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I get that you can't park within a certain distance of a crossing, but due to the way this area is recessed, parking there does not in anyway obscure sight lines down the road. Seems pretty arbitrary to me.

I'm not sure what your point is. It seems to be 'everyone's at it', but perhaps I've missed something.

Just received the governments 'vote to stay' leaflet. Whilst I think it's pretty rum that they've sunk taxpayers money into promoting only one side of the arguenent, I have to admit it's a pretty decent bit of propaganda.

Paying a cabbie, a shop keeper, or a builder in cash is not tax avoidance. Cash is a legitimate form of payment, it's for the seller to ensure they declare their income, the onus is not on the purchaser. To think everyone is on the fiddle, exaggerating their expense claims, or taking up every offer to 'reduce their tax liability' that's put before them, is simply not true.

Yeah, i totally agree Jeremy and I don't see any reason why they shouldn't coexist. like I say, it seems pretty intolerant of whoever wrote the 'protest'.

I agree totally about sentencing, it has to take account of circumstances, but there should be the option of very serious penalties available to judges. I think the key change is bigger than just knifes though, it's about how we bring up boys.

I agree

I had understood that Cameron had purchased shares in Blairmore himself as opposed to inheriting them, but perhaps I have misunderstood this?

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On the John The Unicorn this morning. > > 'F**k Yuppies' as a tag > > Someone isn't happy. That's a shame. I actually visited 'the Unicorn' for the first time last week and it was OK (probably a bit young for me). It did have a (slightly) mixed crowd in there, although admittedly far more white and middle class than would be reflective of the wider area. It isn't as though Rye Lane is full of 'yuppie bars' though, far from it, so seems like a somewhat intolerant response to me.

On the wider issue, the UK is very much complicit in helping people obscure the source of their income and in avoiding tax - which means in many cases aiding gangsters and despots, (as well as those who simply want to reduce their contribution to the societies in which they operate and profit). As I?ve said previously the current government has started to address some of this, but they could, and probably now will I?m sure, do more. If nothing else, such an outcome would make the whole furore worthwhile in my book. On the specific issue of the Prime Minister - Someone asked what Cameron has actually done wrong. He?s been hypocritical and evasive, and shown very poor judgement. That?s it. I don?t suppose he?ll resign over it, but if I were him I would be taking real measures to ensure there is action on tackling tax avoidance and the secrecy which goes hand in hand with routing money through off shore shell companies and the like.

H,B&B have an SE22 postcode (or at least they do according to their website). But they're definitely right on the border with Peckham.

Quorn Road is free parking and usually has lot's of space, or you may be able to park on St Francis Road.

I agree. I think it's positive that the local police are trying to reach out to the wider community.

There are loads of different ways you could carve it up, but I am with Louisa on just using the postcodes - SE21 (Dulwich Village / West Dulwich); SE22 (East Dulwich); SE15 (Pecknam). Simple. I notice Hops, Burns and Black sometimes identify as being in Peckham which is interesting.

I'm not sure that tougher and tougher sentences are the whole answer (although they may be part of it). I think there are definitely big issues around male identity, the macho cultures in which boys and young men are brought up and the violence that some children unfortunately experience at home from a young age. I've seen boys who are actively encouraged to appear 'tough', to challenge and always hold their ground and to generally be aggressive, by parents who think that this is what being a man is about. It can breed a climate of fear for teenage boys who are terrified of losing face, of being seen as weak. I dunno, just my observations, i could be way off the mark. It is incredibly sad when this stuff happens though.

Also, there are plenty of other media outlets running with the story

It's kind of irrelevant to the discussion about Cameron though.

One of them is in the journalism business.

So that makes both OK? What's your point?

If Corbyn had been found to have shares in an offshore company I suspect many of those claiming it's not a story would be screaming from the lampposts for his head (so would I btw). Stop being dogmatically partisan, it's self evidently a legitimate story.

The fact is that Cameron rallied against tax avoidance. He called it immoral and he called for transparency in people's tax affairs whilst being rather evasive about his own. He has been hoist by his own petard.

You're right Loz. It does take a couple of readings though. That said I disagree with it still. There are plenty of pro Cameron voters who will have been dismayed by his handling of the situation.

Btw, I don't really think the story is about what Cameron's father did. It's the fact that he hasn't been upfront about the interests he had in Blairmore, he didn't declare them and he was extremely evasive when asked about them. Put in the context of his public moralising over such schemes and personal criticism of others with similar interests and I think he has fairly opened himself to accusations of hypocrisy.

The idea that we should aspire to a more equal society is not 'the politics of envy'. Many affluent people and many on the right as well as the left will share that vision. If you want a society that is productive, cohesive, secure and successful, you do need to ensure that levels of inequality don't get out of control. Tony Benn came from an extremely privileged background, but believed in social democracy.

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