UK - From recent press coverage, what is your impression of London and Londoners?

Question

Press coverage - number of kids being stabbed. Feral gangs roaming the streets etc

I'm a Londoner!

Answer 1

Londoners ? You mean real British Londoners like me?

FAB darling.

London? Fooked. Full of immigrants and foreigners. You get on the bus in the morning and struggle to pick out a London accent.

Mystical Mamba - It is LONDONER. LONDON-ER. Born & Bred me, and born in a council flat. A True BRITISH (English) Londoner.

Answer 2

A place to avoid at all costs.

Answer 3

Oi Minki!

If they're anything like you or me, they're the salt of the earth ;-)

I blame Boris for all of this! Bring back Red Ken!!!!

Answer 4

Haven't read any.

Answer 5

The London I read about in the papers is at some remove from the London where I have lived, been educated and worked most of my life.  

I love living in such a cosmopolitan city and would leave if I didn't.  It amuses me to hear a wide range of accents and languages on the bus and at the children's playground and I love knowing that I could - though I never seem to have the time - go and see movies from around the world, go to theatre, or an art gallery, eat food from just about any culture, buy a sari, shop for a wok, or buy salt cod for my dinner.

If I didn't enjoy it I'd go and live in some provincial town; it's not like it's cheap to live here!!

Answer 6

All the recent coverage about London seems to be in relation to teenagers and the increase in knife crimes. Very depressing. Doesn't give the city of it's population a good name.

Answer 7

Innit!

I don't listen to the press though, well I try not to.

They do remind me of brummies though, fast city, zero patience.

Answer 8

I don't read 'recent press coverage' (!)

London is a great place, albeit a bit expensive but the choice of sandwiches is a lot better than what I can get here back home.  And someone should tell Boris to bring back the Routemaster buses.

Answer 9

My impression is that it is being taken over by immigrants and gangster rappers.....but shhh we are not allowed to say this are we for fear of being called racists.

Answer 10

Real British Londoners are great

But not many of us left Im afraid....if you want to find English speaking Londoners these days look very hard we are a dying breed

Answer 11

The given impression is of a lawless city taken over by gangs of ferral youths happy to hack anyone to death - not somewhere you would want to go on holiday! Fortunately i know better and wouldn't go into the areas these scum are in but tourists wanting to visit don't know and probably won't even bother coming.

Answer 12

i went to london last year, for the 1st time, and i loved it. maybe its where we were, but i didnt feel threatened at all. i found the people very friendly/

Answer 13

I am a Londoner and I live in one of the so called "problem" areas. I don't walk the streets in fear, I don't stay at home because I'm afraid to go out, I don't feel that there are no-go areas. I love the fact that I live in one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse cities in the world.

I smile at people and I talk to strangers, and guess what...... they smile and converse with me.

What you give is what you get.

Answer 14

what recent press coverage? i wasn't aware that anyone who could consider themselves a 'londener' lived in london anymore.

(see sunkissed f***y)

Answer 15

Well I really don't want to take away from the awfulness of the recent stabbings, but where I grew up loads of people where stabbed and it never made national news.

There has been knife crime up and down Britain for a long time and the Government need to crack down now before it gets any worse.

To be honest it doesn't reflect on Londoners at all as it's not only happening in London.  But a stabbing in Glasgow/Leeds/Newcastle etc won't be such big news at the moment so it's not front page news.

I just hope our pitiful Goverment can sort themselves out and get a proper action plan together instead of namby pamby as they normally do.

Answer 16

Haven't seen much recent press coverage, but in general I find Brits charmingly personable once you get acquainted.  Sorry to say some of the food is curious.  Probably you feel the same way toward american food.  Unfamiliar.