Earl Aelfheah

Just a moan. Why is it that so many people are incapable of parking without hitting the car behind. You are not meant to nudge the car and then roll forward a bit. This is not a legitimate parking technique. I can't keep replacing my number plate.

DuncanW Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Go Pedler!! > > > http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/battersea-po > wer-station-bans-big-chains-from-9billion-village- > a3205611.html Great news for Pedler.

Thought this was an interesting reading of the budget: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/17/geoge-osborne-budget-planning-early-election-economic-strategy-scheming

The further attacks on those with disabilities are pretty awful. I agree that some of the other stuff you mention MicMac is positive (except capital gains, where I disagree). But in the contact of less help for those with serious disabilities I think any 'give aways' are difficult to justify.

The cut in capital gains tax (excluding property) is a bit of a give away to wealthy investors. Seems naughty when at the same time cutting disability benefit. I'm supportive of a sugar tax, although like all flat taxes it's regressive (and it'll be unpopular amongst his own back benchers).

...Heber Arms has been closed for over 20 years.

The Hope is an entirely new pub. John the Unicorn was not previously a licenced premises either - so there's two new pubs. Hops, Burns & Black - is a beer shop rather than pub, but also entirely new. Then there is the Flying Pig which was previously an italian resturant, now much more of a pub with food. There is also peckham Springs, Four Quaters, the Nines and I'm sure many others.

A few have new pubs have opened recently - at least in Peckham. Lou / Foxy, please do this. I would definitely visit.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > rahrahrah Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > two new tax allowances for landlords. > > Not found any info on this - all I could find was > related to increased stamp duty. Could you > elabroate? ... Actually, this is my mistake. it's in fact a tax break for those renting out there house (as in airbnb). http://linkis.com/www.standard.co.uk/n/mXKdz

... a gold mine

especially when you ban anyone with children, anyone who has been in the area for less than 30 years, anyone who seems to have disposable income and anyone who reads the Guardian.

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What if the proud Englishman is left-handed? I suspect he would struggle on using the cutlery in the proper fashion and a stiff upper lip.

A sugar tax. Kind of surprised by this. Going to be used to fund a longer school day (and all schools to become academies). Better start stock piling kit kats.

So far.. reduction to corporation tax, cuts to disability budget, two new tax allowances for landlords. Growth forecasts slashed. Apparently the 1% paying 28% of income tax and this is a sign that we're all in it together (rather than a sign that inequality is running away unchecked).

Sorry, I didn't actually read much of this thread and think I may have missed your point Bob.

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I can't understand why anyone would pay ?12 for a > bog-standard 'curry' on Lordship Lane - when you > can cook something much more interesting and nicer > at home for a quarter of the price, but people do. > Beats me. Seriously! Because I have young children, a stressful job and I don't get enough sleep. Sometimes it's nice not to have to cook.

The truth is that the whole of London has gone completely loco. ED is nice enough and Penge probably is too (I don't know it that well). But these aren't notably beautiful, exciting, or remarkable places. The fact that small terraced houses sell for huge amounts of money here is absurd and deep down we all know it. I suspect that a lot of the naval gazing about what's 'great', or otherwise about our local areas, is the result of the inevitable dissonance caused by spending ridiculous sums to live in fairly unexceptional places. It's an attempt at rationalising what in many ways is an irrational situation.

Rosie's is very nice.

That's articles just a very long winded truism - people shouldn't behave badly. No sheet.

Who the hell decided this was a good use of council time and money?

This made me chuckle http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/right-wing-dad-fails-to-see-irony-of-top-gear-cenotaph-stunt-20160315107152 "Estate agent and father-of-two Hobbs felt that American Matt LeBlanc driving near the Cenotaph was ?a step too far?, despite loving it when Clarkson went to foreign countries in big cars and antagonised them as much as legally possible.....?I blame that American ? when celebrities travel they should take time to learn about local culture and history before attempting to make so-called ?jokes? that could hurt people?s feelings.? Hobbs, who laughed like a drain when Top Gear pissed off Mexicans, Romanians and Argentinians, added: ?This kind of crass, insensitive stunt is not funny and panders to utter morons. That LeBlanc is just a cocky millionaire posing as a maverick outsider.?

Probably the most 'shocking' thing about this, is that such programmes still have an audience.

They drove down Whitehall that's all. Yes, they were driving like Tw8ts but apparently that's what people who watch Top Gear get exctited about. The fact that they passed a war memorial doesn't seem like reason to get upset to me. It wasn't as though the cenotaph was the focus of the 'stunt', it was incidental. There is so much more about this incident which is in bad taste. For example, the more general issue of making an 'entertainment' programme that glorifies hooning it round the streets of London doing donuts.

Crawley looks lovely in that picture. Peckham's a funny one. Everyone moans about how it's becoming so gentrified, but frankly, if Rye Lane is a symbol of gentrification, you have to wonder what people consider 'run down'.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Fuss about nothing... two American presenters were > driving round London and creating a racket for a > TV show. They'd probably never even heard of the > Cenotaph. Apologies have been made and the footage > won't get used. End of. Agreed. I don't see what the fuss is about. They drove a car through central London. That said, it's a tedious show. People who obsess about their car seem weird to me.