undefined | Better HN

0 pointsfakedang1y ago0 comments

I mean, other countries would kill to preserve such long-lasting heritage, especially one that's in active use and very much a part of the city.

But the English of late are exceptionally good at bending over and showing their rear-ends to new foreign overlords for paltry sums of coin.

0 comments

lmm1y ago

> I mean, other countries would kill to preserve such long-lasting heritage, especially one that's in active use and very much a part of the city.

Nah. In China there wouldn't even be an announcement, you'd just turn up one day and it would be gone.

Tokyo famously redeveloped their fish market, and that was far more of a piece of popular heritage than either of the markets mentioned here.

This is no different from what happened to Covent Garden 40 years ago, and no-one sane wishes we'd kept that as a fruit and veg market.

Indeed. It is shocking how little money it takes to buy influence in the UK. I reckon I could afford my own MP.

You can afford the PM for 50k pounds and the chancellor of the exchequer for 20k if they're Tories.

You can get yourself a seat in lords for about £80k of donation, still - the threshold is surprisingly low.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse