American Reacts to SHOCKING Events in Modern British History
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- As an American there are many things about British history that I know nothing about. Today I am very interested to learn specifically about the most amazing and shocking historical moments in modern British history. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Unfortunately the USA media has a habit of 'forgetting' the input and assistance of the rest of the world. For instance I believe it is still taught in US schools that the First World War was from 1917-1918, in fact the war began in 1914 but the USA waited until 1917 to join in..... By the way my congratulations on your honest, empathic and reasonable approach to your reactions.
Also that the tv was invented by an American, tbh is close to communism as you can get with what it teaches, preaches and swear allegiance
I wouldn't bother typing a personal comment to Tyler. He clearly chooses not to read them & disregards all suggestions & replies. He really is "a typical American"!!!
And the Second World War. It started in 1939. The USA joined after the bombing of the fleet in Pearl Harbour in Hawaii in December 1941.
americans are all under the impression that the only reason the allies won ww2 is because the u.s stepped in
@@burntcrumpets5616 I think Tyler is a good unbiased reactor who is willing to learn.
Gun laws changed forever in the UK after Dunblane.
The British government was in the process of changing gun laws just before dunblane happened.
The law would of changed, regardless of whether Dunblane happened or not.
Dunblane just ensured the new restrictions would have full public support 😉
I had a debate with a gun nut from the US and he tried to say that massacres were rare in the US. What planet do these people live on?
@@Aloh-od3ef Wrong. The British government was in the process of proposing a relaxation of gun laws just before Dunblane happened. It was a massive campaign by the affected parents and an outraged public that forced the government to actually tighten the regulations instead of relaxing them.
@@Aloh-od3ef The conservative at the time was trying to relax the laws. Its in one of the interviews that a former A&E doctor said. Because odlf Dublane he became a labour MP.
casefile sealed for a hundred years 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Dunblane is the only school shooting to happen in the UK and its why our laws are so strict, these laws were changed within a year of the shootings (Andy Murray is the UKs top tennis player) was at the school in Dunblane at the time. A truly horrible thing about the shooter was he was a scout leader (scouts are all over the world and I'm sure there in the US) the class he massacred were primary 1, the youngest class of kids, age 5 and he killed a teacher. Dunblane is a tiny place in the Highlands, so w extremely tight-knit community.
Australia had one mass shootings which changed there gun laws for ever also, it was at Port Arthur. Germany had 2 mass shootings which is why there gun laws changed.
This is one of many reasons why the world looks at America with pity and can't understand why you hate children so much, you guys must hate children, why else do you let them keep getting massacred?
Unbelievable that he thinks our ONE incident is somehow equivalent...
How many such happenings in the US in a year on average?
US gun laws are archaic & need changing urgently. Are they the only country in the world who STILL let mass shootings happen just because they are too pig headed to put guns down & lock them into cabinets without full licensing & checks??
Once again, it's concerning that our US cousins pay so little attention to affairs outside their own borders, and if Tyler really is that oblivious, then something needs addressing. A definite start would be to look into Hillsborough, this short video won't fully explain the negligence that caused the disaster, the cover-up by the police/government/media, or the fight for justice for those killed. Another one to take a detailed look into would be the Bradford City fire of 1985.
Your right sadly. the people in the US, like to live in a narcissistic bubble.
Not all Americans are like that. He seems to not know a lot of things that educated Americans do which is okay I think he's learning disabled or something. No insult meant by that I'm on the autism spectrum so thinking he must have a problem like that but worse than me.
@@dineyashworth8578 Your probably right I have Aspergers syndrome and it is harder to retain info .
We all like to give out to the americans for a very insular worldview, but I'll be honest if there was an equivalent of hillsborough that happened in germany or australia, I would have no idea.
@@tomcoward16 I'm on the autism spectrum too but I remember a lot about history and a lot of things like this.
You are right. The GrenfellTower cladding was known to be unsafe and the council were informed a year before the fire that the combustible cladding on the outside of this and many similar buildings would act like a chimney, spreading the fire incredibly quickly. The other factor is that the area of London is very affluent but this was social housing so it seems they didn’t care.
If I remember right, it wasn't so much that the cladding itself was highly combustible, but that the way it was installed created a chimney affect, allowing the fire to be stoked and climb up through the space between the building and the cladding
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 The cladding was combustible.
Installation was not to spec.
Fire breaks were installed wrongly.
Windows did not fit.
Fire doors were faulty .
Other 'safety' features were compromised.
Similar fires happened in slightly lower rise buildings.
Bad advice given by firefighters/emergency services, told to stay in place.
@@stephenlee5929 I'm just going off memory from articles and videos I've read about the cause. Can you link where you've got that info from?
I live in a coucil flat in a tower block, miles from London. Because councils are afraid of being sued after Grenfell, I've had my bathroom window blocked up, and all the foyer doors changed, so now my flat is black with mould. Also the bins have been moved outside and there's rats everywhere. We complain to the council, but they're busy building unaffordable housing around us, blocking out what little light we had, and putting paths rightoutside our windows (for those thatlive on the ground floor). We had no dangerous cladding on our blocks, but due to minority pressure groups (that don't live here) we have to suffer. I'm sick of people that don't have to live with the consequences, just like all the buildings going up around us sucking up every last bit of green grass to satisfy their inclusive bullshit. Why don't they live with it?
@@Broken-Silencer Bollocks. That has absolutely fuck all to do with Grenfell.
Another horror you could cover is the Dr Harold Shipman murders.
Shipman, was an English general practitioner and serial killer. He is considered to be one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history, with an estimated 250 victims. On 31 January 2000, he was found guilty of murdering 15 patients under his care.
Shipman's last victim was Kathleen Grundy, a former mayor of Hyde who was found dead at her home on 24 June 1998. He was the last person to see her alive; he later signed her death certificate, recording the cause of death as old age. Grundy's daughter, solicitor Angela Woodruff, became concerned when fellow solicitor Brian Burgess informed her that a will had been made, apparently by her mother, with doubts about its authenticity. The will excluded Woodruff and her children, but left £386,000 to Shipman. At Burgess' urging, Woodruff went to the police, who began an investigation. Grundy's body was exhumed and found to contain traces of diamorphine (heroin).
Most of his victims had been cremated so we're not able to be tested.
If it hadn't been for Mrs Grundy's daughter, he'd have gotten away with it.
His wife, Primrose, was seen walking around Hyde shortly after Mrs Grundy's death, wearing some of her jewellery and it was the daughter, a solicitor, who went to the police about it.
Other people had questioned the unusual number of deaths at Dr Shipman's surgery, and a female GP queried the number of death certificates she was being asked to sign (you need two if a person is going to be cremated). A female undertaker also raised questions. Both were verbally reprimanded.
I was at work one day; my (female) Manager was from Hyde. She'd gone out to get some lunch and the phone rang and I answered it; it was a friend of the Manager and her husband. I explained she was out but I'd let her know he'd called. He was very quiet, which was unusual because usually he was laughing and joking when he called.
She came back from lunch and I passed the message on. She went into her office and closed the door. She came out about 15 minutes later and was in tears; he'd phoned to say he'd been notified by Greater Manchester Police that they believed his Mum had been murdered by Shipman and they asked him if she'd been cremated (Shipman was telling his victims families that their loved one had said - just before they died - that they wanted cremating). He advised that she had not, as she always said she wanted burying with her husband. That night, she was exhumed and a forensic postmortem was carried out, which proved she'd been murdered. She was one of the 15 that Shipman was charged with murdering.
They estimate that in the course of his career, he murdered approximately 215 people. He then hanged himself soon after he started his sentence.
I met Shipman once - at my Dad's retirement party in 1990. I had heard his name before then as he was on a committee with my Dad and my parents had been to dinner at his house. My Dad had to give evidence to the inquiry but after 20 years could not remember much.
@@peterjackson4763 A former coworker said that she had been to the Shipman's house for drinks one new year. A friend of hers lived in Hyde and knew the Shipman's, which was how she ended up going there. She said that their house was a mess, and looked very dirty, she was shocked that a doctor would live in such conditions. She said that something about them seemed very off to her and she was uncomfortable being near them.
As a former student of Dunblane Primary School (I left some years before the massacre), I am stunned and utterly disgusted every time there is a mass shooting in the US, especially in a school. Many of them become headline news here. Sandy Hook and Robb Elementary were particularly painful because of their similarity to Dunblane through the age of the victims. I have a very morbid connection with one friend in the US who, I learned on the day of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, is an alum of that school. That is a connection I could live without.
To be blunt, I will never, ever understand why the right of someone to own a weapon - particularly the assault rifles that are all too commonly used in US mass shootings - wins out over the right of a child to attend school without fear of being murdered. It is simply bizarre and horrific to me. Every United Statesian I know personally feels the same about this as I do, which is cold comfort when your lawmakers fail time and time again to take decisive action to limit access to guns. The Second Amendment was a right given by men in a very different time and place. It is not sacred. Laws change all the time, even in the US. When others in the world (or at least those that move in the same circles as I do) look on at mass shooting after mass shooting in the US, we simply cannot fathom why the Second Amendment never falls, or becomes subject to modification. I yearn for the day when the US is no longer subject to the outrageous open access to guns that currently exists, but I have no faith whatsoever that it will ever change. Which makes me sad and scared for every school age child across the land.
I think you would benefit from knowing more about the history of the Irish "Troubles", which relates to the difference you saw in gun ownership in Northern Ireland, and also the life of Princess Diana, her relationship with the press, and her divorce from Charles - which must have some effect on how Charles and Camilla are viewed.
people absolutely hate Charles and Camilla still because of it ngl
No 😂😂😂
I watched Grenfell burning from my 4th floor flat. One of my children is married to a child who was at Dunblane school at the time. My partner was on the bus behind the number 30 bus bombed. This compilation was so hard to watch. I’m in tears.
Once again, it's always delightful for me to see your interest in our country, mate. I lived less than half a mile from Hillsborough, and my Darling late Mum was in hospital at the Northern General Hospital that day for an operation.
My memories are of my brother and I seeing the Nottingham Forest fans (people sometimes forget them in this tragedy, having witnessed fellow supporters lose their lives in such terrible circumstances.) We invited a few in for a cuppa and to ring their families (days before cell phones) to let them know they were OK...
Visiting Mum (a beautiful Liverpool girl) later, we'll never forget the look on the Liverpool supporters standing outside waiting to hear about loved ones. What can you say to people who've experienced what they did? But we offered our support and a bed for tge night should it be needed.
Sometimes, Sheffield gets a bad rap for what happened that day (rightly so in so many cases) but I can only say that THIS Sheffielder and his brother did all we could for those poor people. Rest in peace 96.
And all the best, Tyler for your continuing friendship. 🇺🇲🇬🇧
Well said ❤ from an owl x
@angelaspencer9341 Bless you, my fellow Sheffielder. Bet yer never thought you'd be agreeing with a Blade! 😉 Doing well, Pal. Bit of a hiccup today, but I'm certain you'll be in the top two. All the best to you, Angel. S
It's 97 now.
Andrew Devine suffered severe brain damage. He died from his injuries 32 years later.
@@ann_onn Please accept my apologies, Ann. I had no idea and meant no disrespect to the memory of Andrew. God rest his soul.
@@BloodyOffDoors All good mate, no apology necessary, I just thought people might want to know.
Devine was awarded the freedom of the city, posthumously, in '21.
The Grenfell Tower fire could have been prevented years beforehand. Residents had already been protesting to the council about the safety of these towers for a long time and were just ignored. It was quite shameful but not surprising given the people who are, and were, in a position to do something about it but chose not to.
The only thing I'd change on this excellent post is the word should for could.
The Grenfell Tower fire should have been prevented...
@@tonycowin You are absolutely correct!
The Raoul Moat Shootings 2010, a major police operation conducted across Tyne and Wear and Northumberland with the objective of apprehending fugitive Raoul Moat. After killing one person and wounding two others in a two-day shooting spree in July 2010, the 37-year-old ex-prisoner went on the run for nearly a week. The manhunt concluded near the town of Rothbury, Northumberland, when Moat killed himself following a six-hour standoff with armed police officers under the command of Northumbria Police.
Moat's victims were his ex-girlfriend, Samantha Stobbart; her new partner, Chris Brown; and a police officer, David Rathband. Stobbart was hospitalised and Brown was killed, while Rathband remained in hospital for nearly three weeks and was permanently blinded, before dying by suicide on 29 February 2012. Moat shot the three with a sawn-off shotgun, two days after his release from Durham Prison.
After six days on the run, Moat was recognised by police and contained in the open, leading to a standoff. After nearly six hours of negotiation, Moat was shot with an experimental "wireless long-range electric shock weapon" firing electrified rounds whilst Moat held a shotgun to his own head. He was later pronounced dead at Newcastle General Hospital. Following an inquest, it was ruled by a jury that Moat's death was a suicide and Northumbria Police were not found to have been at fault.
Yes, these are horrible tragedies! (But even when I was living in China they were part of world news. We heard about them there). The thing is that each has affected and changed our laws, justice system, and lives. As you said: America seems to get sad for a day or so after killings like these...but do nothing to try to protect its citizens.(Well, apart from going out and buying more guns.)
So far this year 11,500 have died from gun violence in the USA. In the same time-frame UK has had 162 deaths by guns.
Where are the 162 gun deaths in the UK, please?
162 gun deaths in the UK in 4 months!? Pretty sure that's very wrong. Where did you find that information?
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 Thank you - you're perfectly correct, of course.
I've spent years drumming into First Year students the mantra "ALWAYS check your sources"; & telling Second Years "There's no valid excuse for not doing it so you'll lose marks if you don't, for sloppy research."
So I guess I lost myself a ton of marks for being sloppy, there. Have just found the two sites I got that info from and discovered one actually referred to gun "offences" the other was an unreliable source. So, no excuses - I misrepresented the UK! Thanks for the heads up.
He said ‘wooden cladding’ but it was plastic. That the manufacturer advised against using on tall buildings.
My account about Diana's death. My partner ( a surgeon) kept getting calls early hrs unknown number, that morning. He wasn't on-call, after the 4th call he gave in & answered in case it was a major incident. It wasn't , it was a colleague of his on a secondment to Paris, from a phone box! He was terrified, been threatened by MI5. Guess what patient he was involved with? Can't say too much, but, there was a reason why Charles ordered the embalming of Diana's body ( yet they were divorced & he had no family authority to do so - it should have been her adult next of kin!) His friend was so terrified, he left a personal daily diary & Will, in a locker in a Paris train station. Thankfully, he did make it back, but, immediately emigrated to another country!
One of the worst things about the Grenfell tower was that the residents had been told that if there was a fire then they should stay in their apartments because the building had been designed in a way that the fire wouldn't spread from one apartment to another. So tragically, a lot more could have survived if they hadn't followed that advice. The building had actually been inspected a massive 16 times during its refurbishment and all of those inspections failed to notice that it was being clad with a material that was banned on tall buildings. Unfortunately, Grenfell was not the only apartment building to use this cladding and there were hundreds more buildings found to have this. What's even worse is that if you happened to live in such a building then you were expected to pay yourself to get it fixed and it was likely it would cost several million pounds per building (divided between the residents). The government finally stepped in and I believe that they agreed to pay some money towards it but still, many people are left with homes that are worth £0.
Had you heard about the bombing at an Ariane Grande Concert in Manchester?
Yes and the 1992 and 1996 IRA bombing of Manchester.
You're wrong about that, @@markwolstenholme3354, and I know this from personal experience because the IRA bombing happened on a Saturday morning, 15th June 1996, the noise of it woke me up despite me living in Cheetham which is a suburb of Manchester and my home was several miles away from where it actually happened. I'd been out clubbing the previous night so it came as a bit of a surprise to me to be woken up so abruptly the following morning and wasn't really helpful to me overcoming a bit of a hangover.
I know that it happened on a Saturday because it was my ordinary day off from work ( our offices were never open on Saturdays ) and I had to travel on foot along Deansgate ( the next street over from where it took place ) the next day and I got stopped a couple of times by different police officers and I had to produce my work's ID in order to get to my job - I actually arrived late for work because of that although so did most of my colleagues which was understandable considering the circumstances and the tight security after the devastation of that act of terrorism.
@@Phil_A_O_Fish Yes sorry I put the date of the first/other Thursday 3 December 1992. I did mean 96 though. I'll correct reply. Thanks. I was at Victoria Station, got off a train from Bolton . I was meeting a friend who worked at M&S for lunch, didn't happen!
No problem, @@markwolstenholme3354, and it's nice to see someone who's adept at editing his own comments on here.
On a more positive note for all of us the area where that horrendous bombing happened all those years ago has since been completely rebuilt and renovated. That's the thing about us Brits in that we don't let a little thing like a bombing get in the way of our progress or our ability to weather through any storms, do we? Keep calm and carry on is a very good motto for all of us, isn't it?
@@Phil_A_O_Fish Totaly agree. 😁 Love Manchester.
Loved it. Good to see a more serious side. Lots of good documentaries on Hillsborough on UA-cam.
There is very emotive language used in conjunction with the Princes Dianna accident. Notice they say "lover" not boyfriend? The entire story and history around it has a very disingenuous spin and obvious bias whenever it's reported or mentioned.
The truth is she had already divorced Charles, now King Charles and moved on, there were no complications or ongoing disputes other than those fabricated in the press to sensationalise whatever they wanted at the time. There's no intrigue or reason for it, it's just the usual gossip...
Diana died for a very simple reason - she thought she was too posh to need to wear a seatbelt. The one person wearing a seatbelt survived the crash.
Hi there, in UK we felt very supportive of America following 9/11 but did not believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, the reason we were given for going to war & in response to 9/11. Thing is, Iraq did NOT have weapons of mass destruction as it happens and of course a guy from Saudi Arabia & living in Afghanistan & finally found in Pakistan, was responsible for 9/11 and not Iraq! Think Lockerbie should have been on that list - a PanAm flight to the States brought down by a terrorist bomb over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, was shocking. Many Americans died on that flight. I love your interest in our country btw. ❤
And you know this how?
@@tomcoward16 Perhaps you could be more specific?
@@lynneausten1390 About Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.
@@tomcoward16Well that one's easy! No such weapons were actually found in Iraq! Saddam Hussain was a vile tyrant and did persecute his own people and invade Kuwait but he did not possess nuclear and/or biological weapons which could be used against the US, the UK and other countries that joined the war. Inspectors allowed into the country before the war had found none; Hussain had not made threatening noises against other countries (like North Korea). I'm not sorry he is no longer here but that doesn't change the fact that we were manipulated into that war - by Tony Blair, for which he's been vilified ever since.
@@tomcoward16 Tony Blair's government lied to the British public about Hussein having WMDs.
That's not an opinion, it's a fact. See the Chilcot Inquiry.
Andy Murray the tennis player was a pupil at Dunblane primary school and narrowly survived being one of the victims.
This list seems to be missing some other shocking events such as Aberfan - in which a coal spill collapsed and covered a Welsh school below and Lockerbie - the bombing of a Pan Am which crashed in Scotland.
The British (Scottish) tennis champion Andy Murray was in the class of kids that were attacked at Dunblane.
Oh god, Brexit. Probably the most traumatic and divisive thing to happen to this country since WW2. It's almost been civil war level. And what did we get out of it? As far as I can tell, poorer.
Only morons blame the economic situation on Brexit. The whole world has been affected by covid and the war in Ukraine.
Well, we've swapped 51,000 Europeans for 504,000 long-term immigrants from other countries, so that's good for diversity? And people said Brexiters were bigots... 🤣
The list of s**t things that have happened on this small island we call home is phenomenal!!
Could be worse - we could be American. I'd feel sorry for the poor bastards if half of their problems weren't of their own making.
@@avaggdu1 good point, well presented!! 👍🏻
This is riddled with inaccuracies. Cartridge firing handguns weren't banned after Dunblane, Grenfell didn't have wooden cladding, those arrested and imprisoned after the Birmingham bombings weren't proven to be innocent (their conviction being "unlawful" means something different).
They didn't mention that the UK was at war with the IRA, that is, the Irish Republican Army, mainly a radical branch of the group, some by different names. Northern Ireland was in civil war, mainly along the lines of Catholics fighting Protestants, and the Catholics wanting to join the Republic of Ireland, the Protestants wanting to stay with the UK, then the Ulster movement, which is complicated, mostly wanted to stay with the UK, then there were some just wanting independence with no religious ties. The fight was with the British establishment and terrorism was frequent in the 1980s, especially under Thatcher, who just inflamed the problem by insulting the Catholics of Northern Ireland, making the problem worse. I know kids, who couldn't wear their high school cadet, or RTC uniforms to school to risk violence from the IRA. To his credit, Labor PM Tony Blair did manage a peace treaty with Northern Ireland, and eventually, things calmed down. Then soon after that, 9/11 came along, and peace on the streets didn't really last that long. The Brits were really no strangers to terrorism after so much from the IRA over the years... You'd think things would settle down now. Hell no! They had to bring in Brexit, just to have more trouble. And it goes on...
It's a pity Blair bought into the war in Iraq lie. Yes, Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. The whole thing is really a sad story. The other cardinal sin Blair did as he shook hands with Colonel Kadaffi! That was the final curse on his Government.
Tony Blair gave the IRA a get out of jail card, while British soldiers are still being prosecuted.
jimmy saville, did top of the pops, which was the uk charts show for music. it also did jim will fix it, which children wrote in for a wish, he then granted there wish, but again it was children, we used to have a saying in the uk back in70s and 80s, bit of slang, jim will fix it, till operation yew tree, but along with that, there were so many others at the heart of it, or wrongly accused,
A really bad one was also the the mining hills that collapsed on a school in Wales :(
More in the UK would know Jimmy Savile than Americans who would know Cosby. He was frontline for Top of The Pops and had his own show Jim'll Fix it both prime viewing
Talking of "The Troubles" ( classic British understatement ) makes me think of "Zombie". That beautiful video of horror reflects on centuries of oppression.
That's JIMMY CARR the stand up comedian, his worst jokes!
I would have had the Falklands war on the list. Although a minor war by global standards it caused a reversal of fortune for the prevailing government and cemented Margaret Thatcher's place as significant figure in British political history.
I'll give you that, they were probably on their way out. However, I would say, we knew that something was afoot, as we were told in the November/December of '81 to stop de-commissioning our Vulcans when we were half way through the job.
Tbf I think he refers to modern history as something he might know and more known to others, closer to today…most these events I think happened in the 90s of very beginning of the 21st century so people may have a better knowing of it. 🤷🏻♀️ Falklands I think misses out as modern to some folk… idk.
Here is another worldwide headline event that you, Tyler have probably never heard of at all. Queen Elizabeth II died on 8th September 2022 at Balmoral Castle, which, as you probably also do not know is in Scotland.
Im surprised Pan Am Flight 103 - Lockerbie Bombing wasn't mentioned in this video
There's a quick mention of the Lockerbie plane crash at the end but i'm surprised it isn't on the list. More than 270 people were killed.
I wish I could say I still feel horrified by the School mass shootings in the USA, but the UK, Australia, New Zealand and other countries have shown that strong gun legislation drastically reduces these events, and the USA still resist those lobbying for stronger gun laws because of some antiquated ammendment to the constitution meant for guns produced 200 years ago.
What a tonal shift at the end of the original video - from tales of death and disaster to a bright voice saying "Do YOU agree with our picks? Or did we miss out some gruesome stuff?" (Okay, that last bit was made up but that's what he meant!
I did wonder if the attempted assassination of Margaret Thatcher in Brighton by the IRA would be included. Feelings still run deep in England over the IRA terror campaign and the way it was ended - you only need to see coverage of Biden's visit to Ireland to see that. I myself escaped being blown up at the Ideal Home Exhibition in 1976, only by luck.
The video did assume a lot, like 'after the death of Jimmy Saville' - I mean, we all know who he was (and now what he was) but they shouldn't expect the rest of the world to. Still, great video, Tyler.
To be fair, disasters happen throughout the world, and we only hear about those which our own local media think we will be interested in, so I wouldn''t expect Tyler to know about a lot of these, although it's fairly shocking that the US was not reporting on UK's involvement in the war. I only live about ten miles from Dunblane - it was truly shocking. Local authoities did have suspicions about Thomas Hamilton, but little power to do anything about it. I believe my own local council had banned him from helping with youth clubs . After it happened we not only tightened up our gun control but also our criminal record checks for anyone woring with vulnerable people. I would add the Lockerbie bombing to this.
Iraq war was protested against by 1 million in the streets here. Some of us couldn't get out there but most were against. Getting triggered by the list!
The Grenfel tower fire happened at night, when most people were asleep. So anyone above the fire was cooked alive in their sleep.
Also, you're mentioning that a construction contractor could have told you it was unsafe... No, the classing used was classified as safe, and there's been so many safety laws and rules changed since. It's calculated that at least half of the towers in the UK had this flammable "Safe" cladding on it. A massive reconstruction effort has been going on ever since to replace the cladding on all these buildings.
No-one was cooked alive in their sleep. Anyone who perished would've been killed by smoke inhalation long before the flames got to them.
@@36thulsterdiv72 The smoke itself doesn't necessarily kill you, but put you in a state of Asphyxia, it can take a while to actually die in this state. I suppose it depends how far from the fire they were as to if they died from the lack of oxygen first, or the fire.
Either way, they died, and were burned.
@bobingabout They weren't burnt alive sleeping though. And once they were affected by Carbon Monoxide, they wouldn't have even seen the room burning around them.
@@36thulsterdiv72 You're not wrong, you're not going to be able to see the room burning if you're unconscious.
On the morning of the 7/7 London bombings, I was working on the tube at Goodge Street Station, a bomb exploded on a train between us and the next station along, Warren Street. A day i will Never forget 😢
Gosh, it's a small world... hello mate, I was living around the corner from there, next to the telecom tower! (Clipstone Street)
This is a true fact ( 7:16) someone thrown they baby from the 10th floor of Greanfell Tower and the people blow catch it. An other true fact the reboot of Gerry Anderson Thunderbirds ( Thunderbirds Are Go) withdrew an episode called Inferno as it has some similarity at Greanfell Tower and it didn't feel right to air it the time. (But they did put it on the season 3 dvd as a bones episode)
Dunblane - 1 school shooting and we changed laws to curtail gun ownership and thankfully nothing like that happened again. Wish the US had the guts to follow suit
No mention of the murder of Lee Rigby or Steven Lawrence, two events which deeply impacted the country.
The worst part of the bulger case is his killers we're later released and given new identities.
I believe Venables endeed up back in prison for having images of child pornography on his computer! Should stay there!
Bradford football ground fire, Ariana Grande concert bomb, Lockerbie bombing terrorist plane crash, Moors murders, Harold Shipman murders, Beverly Allitt murders, the Aberfan disaster…the U.K. may be small but it still has it fair share of disasters and loons.
Regardless of the supposed reasons of why Iraq was invaded and whether they were valid or not- from the knee jerk reaction to 9/11 - the UK did suffer the biggest loss of life in 9/11 which was also the 2nd highest amount after US citizens though it was nowhere near the amount of people lost. Part of me used to think this might have been a reason as to why we invaded them too not that it was Iraq who took responsibility for 9/11. In the end it was very controversial as to why we went in. The middle east has gone from bad to worse since it's never stopped since
How was queen elizabeth's death not on here
About the bombings, there a movie about that story and those people, it's called in the name of the father. Watch it.
Surprised lockerbie disaster wasnt on list... as a major terrorist attack. For a failed terror attack check out the attempt on Glasgow airport... particularly the interview with the have a go hero.
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W e know about guns in America where these school massacres ARE common. Dunblane was the only one in a primary school in the UK and it was enough to have guns carried by civilins banned by law except under very strict licence.
The Grenfell tower fire was on international news. It flared up in minutes. You need to make a point of watching live news daily!
Read up on Irish troubles. I live in an English town, in the 1990s we had to evacuate due to IRA.
Jamie Bulger, so heart breaking.
"Number 7, the Grenfell Tower tragedy" half a second later "Oh, the GRENWELL Tower tragedy" 🤦
No one ever mentions Aberfan disaster
21 October 1966Heavy rain led to a build-up of water within the tip which caused it to suddenly slide downhill as a slurry, killing 116 children and 28 adults as it engulfed Pantglas Junior School and a row of houses.
i was searching for some mention of this. i'll add my comment, as well.
Yes I was so upset this wasn’t on the list and ignored. Truly awful
Yes, I thought that Aberfan would have been mentioned too.
@@roballen5718 no one ever mentions it the forgotten disaster.
@@janolaful at least some of us do
After the 7/7 bombings one US politician said, "Now maybe the UK knows what it feels like to be bombed by terrorists".
We'd been suffering under Irish terrorist bombings for many years, terrorists who were mainly supported financially by American funding drives.
How ignorant do they have to be? Not knowing anything about terrorism and British history? smh
like the British didn’t immediately stand by the US and follow them into a war?
Suffering....? FOR YEARS??
You know how Long Irish suffered under F****** British Rule, you know what was done to Ordinary Irish People.....how many over 800 Years suffered, how many were Murdered, how we nearly lost our language because under Cromwell and his Army if anyone refused to speak English they were killed. 1.5 Million Died from 1840 to 1850 under British Rule...allowed to starve to death while Tons of food was shipped out of the Country!
Do You know how Nationalists were treated in The North of Ireland, burned out of their homes, innocent Shot on Bloody Sunday by trigger happy BritishSoldiers ( That David Cameron apologized for)
So You think yiz suffered in England.....?
You have no F****** idea.
@@JotakuJo Yes, British were Terrorists in my Country for 800 Years....then when we finally booted them out in 1922 they decided to steal 6 Counties in the North of Ireland under threat of "All out and Total War on the Irish People ".
One Man's Terrorist is anothers Freedom Fighter. Yes EVERYONE knows about British Terrorism....funny how the Empire went destroying people's lives by invading , killing and taking all they wanted in other Countries....but when anyone fights back, reminds them what they did or asks for all their countries stolen equities back they keep in The British Museums....well Brits don't like that. Who ya calling Terrorists????
@@fantastischfish sadly we did
Worst part Tyler, is that during an olympics show that showed the NHS. The USA cut away about the 7/7 bomings. Can you imagine if the UK did that about 9/11.
I sat, horrified, and watched the Hillsborough tragedy occur. My mother-in-law and I were intent on watching the game on TV. I cried for hours. It was terrible. And then Rupert Murdoch's rag of a 'newspaper' made up disgusting and false stories about Liverpool supporters during and after the tragedy! As we watched the tragedy unfold we also saw hundreds of incidents of extreme bravery and human kindness.
As a Liverpool fan I too watched it happen live. I know people that were in the crowd and escaped by climbing up to the seating above. Still upsets me to this day. I still won't have The Sun newspaper in my house after they printed those lies. It's not fit to wipe your backside on. YNWA 97.
I remember watching as the Hillsborough tragedy occurred. My father was watching the match and I remember the commentator suddenly saying that there was something wrong. So we the public witnessed as people were being crushed before we realised it.
I think many ordinary Brits still very much respect Liverpool's attitude towards The Sun - even us Mancs agree with you there. I've never bought the paper since either.
Unless you were in Ireland you were not watching the game 'live', it was being recorded for Match of the Day, Irish TV was showing it live. BUT the cameras went live as it became clear there was something other than football happening.
I think it has been taken down but if you can find the website that was published with the HIP report you can see accounts of bravery. And one thing, strangely, that had me in tears was the day after the event people who had been taken in by local Sheffield families came back with groceries and gifts. How anyone could survive that and still think about others amazes me, the fact it happened multiple times, I think, says a lot about the people of Liverpool. RIP the 97.
@@sashh2263 My dear, I was in South Africa at the time, and we WATCHED THE ENTIRE THING LIVE. Don't presume to tell people what they were watching, that's just rude! My mother-in-law immediately telephoned my parents in Scotland and they were also watching it live.
Andy Murray the tennis champion was a pupil in this school during the shooting managed to hide from the killer .Scotland still mourns for the Bairns .
With all my respect dear Tyler, I’m fairly sure the entire world knows what Brexit is.. you can’t always use being American as an excuse 😆 I live on a big hot sparsely populated isolated island near Antarctica, 9,500 miles from the UK and we all watched and followed and learned about Brexit. The British pound is a powerful player in the world economy, Brexit’s effects are far-reaching. This wasn’t a little local British thing 😆
I think you should speak for yourself, there are plenty of people who don’t know and don’t actually care, the world isn’t Twitter and Facebook, most people are not politically active, they have busy meaningful lives, don’t watch or read the news because either they just aren’t interested other than local news or they know it’s all propaganda and not worth wasting their time watching or reading it, that is the case even in the UK let alone half way around the world
It's willful ignorance with Americans. They seem to ignore the fact that their own Federal Reserve has a majority British ownership. Their freedom is only on paper.
Yeah, I never get that argument. And even if i lived in a place that only did domestic stuff i would use apps with foreign channels to know what goes on in the world. Simply because i would hate not to know what EU does regarding everything. I used to have 2 French news channels but they're gone. And thats annoying as they helped me know about the Paris attacks way faster than what Denmark had. Got 5 german flow tv channels and some streaming ones in English too. But you miss the bigger EU picture. But i like EU news as you get stories from every country not just DK.
And you're right. Brexit affects all of us right now. I cant use my UK food shops anymore. That's bad enough. 😔
Well, at least he is brutally honest about his level of knowledge about international affairs. Why we like him :)
in his defense, even a lot of brits didn't know what brexit was. there was a lot of news articles and interviews after brexit happened from people who voted to leave and said things like "i didn't think that'd actually happen" or just flat out didn't know what exactly brexit meant. the main focus of the politicians pushing brexit seemed to be to keep foreigners out of the country, because being part of the e.u made it easier for immigrants to enter the uk, and a lot of people basically just heard that and went with it, not really paying any attention to what it actually entailed to exit the e.u
" England is a cup of tea, France a wheel of ripened brie, Greece a short squat olive tree, America is a gun". Brian Bilston, English poet.
Jimmy Saville was very popular in Ireland and headed an important charity walk. Us children participated and later, as an adult and before all his abuse of children came out, I wrote a song about the fun we had at this event. Somehow a local paper heard of my song, which I'd stopped singing for obvious reasons, and interviewed me. It was surreal because we had no idea of his predatory nature. Luckily.
Does that make Scotland a haggis? Does it make Wales a whine? Does it make Ireland a ditty?
@@Austtube Last verse - " Japan is a thermal spring, Scotland is a highland fling, o better to be anything than America as a gun".
Saville is one of the very few people to have had a Knighthood revoked. Episodes of 'Top of The Pops' in which he presented and re-shown on the BBC have been digitally altered and re-edited to show another presenter.
@@annedunne4526 Hmm. Which part of America? If you look at the
demographics, there are states like Idaho that are really not that violent and have lower numbers of shootings than some of the other countries. If you broke down the states into countries, I guess Florida would be on the top, and down the bottom would be places like Hawaii and Idaho and other places where people just seem just a little chill. It is a big country and there are vast differences between each state. Even more, than we do in Australia. I've lived in America. I can tell you now, living in Magnolia Arkansas doesn't feel like the same country as living in Manhattan NY.
@@Austtube I have never been to the States and have no interest in going. My geography of the USA is non existent since we don't do it in school. The question was asked as to what non Americans thought of the gun culture. Without distinguishing one area from another we think the mass shootings are horrifying. Nowhere else has them. Looking at it from a distance I have to agree that " America is a gun".
My nephew, Sgt. Paul Connolly, was the 75th British soldier to lose his life serving in Iraq 😔 he was just 33 years old.
and all to put T Blair on the world stage in an illegal and unjustified war. Such a waste of life on all sides.
CeNedra I'm so very sorry for you and your families loss 🙏.
Sending my deepest condolences my military family to yours. 🌹
Sorry for your loss mate. A school friend of mine was one of the first to die. Lance bombardier Llewellyn Evans from here in Llandudno. He was just 24 when his helicopter crashed on the 1st day . His brother Lee was on the helicopter behind and witnessed it 😢.
Tragically Lee himself died in a car crash only a year later.
@@stirlingmoss4621 Didn't work though, hey? Seems the UK contribution didn't account for much.
You Americans havnet have had war on your land since the civjil war (except for Pearl Harbourgh),
Today is the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. Also it is now classes as 97 as a furthur victim died years later following injuries relating to the disaster.The police covered it up and the families of the victims have fought a long hard battle for justice. They will never walk alone
#JFT97
The senior police officers really should've been jailed for what they did (or didn't do), especially when they ordered junior officers to change their notebooks.
Justice For The 97 !
I’m always surprised that more people (not just Americans) don’t watch world news. We are such a global society now and yet we still individually live in our own bubbles. Perhaps because we have SO MUCH information put before us nowadays. Social media bombards us with information overload, whereas when I was a teenager we didn’t have that and so big news events were more displayed.
He's cherry picking news events based upon his own criteria. The 70's was full of bombings, like the band stand bombing that targeted mounted troops and you saw nails and fragments that had been put in the bombs to damage as much as possible... The bombing of the UK government in the 80's at their annual party conference.
The Iraq conflict is often mistold because the cause of the first gulf war was actually to free Kuwait. You never hear about that now. In 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait and that was the motivating force to the Iraq war - THE FIRST ONE!
The second/third one was political... It was based around both oil and currency because Iraq has oil and was trying to create a gold back currency to undermine the US petro-dollar, despite Hussain being tamed by the British and Gaddafi being tamed by the Americans (but that's another story). How often do you hear that part of it?
He's not cherry picking anything he's watching a mojo list which they have put together not him
To be fair, I would think percentage wise, more British people would be aware of major events in the USA than Americans themselves?
On Facebook, an American lady thought that Bill Clinton had been kicked out of his presidency and was only free because he had been pardoned.
I informed her that Clinton had been impeached for lying to Congress but had not been removed from the Presidency, had served 2 full terms, he had won the second term with a higher percentage of the vote than the first (after being impeached during his first term) & that it was Nixon that had been forced to resign under threat of impeachment but had been pardoned by Ford.
I suggested that if Clinton had been impeached that it would have been by President Bob Dole but if she were to check the publically available list of US Presidents, she wouldn't find Dole's name in there.
Brits are _much_ more aware of world events than Americans, in general. I think it's because most of us travel abroad, which broadens the mind. That trend is improving though - in 1994, only 10% of Americans had a passport, but now it's over 40%.
As a Brit I like to think so, but its really difficult to know how much you (I) don't know, notice or see.
Jimmy Savilles crimes were so horrible over many years, because he had become a favourite on TV, hosting popular shows like 'fix-it' where children wrote to him asking for their wishes to be granted, like trips to see Santa or a pop star etc.
He would fete them at the BBC studios, like everyone's kind uncle, but would abuse any he got a chance to. He volunteered to help in hospitals
& abused the patients etc, but had become well fixed into the establishment, because he raised millions of £s for charity etc, that even though some were wary of him he got away with it for decades. I saw him quite often because he had an apartment in my town, & my sister sometimes did his hair (she was a hairdresser many years ago) I must say we found him creepy even back in the 70s. He was protected by some figures in the police etc which was how he got away with things so long.
Unfortunately he was never charged for his crimes most only being revealed after his death.
Exactly, and anyone who tried to speak up was silenced by the BBC. Often when it comes to historic offences, the question gets asked about why the victims took so long to come forward, in Saville's case it was because he had some very powerful institutions protecting him and silencing anyone who tried to come forward.
Thinking back, as a teenage girl watching him on TOTP and Fix It I always had a funny feeling about him.... Just didn't understand until after his death....
Royal family had ties to it too like Charles the WOKE King and Andrew the nonce they was good friends with him even the Queen but not just Saville Rolf Harris Stewart Hall Garry Glitter and more at the BBC and it still goes on today. I wonder what he was up to Phillip Schofield
Dunbaine massacre! Andy Murray Scottish tennis player was one of the pupils involved in this shooting. ! 🙏
Andy was in the school but his brother Jamie saw what happened. it is in a documentary about Andy's life
The invasion of Iraq was MASSIVELY unpopular in the UK. Most attended protest ever in the countries history, I believe.
The Sun newspaper owned by Rupert Murdock made up stories about the Hillsborough disaster where the Liverpool fans were robbing the corpses of the dead. The paper lost hugh sales in the Liverpool area despite large discounts in the price of the rag which coninues to this day. I have not purchased any Rupert Murdock owned service or merchantise since , despite not being a Liverpool fc supporter. A shout out to the Nottingham Forest supporters at that game who scaled the fences, ripped up advertising hording to make strechers for their rivals
His rag remains banned in Liverpool to this day
Rupert Murdoch really is the closest to a pure villain we have in the real world. He has caused so much hatred across the English speaking world.
@@LiquidMarvel hence Liverpool didn’t vote for Brexit!
I don't blame you the Rupert Murdoch news like Fox News here has caused a lot of damage here in the States for years too! If wasn't for Fox Trump never would have been in the white house!
BREXIT, BR=Britian's EXIT = Leaves EU
REGREXIT -REGRET (BR)EXIT: terminal condition suffered by pro Brexit voters conned by the Leave EU campaign?
England's Brexit
@@lordprefab5534 Stop spreading untruths. Brexit was a UK wide vote & got more votes in England/Wales. The scottish vote difference between remain/leave was just over 700,000 votes, hardly Scotland totally against Brexit!
@@robward367 I don't regret voting for Brexit & most that voted the same way, doesn't regret their vote either. You are simply spreading anti Brexit propaganda, because you're a remainer.
Then you are a fool, because Brexit has broken Britain
Your a lovely guy Tyler and I applaud you for your truthfulness that you hadn’t heard of any of theses articles 👏BUT Americans live in this world but haven’t a clue what happing outside your country . How is it I know all about what’s happening in the USA from Murders , rapes , school killings , the list goes on and I also know what’s happening in other countries I live in Australia far away from theses events , then there’s Brexit it affected the Europeans and the world for trade and relations with world leaders it’s impossible not to have heard about it went on for 4YEARS and was talked about all over the world ,Americans should WATCH the news a mixture of International and local news it’s obvious by there answers about the world that they know ZILCH you live in a world that we don’t exist eg ; like living in a house and never drawing the curtains back to see outside truly puzzling. A great video and enjoy your channel even though I’m amazed at your lack of information about the world but admire you for saying so truly 🤗so go on saying that I love looking at you in your amazement of the topics 🤣it makes my day and to me the best at your game to others 👏👏👍🤣🤷♀️
my mother lives in one of these types of flats. like the grenfell. because they are concrette construction, and have fire doors, your told to stay in your flat, keep everyhting shut, this was the cause of the deaths, along with the cladding, my mothers building was refurbished 20 years ago, and does not have the bad cladding.
You may recognise James Bulger's name because there was a famous mob boss in Boston called James 'Whitey' Bulger. Saying that it is completely plausible you have heard of the disgusting events that happened, 30 years later the people of Liverpool still have 'justice for Jamie' stickers on their cars and windows (I can only talk about Liverpool as I live there).
my brothers just moved there .
I remember when Jamie Bulger was killed. I live in Canada and it made our news.
My dad was actually attending the game at Hillsborough when it happened. It was a semifinal match with two big teams of the time, Nottingham Forest vs. Liverpool, so naturally lots of people were in attendance. As a Forest fan, my dad was at the other end of the stadium when it happened. He saw the Liverpool fans climbing over the railing and coming onto the pitch, and just thought that they were getting a bit rowdy and trying to disrupt the game, as fans were known to do that sometimes. It was only after some other Forest fans went over and started yelling and screaming that they realised people were dying. Many fans ran over to help people out onto the pitch, including my dad, but unfortunately there were just too many and they couldn’t get to them fast enough.
The Hillsborough disaster was truly awful. Such a needless loss of life and completely preventable. My heart goes out to anyone still affected by this 🤍
I'm second-guessing that Tyler may be wondering why a game between teams from Liverpool and Nottingham was played at Sheffield. Back in those days, F A Cup (I assume Tyler knows what the F A Cup is) semi finals were played at the home grounds of neutral league clubs. Hillsborough, for its capacity and location, was a fairly regular choice, but as years went by, its rundown nature became more and more apparent. At least two prior semi finals in the 80's at Hillsborough had serious near-misses, but the alarm bells caused by the injuries went unheeded.
My husband, Nottingham forest supporter, was there that day.
Speaking of Jimbo Saville, if you go to the uk and ask pretty much anyone, they'll have met jimmy saville, or know someone who has. Both of my parents met him as young children, and my old maths teacher used to work in a hospital he used to visit. He could reach anyone from anywhere at any time. He was an incredibly powerful man, and many people loved him growing up, which made for easy targets.
One of my old school friends met him while in the brownies ,she had a photograph taken with him and her mum had it on the mantlepiece for years.
It shows just how good the marketing for the Iraq "war" was. It had nothing to do with 9/11 and yet, by encouraging that link in people's minds, some people might have considered it justified.
A friend of mine had a lucky escape during the 7/7 London bombing. She was on the bus immediately preceeding the bus that was blown up. She was still traumatised by the experience.
There are several other incidents that could have made this list - the Hungerford massacre, the Kings Cross fire, the Bradford football tragedy, the Marchioness disaster to name just a few.
Also the Piper Alpha disaster and Lockerbie :(
Saying you don’t know what brexit means just shows that American people are to self absorbed maybe start watching news that not only about your country we know everything about what going on in America cause we ain’t self obsessed
To be fair Brexit made Britain irrelevant to the rest of the world
Very surprised this video forgot to mention the Aberfan Disaster in Wales in 1966. A total of 116 schoolchildren and 28 adults died. A huge mountain of mining slurry engulfed a primary school in Aberfan. The whole nation was in shock and mourning.
Kings Cross fire of 1987 and the Bradford Stadium fire of 1985 are two particularly horrific events to me. I vividly remember these especially John Helm's remarkable reporting of the Stadium fire as it happened. He went from a football commentator to a 'disaster reporter' with such professionalism and genuine heartfelt horror of the situation. I also had to catch a train from King's Cross shortly after it reopened, I will never forget the smell that still lingered.
I went up that fatal escalator just ten minutes before the fire took hold. I had no idea that under my feet a fire was burning that would take so many lives.
My future wife and step-daughter had to run for their lives from Kings Cross.
I want to add I was surprised neither the Lockerbie bombing was mentioned (given so many nationalities, especially Americans where murdered) leading to major international sanctions on Libya & Colonel Gaddifi’s ultimate downfall, 30 years later.
Indeed neither the Omagh bombing, which happened after the Good Friday Agreement was signed. A woman pregnant with twins was murdered. It has been one of the deadliest atrocities of ‘the Troubles’.
Brexit I wouldn’t have called a ‘shocking’ moment. 7 years later people still scratch their heads about it. So some in this list where hit & miss. Aberfan should definitely have been on it.
There are a number of tragedies not makingg the list including the Bradford Stadium Fire, The kings cross underground fire, the moors murders,
The interesting thing is that the UK government will use tragedies to act and change the law, so the kings cross and brighton fires lead to changes in building regulations to get rid of flammible public areas, the Hillsborough Disaster changed the laws governing seating and capacity in stadiums, Dunblaine and the Hungerford Massacres lead to changes in gun laws.
It should maybe be noted that the changes to gun laws after Dunblane was due to a grassroots movement started by the families of the victims and backed by the majority of the U.K. population. Many politicians (mainly Conservatives) were against gun reform but faced with the public outcry the new policies were passed. Though then journalist but future Mayor of London, MP and PM Boris Johnson wrote in an article that was published in both The Daily Telegraph and The Calgary Herald “Nanny is confiscating their toys. It is like one of those vast Indian programmes of compulsory vasectomy.” In reporting how terrible he thought the handgun reforms and how the gun amnesty played out.
@@lynnejamieson2063 very true though at least the public pressure works in our case. Or at least did.
@@geekexmachina definitely, people power at its best. Though only possible when you have politicians who understand that their privileged position is represent ALL of their constituents not just those who voted for them. Sadly we currently have too many that are only invested in the interests of those who hold their interest.
Bradford
@@johnallan4826 yes my keyboard lost connectivity while i was doing something else, ive put in a correction thank
WTF? How are Piper Alpha and Lockerbie not on this list? Piper Alpha had 174 deaths and Lockerbie had 270. They were both shocking as hell, and the fact that they happened the same year gave everyone a feeling like the end of the world was coming. To be honest, the last half of the 1980s was just wall to wall disasters against a backdrop of the Cold War and the AIDS epidemic. Piper Alpha, The Herald of Free Enterprise, King’s Cross fire, Lockerbie, Hillsborogh, Hungerford, Chernobyl, Challenger, the worst flu epidemic since 1918, the Friday 13th stock market crash, and the UK even had a hurricane - all between 1986 and 1989. And I’ve probably forgotten something.
Several of these were actually much worse than described. In particular the Grenfell Tower fire and the Hillsborough Disaster
I personally think you are all so selfish not to put legislation in place to help curb these mass shootings. If you also had a public healthcare system many people, especially, children would be able to get free mental health counselling .
There was also the shooting in Hungerford in 1987 where a guy, who legally owned assault rifles, went on a rampage and killed 17 people. The law in the UK around assault rifle ownership was changed after that, and then handguns were banned after Dunblane in the 90s.
The first disaster that I was aware of as a child happened in 1966 in Aberfan Wales, when a slag heap from the coal mining industry slid down the mountainside and engulfed a school and houses killing 116 children and 28 adults. I can still feel the horror and sadness that affected everyone around me.
Typical watch mojo 🤦♂️
They should really stay away from the political stuff because they are obviously not educated on it but I could probably say that about any subject they do a video on, their information is about as accurate as measuring the wind speed velocity of a gnats fart in a hurricane
The only time I was ever scared was walking home from work around 1pm on 7/7. All trains and buses were stopped and so we all had to walk or get taxis. I walked the 6 miles home and vividly remember walking in the middle of then road, with everyone leaving the centre of London, looking at every parked car with suspicion. In hindsight, it was stupid to feel that scared. We all went straight back to work the following day.
That day is burned on my mind forever and I remember how surreal it all seemed trying to get home when there were no buses, no tubes and no taxis. I was standing on the platform at Liverpool Street station when one of the bombs went off - it made a loud popping noise then the tunnel filled with this acrid, yellow smoke, then almost an hour later when I arrived at the office (BMA Building in Tavistock Square), the bus bomb exploded right outside my office window. You must have been very scared having to go back to work the next day. I had I think it was three weeks off, as they had to close down the BMA Bulding while forensics experts examined the bus wreckage and cleared it away. One really horrible part is that the emergency services who'd arrived on the scene just after the bus bomb exploded, had to use the foyer of the BMA Building as a makeshift casualty area. Even months later, you could still smell stale blood even though the whole area had been completely cleaned, disinfected etc.
The Jimmy Saville Netflix doc is horrible but would get you up to speed. But yes, the Bill Cosby comparison is a good start
Some more: The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in a Welsh village on 21 October 1966, which destroyed the local school and killed a lot of children. The Piper Alpha disaster, 6 July 1988 which was a catastrophic fire on a North Sea rig. The MS Herald of Free Enterprise disaster 6 March 1987, a ferry bound for Britain capsized off the Belgian coast.
Aberfan still without justice. ❤️
The Miners' Strike, Keith Blakelock, the ISIS Beatles, renaming Marathon as Snickers, shrinkflation of choccy biccies - it's just one shocking thing after another that's unbearable to the British public.
@@avaggdu1
And that Meghan Markle creature.
Naturally, no-one ever goes to prison....rich people just don't.
@@julianbarber4708 Depressingly true.
Today is the 34th anniversary of Hillsborough and there is still no justice for the 97 people who died as a result. RIP 97 YNWA!
Also, the reason we have such tight gun controls in the UK is because of firstly the Hungerford Massacre and then Dunblane. Casual criminalist channel recently did an episode covering this.
Yeah, but America has incidents like that every week, and still does nothing about it. It's crazy. 600 mass shootings per year.
It's actually the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster (15th April) and I know this as a lot of bad things seemed to happen on my birthday 😔
Titanic sank on 15 April.
@Clive Newman yeah.. its not a good day for history 😞
These were horrible moments in modern history, but for me, the Manchester arena bombing and the murder of Lee Rigby still shocks me and is imprinted in my memory. I remember coming home from school and seeing on the news the video being played of the aftermath of Lee Rigby and the murderers trying to justify their repulsive attack with a meat cleaver in his hands covered in blood. Honestly think that was the moment I realised how messed up this world truly is.
I was born years after the Birmingham and Guildford bombings, but I remember the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four (or rather 3 of then, as one died inside) having their convictions overturned and being released.
There's actually a film about the Guildford Four, called "In the Name of the Father" (1993), Starring Daniel Day Lewis, Emma Thompson and Pete Postlethwaite. An excellent film, if you want to check it out.
That scandal is the perfect argument against hanging
@@RichardLaurence 100%
BR(British)Exit = Brexit or so I understand it. Cameron didn't decide to leave the EU. He promised a people's referendum and the majority of people that bothered to vote, voted to leave.
and the rest of the EU hate us for leaving their gang.
Membership of the EU was a non-topic until Cameron stirred it up as a distraction to save the Tory Party, then he quit allowing the right-wing loonies to take control of it. They lied, misinformed and blew the dog whistle for bigots to crawl out from under their rocks. Cameron may not have purposefully decided to leave the EU, but he laid the groundwork and created the opportunity from virtually nothing, all to save the backs of his Tory cronies. It was a back-door excuse to tackle what a lot of people actually cared about - immigration. All it achieved was 51,000 EU migrants essential to our economy leaving, to be replaced with 504,000 immigrants from other countries. I have to laugh at the irony of that - Brexit has crippled the country to achieve the exact opposite of what Brexiters wanted.
I'd also mention the Bradford City Stadium fire which happened 11 May, 1985 in which 56 football supporters lost their lives. Another tragedy.😢
This is a good list of things that you could maybe do a deeper dive into for each one. Many are very tragic but also interesting.