Why is everyone hating on London

Pleased to say we’re the same as we always were and welcome tourists who know what they’re going to get. Traditional. It’s great.

No Roma beggars.

Maybe 'rural up north' is the same

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I think he probably means Roma.

@Jamesblonde2 nowhere feels like it did 30 years ago. Accents change and evolve, populations move, the centre of London arguably is is no longer the west end, I would say all the interesting stuff is East now.

I don't know. You tell me.
You are the one labelling them as "Romanian -looking."
Maybe you could be a bit more accurate before you start throwing your nationalistic slurs around.

Islamophobia and ignorance.
Also, there’s a general feeling of resentment maybe as the rich / poor gap gets bigger. Many cities have high unemployment and not very good prospects even just 2 hours away from London but young people are put off by the high rent, not realising the bigger picture which is sad

Are you able to read?

Did you read the article?

Did you read the bit that says: Mr Khan said the caption was added by a staff member “in error”, and does not reflect his view or the view of the GLA.?

Are you repeating this on purpose or through ignorance?

So where are those women from then? They’re certainly not British.

"Romanian looking beggars." FFS.

I find this a really odd thing to say.

What does the UK feel like, then? Like Cornwall or like Birmingham? Like Milton Keynes or the Isle of Mull? Like Shrewsbury or Swindon or Stirling? Because they all feel as different from each other as any of them do to London.

I worry that when you say "a foreign country", you are talking about London's many ethnicities. Is that what you mean? And why does this trouble you?

It doesn’t feel like it did 30 years ago.
The buildings and landmarks do, but the lack of cockney local accent is really disappointing and astounding.
I imagine tourists think the same. Perhaps not what they were expecting.
Immigrants sleeping in tents in parks?
Romanian looking beggars on every corner.
Those horrible American sweet shops which are a front for money laundering.
I don’t recognise the place so won’t be going back. I imagine the people who live there abd like it don’t want me back. Fair enough.
I’ll stay rural up North where things haven’t changed as much.

Twitter.

It’s so stupid that people are starting to take the piss https://x.com/rosieisaholt/status/1956291893156856099?s=46&t=vKGM6xpoeW3wdlaVVVagQA

I speak as I am and open to critique.

London is a foreign country to me. Overcrowded and not representative of my day to day life. I go there as a one off here and there and take it's ways as a curiosity.

It does not feel like the UK to me. It governs us, but is different to us.

Maybe that explains Brexit.

The thread is about the particular SM R Wing thing that is going on at the moment.

where are people seeing this all? I have only seen the cesspit comments on Daily Mail (yes I know I shouldn't go on there!)

I was commenting on the fact that she kept trying to argue with people when they gave their reasons for not liking London. Like they were going to decide to change their minds based off what she had said 🤔😅

The thread is about the particular SM R Wing thing that is going on at the moment. Not about people whose personal preference is to live / visit elsewhere.

The Far Right are anti the Muslim / Labour mayor and desperate to prove that London is a desperate lawless no/go zone full of feral migrants.

As it happens crime has fallen over the last year, and in multi cultural cosmopolitan London , which houses more migrants / refugees per head of population than anywhere else, the community here is NOT staging riots and setting fire to accommodation hostels / hotels.

But Reform want Londoners to believe that we are under threat so are yelling ‘cess pit’ on repeat.

That’s what the OP was referencing, I think.

No, you quoted my post about people hating Muslims and Sadiq Khan which was a response to the OP (the first post on the thread so it definitely wasn't aimed you) and tried to make it about you.

My post wasn't about you, it was about the far right campaign referred to in the OP. I don't know why you decided to take it personally and quote it.

No you’re right I’m not but you make me the subject of your reply when you reply directly to me and accuse me of those things. Your response wasn’t general or in answer to thr OP - it was directly to me. Hence my response.

I mean it's not a "grotty shit hole" at all. You clearly have no idea what you're on about.

Because the OP was referring to the current batch of social media posts where people are saying that London has fallen, overrun by foreigners etc and was asking why.

My response (the first on the thread) was that it's because they hate Muslims and Sadiq Khan.

You then decided to respond that you dislike London and don't hate Muslims.

But that's irrelevant to the OP because you aren't posting it on social media, and to my post about the far-right muslim hating campaign to deride Sadiq Khan's London as a cesspool. They the ones currently hating on London by slating it on social media as described in the OP. You are not the subject of this thread.

Its a grotty shit hole for the most part. Its too busy. Its very stressful being there because the people generally aren't warm and friendly. There are good things too, but nothing I'd personally deem worth enduring all the negatives.

What are you on about? Seriously?

I haven’t been on social media obsessively posting about London - in fact this is the first time ever. What a strange thing to say.

Have you been going on social media and obsessively posting how London has fallen? Because if you have, that's a bit weird? And also what the far-right are currently doing.

Yeah I think you and o have different definitions of hating on…..I am more like this (taken from Google on the definition of hating on)

Hating on" something, particularly in informal contexts, means actively expressing strong dislike or criticism towards it, often in a negative, public, or even bullying way. It implies a more active and aggressive form of dislike than simply not liking something