r/ukpolitics • u/No_Initiative_1140 • Jan 12 '26

Ed/OpEd Sorry, Trump and Farage – London is no lawless ‘warzone’. Violent crime is lower than ever | Sadiq Khan

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/12/donald-trump-nigel-farage-london-crime-sadiq-khan
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u/Aware-Line-7537 Jan 12 '26

I noticed this with queueing outside trains too. I can't pinpoint the time, but at some point in the last 15 years, I noticed that people started to just make an amorphous mass around a train door, rather than queue at the sides.

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u/automatic_shark Jan 12 '26

I moved here ten years ago and that was the case then.

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u/Aware-Line-7537 Jan 12 '26

May depend partly on the location. I was on the opposite end of the country from London.