[fennecbutt]

Not really. I got mugged quite close to a tube station in relatively central London and no CCTV footage, so all the cameras are useless.

I was on a jury for a court case where: the incident was caught by a bus camera, but the police waited 6 months to ask for footage, footage is deleted after 1 month and they know this. The shop across the road captured the incident on CCTV but the cop had "tech problems" trying to transfer the video file to his laptop - even then they didn't even bother to sign a document stating what they saw in the video.

CCTV and cops (at least in and around London) are just totally useless. And the gov is useless too, "fighting" crime rather than addressing what causes crimes.

Otherwise, it's not too bad a place to live for a travelling Kiwi, great launchpad into Europe, oh wait they fucked that up with Brexit, too.

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London police are pretty much pro dysfunction at this point.

[w1nst0nsm1th]

>..., great launchpad into Rwanda. Corrected for you.

[pixxel]

> great launchpad into Europe

So pick another country or just fill-in the required paperwork. Wetwipe.

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Commonwealth countries in general (I'm in Canada) had a convenient pathway into Europe by way of EU-era UK.

I've lived in several countries at this point, and no, it's not just an administrative task of completing paperwork. Immigration is hard. Do it wrong, and you might find yourself in Rwanda, for example.

And maybe don't call people 'wetwipes' on HN? If you want to hurl insults, well: All the web is yours, except HN. Attempt no landing there.