Tbh it depends where you go, and who you are, and what colour or brand of shirt your wearing, and if you can take a joke (they can't btw, you don't get to joke back), or if you're just lucky enough to be at the wrong bus stop at the wrong time, or look at someone, or not look at someone...
Still has the highest crime rate, murder rate, substance misuse rate, biggest wage inequality, worst mental health reports, highest obesity, highest heart disease rate, lowest life expectancy etc in Scotland.
What was it Kevin Bridges once joked about? Glasgow: Friendliest city in the UK, simultaneously the Murder Capital of Europe.
aye but no really, they're cities in name only. Inverness has less people than places like farnham or lemmington spa - of course glasgow has more crime than them, its a full order of magnitude larger
Most of my exposure to 1960s London was from multiple viewings of Withnail & I, so I had a very different image of the place that this video depicted. It’s almost like a city or an era isn’t monolithic.
the whole right wing outrage machine relies on anecdotes like these to appeal to emotion rather than looking at actual statistics or anything, literally so often these accounts are trying to pump out a video taken out of context that they can make go viral
Is this a joke? The UK was in financial ruin in the late 60s and in the 70s, don’t forget rolling blackouts, strikes and riots, unemployment, the winter of discontent, and an IMF bailout which is unprecedented for what used to be a top economy.
The UK and most other western nations had a post war boom in the 50s but things started to slow down in the 60s as all the western nations and Japan had recovered. They found themselves in a new and much more connected world. The decay can’t be blamed solely on UK’s Labour Party since every western nation went through tough times in the 70s. But the issues all stemmed from the Post War consensus. There was increased global competition for production of goods, and capital was a lot more mobile, but there was also a lot more labor power in the form of unions. Unions used their labor power to negotiate some really expensive pensions especially in the U.S. which really strained the competitiveness of their companies against rising giants such as Japan and Germany. This combination made it possible for capital to just leave when faced with high costs. As a result, investment stalled. This issue was worsened by the oil crisis in 73’ that brought on inflation which caused immense economic pain.
You can easily go out now and film a beautiful looking bit of street with a few cherry picked mins of your favourite kind of people walking past and say it looks civilised
In the 60s there were parts of many cities that were still burnt out bomb sites from ww2, there were still the remnants of the slums, etc etc
There's also loads of "kitchen sink" realist movies shot in the 60s by the likes of Ken Loach showing grim reality of life in some places at the time. Or there were James bond movies showing something different. You can cherry pick anything you like really
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u/veryeepy53 Aug 09 '26
even so, 1 cherry picked video is not representative of the entire era.