Zebedee Tring

Since Iceland is a celebrated workers co-operative, "working class community asset" is a good description of its USP.

BrandNewGuy, that photo that you posted looks like the one that appeared in The Grauniad, captioned "Lord George Brown resigns from Labour Party". The Grauniad was criticised at the time for publishing this; however, it was the only way that the paper could indicate that he had resigned from the Labour Party while totally pissed without provoking a libel writ.

Con, you are presumably a member of the younger generation. However, old gits like me, who were at school and university in the 60s, remember Brown so well, because there was always a good chance that when he appeared on TV he would be pissed out of his mind or would be photographed looking down women's cleavages - this was at a time when he was Foreign Secretary. Indeed he nearly became Leader of the Labour Party and potential PM (gawd help us!)

I'd rather have more estate agents - there should be at least 28 of them in LL. They are the most selfless members of the community and do more for the good of mankind (and womankind) than all the hardware shops and hospitals put together.

Confirmation that the ED restaurant has also closed: http://www.mybigfatgreekdulwich.co.uk/

Is this wishful thinking on your part? I for one wouldn't be unhappy if this happened.

Tell us more. Or would it upset those of a nervous disposition?

Surely any cinema, whether it was run by Cineworld or the East Dulwich Revolutionary Middle Class Sandal Wearing Workers Co-operative, would be a local asset. Better than yet another shop selling overpriced gifts and trinkets.

I agree completely with Otta. Enough already.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that this thread was about The Patch and not a debate about the merits/demerits of vegetarianism and meat eating.

You clearly haven't had to wait for a bus outside London, in particular in country areas where the info on bus shelters is almost non-existent (and this includes parts of Surrey just outside London). The info that TfL provide at bus stops is excellent by comparison, even when there isn't a countdown.

How about people waiting until the place fully opens, then trying the food (if you can afford it) before criticising it or praising it? If the place is too expensive and the food isn't much good, then the whole venture is bound to fail. But please wait and see ...

If Iceland closed, we would all miss the opportunity of buying their authentic Deep Pan Doner Kebab Pizzas. Italian food doesn't get much better than that - who needs M&S and Waitrose? http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/iceland-deep-pan-doner-kebab-pizza-432g/p/50772

Come on, please don't exaggerate. I started reading the Grauniad when I was a student - in c. 1969 - and still read it now. I became an OAP this week.

What I really want to know is whether M&S intend to open a branch in Ambridge. It would almost certainly put the village shop out of business.

Can't you two just agree to differ and then end the thread, since nothing that either of you say will persuade the other person that you are right? I speak as someone who is very much opposed to cycling on the pavement.

James, I stand to be corrected since until the late 70s I was a North Londoner. However, I thought that East Brixton was the old high level Brixton Station on the much missed South London Line between London Bridge and Victoria. It was the station between Denmark Hill and Clapham (now called Clapham High Street). I was suggesting that the reopened/rebuilt station would be served by the ELL (Phase 2), i.e. part of the Overground.

Someone may have already mentioned this on this thread, but they could reopen/rebuild as an Overground station the former East Brixton Station on the old South London Line from London Victoria to London Bridge. This could serve as an interchange station with Brixton Victoria Line Station and Brixton South Eastern Station.

Well said, Yuuna. This shows us that some people on this MB can put their point of view politely and without being abusive.

Stevie, you certainly aren't the only person in Dulwich who wants M&S.

We've just received the Register of Electors 2013/4 form from Southwark. One of the boxes is headed as follows: "Nationality As shown on your assport". I've never heard the word "assport" before. Is it some kind of sex aid? Perhaps someone more worldly than me could enlighten us.

Personally I would welcome M&S (and indeed Waitrose) into ED. However, the application was unsuccessful not because of the identity of the applicant but because of the planning issues. Would M&S be prepared to move into a store that was not refurbished to the same extent as that proposed in the unsuccessful planning application? That would stand a better chance of being accepted by Southwark. However, would such a scaled down development be economically viable as far as M&S is concerned?

I'm not a Lib Dem supporter (at least not after their recent performance in the Tory led government, especially their support of the bedroom tax). And I don't agree by any means with everything that James says. However, he does a bloody good job coming on to this MB and attempting to communicate with other posters on matters that concern them. Sometimes it must feel like going into the lions' den. I couldn't blame James if he stopped posting on the MB. Personally I wouldn't put myself forward to receive more criticism than I would normally receive as a local councillor.

Lady D, I don't accept that you rubbished my argument, although clearly you think you did; however, you disagreed with it in an insulting way. You need to learn how to debate with people in a reasonable and civilised way without resorting to abusing either them or their arguments. For the record, my argument was that you can't choose which laws to obey and which laws to disobey. Quite a reasonable argument, with which one is perfectly free to disagree, but at the same time it's not a rubbish argument.

Sillywoman, I don't think that Godwin's Law applies, because fish is satirising the kind of line that some cyclists (I hasten to add a small minority) take on such issues. The word "Nazi" is being used ironically. If a cyclist (or indeed anyone else) actually used the word in all seriousness, then it would be a case of Godwin's Law.