energy into something of value or of beauty.
They deserve that at the very least
I remember these days. And it stank of piss.
What a stupid misinformed post
https://youtu.be/Zf3nST9njgs?si=ZRTqJTs3HPM6AuYF
This is what tubes looked like during my childhood
Everybody is training to be the next Banksy so revel in your calligraphic dystopian wandering .
But those caught ..clean it all off – 2 years minimum .
Oh boy, I was heavily in to graffiti in the early 2000s. The graffiti “group” I was a part of completely destroyed London. Looking back at it now, we were just little fuckers causing criminal damage.
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