SAMs to be installed on Gated community roof.

[imperialman]

Oh and... this is the emplacement.

Spoiler :

 

[Dumanios]

Well, at least the crime rate will go down.

 

[attackfighter]

Bros this is important: does it have skittle-seeking capabilities? lulz im so funyy

 

[imperialman]

Well, at least the crime rate will go down.

Are there really that many aerial-warfare crimes being committed in London as it is?

 

[Formaldehyde]

I don't really the problem with this, the system itself is safe (if you're not a rogue light aircraft) and their impact should be minimal. Now, if they're stationing gunships there oth...

You don't think there will be gunships at the ready, as well as orbiting fighters?

 

[innonimatu]

Ahh I see they plan on firing the SAMs into the Olympic stadium, to kill opposing athletes. It is wise of them to use this cover story as a smokescreen for their true plan.

Nah, it was probably in answer to demands by the IOC: they're there to blow up any spectators who dare make unauthorized videos of the Olympics!

 

[Traitorfish]

At least they're being allowed to keep the homes. More than a lot of people are getting out of this farce.

 

[imperialman]

You don't think there will be gunships at the ready, as well as orbiting fighters?

I meant stationing them on the flats roofs, I was joking. I'm aware of the security preparations.

 

[Flying Pig]

Should probably point out that 'gated community' in the US is a rich area, while an estate like this is emphatically not

 

[Save_Ferris]

That is awesome!~

Unless it happens in America, in which case it's just those stupid rednecks being stupid.

 

[Silurian]

Should probably point out that 'gated community' in the US is a rich area, while an estate like this is emphatically not

Well whilst not very high for London there are studio flats for sale at £204,995.
It is right next to line into Liverpool Street so it could be noisy for the flats on the south side of the building with trains going past every 2 or 3 minutes and the road to the east was classed as motorway until about 10-15 years ago.
http://www.findaproperty.com/for-sale/property-10827031

 

[Flying Pig]

Scroll down to 'Demographics'

Tower Hamlets is a byword for run-down, urban Britain.

 

[Silurian]

The thing about London is you can go from expensive to run down in half a mile. Tower Hamlets whilst mainly a hole does have some expensive enclaves where gentrification has occurred. They are often gated to keep the locals out.

This factory conversion is a few minutes’ walk from Bow Church DLR from which it is a few stops to Canary Wharf, which is also in Tower Hamlets.

I worked and lived in Newham for 8 years and whilst we did look down on Tower Hamlets we did often visit, especially some of the pubs in Narrow Street. The flats there start at £1m but if you go just north to Commercial Road there are boarded up properties and kebab shops.

 

[Traitorfish]

London is weird.

 

[Takhisis]

'Claustrophobia, there's too much paranoia…' Several decades ahead, irishman John Lydon was.

Link to video.

 

[Silurian]

This building, whilst built after the strike (1911), was part of the Bryant and May Factory where the Match Girl strike took place. The Match Girl strike was an important event in the social history of the UK. I wonder if the history of the site will affect people's reactions.

From TUC

On an early July afternoon in 1888 a crowd of 200, mainly teenaged girls, arrived outside a newspaper office in Bouverie Street, off Fleet Street in the City of London. They had left their work at the Bryant and May match factory at Bow in the East End in protest when three of their colleagues had been fired. Management had accused them of telling lies about their working conditions to a radical journalist, Annie Besant. They had come to her for help. In June Besant had heard at a meeting of socialists in Hampstead that Bryant and May, had announced monster profits with dividends of 22 per cent contrasted with paying wages of between 4 and 8 Shillings [20 - 40p] a week

http://www.unionhistory.info/matchworkers/matchworkers.php
(This text has been extracted from It just went like tinder; the mass movement and New Unionism in Britain 1889: a socialist history, John Charlton, Redwords, 1999. ISBN 1 872208 118)

 

[Mise]

Putting military equipment on the top of civilian buildings is just asking for trouble. And more than a little bit hypocritical.

Scroll down to 'Demographics'

Tower Hamlets is a byword for run-down, urban Britain.

The thing about London is you can go from expensive to run down in half a mile. Tower Hamlets whilst mainly a hole does have some expensive enclaves where gentrification has occurred. They are often gated to keep the locals out.

This factory conversion is a few minutes’ walk from Bow Church DLR from which it is a few stops to Canary Wharf, which is also in Tower Hamlets.

I worked and lived in Newham for 8 years and whilst we did look down on Tower Hamlets we did often visit, especially some of the pubs in Narrow Street. The flats there start at £1m but if you go just north to Commercial Road there are boarded up properties and kebab shops.

Silurian's right, Tower Hamlets has some of the most expensive properties in London right next to council estates. That's the magic of London.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I doubt this is what the ancient Greeks envisaged

 

[Silurian]

I doubt this is what the ancient Greeks envisaged

I agree, I don’t think Icarus was shoot down with SAMs

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I agree, I don’t think Icarus was shoot down with SAMs

I wonder who will top the medal tally in 2040 ? Phizer or Roche ? It's actually a real shame .