Nearly 40-years on and the figures still blow my mind...
@MrFlyingguy3 жыл бұрын
Back then we called a thousand Million, a thousand Million.... never a Billion
@firehot0063 жыл бұрын
Indeed. A British Billion used to be a Million Million.
@wesmatron3 жыл бұрын
@@firehot006 That's because a Bi means two. A British billion is still a million million to anyone with a decent education. The Americans started calling a thousand million a billion as it wanted to create billionaires. Idiots.
@GlasshouseandGarden3 жыл бұрын
@@wesmatron I think it just standardises the multiples (1000 nanometres = 1 micrometer; 1000 micrometres = 1 millimetre, 1000mm = 1m, 1000m = 1km etc).
@rjjcms1 Жыл бұрын
Correct,some people used to say that a British billion was a million million and that an American billion was a thousand million. Understatement on one side vs hype on the other?
@L-mo Жыл бұрын
a _milliard_ was a thousand million and a million million was a billion
@tynkirbell5993 жыл бұрын
That Thames intro brings back memories
@rjjcms1 Жыл бұрын
Incredibly nostalgic.
@mogznwaz3 жыл бұрын
I miss the days of well-dressed well-spoken presenters and factual reporting. It's only when you see it you realise how far away from that we've come, 😭
@bobrew4613 жыл бұрын
All of that is still around. What news are you watching?
@oakashthorn57143 жыл бұрын
@@bobrew461 BBC Sky ITV..
@MrFlyingguy3 жыл бұрын
@Shlomo Golnenbaum Shekelberg well said that person!
@billpugh583 жыл бұрын
@@oakashthorn5714 you need to open your eyes then, the suits are still there.
@SlimHandle3 жыл бұрын
Yeah breakfast telly just about reporters looking flair instead of us being able to focus on the actual content unlike here
@thesaltycabbage3 жыл бұрын
Back when TV was interesting and informative
@johnmc38623 жыл бұрын
And tv voices were overly posh.
@hexonatapeloop2 жыл бұрын
There’s still loads of informative stuff. Have a look and stop moaning.
@BOZ_112 жыл бұрын
@@hexonatapeloop not on terrestrial TV there isn't. twit
@rjjcms1 Жыл бұрын
There are plenty of interesting and informative programmes still around. One I've been watching a lot of recently on the much-maligned BBC is Simon Reeve's documentaries but there are numerous others.
@ivanahavitoff73083 жыл бұрын
I miss 80s London. The soot, the grime, the sleaze, the dirty, the city, bombsites,
@masterknife84233 жыл бұрын
What's so good about that?
@ivanahavitoff73083 жыл бұрын
@@masterknife8423 It was a diff age and time. People who were alive in the 60s would say that was the best time. Or pre war babies would say the 50s were cool.
@tonyclifton2653 жыл бұрын
yes indeed but how did we cope without halal butchers and mosques?
@dizmop3 жыл бұрын
@@masterknife8423 It's nostalgia, London was a dump back then, people were clambering to get out, having said that, a pound went a long way and there was more opportunity
@tonyclifton2653 жыл бұрын
@Shlomo Golnenbaum Shekelberg rather exist on a diet of ham egg & chips and shepherd's pie and have my country back with a 1950s demographic and commensurate crime rate thanks
@ef74803 жыл бұрын
..and no mention of the square mile 'City of London'. We know who doesn't own that...
@sikhpilot.3 жыл бұрын
What a gem of a video
@harperwelch51473 жыл бұрын
This is pretty old. Is it all the same now? I imagine a fair amount of London is now owned by very rich foreigners.
@MrFlyingguy3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing such an insightful view on the Fabric of a city i have lived, worked and partied in for 3 decades but not threaded it all together..... the last paragraph perhaps the most poignant.
@FD-vj6hd3 жыл бұрын
I don’t believe that a tiny few should be born into such wealth rather than earning it, but still, it was a very interesting and good point he made at the end that massive estates allowed beautiful coordinated areas to be built, wouldn’t like to see london without belgravia, chelsea, pimlico, mayfair etc🏠🏠🏠
@lukecooper11793 жыл бұрын
Why shouldn't your son benefit from your own wealth though?
@j0nnyism3 жыл бұрын
Yea I hate the fact I was born in Mayfair and went to Eton
@organichuman3 жыл бұрын
@@lukecooper1179 The same reason for replacement migration, communists.
@lukecooper11793 жыл бұрын
@@organichuman care to elaborate? I can't make head nor tail of what you mean. Communism doesn't seem to bear any relation to replacement migration and neither relate to nepotism as far as I can tell
@TheFatController.3 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure that you're only saying that because you don't have anything to pass on. If you worked your arse off and got a bit of something, you wouldn't want to give it away when you die would you? I mean, we should try to tax the super rich for sure, but they always seem to pay no tax at all.
@Musicalbluewolf6663 жыл бұрын
great journalism, love the old intro brings back memories
@pmacc35573 жыл бұрын
Why would the church be interested in accumulating vast wealth?
@groslait78143 жыл бұрын
Religion is evil
@spiridigliozzi5443 жыл бұрын
Are you joking?
@pmacc35573 жыл бұрын
@@spiridigliozzi544 Enlighten me kind sir/lady
@spiridigliozzi5443 жыл бұрын
@@pmacc3557 If your saying that it’s ethically wrong for them to accumulate wealth, I can also tell you that you are right, but if you are asking why they are interested in it, the answer is simple: secular power. The men of the Anglican church are all men like us and so they love money, wealth, power and all those bad things, they are not all saints that only thing about their soul. I’m Italian, so I can also talk about our church, the Roman one; do you think that our church is poor? The poop whit the Catholic Church is probably the more powerful and ancient surviving for-profit company of the world. Small anecdote: the roman church invested 20 milions on a company that produces morning after pills, while professing that abortion is the murder of an innocent. And last thing, the bank of the italian church, called IOR, translated in english as “Institute for the Works of Religion”, is used whit all the ensuing advantages by the rich italians and probably also by the leaders of the mafia.
@pmacc35573 жыл бұрын
@@spiridigliozzi544 yes grazie. Iv heard about their bank scheme. It crazy that they profess to be so pure but why don't more Catholics know about this? Also they own a good chunk of London property. Its far from the business of saving souls they are.
@brianmurphy17573 жыл бұрын
Before watching the video I would say the crown ,the church and the railways
@Elias-ns2lg3 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know where you can get access to old videos like this that were official news broadcasts? I'd think that it would only be right that there is an archive somewhere that is available to the public
@linzianna3 жыл бұрын
There is a page on FB called BBC archive that show videos of old news programmes etc, I'm sure they have a KZfaq channel
@Adam-qv2bd3 жыл бұрын
Why was that blurred out?
@jasonayres3 жыл бұрын
Well, you know Dads and technology.. "What's this button do?"
@sikhpilot.3 жыл бұрын
Surely there's a more concrete reason why it was blurred out.
@Gent823 жыл бұрын
It's a rights issue. From the small amount visible, it looks like they were showing a painting or etching which would have it's own copyright. They could have just cut that segment out entirely, but then you'd lose the interesting voiceover, so they just blurred it out.
@bismillahali77843 жыл бұрын
A scantily clad lady walked past the scene that's wot
@ScotsmaninUtah3 жыл бұрын
an informative video froma British TV channel .. wow !
@carlbarron11863 жыл бұрын
What's so interesting if you view this documentary is the Queen doesn't even OWN Buckingham Palace UK GOV does, she's only a tenement :)
@airhab3 жыл бұрын
Yes but technically the GOV is her Government not the people’s because the UK is a Monarchy.
@ritemolawbks80123 жыл бұрын
She doesn't own it in her individual capacity; i.e., she can't sell it, or if she were to ever abdicate, she wouldn't have rights to it. She's still essentially in charge of managing and preserving the Royal Estates. There's no UK government landlord coming in to tell her to trim the lawns or how many guest she can have at night.
@Psych9113 жыл бұрын
No mention of the little hat brigade of course
@IDRISIRIS3 жыл бұрын
Great video . Greetings from London
@AugustinTomasOBrienCaceres3 жыл бұрын
I wonder the 2021 version of this how's it like
@peterbradshaw80183 жыл бұрын
Buy land they are not making it anymore.
@amittole3 жыл бұрын
the Dutch: Am I joke to you?
@blondon10503 жыл бұрын
Tony soprano
@uydudanbak3 жыл бұрын
who owns church? and 40 yrs later any changes?
@QuadMochaMatti3 жыл бұрын
Satan owns the church.
@Westhamsterdam3 жыл бұрын
Good question, I would state the Queen or Royal Family, they are head of the institution.
@hexonatapeloop3 жыл бұрын
But if you went to the worst council estate in the country you’d find all the houses look the same so there goes your argument in the bin. A nice area is a nice area, if each block is in a different style then you have more variety. It’s got nothing to do with uniformity and i find those pillared white blocks in belgravia quite tedious.
@DMWBN33 жыл бұрын
That old Thames TV 📺 intro & start brings back some memories., along with the voice of Trevor McDonut. Knew the church was awash with pedos' but not with high end property. Is this still the case?
@kiwitrainguy4 ай бұрын
Great wealth and pedos seem to go together.
@frankgarrett2423 жыл бұрын
Now it’s arabs, Russians and Chinese.
@BlueSky-tw6iq3 жыл бұрын
They own property not land.
@BlueSky-tw6iq3 жыл бұрын
Is there a problem with that?
@BlueSky-tw6iq3 жыл бұрын
@Petre Nimicitul it belongs to whoever is willing to work for it. If immigrants are who work for the property, then it belongs to them.
@BlueSky-tw6iq3 жыл бұрын
@Petre Nimicitul I'm not following
@robbibittybob202 жыл бұрын
Selling a hospital for 23 grand is absurd. What a waste.
@sn60072 жыл бұрын
Yet people look at these old 80s videos and blame everything being a shithole on some people that are a different colour coming in..
@Sidneyyoungblood7519 күн бұрын
The common denominator for an area to be a shitehole is Labour. The people who live in those areas and vote Labour are the problem. Not that the current breed of Conservatives are better, because they've got infected with the Looney Left Wing Labour poison as well. It's not skin colour that's really the issue. It's London Looney Left Wing Labour thats the WHOLE root cause.
@jakecavendish34704 ай бұрын
I'm just amazed that in the 1980s 75% of the land in Wesminster was owned by Bananarama and Rod Hull 😮
@simonba99443 жыл бұрын
👍🏻👍🏻
@bobrew4613 жыл бұрын
The next time you want to donate to a TV charity... Remember this show and THINK TWICE!
@Westhamsterdam3 жыл бұрын
Who owns the City of London? Who really was responsible for the blitz around the City of London. It´s absolutely staggeing that St. Pauls was speared!
@robertorhymes3 жыл бұрын
Great tax dodge a trust
@tombo51023 жыл бұрын
You still have to pay tax on a trust on a regular basis
@robertorhymes3 жыл бұрын
@@tombo5102 No you don't
@serinadelmar6012 Жыл бұрын
@@robertorhymes yes you do! Only exception would be a vulnerable person/disability trust.
@robertorhymes Жыл бұрын
@@serinadelmar6012 How about the national trust and an offshore trust Do they pay tax?
@888ssss Жыл бұрын
i just love everything about london apart from the house prices.
@Law-of-love6 ай бұрын
“ a thousand million pounds “ - he said - clearly “billions “ is a post 80s term - that’s inflation 😮
@tylero85953 жыл бұрын
Hundreds of billions now.
@j0nnyism3 жыл бұрын
Don’t sell your property and you’ll always have a curates egg
@peterembranch57973 жыл бұрын
?? Do you know what a curate's egg is?
@floopi663 жыл бұрын
the rothschilds own london who doenst know this LUUUL
@derin1112 жыл бұрын
Amazing how the figures of the sums of money have changed today.
@JackKing12.3 жыл бұрын
Born with a golden spoon...
@saborfrancias3 жыл бұрын
The 1llum1n4t1s
@EgoShredder3 жыл бұрын
✡️ 🕎
@tinfoillivesdontmatter86093 жыл бұрын
Tinfoil alert!! 😂😂
@CARLIN47373 жыл бұрын
just staggering. jaw dropping nepotism.
@johnmc38623 жыл бұрын
British thing.
@andyhartley3 жыл бұрын
"Swinging Chelsea" .... hahahahaha
@paulstevens60433 жыл бұрын
Why is that funny? I'm American.
@andyhartley3 жыл бұрын
@@paulstevens6043 Let's just say Chelsea in 2021 is nothing like the Chelsea of 1982.
@rjjcms1 Жыл бұрын
Or 1967.
@johnholt93993 жыл бұрын
We should be looking at this more today and how it is taxed - should be a land/wealth tax and the legal status of all aristocracy should be abolished
@manmaje35963 жыл бұрын
No.
@lukeylukeluke23 жыл бұрын
@@manmaje3596 myes
@manmaje35963 жыл бұрын
@@lukeylukeluke2 Try it.
@lukeylukeluke23 жыл бұрын
@@manmaje3596 what problem would you have with it?
@jetyn83 жыл бұрын
Tax is FAKE and is not necessary,
@saigonmonopoly11053 ай бұрын
from adriatic to baltic warsaw to kiev you got red curtain from compliments of marshall ft knox lambo 350 onassis socrate artistocracy scorpio cold new anti freezer
@saigonmonopoly11053 ай бұрын
hidepark and jerkell island
@anthonymullen63003 жыл бұрын
Mediaeval aristocratic teft. The state should take all the lands back.
@BlueSky-tw6iq3 жыл бұрын
The people should take all land into their own hands
@saigonmonopoly11053 ай бұрын
cmon by minimum cost maximum loot 450 gazillion pound
@kanwal11733 жыл бұрын
Rome!
@saigonmonopoly11053 ай бұрын
margret iron haul
@SnabbKassa3 жыл бұрын
Everyone knows London belongs to Sarah Cracknell
@saigonmonopoly11053 ай бұрын
the king is church of england
@bac11119673 жыл бұрын
I miss London before the invasion. I cant go back and feel happy. I worked in the city and I loved it with all my heart, we were busy, happy and had a common goal. Now we have a group of selfish factions that have maimed the true heart of London, but I am so annoyed that Londoners have let it happen.
@patlynch99693 жыл бұрын
The City of London might’ve let it happen (and probably made a fortune) but ordinary Londoners didn’t have much power to stop it. 40 years of neoliberalism and deregulation.
@minixtvbox11 ай бұрын
13 Tory years-Afrikaan swamp uk
@twinturbo52123 жыл бұрын
Clearly, Chlna and Russia own London, keep up
@BlueSky-tw6iq3 жыл бұрын
Chinese and Russian investors own some property, not land.
@stevelam58983 жыл бұрын
No they don't, the British are smart enough keeping the freehold for themselves.
@BlueSky-tw6iq3 жыл бұрын
@@stevelam5898 smart enough? Do you realise there is nothing wrong with selling property to someone who is no lt from England? That's how a globalized economy works, you sell to others.
@twinturbo52123 жыл бұрын
@@stevelam5898 freehold
@colinbellew30203 жыл бұрын
The Rothschild owns London
@MilesBellas3 жыл бұрын
0:20 Nepotism. . British society is a nepotistic hierarchy of violence not an equal playing field ie a democratic, egalitarian meritocracy?
@Ardass4863 жыл бұрын
Islam owns london
@timboatfield3 жыл бұрын
Put the crack pipe down and step away
@Ardass4863 жыл бұрын
@@timboatfield Truth hurts hey
@timboatfield3 жыл бұрын
@@Ardass486 lol you tube
@bismillahali77843 жыл бұрын
Neither the Church of England nor the Royal Family not even the Duke of Westminster are Muslim. It is only that the mayor is Muslim but he certainly doesn't own it
@timboatfield3 жыл бұрын
@@Ardass486 The UK is owned coast to coast by The Crown, except(but not realy) the City of London*, as are all the UK territories, including USA Inc.** *Sorry if i'm confusing you more, you probably don't know what the City of London is. **Yea the truth really hurts. ;)
@CalvinsWorldNews3 жыл бұрын
For the most part I call myself an anarcho-capitalist. The free market is everything, Except I do think that inheritance should be taxed heavily. You can teach your kids to work hard and whatever belief system you want but there's zero moral purpose in a state where some kids randomly 'luck' into owning vast wealth. Inheritance should be treated as income: you inherit a £3m house you didn't ever pay for? You should pay £1m in tax, maybe have to sell it, but be glad you got anything.
@benbenjan8113 жыл бұрын
No. I disagree. I'm libertarian and inheritance tax is mega theft. See...you buy a house. You already paid taxes from your salary. Why tax twice?
@CalvinsWorldNews3 жыл бұрын
@@benbenjan811 I’m saying the kid who did nothing to work/pay for it should be taxed as if it’s income. There is no benefit to society of having a leasure class, generations of a family that have never worked but use their wealth to pursue policies that only affect others and generally attack business owners.
@robbibittybob202 жыл бұрын
How would roads, education, and health be maintained?
@021om63 жыл бұрын
I am going to kill my legal fiction and create a power of attorney for my new entity and put it into a trust. 🥳
@saigonmonopoly11053 ай бұрын
un got ismael
@saigonmonopoly11053 ай бұрын
sold to wealthy oil and oligard
@philthornton13823 жыл бұрын
Looks really nice, no halal butchers
@startmakingsense20713 жыл бұрын
how many halal butchers do you know?
@BlueSky-tw6iq3 жыл бұрын
Why is the existence of halal butchers a problem?
@sn60073 жыл бұрын
Choke on ur bacon mate
@thejoin46873 жыл бұрын
Back when you only had halal bakers. Good times.
@saigonmonopoly11053 ай бұрын
the big 3 fdr dead winston smoking bumber butt 46 you know
@saigonmonopoly11053 ай бұрын
in one swoop brittian lost everything in dunkirk swim back by rubber tire fleet 5000 dingy running to dessert fox boom box chitty bang bang monty drop marketing gardens and for that winston suck harry ball
@saigonmonopoly11053 ай бұрын
trash from the empires got to bury some where
@MegaShanes13 жыл бұрын
The Royal family owns London.
@MyCamilla19893 жыл бұрын
But now sadly Qataris own more than even royals. A painful consequence of the 2008 recession.
@je68743 жыл бұрын
That’s funny… I think you mean the Middle East owns London rather than the Royal Family
@MyCamilla19893 жыл бұрын
@@je6874 Qataris, to be specific. And I don’t think it’s funny.
@BlueSky-tw6iq3 жыл бұрын
Did anyone here actually watch the video?
@swizzarmynige15853 жыл бұрын
The left
@BlueSky-tw6iq3 жыл бұрын
You are quite wrong
@quantumsneak17733 жыл бұрын
Rothschild
@SabMCMLXIX3 жыл бұрын
i dont like London at all. I don't know how Brits manager such a good reputation.
@lmao.36613 жыл бұрын
because london isn't britain
@SabMCMLXIX3 жыл бұрын
@@lmao.3661 so boring and unfriendly everywhere. we visited cornwall and wales. People full of attitude ...
@tamaracarter18363 жыл бұрын
@@SabMCMLXIX Oh really? I completely disagree. Now for me, my favourite thing to do when exploring England is “not” go and see London; instead I much prefer exploring the gorgeous countryside (e.g. beautiful historic villages/ market towns, medieval castles, churches, stately homes, ancient monuments, natural sites, gardens... etc), and “smaller” historic cities (e.g. Bath, York, Cambridge, Oxford, Canterbury, Chester, Salisbury, Durham, Wells, Lincoln, Winchester, Norwich, Ely, Brighton... etc) - despite all of this, I absolutely still LOVE London! I mean it truly is one of the greatest cities in the entire world and contains just about everything a tourist could possibly ask for (tonnes of history, countless architectural treasures - including many UNESCO sites, culture and tradition, world class museums, theatre and retail, fantastic food from all over the world, lively and safe atmosphere [for a city its size, e.g. New York has 2.5 to 3 times more murders per 100,000 people per year], great pubs, brilliant public transport, huge amounts of green space etc); certainly could *never* be labelled as “boring”.