Has London completely failed as a place for people to live?

[DodgyAgent]

Remind me how many billions of loans the other sixty million of us have to pay in taxes to save this money making wonder?

You mean like this lot?

RBS collapse: timeline | Business | theguardian.com

[scooterscot]

You mean like this lot?

RBS collapse: timeline | Business | theguardian.com

The crime was in the city, the name means nothing.

[Dallas]

The crime was in the city, the name means nothing.

'Nor does the home of half the board and CEO godammit '

you just keep telling yourself ......

[DodgyAgent]

The crime was in the city, the name means nothing.

Was it? The banks head office was in Edinburgh and the MD was a scot from funnily enough Scotland.

All the good stuff came from London whereas the bad stuff came from a scot from Scotland

[tomtomagain]

Looking at the reports on the beeb something is fishy.

There's definitely a lot more to come out.

Why, if the women were rescued in October, do we only hear about it now?

Why did it take so long to extract them after they first contacted the charity? ( surely the police could have gone straight round and overpowered the 70-year-old kidnappers without too much difficulty)

And why aren't we given any details on who held them?

[minestrone]

Oh and tell me again you do not think this sort of thing is going on in Glasgow or any other city?

I tell you it is.

Sadly Glasgow does have cases of child abduction and sexual slavery as well...

[xoggoth]

All this wonderful diversity does not help to create caring neighbourhoods. We still have it in little villages like mine fortunately.

[mudskipper]

All this wonderful diversity does not help to create caring neighbourhoods. We still have it in little villages like mine fortunately.

Neighbour been looking after your nicotine needs again?

[xoggoth]

She has man! Damn it I really fancy a fag now!

[scooterscot]

tip of the iceberg

The more and more I read about this story the more is saddens. How can it be possible in such a populated city that not even the neighbours respond to letters over a 8 year period asking for help? What kind of society is this?

London slavery case: Suspects linked to 13 addresses

Police said the 30-year-old woman, who is believed to have lived her entire life in servitude, had a birth certificate but no other official papers.

She is alleged to have written more than 200 impassioned letters and poems to her neighbour over an eight-year period

In one of the letters, she said she felt like a "fly trapped in a spider's web" and described her "unspeakable torment"

BBC News - London slavery case: Suspects 'former Maoist activists'