Uploaded December 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
FLASH MOB: Funny Santacon in London, 2018
Crowds of Santa take over Trafalgar square to celebrate upcoming Christmas in London.
They sing It's coming home, It's coming home, Christmas coming home!
And appeal Brexit invocation:
- What do we want?
- Christmas!
- When do we wanna?
- NOW!
Filmed 8th December 2018
FLASH MOB: Funny Santacon in London, 2018
Crowds of Santa take over Trafalgar square to celebrate upcoming Christmas in London.
They sing It's coming home, It's coming home, Christmas coming home!
And appeal Brexit invocation:
- What do we want?
- Christmas!
- When do we wanna?
- NOW!
Filmed 8th December 2018

![GREAT BRITAIN: BIRMINGHAM (England, UK)
GREAT BRITAIN: BIRMINGHAM (England, UK)
Birmingham is the second-most populous city in the United Kingdom, after London, and the most populous city in the English Midlands. With an estimated population of 1,137,100 as of 2017, Birmingham is the cultural, social, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands.
It is the main centre of the West Midlands conurbation, which is the third most populated urban area in the United Kingdom, with a population in 2011 of 2,440,986.
A market town in the medieval period, Birmingham grew in the 18th-century Midlands Enlightenment and subsequent Industrial Revolution, which saw advances in science, technology, and economic development, producing a series of innovations that laid many of the foundations of modern industrial society. By 1791 it was being hailed as the first manufacturing town in the world. Birminghams distinctive economic profile, with thousands of small workshops practising a wide variety of specialised and highly skilled trades, encouraged exceptional levels of creativity and innovation and provided an economic base for prosperity that was to last into the final quarter of the 20th century. The Watt steam engine was invented in Birmingham.
The resulting high level of social mobility also fostered a culture of political radicalism which, under leaders from Thomas Attwood to Joseph Chamberlain, was to give it a political influence unparalleled in Britain outside London, and a pivotal role in the development of British democracy. From the summer of 1940 to the spring of 1943, Birmingham was bombed heavily by the German Luftwaffe in what is known as the Birmingham Blitz. The damage done to the citys infrastructure, in addition to a deliberate policy of demolition and new building by planners, led to extensive urban regeneration in subsequent decades.
Birminghams economy is now dominated by the service sector. The city is a major international commercial centre, ranked as a gamma+ world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network; and an important transport, retail, events and conference hub. Its metropolitan economy is the second largest in the United Kingdom with a GDP of $121.1bn (2014), and its six universities make it the largest centre of higher education in the country outside London. Birminghams major cultural institutions – the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the Library of Birmingham and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts – enjoy international reputations, and the city has vibrant and influential grassroots art, music, literary and culinary scenes. Birmingham is the fourth-most visited city in the UK by foreign visitors.
People from Birmingham are called Brummies, a term derived from the citys nickname of Brum, which originates from the citys old name, Brummagem, which in turn is thought to have derived from Bromwich-ham. The Brummie accent and dialect are particularly distinctive.
Би́рмингем — город в Великобритании, выделенный в отдельный район со статусом «сити», в центре церемониального и метропольного графства Уэст-Мидлендс.
Город является центром региона Западный Мидленд и вторым по населению городом Великобритании после Лондона, с населением в 1 085 810 человек на 2011 год.
Первое упоминание о поселении на месте Бирмингема относится к 1166 году. С XIII века город получил известность своими ярмарками.
К XVI веку Бирмингем становится крупным центром изготовления металлических изделий, производства стрелкового оружия и ювелирного дела. А уже к XVIII веку город становится ядром промышленности Великобритании и его население возрастает до 70 тысяч человек, с 15 тысяч в XVII веке[6]. Известные на весь мир учёные и инженеры Уильям Мёрдок, Мэттью Болтон, Джеймс Уатт, Джозеф Пристли и Джон Баскервилл жили и работали в Бирмингеме.
Во время Английской буржуазной революции XVII века Бирмингем поддерживал парламент. В 1830 году в городе возникла буржуазная организация (т.н. Бирмингемский политический союз), сыгравшая важную роль в борьбе за парламентскую реформу 1832 года. В 1839 году в Бирмингеме заседал чартистский конвент. В июле 1839 года буржуазия Бирмингема спровоцировала столкновения рабочих с полицией и войсками.
С начала XX века в городе происходит быстрый рост военных заводов. В годы Второй мировой войны Бирмингем подвергся значительным разрушениям в результате налётов немецкой авиации.
В современных границах со времени административной реформы 1974 года, в ходе которой город-графство Бирмингем был преобразован в район метропольного графства, тогда же дополнительно к нему был присоединен город Саттон Колдфилд. GREAT BRITAIN: BIRMINGHAM (England, UK)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/D1RGejQIoS8/mqdefault.jpg)








