Zebedee Tring

Very good e-dealer

Oh, a new CHAIN cinema is coming in order to wreck LL. We would be so much better without ANY cinema in LL at all.

Numbers, I hope that you can now agree with Poker Time and myself that the STATUTORY (as opposed to voluntary) Council house sales policy was actually introduced by a Tory government, not a Labour one. There was no Labour Government between 1951 and 1964 and then between 1979 and 1997. However, I am not letting the most recent Labour Government off the hook for failing to introduce a massive public sector house building programme - they had thirteen years to do so.

Numbers, I don't know how old you were in the early 1980s, but your grasp of recent political history is somewhat shaky. Here are the Prime Ministers since 1970: 1970-74 Heath 1974-6 Wilson 1976-9 Callaghan 1979-90 Thatcher 1990-97 Major 1997-2007 Blair 2007-10 Brown 2010 to date Cameron. I think that you will find that in the early 1980s Thatcher was PM. Unless you are suggesting that she was a Labour PM ....

Poker Time has confirmed what I said above in my earlier post. Right to Buy was very much a flagship Tory policy designed to woo Labour voting Council tenants - this was very successful in places such as Basildon and Harlow, hence the "Essex Man" stereotype (I say this as an Essex Man myself).

On a point of information Right to Buy was introduced under the Housing Act 1980 and was one of the early measures of the first Thatcher government (I remember this period very well, I was working for Lewisham Council who were very opposed to the policy). The Blair/Brown governments, however, made the very big mistake of continuing the Tory government RTB policy without instigating a major public sector housing building programme.

David McWilliams is a very versatile man. I remember very well his classic song "The Days Of Pearly Spencer" from the time that I left school.

Oh get you, e-dealer! (said in high camp voice).

People who insist on referring to their young children as their "little ones".

Yes, KK, I was suggesting that the EDF Law is a variation of Godwin's Law which indeed relates to Nazis. If that's what you're getting at by saying "Nazis"

That variation of Godwin's Law, i.e. the EDF Law, applies yet again, namely "As an EDF online discussion grows longer, the probability of a argument involving class warfare approaches 1" .​

Beauval Road - four bedroom house on offer for ?1,175,000. Unbelievable a few years ago, though if a Frogley Road house is potentially worth c. ?900,000, this would not be excessive. Crazy, however, for people trying to get into, or move up the property ladder.

I think that the Melbourne Grove practice is starting to look up. I have had two recent consultations with their new GP Dr Love which have been excellent and have also had a blood test at the surgery instead of having to wait for one at Dulwich Hospital. I have also had dealings with two new helpful and friendly receptionists, and they now have a new online appointment booking system. These improvements may be down to the relatively new Practice Manager Sonia Hall who used to be a Nurse Practitioner there.

People who enter into an amicable separation but then have to make themselves sound special by describing it as a "conscious uncoupling". And people who call their children "Apple" - what's wrong with naming them after another old record label such as Chess, Brunswick or Regal-Zonaphone?

As the noticeably undisabled John Terry did in the only disabled parking space outside Pizza Express in Esher.

Baby language like cozzie, Brooky, sarny, Uni, pressy. When the hell did this start? Is it an import from Australia, like upward inflection at the end of the sentence?

People who say "No problem", "no probs" or "no worries" the whole time even when there IS a bloody great problem that you've brought to their attention..

So called left/liberal celebs who are bloody hypocrites. E.g. Bono complaining that governments aren't spend more money on aid and then salting his dosh away in a tax haven. Er, Bono ... where do you governments get the money in the first place? Also Trudie Styler, environmental campaigner, flying to a party by private jet with personal hairdresser etc from New York to Washington and accusing people who criticised her of "class envy". For the benefit of doubt, I consider myself to be left of centre.

Unlurked, some of us praise JB when he deserves praise and criticise him when he deserves criticism. Unlike you, we aren't prejudiced against him just because we don't support the Lib Dems.

Self-service check-outs at shops and staff of those shops who are too gullible (or stupid) to realise that those bloody machines are very likely to deprive them of their jobs. If a staff member asks me whether I want to use one of the machines, I say "Will you give me a 10% discount if I use it? If not, I want some service from a human being."

I remember reading about a ticket inspector asking a woman to move her bags from an adjacent seat. When she refused, he said that she would then have to buy another ticket for her bags. That sorted her pronto!

We already have Godwin's Law", namely that as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1. Perhaps there should be an EDF Class Law providing that as an EDF discussion grows longer, the probability of an argument about class approaches 1.

Kids cycling at great speed on pavements on their two wheel kiddicycles, nearly knocking me over while their parents are jabbering away on their mobiles, totally oblivious to what their "little ones" are doing. Parents talking on their phones on buses/trains, ignoring their toddlers who, not surprisingly, are bawling at the top of their voices.

I agree that JB deserves full credit for what he does in this case. And like jonsuissy I'm not a Lib Dem supporter - certainly not after the last few years of their craven submission to Osborne's economic policies.

Perhaps Waitrose or M&S will take over the store (irony alert).