The end of corporation buses was nothing short of civic vandalism. They were seen as anti-competitive, but as soon as buses were deregulated prices went up and services went down. Transport and essential utilities are too important to be left to the market. They are one of many factors that makes a nation civilised.

@handsoffmycactus2958

2 жыл бұрын

London buses are run by TFL, the prices are hardly cheap.

@itcfan

Жыл бұрын

@@handsoffmycactus2958 London's buses are operated 12 companies. TFL is the regulatory body. When the buses were under London Transport, it was both the operator and authority.

@CA-ee1et

Жыл бұрын

Bus services are hardly the mark of civilisation. I don't remember Lord Clark going on about them. It's not the job of government to run bus services. Oh, and those low fares on municipal buses? You pay more in tax to subsidise the fares, so the economic cost doesn't get magically avoided.

@borderlands6606

Жыл бұрын

@@CA-ee1et What is the mark of civilisation, everyone driving private cars? Corporation buses were well used and often full at busy times. They got people to their places of work and kids to school.

@itcfan

Жыл бұрын

@@borderlands6606 well said 👍

I miss the paying cash fares of 90s sometimes people were nice when you have short of change somone would always be like here love aww

@letsdiscussitoversometea8479

4 жыл бұрын

It was also private - not tracked like everything is now.

Coins and tickets... What a memory.

@handsoffmycactus2958

2 жыл бұрын

I have a memory of that a week ago?

Nostalgic to see traffic around Trafalgar and the National Gallery, as was. Horrible to cross back then.

Oh it is like in Istanbul now. Here in Istanbul we call those mini buses DOLMUSH. It litraly means FULL UPS. They don't have set times to departure. They wait till they get full.😀

@Mgameing123

Жыл бұрын

I mean thats green right? 😉

OMG, that’s me in sunglasses 2:17!!

@Isleofskye

4 жыл бұрын

Still wearing the boiler suit? :)

@nicoriggall

4 жыл бұрын

it’s a good look

@bonnie3447

4 жыл бұрын

You look like your off to a Duran Duran gig 😂

@incarnateTheGreat

3 жыл бұрын

Now we must know where you were going!!

@sanchoodell6789

2 жыл бұрын

Duran Duran gig? You're about as easy as a nuclear war!

Thank goodness it never fully happened

I miss 1989 and my Hillman Minx

@spirowthedragon457

4 жыл бұрын

Ian Mangham have you ever heard nwa on tv then ?

@ianmangham4570

4 жыл бұрын

@@spirowthedragon457 Margaret is getting married on Wednesday.

Thought the RM and Olympian were going to have a coming together!

@YaMan-ry6gp

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same, it was very close!

Late 80s starting to get bad London gang knife culture just on

@letsdiscussitoversometea8479

4 жыл бұрын

Wasn't it the National Front back then? Sorry if I'm mistaken.

1:40 you'd struggle to find defence of one's dignity like that today. 2:25 😢 just like the relationship I used to have with my mother back then. 😢

I remember Harlow when it was London Transport Country Area with RT’s

Great seeing the ol' 'Silkies' doing the rounds! 0:08 2:25

@CA-ee1et

Жыл бұрын

What's a silky?

@sanchoodell6789

Жыл бұрын

@@CA-ee1et Daimler DMS bus type, ubiquitous on London's streets in the 1980s. They were particularly noteworthy for that distinctive rear end. The asymmetrical engine air cowls above the extended bustle of the B20 Leyland engine housing. These were usually referred to by their drivers as "Silkies" They were noisy but fast and good for the job they did!

london looked cleaner then, perhaps because back then the people that lived there cared about the place, actual brits

@letsdiscussitoversometea8479

4 жыл бұрын

Compared to now, yes. But there were *definitely* problems with littering by some - I really disliked that!

@CA-ee1et

Жыл бұрын

@@letsdiscussitoversometea8479 All the bins were removed to stop the IRA putting bombs in them.

@letsdiscussitoversometea8479

Жыл бұрын

@@CA-ee1et yes that's true. You also couldn't leave items in the storage area behind the driver (except pushchairs) without permission from what I remember as well.

it looks not much different from the early 2000's

London buses are not deregulated. Transport for London are in full control of the network!

FUCKING typical, now it's a clusterfuck.

Hang on - is that the National Gallery with traffic in front of it?!

@Isleofskye

4 жыл бұрын

Of course. in 1981 ( 8 years b4 this) I used to have driving lessons round the old Trafalgar Square and at some points there were no lights. I lived 2 miles away at The Elephant and Castle from 1954-83 when I saw the way Inner London was going and "fled" to the Outer South London Suburbs and it's been brilliant,I have to admit. More scary than that was the Devils Corner at Hyde Park/Marble Arch Junction with no lights and "every man for himself" which is fine but not ideal for a London Learner Driver. In February,2020 I celebrate exactly 40 years driving...lol

@billyh88uk

2 жыл бұрын

I think it was 2003 when that road was pedestrianised.

01:32, Fk me, Arfur Mullard's bruvvah, caahnt.

Go on ANY bus from Monday-Friday North/South/East and West in INNER London away from Central London and The City Of London and there will be less than 10% White/British. When I grew up there it was,literally,99% White/British other than the admirable 250,000 strong Jewish population in The East End...

@Mgameing123

Жыл бұрын

And is there anything wrong with that?

Año?

When there was a white London

@Nine-Signs

4 жыл бұрын

Give it a rest lad, London has had an ethnically diverse population for at least the last 100 years. In 1953 we had a labour shortage and conservatives gave 500 million across the commonwealth nations access to obtain a British passport and come here to work and we desperately needed their efforts in the post war years. You can hardly bitch and moan about their descendants who grew up British regardless of their skin colour for the terrible crime of their parents coming here and working hard and being equally exploited with the rest of the working classes. As for white Londoners, they are still 60% of the population.

@moominmay

4 жыл бұрын

ArmyOfAll voice of reason thank you. As a child of my first generation Asian parents who broke their back labouring through the 60s onwards, I’ve repaid them and my country of Birth by not becoming a sponging criminal but by working my ass off studying in order to get the best job I could do I’m contributing to the max to the country I love. Me and many white decent folks also working hard for the little we get. It annoys the hell out of me that these lovely nostalgic videos get spammed to death in the comments with variants of ‘When England was England/White/White British/Decent/Safe. If you’ve had a shitty worthless life yourself don’t take it out on other folk that do t look like you!

@Nine-Signs

4 жыл бұрын

​@MrAeronuk1 London has always been the migrant capital of this country for centuries. As for the white population it is only 44% when you exclude white people of other nations who've come to make London their home, which I was not. The demographic and ethnic makeup of London has always been in a state of flux, part of what makes it the great city it is. Now sure its perfectly fine to have concerns about infrastructure and schools, hospitals and the like being able to cater for a growing population where ever they may be from be it here or elsewhere, but that is all resolvable with decent government policy, something we've not had for the last 9 years but if a persons concern is purely about skin colour then I advise people like that to go play in traffic. An example of where very high levels of migration + good government policy can be seen of Canadians, where 25% of canada's population are not born of Canada. Their net inward migration is higher than ours. Indeed there are 36 nations in front of us in terms of the numbers of migrants going to a given nation. As for brexit, I cant help but sit here laughing my arse off knowing that though the majority of leave voters are not racists and voted for a myriad of reasons, many of them perfectly understandable, the fact is all the racists of our land certainly voted for brexit. 2 things to note about that. 1. The areas with the strongest leave vote are among the lowest in terms of migration, the areas with the strongest remain vote had among the highest numbers of migration. 2. Anyone who voted brexit because they dislike migrants is an idiot. Because, Capitalism incentivises capitalists to maximise profit, and so that profit seeks the lowest costs. In the jet and internet age that means a) Capitalists lobby government for trade policies and such that make it easier for them to bring cheaper workers to the jobs, but if unable or more profitable b) Capitalists lobby government for policies that make it easier and cheaper to send the jobs abroad, but if unable c)Automation and subsidies. i.e restrict the inflows of cheap white people from the EU, expect to see far far more cheaper brown people from further out being brought here, as is already happening, And if we restrict the inflows of cheap white and brown people then it costs UK tax payers an absolute fortune in bribes via tax breaks, subsidies, tax cuts, and legislative favouritism, to keep corporations in the UK producing goods and services where it is far more expensive to do so than most the rest of the planet due to almost everything needed for business and life generally, being privatised. Capitalism = checkmate, and its contradictions, incentives, and its condensation of wealth and power, and its prevention of democracy in 70% of life spend at work while granting a wealthy few enough wealth to bend entire governments to their wishes before the interests of society and planet, remain unchanged, brexit or not. The greatest distraction from the collapse of capitalism in 2008 that the rich could have ever wished for, was brexit, which has been hijacked by elites and used to manufacture the consent of enough of the population against a party offering real economic change. kzread.info/dash/bejne/aHiC0cidhZfag6g.html www.uk.coop/sites/default/files/uploads/attachments/worker_co-op_report.pdf p.s. we are seemingly about to re-elect a gov that has killed 120,000 of it's own citizens via economic policy, a figure 3 times larger than General Pinochet managed. The Conservatives have no plan worth spit for the UK regarding the implications of climate change never mind one that can be exported to help the world from the poorest to the richest nation. There are going to be between 250 million and 1 billion people on the move due to climate change over the next 50 years so unless advanced nations who primarily caused this problem plan on building a wall with machine gun nests I dare say we all better get used to it. Far better to plan for the inevitable future than to stand in the sea and demand it obeys us.

@RangaTurk

4 жыл бұрын

London is expensive. Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester would be cheaper alternatives.

@bonnie3447

4 жыл бұрын

You've all been trolled I feel 😂 😂