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Lister deal with their patients and they take the money. It's a disgraceful siphoning off of taxpayer funds into private hands, with not enough public gain. Crony capitalism in practice.

Nothing will be done. DMC continue to take huge amounts of public money, to generate generous private profits - whilst supplying a terrible service. And they're held up as exemplars of best practice and sent on junkets with the PM. The future of healthcare.

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willwaters Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would love to understand how these surgeries > operate - how can it be so bad? Why is it allowed > to be? Does anyone (as I heard) profit directly > despite the appalling service provided. yes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063458/Family-doctors-firm-raking-1-8m-YEAR--patients-say-surgery-appalling.html

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I thought we were agreeing. What happened?

Agreed. The patronising consumption of liquids makes my want to puke... In a plastic bag, which I then hurl into the street... of course. Not a bin, like some lefty, pinko, fascist from The seventh circle of Clapham.

OMG!!! I just re-read your post Louisa, I missed the bit about having a baby...In a pram! A PRAM! Lazy, entitled, bloody 1 year olds. Fecking poshos, with their babies and DRINKS! I bet they do their poos in a TOILET! Probably even flush their decadent, bourgeois stools. Bastards.

Drink holding bastards.

Holding a coffee in public is unarguably disgraceful. I am with you there 100%. No one in their right mind would suggest that dumping a bag o shit in the street is on the same level as brazen drink holding.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Are they turning it back into a Pub. > > DulwichFox 😀

As long as it's open again for the summer.

...except for Louisa of course.

Does the letter of the law really matter? I mean even if it is legal to drop a bag of sh*t in road (I have no idea), would anyone really contend that it's OK to do it?

Louisa, you really do enjoy being contrary for the sake of it. You can't justify someone dumping a bag of sh*t in the street. The fact that it's bagged hardly makes it OK. The OP said that they would have confronted the individual but didn't have the opportunity to intervene. It's not always possible.

Wondering what people think about this: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/myleene-klass-sends-scathing-response-to-mum-asking-for-parents-to-club-together-for-daughters-kindle-10026456.htm

No, I'm saying they will revert to pre-upgrade frequency and no more. Which when you take into account the steep increase in passenger numbers, amounts to a real terms cut.

It's so frickin archane. Why can't we have a secure login / online voting system? The idea of going to a polling station and then making a cross on a bit of paper with a pencil just seems so in efficient. Manning all those polling stations, gathering the bits of paper - counting them etc. etc. Surely in this day and age there are better ways to do this. It's no wonder so many young people don't bother. Never mind the politicians themselves, just the process seems out of touch with modern life.

@James Barber - there is currently a huge development site around Camberwell Green (from Camberwell Road, through to Camberwell new road), covering several acres. There is also the recently developed Tesco site and the Walworth Bus Garage. Why did Southwark not work with TFL / the Mayors office to consolidate the site and sell it off as a single development site? They could then have made the provision of moneys for either a Thameslink station or Bakerloo line extension a condition of planning permission via a planning gain/section 106 order?

What annoys me is after years of delays and inconvenience all we get in this part of town is resumption of the service as it was 10 or so years ago (when passenger numbers were significantly lower). So effectively the reward for our patience is a real term cut in services. Perfect.

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... which we already pay for and are woefully under-represented on.

If we want to improve the inner London train service, it has to be done at the point that franchises are renewed / awarded. There is always a bun fight between inner London areas, which would like to see more frequency - and outer London / out of London commuters who want fast trains that don't make too many stops. The train operators themselves support the latter group, because that's were most of the money is. They comply with the minimum standards as mandated in their franchise agreements and no more. If there are short term decisions to be made about which of the two suffer as the result of delays and capacity problems, and where they have more 'wiggle room' invariably it is the inner London services that feel the pain. If we want to change this, then we need as many sections of London rail as possible to be taken over by Transport for London / transferred to the overground network. In the longer term, the best solution is to get a dedicated, high frequency, London focussed service (aka 'the tube).

We need the tube extended into SE London. The suburban train services are run for the benefit of high fare paying kent season ticket holders. At the first sign of disruption or delay its inner london services that get cut.

I saw him on Sunday.