Looking at what is going on in London with regards the rapidly dropping quality of life and the rise in the sort of violent crime that would not have been out of place in medieval times, I sometimes find myself thinking about the Fall of Rome. Did, I wonder, those for whom Rome was the greatest city in the world at the time, sit and weep as the Goths took or destroyed that what Romans had built and worked for over the course of centuries? I don’t know about you but when I read how far London has fallen, not just under Mayor Sadiq ‘Saracen’ Khan, but over the last thirty or forty years, it seems like I’m looking at something akin to the Fall of Rome.
London may not be facing a mob of angry ancient Goths but it’s certainly got a lot of problems with utter and complete scum. These scum are behaving in ways that were once almost unheard of such as the individual featured in a recent news story about women being sexually assaulted whilst waiting to pay their respects at Westminster Hall to her late Majesty.
Sky News said:
Two women were sexually assaulted in the queue to see the Queen’s lying in state, a court has heard.
Adio Adeshine, 19, allegedly exposed himself and pushed into the mourners from behind as they waited in line at Victoria Tower Gardens in Westminster, central London, on Wednesday evening.
He is said to have gone into the River Thames in an attempt to evade police officers, before coming out and being arrested.
Adeshine was remanded in custody on Friday after appearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of breaching a sexual harm prevention order.
The court heard the first complainant allegedly noticed Adeshine because she had not previously seen him, despite having waited in the queue with the same people for hours.
She is said to have noticed him getting closer to her before feeling something touching her back, then turned to see he had exposed himself.
Another day and another sex attack in a city that was once the heart of Britain but which is now very much its unwashed stinky armpit.
I don’t know about this, Mr Fahrenheit/Josh, but I am a decade or so older than you and I remember in the 1960s if an unfortunate women missed the last train or bus home she was very much seen as game to late night rapists prowling the streets. Women were were supposed to keep themselves safe by not being out alone after dark. No one questioned the male right of the streets to harrass until then?
I was there in the 1960s and this is a gross exaggeration. The vast majority of men, then as now, we’re protective of women and weaker folks. You smear decent people and spread unwarranted alarm with such ridiculous postings
You make it seem as if London in the 60’s was a hell hole for women. I was not around in the sixties but I was in the seventies and whilst there were always and have been a minority of men who are arseholes where women are concerned I recall a situation where women were relatively safe and that many men would do the right thing. This attack in London on women queuing to see the Queen’s lying in state happened in a place and at a time when there are plenty of police around to put most wrong’uns off. The problem is this particular wrong’un was not put off and that’s the difference between now and then.
When I first went to secondary school I used to spend some of my school holidays just riding the London buses on a day pass and exploring. My parents accepted that I would be safe provided that I didn’t go into some bits of south east London that they were wary of. I don’t think I’d let my son do that when he’s 11 to 13 now. London has changed. Not for the better. It’s always had the occasional predator but they were rare. Now as we can see from the low life who sexually assaulted these women in the queue to see the Queen, such predators are not so rare.
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How wise were past governments to make sure the British people were unarmed and legally unable to defend themselves against this rising tide of lawlessness? The police are a broken reed which offers no help or reassurance and the law is employed with near religious ferver against those who seek to protect themselves. Small wonder the powers that be have used every dirty trick in the book to stiffle the rise of any political party other than the woefully inadequate established parties that have so comprehensively failed our nation.
Roy, so you want us to have guns to go around shooting each other, not a country I want to live in?
Please feel free to offer yourself as a helpless victim if that’s what you wish to do but don’t insist others should do the same. Nice to see your typing has improved since your last comment.
I think that it was Robert Heinlein who said ‘an armed society is a polite society’. Prior to the first world war Briton had quite a lax firearms culture but Britons were not going round shooting each other. Nobody in their right mind would want to have a society where everyone was regularly shooting one another, but allowing law abiding and trained British subjects to have a lethal or potentially lethal method of self defence for those situations where the police are half an hour away but the problem needs to be sorted like now, is a different matter. There are enough tales from the USA of how a good man or good woman with a gun has taken down a criminal or an attacker long before the police get on the scene to make me somewhat supportive of the American system where people are allowed to defend themselves with lethal force.
We have a situation in Britain where in the main, with the exception of Ulster where some personal protection firearms are allowed, only criminals and the police have self defence firearms. This puts Britons in the position where they have to rely on a police force that is overstretched to such an extent that the police cannot reasonably defend the populace. If there are problems with the American system then there are just as many problems with the British system.
Personally I’d like to see the police actually police for the benefit of the majority rather than have to weigh the political value of every intervention to see where it sits on the ‘progressive stack’. A disarmed but high trust society would be ideal but we don’t have that ideal.
No, but to go on about this, as a young woman born shortly after WW2 we were taught that if we wandered around in the streets unaccompanied after dark sexual assault was something we deserved, and the men perpetrating it were not guilty at all. We’ve come some way since then but not far enough.
The children’s presenter Michela Stratton was interviewed in the eighties and she said that she drove as she didn’t feel safe on public transport at night and that a lot of women didn’t either. Such a negative message to kids?
Public transport especially at night and in or through areas that are a bit dodgy are worrying for all not just women. When I used to regularly use London’s night buses although there were a lot of decent people riding them with me such as those going to work in service jobs in the City, there were also a lot of people who were to say the least disturbed and volatile also on these buses.