Comments by "Horizon" (@Horizon344) on "ThamesTv" channel.

  1. This journalist talking to him in the creepy patronizing tone is totally forgotten, even his name is not recorded, whilst Powell remains a legend.
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  2. Watching these interviews from the 1970's & the intellectual calibre of them, you see how much journalism has deteriorated on English television today.
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  3. Fascinating film, seems like quite a nice life to me old Siddiq had in that nice old station, regardless of what the narration says. I'd bet it was 10x better than the alternative in India.
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  4. Amazing how high quality the current affairs/news reporting was back than, particularly when compared for the dumbed down quality of tv news today.
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  5. 100%, there's been a real dumbing down in England's public life
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  6. Interesting fella, always worth watching & listening to.
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  7. We should have been out of it 3 years ago.
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  8. Death knell of England's car manufacturing industry.
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  9. Well, they got "their Zimbabwe" ... for any good it did them =/
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  10. The UK still has the meanest state pension in the 1st World almost 40 years on, whilst MP's pensions are extremely generous. That's the Liblabcon for you.
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  11. It's taken 50 years for this to come about & is only possible due to IT tech. These fellas were visionaries but trapped in the mechanical age still.
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  12. This was only 1975 - nothing in terms of time, but every one you see here is now dead. ... You don't have long in this life everyone, make as much of it as you can, while you can.
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  13. They chanced their arm & lost.
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  14. Blast from the past, this is the Kingston of my childhood. Most of the river frontage on display here either side of the bridge was demolished & replaced in the late 1980's with new retail buildings. I wonder who all these people filmed were, & what went on to happen to them over the next 40 years?
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  15. Ah! the good old 80's, when no 1 gave a toss about the environment, or much else for that matter.
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  16. Early Brexiteers in evidence here.
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  17. This is typical of the "British" media in the war in Ulster that I grew up with. They always presented it as a conflict between "Catholics & Protestants", that was bewildering & hopeless, & the troops presence was merely aggravating the situation & they were in an impossible position & should be pulled out. The media never - to my recall - presented it as it actually was, a revolutionary insurgency against the Ulster-Scots people & the British Kingdom by a pack of Irish ethno-nationalists & Marxists using paramilitary terrorism as a political strategy. The media coverage of the whole conflict as I remember was useless, gutless & bordering on treasonous, designed to sow defeatism & despair in the United Kingdom when it was facing a bitter, determined murderous enemy, who was only defeated in the end by the Ulster-Scots people's refusal to kow-tow to them & the dogged courage of the Crown forces, which were hamstrung for most of the war by a political order in Westminster which was generally useless & ignored it hoping it would "go away somehow".
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  18. England virtually nationally collapsed financially in the late 1970's, as some of this film reflects.
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  19. Journalism back in the 1960's - 80's was far more serious than the lightweight pap it is today
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  20. To get away from what London was turning into courtesy of the Liblabcon's foreign immigration invasion.
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  21. crawler
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  22. England hit rock bottom in the mid 1970's in so many ways, it was lively tho & produced good pop music.
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  23. Got turned down for a job making them in Kingston-upon-Thames' Eden Street branch in 1987. What an ill tempered cow that manager was.
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  24. eu-Quisling rat.
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  25. Nothing changes much, everything you're hearing here is what people are saying about the trains today, main difference is the stations look more gloomily lit than the v. bright lighting & white paneling & glass they have today.
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  26. A time when you put something in the post & you were virtually guaranteed it would get there, unlike the foreign migrant worker thieving free-for-all that's going on at the RM's sorting offices now.
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  27. 0.25 - That's me!
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  28. Londonistan.
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  29. London looking attractively grim coming out of the economic crises of the 70's. & the beginning of the ethnic invasion becoming increasingly evident.
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  30. 17p for a can of Heinz soup, that's more like it
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  31. Clever move to shift away from the New Romantic style after being one of its leaders for 2 years, but his career faded away after this when he failed to break into the US market after an all or nothing expensive tour there, & had to rely on music more than image.
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  32. before the Liblabcon's stealth "invasion".
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  33. Getting a bit sick & tired of hearing about the "Windrush Generation", personally =/
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  34. Tony Bastable standing on an ex-RAF WW2 airfield trying to get people to take seriously a toy car with 3 wheels - welcome to the death of England's car industry in the 1970's (& Shaw Taylor knew it).
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  35. The USA launched a badly planned war in continental Asia, using 1/2 measures against a determined opponent, in terrain that limited its key advantage of superior firepower, & in consequence it was defeated, that's what went wrong.
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  36. Platform #1, I slipped down that entrance to the underground at the start of the film on the right 100x to dodge the ticket gate guard at those red doors at 0.34 in the 80's/90's. Noticeable lack of ethnics in the passenger crowd too back then - unbelievable what the Liblabcon has done to London with its foreign immigration policies over the last 30 years.
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  37. No wonder the British car industry collapsed in the 1970's.
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  38. A cheque for £75 meant something back then, unlike the inflation ridden monopoly money Sterling has been reduced to today through government money printing & debt everywhere. Don't know what happened to this fella, but there's no trace of him doing anything publicly after this, & this toy doesn't ever seem to have gone into commercial production.
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  39. The company closed this factory 7 months after this was filmed in 1980, dismissing the workforce, & withdrew production from Glasgow after almost 150 years there. The building was demolished in 1981.
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  40.  @markofsaltburn  The terrorist army of darkness was defeated in 1994 when it stopped its murder & wannabe ethnic cleansing campaign primarily because it was faced with military defeat, you trying to present that as "winning" is ludicrous. As for playing a long "game", well 1/2 a millennium is quite a long time, go on trying & see where it gets you, which is more of the same if it's wanted, you evil bigot.
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  41. They couldn't have imagined when filming this that it would take another 50 years before this tech would become commercially viable.
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  42. England's roads are being worn out today at huge expense to the taxpayer to repair by the massive increase in the population using them due to foreign mass migration into it. ... Keep 'em peeled Shaw
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  43. @John Ross 300,000 more foreign people arriving for settlement each & every year, by the Government's own figures = a 3 million+ increase in population density each decade, with the increased pressure on road usage that comes with that fact. It's called logic & "commonsense", why don't you try it sometime.
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  44. Amazing to think that from when this was broadcast it would take another 44 YEARS for England to break out of the eu.
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  45.  @markofsaltburn  Yeah, been hearing that for around four centuries now & still waiting; as for Irish terrorism having "won", you clearly haven't got a clue about what you're mouthing off about, get lost.
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  46. This fella's journalistic/broadcast career was much bigger than a silly interview with a pop band swearing on tv in 1976, clearly.
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  47. A lot of "stars" back then had lived quite hard lives before they became famous, & had spent years building up their careers before they attained public recognition in their 30's - 50's, compared to most actors now who are presented as "stars" in their 20's, who generally have had sheltered middle class lives of comfort, & haven't "lived" by comparison & had a chance to developed character. It's very noticeable that pre-1960 most of the film stars were in their late 30's-50's, but now generally they're in the 20's-early 30's. It's the "youth" thing that came in in the late 1950's-60's with pop music led by Elvis, & the film industry copied it in late 1980's, to its detriment.
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  48. Harrison died in 1989, his medals were sold at a commercial auction in 2016 in London to the highest bidder. Such is life.
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  49. IMMIGRATION REFERENDUM required on foreign population-replacement
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  50.  @carlarrowsmith  Google: 'Business for Scotland UK state pension worst in developed world and has the highest retirement age', big mouth.
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