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My place but not sure if you want to come. Otherwise get to the Blythe Hill Tavern early, the best pub in the known universe, and it will tick all the boxes. 185 bus from LL

Wow some political debate. Something I have missed as we used to have great discussions on the Lounge about Brexit, international, and domestic politics. I expect that this is something that has moved away from local social media websites (and invaded some neighbourhood WhatsApp groups~). So we all are experts! Well here are some thoughts. I expect that immigration and incompetence/rule breaking were the reasons that many defected to Reform. I'm not sure how much Reform played the woke card that Labour will "want to control us and not allow us to drive what we want, where we want, how we want, when we want and/or charge us for the privilege and imprison us only allowing us to journey for a 15 minute walk" Starmer did mention drivers in his Downing street speech, please let that mean professional drivers rather than the motorists as a whole. I really don't know why he had to mention it in any case. His campaign seemed relatively quiet on environmental issues. Hopefully the Green MPS and some protest vote to Greens in safe Labour seats will push him on this. I will continue to push our MP on this. Why Labour were a few percent short of expected votes I'm sure we will hear more on. Was it the apathetic stay at homes, shy Tories or Sunak doom mongering about a super majority and bringing out the big guns? Starmer's personal appeal wouldn't help. As for the single issue of restrictions on motoring - it is fair to say that Sunak's line on ending the war on motorists, and his plan for motorists had bugger all impact. Hooray. Even scare stories about a national ULEZ failed to land home. Noting that government was ordered to sort out air quality by the Supreme Court in 2015 and has legal commitments to reduce carbon and meet net zero. So in this respect it is correct to say that the masses were not influenced by any pro motorist message from political parties.

They stopped brewing in 2006 and their pubs became a pub chain. Some like the DW and Clock were sold on. The wonderful Youngs' estate of 2006 bears no semblance to the pubs of today. The beers is brewed under license by a multinational brewery. So pretty awful in all directions.

Thought it closed down years ago when Young's ceased brewing. Or perhaps just became a shadow of its former self. It was a proper local and certainly not a sports bar. Sister pub, the Dulwich Woodhouse, ditto

Southwark did some good work maybe ten years ago improving the drainage on the football pitch to the left as you look towards central London. Both the Rye and Dulwich Park would be standing water for several weeks around the football training areas in late winter, geology and precipitation rather than any incompetence.

I enjoyed the first version more. Going slightly off thread I've cycled twice through the village around 8.30 the morning and it is empty, it feels too early for the private schools to have broken up. It is like 70 years ago.

Please don't excuse, or make facetious comments, about vehicles hitting pedestrian railings close to a school. The suggestion that it was only a large vehicle 'clipping' the gates is ridiculous. Something has collided with them. The railings I expect are to stop pedestrians crossing the road, rather than protect them from bad drivers

In deed. It scores well on Google. If it is "too expensive" people will stop using it, as consumers have choice.

Great to hear, hopefully there will be a switch in policy at the top following Sunak's pro-car position. There is free cycle training for all in Southwark so your partner, and hopefully you, will be interested. https://www.southwark.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/sustainable-travel/training/free-cycling-lessons Herne Hill Velodrome to lessons for children https://www.hernehillvelodrome.com/kids And kids can get BMX training at Brockwell Park. https://www.brixtonbmx.co.uk/coaching-and-racing/

I drink Darjeeling loose leaf, don't buy the expensive stuff. It's light and I contaminate it with soya milk. Purists drink it black. It doesn't work in a bag, as the leaves need to be large. I worked with a gent who was a tea taster in a family firm in Newcastle, and chatting to him - Sainsburys Taste the Difference is fine he told me but M&S was better. If you want a stronger tea go for Assam Clipper as others said will work well - can't drink it any more as the tannin gets me. I'd put a link on M&S but oddly don't get any direct hits on Google, perhaps I am profiled as a Lidl shopper (proud to be!)

Occasionally single issue candidates are elected, Martin Bell being the main example. I think there was someone who got in, in a recent election, opposing the closure of a local hospital. This time we have had a number of single issue MPs, those opposing the war in Palestine, and five MPs who are in a party who don't like foreigners. That is not a facetious comment. As for the odd person above, they should have campaigned against all controls against motorists, LTNs only captures measures since COVID, local authorities have been closing roads, making them one way, charging for parking etc for at least the last fifty years. Not that it would have made the slightest difference.

Heavens, is the system broken or what?

I thought that I had the award for being puritanical about titles of threads. But l've now handed it to you. 10,000s of people have died in Palestine, ok to debate UK position but not taken the P

Not representative of the country as a whole. Fun thing to do!

Go with your gut feel, We did.

I expect there will plenty of fun videos in the early hours.

With all his data gathering is he rich enough to spend £30k on a judicial review? I'm surprised with some of the depth of feeling on this website he hasn't asked others to join him. It keeps on reminding me of the Prisoner, the 1960s series where the name of the person running the show was not known "who is number 1". Pity with all this dedication to a cause he hasn't put this towards something that I would find more worthy.

Just to remind you the general election is tomorrow, Thursday. You will need to bring ID unless you have made your vote by post. Please make an effort to vote, it's an important part of our democracy irrespective of the flaws of our system

There may well be numerous empty seats with people on holiday, and the club is notorious for season. Ticket holders not turning up Vs lower teams on inconvenient days/times. Ideally there should be a way of passing these on at face value or below but I expect many are resold through 'legal' tout sites. Sorry not exactly helpful. Advice is retitle the thread with exact requirements to hopefully target the right people. I'll ask around.

Did I miss Iron Maiden at Glastonbury on the Beeb too? Had to turn it off as got too much....

30 years ago I'd see a fox every so often it would be a little unusual, now several a day and 5 or ten times as many. Urban foxes live longer than their country counterparts and smaller territories due to more plentyful food. Wish they'd eat more squirrels and parakeets!

I've been thinking of my right to reply. I try to avoid personal comments. On this occasion the reference to Admin comes across as "I will tell teacher of you". Rather than a grown up discussion. Scroll to the sixth paragraph if you want to read my salient point rather than me going on and on. Much of what is posted on this part of the forum is due to issues over LTNs, ULEZ, CPZs and other means to reduce vehicles. I am general support. Others of course will differ in their opinion. Smarter driving is relevant to the whole congestion discussion. As the London population increases and road space decreases we need to consider the use of our motor vehicles differently. Do I need to make this journey, are there better alternatives in terms of the environment? Could I share that journey with others? On line shopping vs in store, and on the former do we buy too much to then return? Cycling is relevant as for many this provides a good alternative, particularly for shorter journeys. I'm not a fair weather cyclists, but understand that many do not want to cycle in the cold and wet, so of course there are limitations. Much has been done to make cycling safer. I'd love universal secure street parking with CCTV when I am out and about but that isn't going to happen soon Roads are clearer on a Monday and Friday as many more work at home. There is less congestion over school holidays as less people driving their kids to school, and perhaps more taking time off work. I believe we need to focus on reducing demand, and will continue to lobby my politicians to do this. But driving is a habit that can be hard to break. It provides convenience for many, but is this always to the wider good? Softer measures and nudge have limited effects and we all know of people who hate public transport no matter how good we make it. You appear to be of the view that it is reducing road space, and inconveniencing drivers, that is the issue, and this spills into vitriol about cyclists and Southwark Council . [The 6th paragaph!] I've made my points numerous times over the years. I've worked in transport for a decade or more so passionate about much of what I post about. You have similarly posted numerous times with your arguments, where you feel very strongly. I expect that many people are bored of our posts. I'll now take a break from this and similar threads. There is plenty that worries me in the world, Putin, Trump, climate change, so I will focus my attentions on this. I posted what I thought was Will Noman's Twitter feed, which when I looked earlier was full of positive views. As I am not sure whether I posted this, rather than some discussion that I know nothing about, I have deleted it.

Not at all interesting. London has always been congested, certainly since Victorian times. More fool the many motorists who continue to drive when they don't need to, refuse to have more than one in the car etc. Fortunately for many journeys cycling is a quicker alternative. It's a shame that many only post on 'bad news' stories. I enjoyed Will Norman's Twitter feed as it was full of good stories.

It's about perspective and proportionality. I expect more people are injured each year due to horses on our roads or cattle. But there isn't some campaign to ban them. So cycling on pavements is antisocial and can cause harm. Yes, I am sure that more can be done. And perhaps more should be done. But it doesn't deserve this level of vociferous reaction from a small number of people on this thread. Cycling has many many benefits. The more cyclists on the road, the less car journeys. As with everything there are downsides, but the benefits far outweigh these.

Love and earlier comment about people living in 2 - 3 million pound houses and having access to great state education, well I moved into the locality when Lordship Lane was described as Poorship Lane, not so long ago. I was doing some work at a school in Downham, the assend of Lewisham (sorry Downham!) with high levels of social housing, Fantastic school so please don't equate cost of housing with the quality of state education. Both Charter and Kingsdale are next to some relatively poor areas, ditto Dog Kennel Hill.