Earl Aelfheah

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.

Abe_froeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > how much money have the council spaffed up the > wall consulting on whether or not Melbourne Grove > should become a gated community? A good question!

The Melbourne Grove thing is a bit iffy. I actually think there may be a good case for closure as part of an area wide plan, but that's not really what's happened. Pressure was put on the council by a small number of people to close 'their' street, which disgracefully, the council responded to with their usual knee jerk approach. After a bit of consultation and some fairly strong opposition locally, they decided to pause it. They've now tagged it on to the Dulwich Village scheme in a way that feels a bit opportunistic, again with no reference to a wider East Dulwich area strategy. As such, I suspect there will be unintended consequences.

Perhaps coronavirus related hoarding / stockpiling? It'll be a Lidl soon enough I'd guess.

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Corbyn unequivocally supports Hamas Except he doesn't.

Really good news imo