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The dude you recognised in the Hounslow shirt is Matt Lucas, very famous and funny British comedian! Maybe check out some clips from Little Britain. It's a British comedy sketch TV show starring David Walliams and Matt Lucas, extremely funny!

It was a zebra crossing The pedestrian has right of way. We are actually allowed to cross streets without getting arrested in the UK.

I recommend ’Why does London have so many airports?’ as another one of Jay’s Unfinished London videos to watch.

Some of the bollards, in London and many port settlements e.g. Portsmouth, are upside-down canons, usually trophies captured during battles with the French.

I'm surprised Jay didn't make more of the fact that there's also an area of London called Borough, with a tube station of the same name and most famous for Borough Market, the chicest place to be seen paying $20 for a loaf of bread if that's your thing. I believe Borough is in the Borough of Southwark.

“Sir Foreman” is actually incorrect! Were he to be knighted, he would be addressed as either Sir Jay Foreman or simply Sir Jay.

Since you liked the logos song/rhymes, you might appreciate the fact that Harrow has changed its logo fairly recently, and the leader of Harrow Council aknowledged that he'd seen that part of Jay Foreman's video in a tweet, hoping they'd "move from 'lame' to 'boring crest'" !

At the end of the video, in the top right hand corner, is a small black and white box. Back in the pre-digital days, this used to appear during programmes on commercial TV stations and indicated that there was an upcoming commercial break.

In the first video, Jay mentioned City of London. There’s a brilliant few videos by CGP Grey about the specifics and oddities of the City in a City in a Country in a Country - I highly recommend watching and reacting to them, and CGP Grey videos in general 👍

I was one of the archaeologists that worked on the Mayoral Offices site before the building was constructed. It was a medieval manor site

Never fly-tip your tetra paks next to a bollard

Burrows are tunnels made by animals. The video is about boroughs. (Burr-uh)

Hi. As was mentioned in the first video you reacted to on this topic the other day, NYC is divided into 5 boroughs but London is divided into 33 London local authorities (the City of London and the 32 London Boroughs). Mind you London is over 600 square miles, so about twice the size of NYC. The number was based on each borough serving a set population number to be able to give enough attention to the local issues that you don’t get with London being carved into larger but fewer boroughs. The smallest London local authority is the City of London at 1.12 square miles and the largest is the London Borough of Bromley at just under 59 square miles.

Tetra Pak is a brand name, the company seems to have a near monopoly on this type of carton. It's owned by the Rausing family in Sweden and the UK.

When 'Sir' or 'Dame' is added to someone's name, it's always coupled with the persons forename, so he'd be addressed as 'Sir Jay' rather than 'Sir Foreman'.

I don't know which is funnier, the actual video, or your facial expressions. Both hysterical! That guy is actor Matt Lucas. 'Margaret Thatcher smells of wee' at 8:32. 😂

‘A new typeface, a new day’ and if you know that one, you’re my people 😄 I’ve got that Abbey Road fridge magnet too 👍🏼

In the fist clip wher you were concerned there was a car coming, Jay was not jay walking (pun intended) as that's not a thing in UK, he was on a pedestrian crossing called a zebra where pedestrians always have right of way, even though that particular zebra's white stripes were very faded (maybe because two neighbouring Boroughs each think the other should be responsible for it) drivers are alerted buy the zig zag lines on the side of the road telling them to slow down. We di have pelican crossings, (which unlike Zebra crossings, bear mo resemblance to the animal they are named after) pelican crossing have lights telling you when to cross aka red man/green man, but it is not a crime to ignore them.

Can anyone imagine Khan having even more power than he has already?

Thank god I live up 'Norf', it's a bloody minefield down in the 'Big Smoke.'

The rest of England had local government reorganisation is 1974. when the multi tiered structure (Counties, County Boroughs, Municipal Boroughs, Urban Districts and Rural Districts - and in rural areas Parish Councils) were replaced with a two tier system of Counties and Boroughs - except for London (which had its reorganisation in the 1960s) and the large urban conurbations of the West Midlands, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear. Merseyside and Greater Manchester - all of which gained GLC like Metropolitan County Councils and Metropolitan District Councils. Along with the GLC Margaret Thatcher abolished these County Councils, all of which were run by a different party to hers.

Alaska has boroughs. In some areas the city and Borough are the same government, in others they are separate. Greetings from the Fairbanks North Star Borough.

I grew up in bexley, where jay talks about the bollards. In some London Borough you will find different types of bollards, in Greenwich a number are captured French canon put in the ground.

I lived in London for over twenty years and yes it did matter that I lived in Islington and not Hackney..lol. Londoners will know what I mean ( and probably call me a snob!) 😊 but seriously, most folk I knew did care where they lived, it could effect the football team you supported even..go the gunners! Many of the borough's are pretty distinctive with their own style and atmosphere..Notting Hill and Camden are very different from Peckham or Lambeth...and no self respecting North Londoner would admit to wanting to move South of the river...lol 😃✌🇬🇧

"Hounslow for the Hounslowsians" is Matt Lucas

By the way... the voiceover for Ken Livingstone is EXTREMELY accurate!! that is really how he sounds LOL

OMG, this explained SO MUCH! (I’ll have to go find/watch part 1.) I watch a LOT of shows/read a LOT of stuff based in London (Sherlock Holmes etc)… and I’ve always been confused by these “extra names” they refer to.😄 (Although a large city like New York has something similar w their boroughs… I’m always confused by them, too.😅) …And while I didn’t “get” what must be a Londoner’s inside joke about the potential three boroughs: North, South, and Harrow… it definitely reminded me of a similar joke regarding the state of Washington where I live: It’s said we’re divided in three parts… Western, Eastern (simply put, separated by a mountain range)… AND King County (the area around Seattle).

From a brief look on Wikipedia it seems like the closest local thing to a borough council in LA is a "neighborhood councils". But it looks like the LA neighborhood councils have pretty much zero budget and powers, and for anything that needs significant money or enforcement powers they have to persuade the City Council, LAPD, or another organisation to do it.

It would be interesting to compare how New Yorks boroughs work.

The M25 has been called,laughingly, the largest car park in the world as traffic has been described as desperately slow, if not stationery.

worth looking at those maps from 12.26

New York has Boroughs !

Hey JJLA, new follower from England. How about reacting to Pete and Bas? And some BFI 100 films?

hey, did you know that a channel called mrbeat did a livestream with jay foreman recently and as they discussed reaction videos jay brought up your channel as one he likes? he said its nice how you find all the details, pause to read everything and have lots to say about the video, as opposed to some channels that just sit quietly in the corner lol

Politics is a big issue as far as London’s boroughs are concerned. To the South, the Outer London Boroughs are largely residential and are also largely neglected by the Greater London Authority. Ethnically, certain areas of London have huge populations of different ethnic groups living in different areas. Some boroughs have much older populations than others; some areas are only now really being developed! It is a very widespread, complex city with huge differences from place to place. It would be very difficult to reduce it to two or three authorities , except, possibly, if one of them was Harrow!😀😀😀

In Derby we have ward's

Hounslow fan was Matt Lucas - comedian and only gay in the village.

Does NYC not have Burroughs, Queens for example?

Bollards were used to tie up your horse, l think. And those bollards are old cannons, l think..😅

😢 JJLA ... Ducking... Please... PLEASE STOP calling '_boroughs_' - _BURROWS_ - we are _NOT_ RABBITS ... 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 WE LIVE IN '_BURRUHS_' ('_Boroughs_')❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤔🇬🇧😏❤️🖖thank you.

Ealing gal here (now living in Portsmouth). If you'd have asked me what Ealing's logo is I would have blanked. Seeing it on this Vid im kicking myself. I never paid the logo much attention. Maybe i thought it was a London (in general) thing and not a borough thing

Boroughs are a nightmare. Where I lived *not London* was on the line of two boroughs. One side of my street was called Cowgate and walk across the road you would be in North Fenham. So I never really knew which place I lived as the line was so fine.

Is Matt Lucas from Houndslow?

Can anyone explain why Harrow was the only borough that was included in the north and south map?

Your "Counties" or "Councils District/Area" are probably most equivalent to a Borough.

the man you recognised is matt lucas and its funny but him saying hounslow means hounslow and hounslow for the hounslowians is a reference to racists saying "Brexit means brexit" and "england for the english" because they hate immigrants

If you have rabbits you will have burrows.

Ha Ha did you see his pen next to his laptop ?

Did you see Jay talking about you on stream the other day?

And I thought Greater Brussels was the only one who worked itself in a mess of local councils and authority. Well, we made it a bit more spicy to let eacht of the local boroughs retain their own mayor and let them be ruled a Greater Brussels Minister-President.

Asking why London needs boroughs is like asking why the Americas need countries. Why can't California be run from Honduras?

I *think* that New York is the only US city with boroughs (Brooklyn, Queens, etc) - though they might also have them in other of the US's older cities (somewhere like Philadelphia, maybe?) FWIW, I was born in Barnet before it was officially part of London, but spent most of my early childhood in the Borough of Barnet (the boundary changed when I was 2).

I think the closest the US has to boroughs (with the exception of NYC, and maybe some other East Coast cities) are counties. That said i think Los Angeles is mostly covered by one county, Los Angeles county, which seems far too populous to be governed effectively. Whilst i do think that certain functions could and maybe should be ubiquitous across cities as large as London and LA i do still think certain functions of government should be at a more local level as different parts of cities have different needs. Maybe LA does need boroughs bro!!!

For the love of goodness listen to ROXY MUSIC and BRYAN FERRY for hugely influential UK Music that effected the 70s> The band evolved with every album and Bryan Ferry in his solo career worked along side Dave Gilmour, Robert Fripp and Mark Knopfler. Dave Gilmour even plaid guitar on Ferry's time on Live Aid. David Bowie is on video stating how great they were at that time. Watch The Professor of Rocks analysis of Bryan Ferry's work just to give an idea, No other band evolved so much with each passing album. They were one of the most influential bands throughout their Career

NYC has five boroughs.

It was Matt Lucas

The GLC flip flopped in leadership, the conservative Horace Cutler being notable. They generally reversed everything the previous Labour lot did

Jay isnt quite right about the GLC. It has some (mainly stragegic) planning powers (inc overrule of boroughs / but was subservient to Department of Environment. Likewise the primary road network . But it was the controlling body behind the London Transport Executive (From 1970) but London Bus Service Permits I think were still dealt with by the Metropolitan Area of the Traffic Commissioners under the department of transport. The Metropolitan Police reported to the Home Office, not the GLC. Even after dissoultion the London Residuary Body had a number of powers and it was a bit later before GLC housing was transferred to the London Boroughts (though the GLC would fund borough new builds before that). The GLC was more the successor to the London County Council ( which got bits of the old Metropolitan Board of Works (but not water and drainage?) and was in parrallel to the Inner London Education Authority - which dealt with Schools and Colleges in the old "inner london" boroughs (from when?) The outer ex county boroughs got their own school running (but would buy in some things from ILEA supplies )and when the GLC went ILEA went with it and the inner boroughs got the schools etc and some colleges that were not formed into Polytechnics or stand alone art colleges.. Throw in the London Docklands Development Corporation and it became a great mess. The local authorities had already lost their trolleybus and tram networks to London Transport (1933) and electricity and gas generation to GEGB and Gas Boards on nationalisation in 1948.

I think they may be called wards in America,

does america not have zebra crossings, why where you worried?

...begs the question, what do people from the US and Canada call bollards?

If he is ever knighted he will be Sir Jay, not Sir Foreman.

We are in a population of nearly 10 million people here, so the boroughs are boundaries.

Weirdly enough I think LA might need boroughs. I've spoken to 3 different people recently who visited or have family there as well as a podcast from a guy who used to live there - all saying it appears totally mismanaged with easily avoidable human tragedy everywhere. I've never been but I associate it with urban sprawl which always needs a decentralised approach to those personal and local services and initiatives.

New York is split into 5 Boroughs.

Wait the US doesnt have bollards?!?!!?

You are still saying burrow😊

Fewer boroughs please. You guys have counties within states, with different powers?

I hope nobody fly tips their hob.

Hasnt new york got boroughs

I thought New York had boroughs?

Your pronouciation needs a small tweak. Borough is pronounced 'burra', not 'burrow' Rabbits live in burrows, Londoners live in boroughs

I have lived in The Borough of Bexley for 40 years and in almost every respect there is more freedom and flexibility than the socialist-run "Nanny State" of Greenwich next door. Whether it be on the roads where we can escape heavy traffic by using sideroads or even in the park, where we can walk up to 6 dogs if dog walkers whereas it is 4 in Greenwich as they know "best". When exiting The A2 at Falconwood, if you want to turn left then you can not, even though the road is wide enough so(having already spent 15 minutes exiting The A2) you have to turn right THEN wait for oncoming rush hour traffic to ease to turn right into a side road, already blocked. You, eventually, gp round a mini roundabout to take you back to the top of the road in a single file and AGAIN wait for the London rush hour traffic to ease and you are blocked in by other cars turning right and getting priority(like you had earlier over the outgoing side traffic) THEN hope no one is turning right as they are blocked and as it is one lane, they are blocking you and sending the traffic in the side road back 100 yards, which can not move and FINALLY you emerge by turning left and 30 seconds later................passing the SAME exit that you could have just turned left from.Utter madness. Tip for motorists. There is NO CAMERA do I just turn left and xxxx them.

Tony Blair was a Tory pretending to be Labour.

LA (city) is nothing like London. LA county (made of 88 cities) handles certain things and then LA city council deals with everything else. LA City is made up of 15 political districts but I don't think services are supposed to differ across the city - obviously they do because politics. I suspect you live in LA county and not the city. I do wonder how much tax you pay. I hear its ridiculous.

Typically, this is someone in the “media” who knows virtually nothing about South London😢

burrow

Trivial point but we Londoners are not rabbits, we do not live in burrows. Borough is pronounced 'burra'.

Twice now you have dissed Maggie Thatcher. Hmmm! One of the greatest leaders we have ever had. If it wasn’t for Maggie the UK would still be living in the 1970’s

It needs to be asked, how the fuck did you not know what a bollard is? I'm sure those things arent unique to the UK and are abundant in almost every country including your own.