Jeremy

It needs more radical action that signing petitions. A demonstration may attract some media attention, but I'm still not sure what it would ultimately achieve. Some kind of sit-in/blockade? On a more practical level... someone could arrange a taxi pool?

Yes.

James - it is closer to one train per hour. 8:33, 9:34, 9:53, 10:53 from Peckham Rye. Aside from the extreme inconvenience, you simply can't fit the current number of passengers into a quarter of the trains!

It's really disgusting. TBH the service should just be free of charge until they've reinstated the normal timetable.

Pretty much what Loz said. Appreciate SLad's position too, but if the landlord has a mortgage then this is not really a tax on earnings, it's a tax on costs. Yes of course the property is appreciating, and repayments are (probably) being made, but that is unrealised profit. In terms of cashflow, many landlords will find their properties no longer sustainable, so will either have to sell or increase the rent. So while it's rather disingenuous for landlords to dress it up as concern for the tenants.. it does seem likely that tenants will suffer as a result.

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's so unacceptable, and yet we accept it. What can we do? We are relatively powerless. Other than refuse to pay for the service, and storm the gates at LB en masse.

bobbsy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Reasonable comment that electric cars are the > future so no avoiding them. I do have a particular > gripe with them though - they are pollution movers > not reducers. You'd have to assume that the electricity comes from a combination of fossil fuel, nuclear and renewables. And that this balance is likely to tip away from fossil fuels in the future. Also natural gas is cleaner than oil/petrol. You also need to consider efficiency of the vehicles themselves (regenerative braking, etc)

I'm in a similar position to lordship, and concur with his final sentence - "It would be a great injustice to EU citizens if their status was to be held any less than this". Actually I'd say it's almost unthinkable...

Like I say, I am making assumptions. That EU citizens settled here for any length of time are not going to get booted out. That EU residents are not going to be subject to arbitrary immigration rules, more stringent than current non-EU rules. I'm not denying that there is a lot of uncertainty, and things are going to get complicated and difficult for many.

Yep, I don't have a crystal ball. But I am assuming that EU citizens would - in the worst case scenario - be subject to our current rules for non-EU citizens. I don't think that's wildly speculative... others may disagree.

A description - even fairly vague - becomes pretty meaningful when combined with location/time. Especially if they approached/hassled other people. It's about finding witnesses... not about calling the cops on every lad with dreadlocks in SE London.

WM - I'm sure he could stay here (if he wanted) via a "family of a settled person" visa.

WorkingMummy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > you would be painfully aware that without your EU citizenship, you can't follow your > co-parent (with your children) and keep your family together. This sounds rather over-the-top to me. If you want to stay in the UK, can't your husband/partner apply for Permanent Residence? Or if you want to live in your partner's country of origin, what would stop you going on a spouse visa? Yes most of us would prefer the freedom to live and work in any EU country, but that doesn't mean that families are suddenly going to be forcibly separated.

People really shouldn't be penalised for a car they bought before the rules were announced. That's the way it works for road tax. As for electric cars, UG... they are the future so no point fighting against it, but I agree the lack of noise is a concern. It's partly about education (not relying on your ears), but also warning sounds are becoming mandatory in some markets. And a few years down the line, collision avoidance systems will be the norm.

Rumour has it that the Trio site will be taken over by The Pedler team (unsure if this is as well as, or instead of their Queens Rd site).

Abe_froeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On the Southern Twitter feed there is a suggestion > that you can claim delay repay against the normal > timetable so it might be worth putting in two > claims every day. Could be worth doing. I once made a claim, and received some kind of voucher - which I never used (I get a monthly oyster travel card, and it wasn't obvious if they could be used as part payment). But just read that you can exchange them for cash at the ticket office.

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We've always got English Sparkling Wine RPC There's some good stuff, but a) it's quite expensive and b) without EU workers they won't have anyone to pick the bloody grapes.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Give the girl a break, she was 17! Exactly this. I have more respect for someone who was self-centred at 17, but developed more rounded views as they matured.. than I would for a sixth-form socialist who turned Tory once they started earning in the top tax bracket. [ I still find CC annoying, but that's beside the point here ]

I used to commute from ED to E Croydon by car. It was well over ten years ago, so things have probably changed. But I'd go along Kirkdale, Lawrie Park Rd, Thicket Rd, Auckland Rd, Whitehorse Lane, Whitehorse Rd, then park at Fairfield Halls. 20-25 mins. Is it possible to do a trial run one morning? On the handful of occasions I used public transport (so I could have a beer after work), the trains back were erratic and infrequent. I soon decided that the pubs in Croydon weren't worth the hassle!

Surely they have to be stripped of the franchise now. This is outrageous!

New timetables are here: http://www.southernrailway.com/your-journey/revised-timetable But I think you need to compile several together to get the ED/PR to LB service, so hard to make out what the new frequency will be.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Full article here, if you're interested Arguments either way... I don't think a laissez-faire approach to employment law is conclusive evidence of racism, but yes I agree it does sound very dodgy and undesirable.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't like his politics or campaigning but ... > I'm not sure being anti-European immigration technically counts as racism. Same here, as much as I dislike him, I don't find his position inherently racist (although some campaign material might be). Foolish, wrong, and divisive, but not necessarily racist. Of course we all know that plenty of people voted out for racist or xenophobic reasons (consciously or unconsciously), but it would be foolish to label half the country as small-minded bigots.

Sometimes intolerance can be laudable.

I was going to suggest Thailand too (as LN says, lovely hotels and amazing food), and can be combined with Laos or Vietnam, for instance.