There really needs to be some kind of independent oversight around publishing fake and misleading news like this. The same week it comes out London’s serious crime rates have fallen to decade lows the Daily Fail has to put out a hit piece that all its boomer readers take as gospel and think the capital has fallen.

It wouldn’t annoy me so much if they didn’t have such a massive readership, alongside the Sun I believe the most read papers and news websites in the UK.

by Lazy-Internet-8025

40 comments

  1. facepalm. news outlets these days are not actually news outlets. we known this for very long now. they all aligned to current politics and what the message in politics is at that time. majority its pandering to the far right

  2. I must be incredibly lucky because although the internet tells me as soon as I set foot outside I will be attacked by crack addicts and mobile phone thieves somehow it hasn’t happened yet

  3. They were claiming these were symptoms of societal collapse this morning!

  4. Where is she finding this wealth of crack cocaine and prostitutes? Asking for a friend.

  6. I swear these sort of articles/opinions are always from people that dont live in or even go to London

  7. Relatedly, for those on Facebook: for no reason I can figure out, the Telegraph keeps appearing in my feed, and it seems to have gone absolutely feral. Like, Kevin Spacey interview, England has failed, can’t-afford-my-Aga, ragebait feral. Have I done something, or is this the general experience?

  8. The homelessness is horrendous. But it also was a year ago. Weirdly, there was very little sleeping rough on the streets in 2010. I wonder what happened…

  9. It is funny, isn’t it, that the people who claim to love their country the most spend more time running it down than anything else.

  11. It obviously just “Labour bad” nonsense from the Mail. Unfortunately, the average DM reader is far too stupid to realise. But take heart, the Daily Hate’s circulation has effectively halved in the last 20 years as their elderly readership die off.

  12. I moved out of London seven years ago and whenever I go back I always think how nice it looks, improved even. Granted I’m not hanging around Acton but even so.

  14. Every time that picture with the tents by Warren Street appears in the news it does my head in. I passed by them every day for years and even talked to some of the people there. They’re gypsies/rroma people who came from somewhere else, they’re not related or a reflection on London’s economy in any way, if anything it reflects their own values more than anything.

  15. 100k phones snatched, 16k incidents involving the use of knife, 1 in 88 cars stolen, shoplifting at all times highs.
    London is going through a crime spree with a focus on robbery and stealing. Homicides are at all time lows though.
    The city has been very experience, the issue now though is the large decrease in jobs and obvious sense of lawlessness stemming from the fact people don’t go to jail for committing alot of these lower crimes

  16. It’s actually pretty bad? Go to the Strand and look behind the Adelphi building

  19. My low stakes conspiracy is that Lord Rothermere doesn’t want the sort of hoi-polloi who read his paper to clutter London up, so that’s why he’s trying so hard to put them off coming.

  20. This is an article designed to destabilise the government and promote Farage the Putin ally.

  21. i dont know why you guys hate this kinda stuff i love it it gives us street cred when we leave london and it deters awful tourists from coming here. we need more articles like this they only have positive yields.

  22. Don’t forget that this is coming from the same people who voted to gut social services everywhere over the last 15 years. And of course their proposed solution isn’t going to be “rebuild the social safety net”. No it is “give the country to Nige and his mates” so that they can sell what’s left to the ultra rich while keeping everyone’s attention on a few thousand migrants crossing the channel in dinghy boats. 

  23. After living in London for nearly a decade, I moved back to my tiny southern hometown. In the three weeks I’ve been here I’ve seen more people openly smoking crack than I ever saw in London. Homelessness is rife here too. I’m not sure about prostitution, but unlike Amanda I haven’t been actively looking for it.

  24. It is true that one in every 50 people in London is homeless but the likes of this columnist presumably don’t want any of the taxes that are raised in London to be spent in London

  25. It’s the fucking daily fail. I wouldn’t expect anything less from that shitrag of a comic.

  26. >Newspaper owner living abroad gets the UK government they want for 14 years. Everything gets worse.

    >Newspaper owner living abroad complains about the state of things caused by their shit politics.

    I’m beginning to think that these newspapers aren’t all that interested in the wellbeing of normal people!

  27. Everything was absolutely fantastic. There was no housing crisis, no drug addicts, no inflation, energy prices were low and salaries were more than generous.

    Until Labor got elected a little more than a year ago and everything fell off a cliff. Watch how this could happen on tonight’s Nigel Farage Show, exclusively on GBNews.

  28. recommend finding a copy of tvgohome and reading the “daily mail island” sections… 25 years old and still on the money… (edited to correct typo)

  31. If you see drugs everywhere, that’s a you issue. It’s a massive city, you will find what you seek and see nothing else if you immerse yourself in that only.

  32. The way they say these things like they can’t remember what it was like the 80s and 90s. I haven’t been offered the purchase of crack and pills by a random bloke on the street for years. It used to happen all the time. I remember waiting for a friend outside Kings Cross Station and watching the obvious prostitution and drug dealing going on,  and this was late 90s, early 2000s, not so long ago. The Waterloo IMAX cinema site was a permanent cardboard city, and so was the centre of London  at night. There’s a lot of homeless people, sure, and increasing but it used to be worse. Its not new and it’s not a symptom of decline. It’s always been shit here. As for drugs and prostitution, that feels a lot less than it used to be

    What incenses me is that they complain about homelessness and drug addiction but they despise these people. They don’t want to help them at all.

  33. I didn’t realise that Daily Mail passed off adverts as its articles.

    If anything, it sounds like a copy paste of….well, every other headline they’ve done concerning Labour or Immigrants

  35. I lived in London 1970s – to early 2000s. I only go back once every couple of years and I find it, on the surface at least much better than when I lived there. There were places back then that you seriously had to keep an eye out at night. Homelessness has always been there; drugs have always been there. It’s a major cosmopolitan city. Of course it will have problems.

  36. I know, right. This country is finished.

    I was in the park today, golden winter sun doing its best filter over the trees, when I saw it: a man walking a hedgehog on a lead. Not a dog that looks like a hedgehog. An actual spiky stress ball on a string.

    Clear sign the UK is doomed, obviously.

    Before that I had already committed two terrible acts: made polite small talk with a stranger and enjoyed a suspiciously good Americano.

    On the way home it got worse. I passed a school group learning about nature. Outside. Touching leaves. Teacher smiling.

    Absolute woke bastards.

    London is a hellscape.

  37. It makes you understand why countries like Turkey arrest and imprison Journalists.

  38. when archeologists are kicking around the still burning embers for evidence of what actually destroyed this country, they’ll see that it was the Daily bloody Mail.

  39. The people who fall for this stuff will just dismiss any oversight as fake news and censorship – they believe what they want to believe, and seek out “news” that will confirm these irrational biases

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