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This is wrong. Labour increased the top rate from 40% to 50% in their last months in office (far too late IMHO) and Osborne then cut the rate to 45%, since they were so concerned about the tax "burden" on multi-millionaires. If it had not been for the Lib Dems, they would have probably cut it back to 40%. This is not to defend the Lib Dems' role in the coalition since they allowed many bad things to happen, in particular the so-called "reform" of the NHS.

Phil, I endorse what you say, especially about the founding members weekend.

Negative posts? See Keston Kid and Shaila for example.

Anyone got anything else to moan about re the cinema? It would be uncharacteristic of the EDF for nobody else to register a complaint. Let's just be pleased that ED has a nice new asset.

This thread is supposed to be about the cinema, not about house prices. Why, whenever something positive happens in ED, are there always people who knock it? The subject of the LLW was debated at length in an earlier thread. Can we now give it a rest.

Have just got back from seeing the first film. The cinema looks great.

It looks like they will be using only one of the auditoria this weekend, as they are showing only one film at a time.

"I drink your milkshake" - wonderfully over the top. An entire website was devoted to it.

If Louisa hadn't harped on endlessly about blow ins and class, then she might have been more acceptable. But her broken record technique became very tedious.

Thanks, Administrator. But why allow Louisa to continue in The Lounge? She may well make blow in/class comments there as well.

This constant "blow in" accusation by Louisa (and certain others) has become extremely tedious.

Did you offer him your milkshake?

Wot, Foxy? I thought you'd been in ED for about 80 years. Why not another 20 years? It would be worth hanging on for that long in order to tell us that we were wrong.

In the words of the late Eddie Cochran "C'mon Everybody". Illegitimi non carborundum (not actually another Eddie Cochran song). You have four and a half hours to email Southwark.

How long have the cinemas in Brixton, Clapham and Greenwich been open (all PictureHouse cinemas)? 20/30 years? If so, why should the ED cinema close in one year, since it will cater for a similar audience?

Enough of all these foreign restaurants. What about some luvverly old style boozers and greasy spoon caffs to bring back some old working class solidarity to LL? When I was a lad in the 1950s you could enjoy a slap up fish and chip supper and ten pints of brown ale for tuppence ha'penny followed by a good punch up in North Cross Road and a painful bit of dentistry without anaesthetics performed by that lovable geezer Mad Frankie Fraser. He was cruel but fair. Those were the days. No curry or taramasalata anywhere, but we were happy.

I've lived in Sarf London for 35 years and in ED for nearly 30 years. But I made the major and unforgivable mistake of spending my first 30 years in North East London. Heaven forfend!

The patronising nonsense issuing forth from Safer Routes For Schools (no doubt penned by Lorry Driver) is wondrous to behold. As if none of us gave a damn about the safety of children. How dare they!

If the likes of DSRS are so concerned about the welfare of the kids going to school, the likely increase of car fumes called by the Chelsea Tractors caught up in a traffic jam at the junction won't actually do wonders for their health - nor indeed the health of older pedestrians in the area, but they don't matter as far as Lorry Driver and her DSRS chums.

The DSRS woman (Lorry Driver?) was exceedingly patronising and addressed us as if we were a collection of "challenged" eight year olds - or indeed 90 year olds suffering from dementia. I was tempted to ask her if she was so worried about the safety of the children on their way to school what she personally was going to do about all the bloody coaches and Chelsea Tractors bringing the kids to school. But several other people who were annoyed by her tone got in first and I left it to them. I hope that I'm wrong but I await with interest to see how Southwark will handle the fall out after the scheme proves to be a massive cock up.

Perhaps it's time to remind those Labour members of the DCC that a General Election takes place in a few weeks time and that their party is desperate for every vote within the "affected area"

That is way OTT, worldwiser. You're totally distorting what I said. We will just have to differ on this. There's no point in continuing this discussion.

It's the tone of the email that I find patronising. Possibly not as patronising as the previous email when they "blamed" Santa Claus for the fact that they missed their Xmas deadline! If you're happy with that style of email, fine, but personally I think that it's an example of the tone of so much communication these days.

It would be better if PictureHouse refrained from sending us such patronising emails and stopped addressing us as if we were children. They should treat us as adults and just tell us why there is a further delay.

Bawdy nan, if you yourself don't know what the best option is, why are you tarring people who have genuine concerns about Southwark's favoured option with the Taxpayers Alliance brush? What's wrong with preferring a cheaper but satisfactory option to a very expensive and totally unsatisfactory option? As far as I am aware, nobody is suggesting that NO money at all should be spent on a solution.