"Oxford Street Is A Disgrace" | Richard Tice | Robert Hardman
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- Richard Tice speaks with Daily Mail columnist Robert Hardman about his observations of Britain's most famous shopping street. They discuss the millions of pounds of unpaid business rates owed to the councils and the rise of candy shops dominating the one mile stretch.
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What are your experiences of Oxford Street?
Absolute sh**hole. Like the rest of Londonistan.
This is sad, but the really sad thing is it's happening everywhere in the world, big cities with more crime more drug addicts and more homeless, more illegal immigrants.
I always used to go to Oxford Street. However, I now avoid it for the reasons you mentioned. If I go into central London now, it's usually to either Regents Street or Sloane Square. It's a shame that our once famous shopping street is now a 3rd rate ugly shopping experience.
My wife and I used to love a long weekend in our capital up until a few years back, but I'm afraid London has lost its appeal for us because it's becoming more Bronx by the day.
I worked in London for years and loved Oxford Street shopping. However, it's changed beyond recognition and I no longer visit. Sadly it represents the way the rest of the country is going - very third world.
You allow criminals to set up businesses, you allow thousands of potential criminals to flood into your country practically unchecked. What do you expect ?
Spot on
Play stupid games.... Win stupid prizes!!!!
Another 1,500 this weekend alone!
@@alwayspooh1588 16,000 so far this year. It was 20k for 2022.
@@soupdragon2397 I think you will find it was nearly 50,000 by the end of 22
Oxford Street used to be a great place. But as with the rest of the main citys in the UK it's been infested by diversity.
Agree it it been going downhill with crime for the last forty years
It's nothing to do with that, high street retail is dead, people shop online & no-one has money for department stores anyway
I don't agree with that. "Diversity" gives you things like China Town and Edgware Road. Obviously you will have your own opinion on whether you want to visit places like that, but they are far better than Oxford Street.
@@mikemorris7117 Sorry I've fallen foul of a grammar Nazi. Your CITIES and country are being ruined and you worry about a spelling mistake 🤬
@@katrinabryceIn 20 years time we will truly see the effects of diversity. Sadly most of the scummy politicians who caused this will be dead
You let the criminals rule the streets you get what you deserve
And it starts in the House of Commons .
Exactly. @ Brianstubb
In my opinion, We are just a short way before total TYRANNY arrives !
Hear hear 👍
Every society deserves the criminals it has .
Failures of the CPS, the judges, and the government, we need to reel back and actually punish people
"If Oxford Street is rubbish, then millions of people just simply aren't going to bother coming to London" .. NAILED IT.
Good, maybe they’ll spend some money on their own high street for once.
Would you take your family on an exciting trip to see a toilet? No, neither would I !
The government is already helping to close the shops by cancelling visitors VAT free purchases
Our country is finished politicians hve ruined our once great country
I used to work in Oxford Street. The place was great, the shops were great. I went there last week, starting from Bond Street. OMG the candy shops are an eyesore. Khan is the mayor of London, that’s why. He is a disgrace 😡
Regent Street is OK though. The difference is that the landlord is the Crown Estate and they do a lot more due dillegence on potential tenants than the various offshore shell companies that own Oxford Street.
@@katrinabryceThankfully- but for how long. Indians own more of London than English do.
Still, we gave India back…..
"Name and Shame", don't be absurd - these people don't do "shame".
Londons having trouble so lets hit the whole country with stupid rules!! Banning hoodies!! Grow a pair and arrest criminals not punish the whole country with stupid laws!!
Well said.
Id rather each county ran its self screw london
It's summer why are they wearing hoodies? (& carrying weapons)?
@@Lee_303 not sure where you are but the weather has been pretty british recently... its summer in name only, yes I've worn a hoodie recently is that an issue? ..... not sure I said I was carrying a weapon or where that came from to be honest
@@Lee_303it's been raining for 6 weeks straight
It’s been a hellhole for a long time. Such a shame, and another example of the polarisation of society in the UK. I grew up in a middle class household in South London. My late mother was confectionery supervisor for the flagship Woolworths store on Oxford Street. It used to be full of aspirational but accessible stores and was a regular Christmas treat day out for us. Now we have a choice between the absolute seediness of Oxford Street or the completely unaffordable luxury stores elsewhere. I certainly wouldn’t take my granddaughters shopping on Oxford Street today.
It is heartbreaking.
Can't help thinking that if they took away J-D Sports, Nike Town and the like plus that big Primark (remember that day it first opened...pure mayhem) and just bring back a bit of class to Oxford St, then maybe what we're seeing would stop.
Don't think this is going on in the more classy Regent Street.
My twin had her first job at Barclays Bank on Oxford Street and I was around the corner at New Bond Street. It was marvellous. So sad that this has been allowed to happen.
We're going the same as me way as the US, where you need a flak jacket to go shopping.
It was my go to place after pay day Friday. Loved the vibe, gorgeous shops. Shane it's gone to pot-no guessing needed as to why. 😡
Seems like everything good in this country is being slowly erased and the people doing it are immune from any sort of prosecution,sad times 😔😔
Great.If the English can't have England then make it a hell hole.
i wouldn't say slowly !
The people doing it are in Geneva
You lot need to go back to church on a Sunday, build your culture up
Society gets what it deserves. This is the result of greed and corruption due to capitalism
The mayor and Westminster council keep pushing Oxford Street as the premier shopping area; it's not, it's a cesspit of pickpockets, candy shops and lowlife. I'd rather go to Westfield at White City, a much more pleasant experience..
Westfield’s is another sh..t hole full of feral vermin.
and even White City is not what it was just a few years ago. I find it’s looking a bit down as well.
Really? have you seen the toilets at Westfield Stratford recently?
Candy shops?!
I thought we called them sweet shops here!
@@JaEDLancThey are shops selling pricy fake American and other foreign sweets.
London under the control of Sadgit Kahn is no longer the great City I was born and grew up in.
SAD GIT KHUNT (love it )
oh it started under Kahn. that was 5 years ago, but under Boris Oxford tSreet was GREAT!!!!!
I also can’t visit my childhood places. There’s nowhere where one can yet live as we did in my youth.
We did not understand the value of homogeneity and allowed our friendliness to be taken advantage of.
But earlier migrants came because they liked our way of being and were still under the influence of Englishness.
I think Hong Kong refugees still fall in that category.
Now they revert to their true selves with every generation and a lot of help from people I shall call ‘liberals’ busy pushing their agenda of no white Christian homes.
@@Threemore650 And ppl wonder why I vote BNP 🙄
@@rfurdaylee i get it but they are pretty much a dead party now, seems like a waste of a vote, they are mere shadow of what they were same as the NF.
I was born in London 1952, and London was great. Now no thank you been away for 35 years have no desire to go back.
Me too - too much crime and gets worse every day
Yeah, capital owners ransacked the country from the 80s until now.
Ultimately the responsiblility rests on Khans shoulders. He needs to go, and fast.
Khan is relishing in it. It is all going to plan. London is almost destroyed and britain is going the same way. It will not be long before we are in an Islamic state.
Khan is a symptom of the problem not the cause.
The hoodlems vote for him!
He does, but I fear that there are certain populations within London who will keep voting for him irrespective of his lack of inaction, or compliance with the criminality running London. Who are these populations??? Walk around east, north, south, and west London - wait, all of London! and you will see who these voters are; they care not about policies, but about Khan's race and religion, and that trumps everything else for them.
There's a dodgy candy store in my village and the police dont want to know. How is it still open because its always empty.
There are al least 2 in my town. We think they're both laundering drug money since you never see anyone buying things in them.
Most likely they are owned by drug dealers. They put their money from selling drugs through the till as sales of overpriced candy, and then it looks like a legitimate income source.
I would think that most of the vape shops are covers for money laundering. Never seen anyone in them. If theres no price that means its free.
Most high streets have been run into the ground. Welcome to the club London. 👍
I for one will never set foot in Londonistan ever again.
The perpetrators were black Africans, but you still don't have the guts to say it in case they track and anal rape you.
Oxford Street isn’t London. If you know the city then you would also know that nearby Marylebone, for instance, is a different world. In such a vast and varied place there are many very nice areas in addition to the trashy ones.
I was born and brought up in Notting Hill Gate. Moved to West London in my early teens and finally when I got married the only place we could afford was a damp little flat in Forest Gate (don't get me started!) and finally escaped to the South Coast when we could afford a mortgage in 2000. Oxford Street used to be the jewel in the crown. So full of wonderful shops. OK some were a bit on the pricey side but you could spend hours having great fun just browsing and window shopping. At Christmas time it used to look so festive. You always had the "fly by nights" who would set up a sort of mini-market in empty shops with a fella acting a bit like an auctioneer to sell cheap and cheerful household goods and fake perfume. A stooge would be in the crowd of gawping shoppers to break the ice in the buying frenzy that ensued and there was a bloke posted outside on the lookout for the old bill. London has always had hawkers like this.
Around early 90's it started going very downhill with cheap souvenir shops selling tat that was identical to the shop two doors along. Takeaways abound with accompanying awful stinks.. Filthy pavements sticky with discarded chewing gum. By this time I had moved out and gone South and I can honestly say I have been up to London only under duress, maybe 3 or 4 times since 2013 which was when my mother died. The feeling of utter despair when pulling into Waterloo on the train and seeing those glorious and proud landmarks and then the feeling of happiness and relief when the train pulls out when it's time to go home again. It shouldn't be like this. The place is so overcrowded with entitled and rude tourists and incomers who couldn't give a crap. I couldn't believe the amount of these awful candy shops. Quite obvious what is going on there. The whole place is destroyed. Mayor Khan should be ashamed of the levels of crime, especially knife crime, but he isn't. London is now a lawless hellhole and now we get these thuggish little parasites coming down our way on day trips to do robbings.
Please make it stop. Only Reform UK seems to want to help this country get its mojo back again.
Mojo?
I’d settle for our housing.
Clearly displacement is theft of habitat….
You’re not even allowed to do that to badgers.
Very downhill with cheap souvenir shops selling tat- Cambridge is going the same way, very hard to park and expensive 5hours £25 - Cmabridge UNI owns many if not all of the shops and rents are sky high. Norwich which isnt going down, many shops are full, many shoppers on a Saturday and Sunday and very few if any 'souvenir' shops. How come ? Council own many of the shops and have a policy of keeping the rent very low with a view to renting to small businesses. So to sum, keep the rents and parking prices low with great access to car parks.
Nobody seems to be able to do anything about Britain's problems. All I'm hearing here is the council know what's wrong but can't do anything about it. Young men arriving on boats? Can't do anything about it. NHS is at breaking point - can't do anything about it. People are being paid to manage these things and they don't seem to be doing anything to solve problems.
Because they are busy filling their pockets
The west is eating itself due to "tolerance and compassion"
It’s the managed decline of the west. We have been subverted, America fell first and we are afew steps behind. Things will get alot worse befure they get better because we, the English people are the only ones that can address our problems, the solution will never be in a manifesto for us to vote for.
They are either too spineless, stupid or corrupt to do anything about it more like. There needs to be a reckoning here in the UK or within a decade it will be indistinguishable from a 3rd world failed state.
The decline of English society is being managed by the leftist councils, that much is obvious.
Barbers Shops & Candy shops are clearly fronts for drugs and other crimes...now can someone please tell me why, as well as 6 sweet shops, 12 Turkish Barbers and 6 charity shops, there are 8 Chinese owned nail salon`s on the high street in the small town I live in...what are they a front for?
Massage parlours?
Chinese police stations?
@@bromion5123 oddly enough, 2 of those have appeared too in the last year or so...but on different sites to the nail salon`s...
@@peter7624 probably...wouldn`t surprise me at all...
You will find a lot of these nail bars have Vietnamese working in them - and mostly illegal immigrants......
I remember a late autumn trip to London(from Sweden) and Oxford street in the late 80:s, the Christmas decorations, pubs and excitining exhibitions, after the invasions from mena countries nothing is the same in any of the western countries.
It’s a struggle not to become permanently furious and hateful tbh.
Its really sad what is happening to London, our capital city.
another reason to get rid of SADEEK KAHN................he does not care on purpose..........he loves the demise!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK WHATS HAPPENED TO LONDON!!!!!!!!
Khan wants a Third World Country , he wants to feel at Home .
This is just a hunch I bet the people open these shops I haven't actually been in the country that long
WEF would like to close all the shops and get everyone to buy online only, objective is being pushed forward
We've all got to eat dried insects too while they dine on steaks and Chianti.
Exactly it’s why they allow all the shop lifting etc they are desperately trying to get rid of shops
you was alll warned about what is happening in the uk now,years ago.its by design....
London will end up like San Francisco, empty.
Myself and my wife, used to visit London from the Midlands for a day out, it used to be such an exciting time.
Last time we went 4 years ago, it was horrible, we didn't feel safe, and it was like being in a middle eastern 3rd world country except the prices of everything were ridiculous.
We will never go again.
Don't blame ya me and my family are stuck here
we are importing this crap
I was so very sad to see Oxford Street the way it was. I remember it being a place for all kinds of shoppers from the über rich to the plebs. Its unbelievable and disgusting to see how many "candy" stores there were. Please bring back the old Oxford Street. 🇮🇳
Haven't been to Oxford St. for years, it used to be a great place but now its a horrible seedy mess.
I have such good memories, especially Selfridge's windows at Christmas.
Is 'Çandy Store' a euphemism for a drug dealing place?
Money laundering
Not to mention, mobile phone stores such as EE now have to screw phones to counter to stop them being stolen. No way to test features 😭
I live 25 mins by train from London and I have been avoiding the whole city for decades.
I spent a week in London recently and I felt like I was staying in a third world country…by contrast I spent a week in Tokyo and felt like I had travelled forward in time by twenty years.
Demographics Japan : Japanese 97.9%, Chinese 0.6%, Korean 0.4%, other 1.1% (includes Vietnamese, Filipino, and Brazilian) (2017 est.)
We all know what people own these horrible tacky shops and what type of people are shoplifting and causing trouble in gangs! But if we say it we will be cancelled 🤫
Cancelled how?
Bot, go get properly wiped.@@adamlowe7618
London is pure anarchy. Everyone I know has a story of bag snatching, pickpocketing, aggression and being ripped off. Love or loathe Boris, it was fun living there when he was the mayor.
Qex
London is just a Khandy shop, and thanks to the mayor, our capital it ain’t right sweet.
Wow we are there a 3rd world capital city Well done mr khan 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
French people used to cross the Channel to shop in Oxford Street at weekends a few decades ago.
It was great fun to walk in from one shop to the other. As a student i was just happy with what i could afford.
I would not be surprised to find a lot of these 'candy shops' are used for money launder, a bit like all the 'Turkish Barber Shops', which seem to have very few customers.
Well,its not just Oxford Street, mostly small towns here in Scotland have shops like this,i went to buy a couple of bags of jolly ranchers and he wanted £11, sorry to expesive he shouted out give me £6 ok refused his offer,but as the journalist said shops are full of dodgy chargers and ecigarets and phone covers,regards good afternoon from Scotland 👍
In Scotland they will give you a poke for your sweets.
Went to Glasgow recently. Dirty seedy city centre. Sorry makes. Hackney look attractive !
@lvc406 Princes St in Edinburgh is suffering too. The loss of the department stores, especially the iconic Jenners, is tragic. I cant even describe the horror of the dome on the St James Center amidst such exquisite architecture.
I used to love Manchester which is now becoming quite grotty looking.
Scotland is a dump
You can’t name and shame them because they are innocent Pakistani businessmen :)))
R u joking?
Na it's probably your mum.
No one but no one should be allowed to rule over any town city or this country for that matter unless you promote true British values.
Did you really need to repeat the no one twice though ? 🙄
@@nyakwarObat yes
@@traceyjell724 some people just have to be extra like it's a ticket to heaven 🙄
Such as?
Like?
I dont live in London...BUT how is it right that the GOVT dare not allow an illegal migrant to live in less than 3-4- star Hotels ...while turning a blind eye to the homeless in London. And what a great pity that London has declined into a third world type city. What is going on ? Labour rule the roost there don't they. They should be ashamed.
He literally says in the interview that it’s a Tory council. 13 years of Tory government. What you on about?
@@SocietalDefibrilation London City Mayor Khan Labour has been for years trouble with London is its divided in tiny little Boroughs
@@apocalypticweasel9078 it was no picnic under Johnson either (first hand experience)
It happens EVERYWHERE Labor is in power. Wake up people.
5 star hotels too for the illegals
I remember Oxford Street back in the late 50s and 60s as a child, an amazing place to go shopping, especially around Christmas time with the lights .I now live in Australia, and whent back to the UK for a holiday 3 years ago, and went to Oxford Street I was very saddened to see the condition of the street. Very sad what's happening to London, and the UK.
Perhaps it's time to implement company director identification and anti phoenix legislation as has been done in Australia. This will make it much harder for these bastards to operate.
Looks like Kabul without the fist.
Easier to slowly slap a nation into submission, Than punching 👊 them in the mouth 😢❤🙏
Our once beautiful land has been destroyed. The pride we had here is gone. Our culture our history deliberately rubbed out. Truly shameful.
ALL PLANNED, Internationalists behind ALL OF THIS DESTRUCTION. Time to point the finger at where the blame clearly lies.
Because it was built fron stolen treasure looted from many of these same migrant countries and worse than this was done to its people in order to steal their wealth. The British ppl had pride because the stolen treasures brought them social and economic control and power, but now the money has dried up and the sons and daughters of the former opressed have arrived on the doorsteps of the generations of the opressors. I have absolutely no sympathy for Britain, because its leaders have never acknowledged nor repented of the wickedness that country perpetrated when it colonized more than half of the planet. Its reaping what it sowed, hold on tight.... its gonna be a bumpy ride.
Oxford street is the beginning...soon will be bond street and the neighbourhood
Business rates are a big part of the problem. House of Fraser paid more in business rates for its Oxford street store than Amazon did for its whole UK operations.
These candy shops can only open if there’s vacancy in the first place
We have barbers shops that do not open and others with many many empty chairs !!!!!!
Working on the Black Market elsewhere , but an address for the Benefits Office , for where you book working 16 Hours / Week to obtain Your Benefits ..
@@clivewalker5465 think harder about all those chairs £50 a day minimum .
London is in decline, as is Britain. All too late and there is no reversing.
Why has Mayor Khan allowed this to happen in the City?
Because hes a. ANKER.
When you let the trash of the planet in unchecked then this is what youget
I’m 10 miles from Oxford Street, easy trip on the tube or the overground but have not been into central since just before lockdown. I do not want to see what it has become, it would break my heart.
Someone should invent a police force 'Why has nobody thought of that, I know its a radical idea but it might work.
I haven’t been to London in decades. It was a disgrace then. Not tempted back.
Shops do NOT 'lay' empty. They lie empty!!!
shops, we live in britain not in america, Wonder how many of these shops are controlled by ethnic brits. same as the rickshaw drivers.
Quite a few I think. Some footage of a recent black rampage showed one that had just been hit by the delights of diversity! Quite ironic really!😉
@@johnnyhollis9977False … basically none are controlled by ethnic Brits.
Actually most of the shops there, are owned by people who don't even live in the UK. Same as our water & electricity. Our water is mostly owned by China, our nuclear by China & France, our green energy by Denmark & Norway
Thank you Sadie Khan, you have done a fantastic job!
l think those candy stores are money laundering stores.
No thinking about it ,
Absolutely 👏 💯 👏
Central london esp. Oxford Street is a dump now.
Ice creams, lollies etc don’t have prices on the menu in the smaller
Shops, haven’t for years. This is because the owners charge different prices based on the customer and if they think they’re knowledgable of the true prices.
WHAT IS THE MAYOR DOING! FINDING WAYS TO SQUEEZE THE MOTORIST SO LONG AS HE GETS A CUT? NOTHING!
Immigrant shop oweners and Immigrant residents
Still get triggered by none white people?
ENOUGH SAID 100% CORRECT
Money laundering, brought to you by Mr Khan.
It would be interesting to know the racial demographics of all of this.
When i was a kid oxford street was a special place like whiteleys ,derry &toms pontings and barkers not to mention many others of quality 😮😮😮
Am sure many of the homeless would be happy to stay on a barge with meals and cleaning facilities!
Wild west UK.
We .had the cowboy 🤠
Now we have Indians
Plenty of chiefs
But seriously
England totally finished
So sad
Bring back 1950/60
Great England ❤ back then
Bring back law and order and British businesses with a British prime minister, British Mayor of London etc.
If you look at all the bad things that happened in other countries I would put money on it that they will always bring in these new customs
Last time I was in Oxford Street was 1995,i haven't been back since and regarding shops with no price labels, there are lots of shops near me like that but by law they have to have price labels, I've worked in retail 14 years so I know what the legalities of retail are.
London turning into South Africa.
And it's the same dark forces which are doing it. Liberal media, Global socialism, sorros and his ilk. They all have blood on their hands.
Now you know what its like for the rest of the country shops being closed
Khan getting what he wanted - A no go London. Just dont go there anymore, far to dangerous. And i grew up in London and loved it
I’m glad I lived in the 1980s and 1990s I never in a million yrs thought this country would be in such a mess it’s unrecognisable 😢
Outlaw masks? Not long ago I seem to remember it was illegal not to wear one in certain circumstances.
I already banned them back in 2020.
That was the past
@@run2cat4runso was your comment
It was never law only guidance and policy.
Not long ago you couldnt wear a hoodie. Now you can go out full balaclava face covering and gloves.
They still allowed full religious face coverings going into banks etc , only a matter of time before some crooks get an idea..they used stockings at one time 😂
I wonder how legitimate these ‘candy’ stores are?
Shocking the way londonistan is going
Something like all these Turkish Barbers popping up everywhere
I think the idea is to follow the San Francisco model.
I didnt realise but 50 cent was talking about these shops years ago , he once said "ill take you to the candy shop, and then promised to let you lick his lollipop"
Khan needs to pull his finger out and stop this and sort the Landlords out who allow the rogue tenants.
I use the back streets to avoid going down Oxford St. Have done for many years.
I think it should lose its status as part of the Monopoly board game, that will teach them.
Don't forget the "Turkish" barbers & Vape shops, or the hand car washes. In my town we even have a combined car wash & barbers.........it's bloody obvious it's for money laundering purposes.
Same in mine in East lancs. Its plain for all to see.
@@JustDaniel6764 ....all except the local trading standards & police it seems!
@@SteeeveO My local council is run by their ilk, They are a fifth column if I've ever seen one
Don’t go to Oxford street anymore, it upsets me too much. The last time I went, I felt like a stranger in my own country.
I was shocked when I went there last year for the same reason.
Britain has gone down the gutter.
Who in their right mind would want to go to London?
Millions of Su- Saharan africans
Someone who has to live here with their family,still I have some nice neighbours
Ethnics doing what ethnics do...
Close down these candy shops asap. They're not legitimate businesses, are they?
Oxford Street years ago used to be a fantastic place to shop. I used to love going there for Christmas shopping shopping. Now you couldn’t pay me to go there. I commute to London for work luckily nowhere near this insanity. I am very very aware of how London is going I don’t keep anything of value in my bag, phone stays hidden I don’t even carry a purse anymore and have my cards hidden on me so if my bag is stolen they get a work laptop that’s it. This will come to a head it has to it can’t carry on like this
"Diversity is our strength!" Hahaha
I can't go to oxford street, due to traffic charges, so i leave it to the feral youth to mug and steel .
It's not all bad news. We are about to get a super mosk.
I remember a similar thing in Glasgow, it was Sauchielhall street and surrounding streets, and there was also the big deptartment stores you could go to and spend pretty much a day up there. Now it's full of tat shops and a horrible atmosphere.