{"id":208247,"date":"2025-06-23T17:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T17:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208247\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T17:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T17:47:13","slug":"and-ive-had-enough-of-london-too-byline-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208247\/","title":{"rendered":"And I&#8217;ve Had Enough of London Too!&#8217; \u2013 Byline Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"02692b10-c205-47f3-a59a-76cd3d6a8406\" class=\"has-text-align-center has-sell-gold-color has-text-color\"><strong>Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2024\/10\/21\/telegraph-misled-readers-on-climate-change-impact-rules-press-watchdog-in-rare-slap-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> system<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.bylinetimes.com\/editions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1308\" height=\"67\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-247002 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-8-1308x67.png\"  data- data-eio-rwidth=\"1308\" data-eio-rheight=\"67\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"02692b10-c205-47f3-a59a-76cd3d6a8406\" class=\"has-text-align-center has-sell-gold-color has-text-color\"><strong>Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b57300f6-d894-4a4a-8b27-da89fe55bcf8\" class=\"has-drop-cap\">Not so very long ago, our capital stood as a model for all that was great and good about Britain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"91f9912f-a4d2-4697-96bd-35fec953dddc\">Sitting at the heart of an Empire upon which the sun never set, it moved at its own inimitable pace as men in bowler hats, pearly kings and queens, flying nannies and Antipodean chimney sweeps went about their business. Gaiety hung in the air, and despite the occasional outbreak of plague, the lovable London cockney could always be relied upon to drop everything in a trice and break out in song.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"cb218e4a-3e4d-4751-aa27-0595295affe6\">Crime, if it existed at all, was quickly solved by little old ladies in cardigans, or retired Belgian detectives, or men in deer stalker hats, on account of all the criminals being fairly obvious from the start.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"d28213b3-63df-4b52-8c70-bc9664e17ba8\">Which is not to say that things were perfect. From my research on YouTube, I have discovered that for much of the early 20th century, people walked very quickly everywhere and could neither speak nor afford Technicolour. And while World War Two was largely a joyous enterprise, the Blitz was not all fun, fun, fun, as on one occasion Buckingham Palace got hit by a bomb.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"bde8b6e0-7a49-4c03-8d95-bc4ca035407a\">But for the most part, people knew their place and were happy because London worked, largely because it still had coal-fired power stations. Indeed, before \u2018wokies\u2019 turned it into an art museum, Bankside provided people with all the jobs and cheap electricity they needed, and more to the point, ensured that London pea soupers were \u2018real fog\u2019 and not like the \u2018Gen Z\u2019 mists you get today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wp-block-fabrica-article-preview-image__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2020\/01\/16\/an-audio-tour-of-the-fantastic-2022-festival-of-brexit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-fabrica-article-preview-image__image lazyload\" width=\"1618\" height=\"1033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Brexit-Festival-2022-1.jpg\"  data-eio-rwidth=\"1618\" data-eio-rheight=\"1033\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"0c511f42-0d94-4b19-a9f9-9eb75e99cb21\" class=\"wp-block-fabrica-article-preview-lede\">Otto English has advance copies of the plans for the coming attractions \u2013 A Nostalgia Zone, Gallery of Brexit Heroes and much more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Otto English<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"8a571d31-14e9-4490-94a0-8e01d23fef95\">Despite what snobs might tell you, the food was splendid too.\u00a0 Most restaurants offered a choice of two types of bread \u2013 white or brown \u2013 and an array of well-cooked food that more exotic diners could spice up with condiments that might include \u2018salad cream\u2019, \u2018tomato ketchup\u2019 or a splash of malt vinegar.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"77cdf5d1-9df5-49fe-95c2-194152837e2b\" class=\"has-drop-cap\">How times have changed. I can\u2019t remember the last time I heard of an old spinster solving a major murder case in the capital, and despite having lived in London since the 1990s, I have not once seen a chimney sweep break out into an elaborate song and dance routine with a flying nanny in a proper pea souper.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"e3066aa4-894d-4a56-86bf-bcf2455e434f\">Those on the woke left will claim that this is because \u2018I\u2019m at best deluded and possibly a bit racist\u2019 but my research, funded by the \u201cInstitute of Tax-haters\u201d, proves, beyond all possible doubt, that every single ill in London is down to \u2018Sadiq Khan\u2019 and immigrants.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"423ea972-18aa-491e-9700-155f808aa2b0\">Data, rigorously assembled by myself and X user @WhiteFlite9628292, shows that London is in danger of becoming different to how it was in Oswald Mosley\u2019s day when <a href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2024\/09\/09\/police-race-action-plan-slammed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">race<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2024\/09\/12\/time-to-think-outside-the-box-keir-starmer-open-a-cross-channel-safe-route-for-asylum-seekers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immigration<\/a> simply were not an issue for anyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"1e9687f0-d093-4b7e-925f-d8a0086e4aba\">The shocking figures speak for themselves. Since Sadiq Khan was first elected mayor in May 2016, not one statue has been erected to Winston Churchill. Wimpy restaurants, once so prevalent in the capital, have all but disappeared from our streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"e4aa0341-156e-4ddc-8c7e-3af32b7c65b0\">Whole swathes of the city have been pedestrianised and while laughing, happy young people drink mocha lattes in the sun, or enjoy a disturbing \u2018continental\u2019 al fresco evening dining experience in the no go areas of Camden, Soho and Islington, London\u2019s black cab drivers have to go \u2018the long way round\u2019 to the <a href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2024\/09\/03\/the-bored-millionaire-buying-up-britains-right-wing-media-paul-marshall-set-to-buy-the-spectator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GB News<\/a> studio in Paddington.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"01a38e68-33a7-44a8-b101-5cd7a159f440\">Meanwhile, many of the city\u2019s best carparks now double as farmers\u2019 markets, while the streets fill up with people protesting the mass slaughter of children in wars, making it almost impossible for <a href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2024\/09\/03\/the-bored-millionaire-buying-up-britains-right-wing-media-paul-marshall-set-to-buy-the-spectator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Marshall<\/a> to park his Bentley in the capital at the weekends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"697317cd-bab8-444a-b02a-9b14b158dcb8\">But it is the demographic shift that shocks most of all. As evidenced by the electoral rolls, once common British surnames like Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Brunel, Disraeli, and Harthacnut have all but disappeared from the capital and while 18 children in England have been christened Nigel since 2016 \u2013 none of them were born in Brixton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wp-block-fabrica-article-preview-image__link\" href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2025\/04\/01\/farage-celebrates-securing-clacton-free-port-coup-as-part-of-us-uk-trade-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-fabrica-article-preview-image__image lazyload\" width=\"2464\" height=\"1643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Clacton-Trump-1.jpg\"  data-eio-rwidth=\"2464\" data-eio-rheight=\"1643\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BREAKING<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"5255ddb8-4be6-46ac-bd02-f6588e73428d\" class=\"wp-block-fabrica-article-preview-lede\">True purpose of the <a href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2024\/12\/06\/keir-starmer-considers-closing-elon-musk-donations-loophole-to-stop-foreign-interference-in-uk-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reform<\/a> Leader\u2019s visits to Washington revealed as Trump-backed plans to transform the Essex coastline into the \u201951st State\u2019 are unveiled<\/p>\n<p>Isa Yolkes<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"3d2b9a0d-7d89-4ce9-85b8-2b6315d6e193\">Even more chillingly, we have discovered that every single \u201cWhite British\u201d person who is alive in London today will have been replaced by someone else by the year 2147.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"094db274-54b0-4345-abd6-f961ba869e57\">All of this is happening in front of our eyes. But like the graffiti that is so prevalent in the capital, nobody seems to care. One particularly egregious example of the latter, near Waterloo station, features a large bear in a duffel coat and red hat with the terrifying slogan \u2018everyone is welcome here\u2019 written underneath. Who put it there is anyone\u2019s guess, but it is a frightening reminder that this city, which was once home to the likes of Prince Albert, Freddy Mercury, George Handel and Judith Kerr, has fallen to an unstoppable wave of immigrants.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"7e167ebf-8ad1-463e-b85d-17b96f0bf40e\">The London of bombsites, dirty abandoned buildings, National Front marches, racist schoolyard jokes, skinheads sniffing glue, three choices of baked potato and a drab and very dangerous underground system is in serious danger of disappearing forever to be replaced by a multicultural hell hole where people just want to rub along together.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"985d5d4a-146a-45bf-977d-e7fe7a0d03fc\">The promise of Brexit was that all this unnecessary change would be stopped in its tracks, and maybe it really is time that we took back control and built a gigantic wall around London to seal it off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"86592170-efcb-4b6e-af55-d746d3dec747\">In the meantime, it\u2019s enough to make one want to move to Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"8aa0019b-7d9a-4958-a3ed-9f3748e1fe71\">If only I could.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"3a3d5627-53ba-4968-8481-8595b0e1b051\">As told to Otto English<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-208247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114733937255948364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}