Earl Aelfheah

I suspect that everyone is buying a little more (as we're stuck at home, we're all probably eating more at home too) and that this is mixed with a significant minority who are properly panic buying / stockpiling. I have spoken to people I know who have admitted to buying things they don't even need or want, just because they were panicking. I suspect there will be a significant spike in food waste over the coming weeks, which is really depressing.

spider69 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My daughter's partner went to Tesco , Surrey Quays > this morning, queues round the block. Does it > never stop. Left and went to a small Sainsburys at > Canada water at least 100 people waiting for it to > open. Where are people keeping all this stuff? Surely they must be running out of space?

seenbeen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Profiteering is illegal in the UK > https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-pro > fiteers-face-prosecution-watchdog-warns-8z7kk2x8f Someone should tell Amazon's algorithms

Yeah, exercise equipment out of stock everywhere and prices going through the roof. Generally Amazon's algorithms are designed to profiteer in a crisis I notice. Surprised they're not getting more heat over this. If a traditional store massively marked up the prices of certain items in this situation they would be heavily criticised I suppose this is an advantage of not having a human make your pricing policy in the moment.

Just yesterday the PM said kids could go to the playground as long as they were asked to keep 2 metres from other children. Just a few weeks ago, he was on TV boasting about how he had been shaking the hands of Covid-19 patients. The messages from the very top have been extremely confused.

I went for an early morning cycle before coming back home to work today. Not sure whether this is a good idea, but assumed I would not come into contact with anyone. I was surprised going through Burgess park how many people were there and many of them not keeping a distance. I suspect we'll get a total lock down soon.

It's so, so depressing. This isn't a small minority of people. I thought better of my local community.

Anything the council can do to stop people creating food shortages through selfish hoarding would be welcome.

Charles Notice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My wife has just returned from Sainsbury's the > shop is stripped bare on all fronts. > > She is not prone to bigging things up she said it > was surreal. > > One point if the shelves are bare how are the home > deliveries being met, or do they get preference? > > This cannot go on. Rationing must be applied to > DKH. People are out of control managers are of no > use. Anyone obviously hoarding (buying loads of toilet roll etc) should be asked to leave the store. It's absolutely pathetic, selfish and immoral.

Everyone should be staying home. The government need to order pubs and restaurants to close so they can clean insurance. This is not being treated anywhere near seriously enough. The whole response has been too little and too slow

It's so depressing how people immediately resort to 'every man for himself' stockpiling BS. Some people would walk over their own granny just to get a packet of toilet roll (seriously, what is it about the toilet roll?). Everyone, please calm the fook down and stop selfishly hoarding.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Looks like The U.K. got out of Europe at the right > time. > > Free Movement now very restricted in many > countries.. What does this mean exactly?

I think it's more a case of 'we tried containment and it failed'.

Please can people stop stockpiling bog roll. I'm genuinely running low now and shelves are empty.

The 'herd immunity' strategy could kill around half a million people from what I understand.

Mind you, in some ways Coronavirus does provide Boris with a potential out. He may decide to extend the negotiations due to the 'exceptional circumstaces'. Assuming that he isn't as stupid as he looks and does actually want to reduce the amount of disruption and economic damage a no deal exit would cause.

A decision about whether or not to extend talks will be needed by June. The way things have gone so far (no real progress) suggests that without and extension, there will not be enough time to negotiate a comprehensive trade deal. All those people stockpiling, may as well get used to it imo. Come January there is going to be a lot of disruption.

It's difficult to have a serious conversation about the trade talks, as from what I can tell, there aren't any really. The UK appears to have rowed back from our commitments in the political declaration and are now pursuing a no deal, or at best a few small side deals. I'm not sure why Boris is doing this, but doesn't bode well from January next year. we may just be coming out of a coronavirus induced economic slump, only to impose economic sanctions on ourselves. It's all too crazy.

Shivering swan1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I often pick and take a few daffodils when I can, > as it saves a few quid compared to buying them. > Anyone who has a problem with this can jog on- no > one owns plants that grow freely and you can do as > you wish, including taking them. poor trolling effort.

Quickly, buy toilet roll!!!!!!

exdulwicher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Rockets Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Are the council allowed to do reinvest money > > raised from that to other services - I thought > > they were, by law, only allowed to spend money > > raised from parking charges back on road > > infrastructure? > > Yes and no. All income from parking charges and > penalties has to be invested locally rather than > going to central government or becoming a profit. > Doesn't say it has to be invested in roads. I wasn't aware of this- Interesting. In these times of reduced budgets for councils, that does somewhat incentive more charges.

The loo roll thing is weird. When the food runs out, what good is ?200 worth of bog paper?

mockingbird Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > welcome to our privileged healthy streets ghetto It's a shame they have focussed on the Village, which is already a a bit of a privileged bubble in terms of SE London. May have been better received if they had started with ED or Peckham, both of which have much bigger populations and higher pollution levels.

paulipedia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Every time I've been to the car arks they've been > empty. Going well then... My general observation is that whilst the car park is empty, the park is not. This suggests that more people are walking to the park.

slarti b Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > rahrahrah > Following up on the public transport issue I have > been looking at the TFL web site. They use a > measure called Public Transport Access Level or > PTAL,to assess areas access to public transport > rating them on a scale of 1(worst) to 6(best). > Most of the streets in central Dulwich, the areas > affected by this proposal, are rated 2, which > confirms my view about the poor access to public > transport. That's interesting. I'm not particularly surprised that we rank poorly on public transport.