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The food at the Plough must have vastly improved since I last ate there. It was absolutely appalling.

I have voted for some green potential councillors in local elections, but how to vote in a national election is a different kettle of fish, as there are more far-reaching consequences 😪

Probably a better bet would be to make a complaint to Royal Mail centrally, and copy it to Helen Hayes to add to her mass of evidence? I can't see complaining to Peckham making any difference, as it seems to be seriously badly managed, but you could try.

I don't know about that, but they used to do a really tasty and reasonably priced veggie sausage and mash with gravy. The last time we had it, the sausages were small and dry and practically inedible, and the menu had completely changed. Apparently there is a new chef. Who uses a different supplier for the sausages. Don't think we will be eating there again. It was suggested at one time that what became The Cherry Tree would be a good place for a Wetherspoons. I can't now remember whether Wetherspoons actually put in a bid for it, but anyway if they did it obviously didn't happen. Shame! I like Wetherspoonses 😀 Good range of ale at a cheap price 😀 Though they are usually in interesting old buildings, and the previous incarnation of The Cherry Tree, whose name I can't remember, certainly wasn't that 🤣

You could try offering it on Freecycle for spares?

Yes, I've just read that - screenshot attached. I feel very let down by her. I left the Labour Party after Starmer's treatment of Jeremy Corbyn, but I think Helen Hayes has always been an excellent constituency MP, although she was never a supporter of Corbyn. I don't know how to vote now. I suppose Green.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/15/commons-gaza-vote-labour-defy-starmer-ceasefire-israel?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Yep - I was just about to post the same. I had been intending to write to her.

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We were at the march. All we saw was peaceful and friendly. Everyone, at least around us, seemed to be there to call for an immediate cease fire. There were chants against Netanyahu, Sunak and Starmer, all unsurprising and all deserved, in my opinion. However there appeared to be a real failure of communication on the part of the police. Having joined the march at Park Lane, we eventually got to Vauxhall Bridge to find it had been closed off. There were a large number of police there, but none of them seemed to be doing anything, and nor were they advising people to turn back or directing them in any particular direction. In any case some of the side roads were closed off by police We heard variously (not from the police) that the bridge closure was due to too many people on the other side of the bridge (what had they expected, FFS) and/or due to anticipated problems with a large group of right wing thugs who were approaching on that side. Anyway, whatever was the reason, nobody (police nor stewards) was telling people coming down Vauxhall Bridge Road towards the bridge that the bridge was closed. So there were still large crowds of people approaching quite fast, with nowhere to go. We thought that this situation could become quite dangerous, so we decided to call it a day and just to head back towards Victoria. When we came to a group of police at the Victoria end of Vauxhall Bridge Road, I asked why nobody was telling people that the bridge was closed and directing them elsewhere to avoid a massive build up at the entrance to the bridge. Unbelievably, they did not know that the bridge had been closed 😮 So they then took steps to find out what was happening - at the other end of the road they were on 😮

There's a Best Western hotel in Peckham.

I can second this recommendation. https://www.trooneyheating.co.uk/about

That's cheeky 😮

I was on the second march, with my partner and adult daughter. On the way back, just near Trafalgar Square, sopping wet and looking for somewhere to eat, I was shoved hard with an open umbrella by a woman who shouted at me and called me a cretin and a murderer 🙄

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Interesting, but a bit like TrustPilot, people are probably more likely to bother to leave a review if they've had a terrible experience than if they've had a good one?

Oh dear, poor dog. Has his home been traced?