Listen sweetheart, Londoners for most of their history were happy to walk around and travel on the tube and buses late at night in a great international city like London.
As it has been pointed out by a previous writer there are many shiftworkers who help to keep the capital going and droves of people coming home after a night out in the West End.
For many decades London was a safe city compared with other major cities but the massive incompetence of the New Labour government and an enormous increase in crime where gangs roam and a knife and gun culture have become a “normal” have certainly made many people think twice about hanging about at night.

The station in the Anorak photo is Tooting Broadway on the Northern line(my neck of the woods) and for most of its history that part of south London was a pleasant working class area and although the occasional street fight or pub brawl could be witnessed it was nothing compared to the aggression and serious crime around London today.

The political”elite” if Jacqui Smith is an example are out-of-touch with the real reality on the streets and their of lack of morals,humility and sheer bloody arrogance is everywhere to be seen.Laurel and Hardy couldn’t make the mess that Nu Labour having been making week after week and the sooner the Brits get these shameless morons OUT of power and bring in people with real intelligence and savvy the better.

London is a truly great international city and any citizen should be able to walk around whenever they want; If there is a clear risk today, then the finger and blame can only be pointed in one direction…………….the British government.They have failed right-down-the-line and that includes the Northern line.

Balham, Tooting Bec, ……………and Tooting Broadway.Mind the gap on the station but don’t ignore the gap between Jacqui Smith’s ears !

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I found that remark to be most revealing about the dingbats that we have running the country - they have not a clue about what normal people have to do.

Jacqui - What about shiftworkers etc? How do you think think some of them get around the capital in the early hours? Not everyone has a police bodyguard and a ministerial car.