A couple of years ago, there was a campaign to SAVE SOHO. Soho, for those who are unfamiliar with it, is a little village-sized part of Central London. In its heyday, it was known for sex, drugs and rock and roll. It still is, but to a lesser extent and for different reasons, which I’ll come to.
Soho residents are fiercely protective of their streets and their area, even going so far as to argue over the demarcation lines – if you cross over into Denmark street, are you still in Soho? If you are on the North side of Oxford street, are you still in Soho? It’s obsessive in nature.
Today there is a major new train link being built, and this has seen the demolition of some of the buildings. The reason for the new train link is to make the commute from Essex and other areas a lot easier for other human beings, to reduce their stress, and possibly even give them an extra half an hour in bed in the morning before rushing into their day. What kind-hearted person wouldn’t want that for their fellow men and women? The answer: Soho residents.
Soho is a leftist hotbed. Karl Marx lived in the area for four years or so, and you can still go on the Karl Marx walking tour. The Beatles and David Bowie also recorded a couple of songs in a couple of the buildings, as they did in many buildings in many cities across the world. What makes Soho so unique that it needs saving whilst the rest of the U.K. is being altered and changed irreversibly?
Soho is known for tailoring (as is Savile Row in Mayfair), a thing obtained in every city in the U.K. Tattoo parlours? Even villages have these now. Food? Again, every kind of cuisine can be purchased in every major city and town (although Soho does have a reputation for new and exciting chefs opening restaurants that don’t last very long because of the hipsters’ short attention span). The residents will tell you that Soho is special because it is multicultural and that it was settled by everyone but the Brits. The Brits fought and died so that Soho and every part of Britain could exist (watch The Windmill Presents, with Judy Dench). Residents point to Bar Italia (a coffee shop), Greek Street, The Gay Hussar (Hungarian food, again found in every major city), pizzerias, falafel, gay bars, and other such trivialities to insist on Soho’s uniqueness and as confirmation that Soho could not have been founded without Europeans establishing it.
What they neglect to note is that it is and was Christian Europeans who settled it, or who made it a place of diversity as everyone shared their customs and their food. Talk to a Soho resident today and they’ll rage about Brexit and call voters racist, but why should Soho, which is nothing special, be saved while the rest of the country gets altered? Why should Soho residents’ streets be allowed to remain the same while villages and towns across the U.K. become changed beyond recognition? This is racism and supremacy, to think that you are better than any other person.
Soho needs changed. It is currently ruled by Somali Muslim drug gangs that the police cannot control. If you want proof that London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s police force cannot control crime, take a walk through Soho, any day or night. The dealers and touts know what they can get away with and they tout their drugs to clients whilst standing right next to police officers. Talk to an officer about it and he’ll tell you he can’t do “stop and search,” or that it’s not illegal to inject drugs, or that it’s not illegal for a gang of drug dealers to stand outside residencies and threaten tenants. People can’t be moved on, apparently. Soho’s residents are being stabbed, beaten up, robbed, and are having to clean up fecal matter from their doorsteps because of these illegal Somali Muslim drug gangs, both the dealers and the addicts. Crime rates are through the roof and there is no CCTV in any of the areas to catch any of the criminals. If this is what Soho’s residents want saving, let them get on with it. Meanwhile, the rest of us will fight to protect out British way of life.
cornelius says
I visited there 20 years ago. I remember being in a Soho bar, knocking down pints and hanging with the locals (though the loud music made conversation difficult). I met a young lady and began an interesting conversation that turned out to be incredibly revealing. In the 10 short minutes we talked, I gleaned the extent of her cynicism….and tried desperately to open her up and perhaps reveal the source of such despair. She finally conceded that she’d given up on life, but it wasn’t confessional, it was very matter-of-fact….with a shrug. It was clear she was a nihilist. A friend of hers eventually came along and whisked her away, but I never forgot. I wondered to myself if she was in any way representative of British youth? It was quite sad.
If Not Now When? says
I remember going for the best Chinese food ever after getting our of french class. But I know that all that is gone.
HugoHackenbush says
You will find the explanation in the writings of Theodore Dalrymple. In particular “Life At The Bottom”
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Bottom-Worldview-Makes-Underclass/dp/1566635055/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1534424530&sr=8-1&keywords=life+at+the+bottom
gravenimage says
His work is very important.
Andy says
Save the UK, U.S.A & Judeo-Christian Civilizaiton
Watch Sargon of Akad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6UP24j_4JM
Andy says
If you deny to anyone else the right to say what you think is wrong, it will not be long before you will lose the right to say what you think is right. Defense of the freedom of others is self-defense.
Voltaire stated this fact as a genius can: “I wholly disagree with what you say and will contend to the death for your right to say it.”
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/01/defend-say/
Michael Warden says
But the motto of the Left is : ” I wholly disagree with what you say and I will fight to your death for my right to stop you saying it”.
Kepha says
I started counting the silver whenever a Leftist mouthed that Voltaire quote back in the Sillier ‘Seventies. The people who were my college classmates back then are now running things.
carpediadem says
He didn’t say it. His biographer, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, said it.
gravenimage says
Whoever said it, it is still an important quote. That we are seeing more and more speech being shut down is incredibly alarming.
Andy says
+1
Your right again, gravenimage.
Freedom of speech should always be free, Someone is ALWAYS going to find something offensive with other people comments.
somehistory says
moslim gangs following the lead of their master, are everywhere and the menace they pose is growing.
Just as was prophesied to happen.
carpediadem says
Sure, let’s not do anything about it, let’s just waffle about prophecies and get excited that they’re coming true!!
elee says
Hey Brits you’ve got some burqa barrios that could use urban renewal.
Tony ianello says
Hey wherever you are from.
Muslims don’t drink in barrios, and urban renewal might be more required where one needs a bloody car to get toilet paper….
One thing we in the U.K. surely will never have- that’s a head of government with Hussein as a middle name.
Kepha says
Touche, Tony. We indeed had One-Big-@%$e-Mistake,-America as president; and for eight years at that.
StellaSaidSo says
I don’t know if Sajid Javid has a middle name, but he is certainly being positioned for a tilt at Number 10. And Sadiq Khan has ambitions beyond the Mayor’s office. Even BoJo – widely favoured to replace Treason May – is ‘of Muslim extraction’.
Jayell says
Back in the 1960’s I visited Soho a few times partly for legitimate reasons and partly out of dubious curiosity. Some of it was indeed seedy and hardly suitable for someone of my youthful years, but a lot of it was quite respectable, and no-one felt threatened (although no doubt there were dark deeds in progress behind some of the closed doors). One never felt any doubt that the forces of law and order were on top of things in Soho, as indeed they were in the rest of London and the UK, but those were the days when you could actually walk along Downing Street and past the Prime Minister’s house as a matter of course, there were no amed police on the streets nor concrete blocks outside Parliament, the last explosions on the Underground had been 20 -25 years earlier (courtesy of A. Hitler esq.) and it would never have entered anyone’s head that they might be deliberately mowed down on Westminster Bridge by a ‘fellow British citizen’. By strange coincidence, everyone on the streets looked like they would have in the ‘old films’, there were no face-coverings, the only (relatively rare) scarves on women’s heads were to keep the hair in order, everyone spoke English, crime was low and the only mosque that was at all visible was in Regent’s Park. How times have changed.
gravenimage says
+1
DHazard says
The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree, which in this case would be Muhammad, the merchant of stolen goods and purveyor of perversion and violence. Muslims are commanded to emulate him, and they do. The culture invaded by these avaricious narcissists is irrelevant to them, as long as there is a government check every month and numerous drug addicts to supply.
Fred Middleton says
The film ‘Miracle in Soho’ gives a very different picture, not sleaze but hard working immigrants who want to integrate – but that was the fifties.
steve slagle says
cant wait until the sharia patrols try to stop boozing in any part of Europe. then the real citizens will rise up with theirpitchforks and take back their streets. muslim third world scum needs to be made to work or sent packing.how stupid do you have to be to follow this joke of a cult. remember what attaturk said”this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin is a rotting corpse that poisons our lives”
Indiana Tom says
Meanwhile, the rest of us will fight to protect out British way of life.
I had ancestors who fought against having a British way of life. Dad was there in WW2 and stated a lot of things in America taken for granted are much more constrained or non-existent in England.
Tony ianello says
Tom the United States and the United Kingdom got more things that Unite us then divides us..
The above article is a better over the top. However yes there are issues that need immediate attention here in the U.K..
Our politicians let us down big time.