Earl Aelfheah

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.

I quite like P.O.P - their stuff is really good quality, although also on the pricey side.

It is an awful name. I think the stock is pretty uninspiring too, tbh. Have shopped there a few times in the past though out of convenience. Shame Soup Dragon was kicked out by their landlord - especially as the property has remained empty ever since.

They're not shutting their ED store are they? I like Il Mirto.

I thought a solarium was just another name for a tanning salon.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > El Pibe Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > *ahem* > > I read that in the first series, the "blue meth" > was made from sugar, and supplied by a local > confectioner. After the show finished, she > continued to make it, bagging it up and selling it > as memorabilia. I'm now sure that would stand up in court.

Even on a Saturday, you can get parked in East Dulwich if you're willing to walk 10 minutes. If you're not able to, then there are disabled bays.

Train to London Bridge also late and then held outside London Bridge.

Without proper enforcement, it's all just more pointless street clutter.

James Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So why is this line so much worse than others? Has > it been cursed by black magic? To be fair, services into London Bridge are screwed and the East London line has been extremely unreliable too. It's almost as though the regular above inflation fare hikes and huge public subsidies are being used to generate dividends for shareholders, rather than to provide a public service.

Thanks for this, I have responded. Really fed up with the rubbish (and worsening) public transport in SE London.

ed_pete Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Simon Carter do very nice cufflinks and they have > a shop in Crystal Palace. agree, I have some Simon Carter ones

Trio has finally opened on Bellenden Road.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I personally prefer Tesco to Sainsburys because they > don't pretend to be anything other than a big > supermarket. What / how does Sainsburys pretend not to be a supermarket?

Henry_17 - what I meant was that it's not as simple as implied, when someone says - 'build more houses, it's just supply and demand'. That implies that the only solutions are supply side ones and also that there is an easily reached point of finite demand (there is at some point, but we're not dealing simply with a domestic 'homes' market). The fact is that the huge increases in property prices are not only the result of increased population. Policies have been implemented which have been aimed at increasing prices by encouraging speculation. I don't think it's at all likely (or necessarily desirable) that we will be able to build the number of properties necessary to satisfy the latent demand in the international, property speculation market - certainly not to the extent where it would make a significant impact on affordability for the average low paid worker in London. It is also true that there are different models of supply. There is a big difference between the building of 1 bedroom luxury flats and the creation of good quality, socially rented properties, or secure, long term rental contracts in the private sector. So I would invest in the 'right kind' of supply, and pursue policies which target the 'wrong kind' of demand. Use the taxation system to discourage people building up huge property portfolios and restrict the number of overseas speculators. So yes, I guess I misspoke, but what I was getting at is building 'luxury flats' everywhere, whilst selling off social housing, ignoring 'affordable housing' quotas and marketing new builds in Singapore and Malaysia is unlikely to help the barista who was mentioned.

I can't believe how much people spend on cufflinks. I loose mine too regularly to want to spend that much. Agree with what's been said though. Keep them fairly simply.

I think it's fair enough using a forum like this to recruit participants. How's it lazy? Also, DaveR 's question is a fair one. It is just a question after all. This is a forum - people converse innit.

... the pooled tears of hundreds of late commuters perhaps?