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Despite wasting millions of pounds annually on purely cosmetic and unnecessary road "improvements", some bean counting jobsworth at Southwark Council has had the brilliant idea of saving a few pounds by no longer funding the magnificent display of flowers which has graced the DP entrance here and has given so much pleasure for many,many years. Can our elected councillors not save us from such miserable parsimony?

I understand from the grape vine that DE and the leaseholders had reached agreement to redevelop the site to provide flats (yes, including affordable) and a supermarket (Waitrose/Aldi??) but Southwark jobsworth planners have blocked it as they insist of a "Community Pub", despite the fact that no other pub operator would look at this site, and pubs are closing wholesale every where. God save us from the cretins who control us.

Huge tail backs due to road works at West Dulwich station. Avoid at all costs.

The absurd and punitive levels of stamp duty have killed the market.

This must be a spoof. Silly season.

you mustn't say "bastards" these days as it offends those born out of wedlock and is very un-PC. I put "lunatics running the asylum" on this forum and was given a wigging as it offends real lunatics. Beware the soppy PC bunch!

Kford is very naughty. I also used the word "scum" in the Hither Green thread and was severely admonished as only unpleasant people used that word about the criminal classes. We must realise that they are really only vulnerable gentle human beings who inadvertently chose a valid alternative lifestyle as their father had shouted at them and Ma made them eat their hated greens.None of their illegal activities are, in fact, their fault but forced upon them by the unfairness of Society. We are all therefore to blame blah blah....

Not worth a reply. Missed the point totally. Pathetic.

Does the ever so PC rendelharris not think that if we ranters and the public outrage that followed not occurred that the lethargic wheels of justice would have got around to releasing our Hero so quickly?? A similar incident in Catford last December when a violent drunken intruder was killed, strangely attracted little public attention or outcry and the brave householder was hauled up to face a murder charge months later at doubtless huge public expense, before being summarily acquitted by the jury.

Let's just accept that the Law is an Ass, and the lunatics are running the asylum.

Yes Dave R, let's just lock the old chap up for a few weeks as he's obviously a danger to the burglar community, whilst the ever so politically correct CPS fiddle around deciding if this psychopathic pensioner should be charged.

Perhaps these proselytising bleeding hearts might feel a little differently if it was their house and family invaded and threatened in the night by this vicious filth?

Unbelievable. Pensioner attacked by two scum burglars in his home. He fights back and in the struggle stabs and kills one (pity not both). Police, who have given up on theft and burglaries, and with London streets littered with bodies,arrest the householder. I despair of this country.

I hear that Pekingese Kebabs are opening in Lordship Lane, specialising in Spaniel cutlets.

A lot of places sell a white powder in a red and black plastic jar as an ant killer, which I have found to be absolutely useless. Sean DIY opposite ED station sells a gell called Nippon which is brilliant. The little devils carry it back into the nest where ideally it kills the queen. Without that regicide you will never get rid of them.

Loved it Peckhamguy! You are a hero but why Bournemouth??

Yes.I agree with i*rate. I am an Old Codger too and had 65 million Germans trying to kill me in my pram. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Wouldn't want to be down wind of them....

Some of these have people living in them on the street. Is that legal??

Mass expulsions of Russkis throughout the West. Makes the Old Booby apologist look particularly stupid, and that's saying something.

I notice that there is still no response from any of our local councillors whom we elect to protect our interests as taxpayers from the depredations of council spendthrifts. What more can do to to knock some heads together?

I think that we should know, for instance, the cost of the recent absurd road "improvements" in Dulwich Village, and still continuing with some hugely expensive madcap scheme at the bottom of Woodwarde Rd. Are our councillors aware of the cost and extent of the work. and can they veto it? What are their powers to limit the expenditure of OUR money on daft and unnecessary projects dreamt up by half wits? Austerity? What austerity? And don't start me on the mad foreign aid budget!

Greatest Fun in all the world is spending other peoples' money.

Very little to do with Brexit but rather the absurd levels of stamp duty.

Brilliant idea, Louisa but tackling BT needs some serious contacts and clout, I fear. Can any ED readers help?