London’s New Year’s Eve celebration pays tribute to Ukraine. Featuring Ukraine’s winning Eurovision Song Contest artist Kalush Orchestra.
London’s New Year’s Eve celebration pays tribute to Ukraine. Featuring Ukraine’s winning Eurovision Song Contest artist Kalush Orchestra. from unitedkingdom
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London is still full of dirty Russian money though right?
I loved when action against climate change was mentioned and then the sky was awash with fireworks
Let’s tribute Ukraine with lots of explosions. It’s what they would have wanted.
What about Yemen and Palestine ? Infact the whole middle east except Saudi Arabia, that the UK and the US have commited acts of terrorism in for 2 decades
Weirdly this was posted on r/Ukraine and all the comments were positive. Over here everyone has found a different reason to be cynical or offended. It’s just a firework display, ffs chill out.
Feels rather disingenuous to hear the voice clip of “London opens its homes to the refugees from Ukraine” when just a few years ago the country was doing everything possible to avoid helping Syrian refugees.
I wonder what the difference could be.
Jesus the comments here are miserable as fuck. Can’t people just enjoy the fireworks and appreciate a bit of solidarity with Ukraine?
Ahh signing into the “greenandpleasant lite” sub, when your just not quite as miserable as those nutters you come here.
That is what I like to see moaning even watching fireworks, makes me proud to be British
Fuck sake, this sub is pathetic.
Every fucker just wants to wallow in their own self pity.
Im from Asia but damn I thought Putin said no civillian would be harmed?
That man’s ego is higher than Mt. Everest
Good god this sub is so fucking miserable how do you all even get through the day
Very fitting especially since the UK is going to hold the Eurovision that Ukraine won.
It is grim how many people have had their minds warped post covid to think everything about the UK is shit or must be moaned about.
Fantastic fireworks
Having watched the other displays of other major cities… London was the best.
Posts like this are a magnet for joyless, misanthropic UK Redditors. “What about the cost/dirty Russian money/cost of living/pollution!”
Just take ten minutes to enjoy something. Your Yorkshire tea and misery will be right there when you get back.
This post really shows this sub is full of cynical, miserable people, who will find fault with anything as long as it involves something the UK does.
Can’t we see any positives in this? For once?
Not sure more explosions are what the Ukrainians would have wanted.
Forgive my ignorance – what is the building glowing blue and yellow when the Eye is shown from bigger distance?
Listen don’t get me wrong – it’s a nice gesture and nothing short of a beautiful display showing support for Ukraine which we all share.
But as a Brit, just for once, can we just celebrate new year without political messaging and subliminal portrayals of support? Like, it’s been shit for everyone. Cost of living crisis, covid still prevalent, losing family members, tough employment status’.
New year should be a time to consume and reflect the previous year – but more importantly celebrate the start of a new one. The UK has forgotten how to have a celebration and to actually think about the good in the world. I don’t see any other countries doing a Ukraine special celebration – so why do we always take it on ourselves to do it.
Comments here so typical of Reddit 🙄 Miserable fks
Fucking hell, what a bunch of absolutely miserable cunts in this thread.
As a Ukrainian, I thank UK for this support gesture on New Years Night, and all the other things it helps my country with.
Lol where was this when Syria was getting smothered in chemical bombs?
Give them a nice firework display, in front of all the russian owned real estate.
My only gripe is that it’s wasn’t SHUM by Go-A from a few years back, that song from Ukraine was fucking beautiful
Am I wrong for thinking that gestures like this by military super powers are cringe as fuck, and if they really wanted to support Ukraine, they’d send soldiers and kick Russias ass?
Idk it just seems really pointless and looks more like “look how supportive I am” instead of “here let me actually support you”.
Money that could have been better spent on feeding and homing the poor and homeless ( when I say poor and homeless I mean British citizens not economic refugees)
I get the sentiment, but lets all agree that song is fucking awful
But… What about Yemen ?
Pathetic waste of money , pensioners are dying from lack of food or can’t afford power. People living on the streets the NHS staff not getting paid enough.. but let’s blow over 500k on fireworks …. Uk is shit the bbc was a woke show too .. you are all accepted
If anything unites us, it’s shitting on another country without doing anything. Ukraine is a proxy war. They are the current puppets of the western world to crush Russia. While I agree Russia must be stopped, stop filling yourselves that the Brits or other western societies are not also equally evil in other ways. We are using Ukraine because it serves a purpose. Not because we actually care about them.
Oh look! thats the same fireworks show every year since they built that glorified ferris wheel. *sigh*
Love from Canada!
Thank you to all Ukrainian soldiers defending their home and people.
Thank you to all Russians standing up against the neofascist Putin regime.
Bless all Ukrainians, wherever you are, for your dignity, mercy and restraint in the face of brutality.
Stay strong all friends of Ukraine, your spirit is needed until the job is done!
Food and drink on me when I visit a free and peaceful Kyiv!
What a load of shite, wouldn’t expect anything else from such a spineless corrupt government.
We could of tributed Ukraine (rightly so) another way rather than having a 10 minute fireworks display whilst people are skipping meals, can’t heat their homes, homelessness is soaring and nurses are forced to use food banks.
Capitalism in a nutshell: pressure some poor country into joining your offensive “defensive” military alliance, obviously causing problems down the line, replace their leaders with ones that agree with you and will do it, cause a war, pick their song out of pity in the most politicised song contest on the globe and then play it in the finance capital capital of Europe. Nice.