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That's not the problem Jeremy, they don't want to build them because they wouldn't make a profit on building flats on that budget in that footprint with current land prices.....

Foooking FA

hellosailor Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ???? Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Not all of us with kids are as worried about > > schools been run as businesses, shock horror, > with > > results and reward etc how dare they eh? Just > > feels like a wave of leftish establishment > > propoganda against anything that threatens the > > status quo they had until new labour sensibly > > began to reform our then failing state > education > > sector. > > yeah I guess it works out ok for the bright kids > who don't get expelled for bringing the overall > results down. Tough shit if you're not academic I > guess. You can leave school and work in a shop. what like the great record that inner city schools have had in academic performance and social mobility since they went comprehensive and when they were under central LA control???? Tough shit if you lived in the inner city and your parents couldn't send you to private school or cheat the system* *hello Labour MPS.. waves.

you don't have to be that old to remember when Hoxton was an absolute sh1thole - and Bethnal Green even younger

I think many of their sites are excellent, and at one stage, before the ROW moved on their bitter's stood out (in London)....but I do tend to agree with DCs assessment on the whole. Still some great pubs in terms of history/structure

My missus is from Cornwall... she says for 3-4 months a year it's absolutely glorious for 9-8 months a year your thoughts turn to heroin or suicide

Not all of us with kids are as worried about schools been run as businesses, shock horror, with results and reward etc how dare they eh? Just feels like a wave of leftish establishment propoganda against anything that threatens the status quo they had until new labour sensibly began to reform our then failing state education sector.

The Olde Bell is another cracker

Cheshire cheese and the. Jerusalem Tavern both in walking distance

I was going to start a thread on 'regional development', as people are so naive about it just like it can heppen and it's the role if govt? The state buggers this up already. Just one example. National collective bargining for Public Sector workers means that private companies find it nearly impossible to compete in salary/benefits (and traditionally security) terms in further out regions for many skilled jobs (IT for eg) and skilled workers as their cost is higher - this relativelty matters a lot for Private Compnaies looking at costs. The same is true when the BBC moves a whole bunch of skilled,fairly high paid, too, ooh say Salford, it sucks skilled worklers out of the private workforce and makes it harder (read more expensive for private companies) to recruit and retain staff so they go where there's more availibility....guess where that is. This maens you get regions increasingly relian on PS jobs and Private investment increasingly going elsewhere. We need salaries etc to reflect the location not the job in the PS - London teachers should get significantly more (if they do a good job) than a counterpart in Newcastle. PS unions will NEVER let this happen However, I'd happily like to see govt. give LAs more power (rather than handouts) and let them be 'entreprenuerial' at job creation/wealth creation/inward investment etc.....some of them are gonna hang themselves with that rope though..

which is why I said 'as much as anything else' Green belt restrictions artificially inflate the land prices in all of London. If planning laws were relaxed a bit and Local Councils were less Nimby about it we could increase family housing in easy commute distance and reduce land price/house price inflation further in.....

The market would sort it out - planning laws are what are stopping family homes been built in areas where they are needed as much as anything else.

Does their lunch still extend to three and is there Tirasimu still for tea?

Damn, my kids find this the most exciting thing in SE22 when we drive past it.....come to think of it so do I.

I've noticed a few more north Londoners rather than claphamites recently. I think it's seen as a bit hipper (marginally) - especially 'cos of the Peckham/Belleneden thing - than Management Consultant/KMPG accountant land Clapham. By it I mean SE22/SE15 (right bits)

Yesterday, Man city Champions 1.76, semi hedged by Chelsea win at City 3.76

Unless you're in the big city bonus rich plus, huge numbers of people are thinking 'it's now or never'...and I don't just mean first time buyers, I mean everyone in the chain...people wanting to move from a flat to a house, people wanting a bigger house etc.....i work with a load of pretty well (but not extravagantly) paid 30 somethings, at lunch they are practically all on the phone talking to estate agents/solicitors/vendors...it's really noticeably accelerated since christmas even

Hedge, hedge, hedge.....oops

Nope. Saw john otway upstairs at the EDT, mad as a box of frogs

No i don't I just like some choice as a parent...or a user of anything. So if defending choice is a political agenda then i have a political agenda.

People aren,t querying it per se, the teachers unions, and the left wing establishmenta re querying it....as they do anything that challenges the status quo, a status quo that many of us believe has been failing for years...and not just in education.

West ham are a bigger team than palace and stoke in terms of resources, support and heritage ( academy or not), we should be aspiring to more than them. BFS can,t even attract decent players to us, his tactics are one dimensional he,s made a hash of transfers with a pretty good budget, he's been rude about our support....where do we start on what a failure he,s been for long term progress for west ham, especially this season. A lucky play off victory, thanks Sam now fuck off. I still think we,ll be lucky to stay up this season.

Well said. The entrenched won,t have change, which is ironic as i expect to a man and woman they'd say they have 'progressive' political views......

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Shit stirring? No. I don't get it? Maybe. I might > have remembered incorrectly but the anti BFS WH > fans seemed to prefer the option of relegation to > keeping him. If I'm wrong, sorry. I don't want WH > to go down regardless of who is in charge. AM, come on, don,t be so logical. Football should be a game of passion, when we lose I hate it and I think the reason we are where we are falls squarely on BFS' shoulders. Do I want us to go down really? No, of course not. A small consolation if we did is that he,d (hopefully) go and I really hope ( against expectation) that he'd go if we stay up. You want logic...follow chess or something.

Impressive first half by us one trick ponies