It is not about culture war stuff like dem senators using #BLM. The UK has always had comparatively heavy restrictions on speech, whether it is public law or private law like their plaintiff friendly libel laws.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3960376&forum_id=2#35924654)

As for free speech, until recently the restrictions were only heavy in comparison to America. We certainly were more free to speak our minds than the benighted Europeans. George Orwell recalled seeing pro-German leaflets being sold on the streets during the height of the London blitz -- this was not illegal to do!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3960376&forum_id=2#35924714)

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Our betters decided that this couldn't go on, so they deliberately flooded the country with foreigners in order to undermine this invisible English consensus. Now we really are at that pitch of disintegration.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3960376&forum_id=2#35924743)

youngs are just getting priced out, even more affluent ones. i read that bankers used to move to very tony belgravia, but that they have largely been priced out because of huge arab and russian money and thus must settle for places like Kensington. Seems like a small point, but that dominoes down the line, and of course there is pressure the opposite way too as the lower to middle classes get squeezed out of the city by violent minorities or forced to overpay in more white neighborhoods.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3960376&forum_id=2#35924106)

I think a lot of it is driven by class hatred and class anxiety.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3960376&forum_id=2#35924677)

The UK has one of the largest totals CCTV cameras in the world. The British Security Industry Association (BSIA) estimates there are between 4-5.9 million cameras.

They know when you shit, poast, walk down the street.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3960376&forum_id=2#35924845)

applications must include a "valid reason" for wanting to own one. self-defence, or just the natural right of a grown-up to own whatever gizmo he wants for lawful purposes, are not considered valid reasons. wildlife control or sports shooting is a valid reason, but yes these tend to favour only farmers and/or the wealthy. police can also revoke the licence and confiscate the weapon at their discretion.

this is all by design.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3960376&forum_id=2#35925792)

"the natural right of a grown-up to own whatever gizmo"

lol. what about the natural right of a grown-up to rape whoever or kill whoever, etc. You sound like a lunkhead.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3960376&forum_id=2#35929714)

but this wasn't enough to create today's situation - that took the shattering of local economies due to the postwar evisceration of manufacturing and trades like mining, most of which was located outside of london. if you watch english "social dramas" from the 70's/early-80's like boys from the blackstuff (set in liverpool), this is a repeated theme - local trades getting wrecked; people having to turn to government agencies or move out altogether to get by.

london gobbled up more and more capital and population, and its cultural norms came to be extended to the rest of england through the central bureaucratic state established during wartime. since london is an international entrepôt, one of the most important values is "not offending the guests" - ie, hate-speech regulations. this gets support from both the shitlib left but also from the purportive "right," since insulting the guests is bad for business.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3960376&forum_id=2#35928643)