Earl Aelfheah

we all pay our taxes in, a few get to take profits out. It's an backwards kind of redistribution.

DaveR Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Anybody who wants to know what T May's political > philosophy is likely to be should read this: > > http://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2016 > /03/nick-timothy-what-does-the-conservative-party- > offer-a-working-class-kid-from-brixton-birmingham- > bolton-or-bradford.html > > Although he's billed as 'former chief of staff' > he's very much back in the fold, and was credited > with writing her first speech as PM. anyone who thinks the Tory party is the party of the working class is unfortunately, very misguided.

Depressing.

@danielson00 -I thought that response was fair enough. It isn't under the Mayors control

Bovine Juice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The new timetable starts from after the August > bank holiday weekend, so basically September. > It's table 195 of the complete timetable here: > http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/3828.aspx and > yes, that means more trains for West Dulwich and > Sydenham Hill too. Not sure why Southeastern are > finally doing it now when they are due to lose the > franchise to TFL in 2018 but it's welcome news for > us Pengites. I can't work this out, could you summarise? Are we getting more trains?

Jeez, bloomin' boomers.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jul/14/housing-sales-forecast-to-fall-sharply-this-summer-after-brexit-vote

If we had better public transport, you might see fewer people keeping cars. Long term that's the best solution to 'parking stress'.... That, and trying to keep things in perspective

Turkey is not going to join the EU anytime soon, for exactly this (and many other) reasons. Don't believe everything Give and Boris tell you.

Seriously, Ruislip Lido https://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/ruisliplido

I'm appalled by Alexander de Pfeffel Johnson's appointment. He has a career marked by repeated dishonestly and incompetence. He is one of the most self serving and unprincipled politician of recent times. A man like him has no place on the front bench. I've seen a lot of people talking about the inevitable gaff to come and giving him enough rope to hang himself etc... but really, what makes people think with his history that anything he does can really damage him now? He's our very own Berlusconi.

There is a lady on my street who does this every time she parks. I can only assume it's deliberate. Perhaps she doesn't like anyone parking near her, I dunno. Very annoying though.

Basically, we need the tube, or a tube type rail service for SE London, which isn't in conflict with high value Kent / Surrey commuters requirements - as exists across the rest of the capital.

Fundamentally, there is a conflict between the needs of an efficient suburban railway service, designed to move people into the city from outside London quickly, over a longer distance (meaning fewer, but regular trains which don't make too many stops) and an inner London metro service, moving high numbers of people short distances (which requires lot's of stops within a relatively small area with high frequency).

Ruislip Lido has a sandy beach.

If they cancel the last remaining train which is still timetabled to run every hour they'll have 100% reliability.

That's true Jeremy, but the current problems are far broader than what's happening at London Bridge and are in no small part down to management failures.

It would be great if it were to come under TFL. The sooner the better.

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > red devil Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > So we'll have a PM that hasn't been elected > either > > by the Tory membership or the country as a > whole. > > Brilliant!... > > It's called 'taking back control' Unlike when Brown took over from Blair, we have not just a new PM, but effectively a completely new manifesto. We're also about to oversee the biggest changes to our constitution, legal system and all manner of associated regulations, than at any single time in our history. All of this to be undertaken by an unelected PM. Way to take back control / regain sovereignty.

It's crazy, the bus is all good and well, but in rush hour it's barely quicker than walking into town. Not really good enough.

red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So we'll have a PM that hasn't been elected either > by the Tory membership or the country as a whole. > Brilliant!... It's called 'taking back control'

Fair point, but I guess it will take some time for any changes to the train service to feed through into house prices.

Lowlander Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > None of these options apart from the bus should > take more than 40 minutes 40 minutes to get to Shaftesbury Avenue sound pretty optimistic to me. More likely an hour.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The way it's going with Southern trains more > people will be selling up and moving north of > London to get a reliable and regular commuting > home for London. > > Louisa. I dunno, the poor transport in ED is already factored in / the reason it's not more expensive. If there were a tube, the prices would be more like those in SW London. Although it's expensive here, it's still 'relatively' cheap for zone 2.

I rarely use the train as I'm aware how poor the service is, but I was still surprised to find that there is only 1 train an hour now. Surely they must be in breach of contract? Why do they still have the franchise?