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mrwb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This applies to a lot of London. It's becoming an > awful place to live. TFL and the boroughs just see > us as cash machines. Just wait till the ULEZ > extension. Crime is rising, with police stations > closed, robbery and even murders especially with > knives getting much worse. > > London will depopulate massively again like it did > for long periods of the 20th century. It's going > to get worse before it gets better. It'll go the way of gated segregated communities is my guess.

Often the Bank investigates these in conjunction with the police. I've never really had any feedback other than a refund of anything taken when similar has happened to me (the banks attitude (I'm Halifax) is that it's their money taken not mine).

Cafcax Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can't really understand why anybody would spend 2 > hrs in Sainsbury's anyway, even with a coffee in > Starbucks. I do every time :) - about a ?100 spend.

edc Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yeah they're offering it on their website too, for > daily, hourly, monthly at Sainsbury's. > > https://horizonspaces.co.uk/locations/show/4294937 > 936 Not weekends though - that's when we 9to5ers do our shopping :)

Slovenia seems to have more say in the world than Theresa May. What a downhill slide that woman has taken us on.

sweetgirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Looks like I'm out of the loop here..... > Really? Since when did you have to pay a deposit > to secure a school space? > > It was a good few ago when my big ones went on > school..... Seems things have changed since then I think it's private schools - this old telegraph article says some parents pay multiple deposits wow ! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/12191099/Anxious-parents-shell-out-thousands-on-up-to-9-non-refundable-deposits-for-private-school-places.html

carlafindle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 50 years late but Trump finally went to Vietnam... and came back with nothing. At least his press conference sounded sane today.

I'm scatterbrained too Need to double check everything before I go out - walk into rooms and can't remember why I'm there - but been like that all my life :)

mrwb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just gets better and better. I suppose inevitable > due to the CPZ which will obviously come in > regardless. Also Southwark seemingly desperate for > cash.. There will be council tax increases too I expect (all over the UK). In some ways it's better to add charges onto things that are voluntary (feel free to disagree :))

Those beliefs are a 'group think' I see all over twitter at the moment - and recently once or twice in 'real' life. I now just block (although sometimes with a snide remark first). At least Tommy Robinson now banned from Facebook and when he moaned about that on Instagram he got banned from there too (mid sentence apparently LOL) https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/26/tommy-robinson-banned-from-facebook-and-instagram

Ken Clarke is the voice of reason at the moment (maybe as he's father of the house) "May I congratulate the prime minister on accepting that we are not remotely ready for the chaos of a no-deal departure on 29 March? I agree with her that no deal at any time would bring very damaging medium and long-term prospects for the British economy and our wellbeing. I will continue to vote for any withdrawal agreement that she manages to get with the other EU countries, but I doubt that she will command a majority for any such agreement in the near future. Can I turn to the real issue now? How long is the delay that we are contemplating? The prime minister seems to be giving us a date for a new cliff edge at the end of June, but is not the danger that we will merely continue the present pantomime performance through the next three months, and that the public will be dismayed as we approach that date and find that there is similar chaos about where we are going? May I suggest that we contemplate a much calmer delay, that we have indicative votes following debates in this House, to see where a consensus or majority lies, and then that we prepare our position for the much more important long-term negotiations that have to take place on the eventual settlement? We cannot have several more years of what we have had for the past two years. We have to start proper negotiations with the EU on what exactly we contemplate as our long-term relationships with the Union."

Thats what the revised flow chart is showing :( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47373996 This is all heading to a bad place IMHO.

JoeLeg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > The ERG and it?s pals will now be gambling that > they can defeat everything thus leaving us with > the legally unavoidable default position of No > Deal. > But if they vote 1. Mays Deal Yes or No and that fails 2. No Deal Yes or No and that fails 3. Extension Yes or No and that fails Then to go to No Deal at that stage would directly contradict the vote in No2 - unless May's just playing silly b*ggers and has no intention of listening to any of it if her deal goes down.

OK this is even more chaos now - someone tried to draw a decision tree of Mays latest plan - but what happens when you get to the bottom right - you can't say no deal as it's already been voted down in the earlier portion of the decision tree. https://twitter.com/Edsbrown/status/1100373800431042562/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-3942230753904423937.ampproject.net%2F1902072121410%2Fframe.html

Oh dear. not many friends left in the world it seems. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/25/un-court-rejects-uk-claim-to-sovereignty-over-chagos-islands

Sidll1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hard on the heels of attempt to kill Lordship Lane > with CPZ comes next assault on local businesses. > Consultation on proposed levy on licensed premises > open after midnight has been announced. > Why not close all businesses down and create a > giant cycle park and use empty shops for drop in > consultation surgeries. > With all the serious local and international > issues, and the Labour Party mired in hatred and > antisemitism, only Southwark could become a one > issue party completely dominated by the People?s > front for Cycling. Maybe not on Friday and Saturday - but if it's all week ? Anyway link here https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9839

Ooh lots more 'luxury' items than the old one from what I could see yesterday (maybe a ploy on opening or maybe permanent)

She's now saying she wants to be an example of how someone can change. Saying the right thing but could be too late (of course she could have got some advice).

?England are making a significant mistake by travelling today, coming through Newport at about five o?clock is probably not the best thing to be doing, going through the Brynglas tunnels,? said Gatland. ?There?s a good chance tractors and buses will hold them up. That?s going to be an experience for them.? .... Gatland telling the tractor squad to zero in.

Seems the Bankers have signed their own deal with the EU. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/22/city-free-port-brexit-deal-bankers

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > She would be well advised to stop giving > interviews. She is just digging an even deeper > hole for herself rather than gaining sympathy. It > does seem problematic stripping her citizenship. > Has anybody born in the UK ever had their > citizenship stripped? Obviously she doesn't have a media adviser.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > keano77 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > If Mueller has a case against Trump it has to > be > > brought before 5 years due to a statute of > > limitations. However if Trump wins again he > will > > be protected by his office and it will be too > late > > to bring the case. > > I have heard it rumoured that the intention was > always for him to do his four novelty years before > claiming ill health or some such and handing the > baton to Pence, but he hadn't anticipated the > legal trouble and is playing exactly the game you > mention. In my view Pence could be worse - not as mad but possible badder. His views are strange to say the least.

We're a member of the rule based international order - you have to follow the rules and the others will follow rules about you. The "beatles" are in my view hostis humani generis due to their actions and outside the international rules (like pirates of old) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostis_humani_generis. Not sure this girl is a combatant.

From a certain nasty paper... "Mr Javid was asked by Tory colleague Julian Lewis whether he would consider revamping the treason law to 'specify that it is treason to support a group that one knows intends to attack the UK or is fighting UK forces'". That could be Spain folks (It's already getting feisty over Gibraltar)

They'll go after us remainers of course. Supporting the EU - a foreign body.