I was back in June and July for the first time since 2019. London has changed significantly.

Very different in areas such as Dalston and Shoreditch, SW postcodes generally booming, SE postcodes slipping further and further behind economically and socially in terms of crime, education etc.

On the plus side public transport continues to be much better than the 1980's when if you were in SE you were screwed for trains and underground.

When I visited Richmond on Thames it was like a different planet to Thornton Heath or Brockley.

The woke culture war is lost in LOndon, don't ask where " the gents toilet is " and don't stare when you are served in a shop by a man with a beard and I am guessing a p**** in female clothes and with the name tag Angel. This is the pr4sent and the future.

Very different in other parts of the country, Wiltshire, Dorset, the Cotswolds, Suffolk, North Lincs. The people in those areas have nothing in common with the woke media and their hangers on.

The Red Wall will not vote for someone hwo cannot say a woman is an adult female and does not have a p****.

Starmer in place gives hope to Truss.

It's amazing how many people who have a vote do not seem to realise in the UK we do not have a presidential system.

Universal suffrage is not the way forward, just because you are alive does not mean you are qualified to vote and affect others.

The scariest thing is the ever increasing sense of entitlement younger people have, they think nice to haves are human rights.

Saw people talking about going to the food bank with better phones than mine and hundreds of pounds worth of new tattoos.

Does not bode well for the future IMHO

Good to see some things never change, no new stand at SP, Club screwing up digital STs etc

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

I agree there are good young people, my son and daughter who live in London , 30 and 23 both work hard and have good jobs with proper career prospects

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

From the poster who denied that JK Rowling had been cancelled

I'm so pleased that I made the decision to leave London in the late-1990s. I'm also still celebrating opting for a less challenging working life in 2019 meaning no more working trips to the capital. It's a dreadful place that I have no desire to visit ever again (apart from Selhurst, obviously!). And now we have the first outbreak of polio in the UK for about 40 years...guess where?

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

I have a nephew who married an Italian girl a couple of years ago, and they started married life in Wimbledon. Not sure exactly what he does, something like selling advertising space for a media company.

Found it increasingly difficult here so they recently moved to Rome. His firm agreed to him doing the same job from there and they made him their 'Italian Office'.

Nobody cares where your home is.

Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

Angel works in a large pharmacy in Northcote Road. The food bank conversation was outside a tattoo parlour in Hull. Whether you or any other ideologue believes or not is irrelevant to me. Crack on

Edited by HKOwen (11 Aug 2022 11.50pm)

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.