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gwod Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > People on Landells sometimes get into Dulwich > Village Infants ...and they will be having a bulge > in 2012 Don't you have to be (or pretend to be) practicing Christian?

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I got home this afternoon and chilled to Sabres Of > Paradise's Haunted Dancehall. Not played it ages. > Still sounds blooming marvellous. Bravo! Great album

chewing gum is a much bigger problem in my book. Oh, and dog sh*t. That really get's my goat, and let me assure you, I clear up after my goat.

Private School, public school, charity, or profitable private business - the same principle ought to apply... Show respect to local residents, don't block the highway and don't leave your engine running uneccessarily.

I agree about the number of pedestrian crossings on Lordship Lane (there needs to be at least one more). It can be very difficult to cross.

If one is going to bother differentiating between a shallow end and a deep end - then there should be a proper difference. There seems little point in having a shallow end and a shallower end.

Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > However, my suggestion of a part tax payer funded NHS > supplemented by local fund raising efforts would > mean that the quality of the local hospital would > depend upon the quality of local support. The reality of this model would be poor hospitals in poor areas.

No one is suggesting that King's is going to be run on charitable donations. Marmora Man has pointed out that such a model of health care did exist in the past and (at least as I read his comments), seems to suggest that it is a feasible model for health care for the present. I disagree.

Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A tax funded, universal health care system has to > be preferable to one that relies on philantrophy. > > > RahRah - why is this so? I gave you some facts - > you have made an assertion but given no reasons. I gave my opinion, which is kind of the point of a forum. A hospital that is run on charitable donations is one that will find it very hard to plan, will be even more constrained by the whims of fashionable causes and will have to direct huge amounts of resource courting wealthy, potential donors. I find it very hard to believe that you would truelly like to see hospitals dependent on donations. The fact that hospitals were run on this basis for a long time, may be a fact, but isn't that relevant. It doesn't prove that the model is superior (in fact it suggests progress).

Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just a point of historical fact. Hospitals in this > country have, for the vast part of their > existence, relied upon charity and voluntary > support. Barts was established in the 13th century > as a religious charitable institution, many other > similar hospitals followed in subsequent > centuries. The biggest nationalisation ever was > the "creation" of the NHS which took over > previously charitable and municipal funded > establishments in 1948. > > So for just over 60 years we've had a tax funded > (NOT government funded) health service against > several hundred years of charity funding. The fact that hospitals were run as charities for a large part of their history is not really that relevant. A tax funded, universal health care system has to be preferable to one that relies on philantrophy. I am surprised that so many are OK with King's approaching recently treated patients for money (assuming that this is what is happening, as portrayed in this thread).

The NHS is not a charity. I do not want to see it become one. It is a public service, which should be funded properly by the government. Police don't ask for donations after attending to the victims of crim. Neither do firemen after putting outa blaze. The NHS should lobby government for funds, not individual patients.

well they may not, but as a society we have to make the decision whether or not to make funding for healthcare a priority for politicians seeking election. The NHS is a shared resource and we should all contribute to it through a fair taxation system. I still don't think it is appropriate to ask patients for contributions.

What makes a yellow house 'funky'?

I completely disagree with, what seems to be the general view ,that this is appropriate. If the Hospital does not have sufficient funding then it should appeal to government for more money. The NHS should be funded through a fair and progressive taxation system, for the benefit of everyone. It should not have to rely on charity, nor should it be approaching patients for donations, in my opinion.

Sounds like the part bus option might be best. Cheers.

I just fancied starting the day with a bit of a jog, but it's too far to go the whole way. Thought I might be able to jog to a station and then catch the train for the last bit.

Does anyone know the nearest train station to ED which has trains running directly into Waterloo East?

I saw a cat. It was sat on a mat, eating a rat. Fancy that!

.... I agree that the current incarnation of the Vale is pretty poor. But a Wetherspoons? Stereforth - Don't muddle up JDW with an old skool boozer. They are about the blandest of the corporate chain pubs around (which you seem to rightly IMO, disaprove of).

ED has a nice collection of independents. The incursion of sh*testuff, Nero's and now a large and prominent Wetherspoons erodes some of the character of the place in my opinion. Some people may like these places - fair enough. But personally I don't.

How about installing chicanes? Or having a police person pulling over dangerous drivers?

So where there are a greater number, of brighter street lights being installed, should there not be consultation with people living in those streets?

Hi James, So where new street lights have been installed, there are fewer than before?

ED is very safe compared to much of London, as James' stats bear out. In fact it's pretty safe compared to lot's of places outside London.

Thanks for your suggestions. I'm surprised someone hasn't thought of opening one in Dulwich - I'm sure it would be successful.