JohnL

Hmmm Putting your least effective people in the safest wards. Isn't that going to discourage your best people who are put in a ward that may not vote for them.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Other pubs being open though doesn?t > prove/disprove the driving reason for the > landlords who closed that day. > Some people are speculating racism, but I?d be > surprised if someone would willingly turn away > huge custom on that basis and I wonder whether > other considerations were at play. Google it and loads of pubs across UK and Ireland do it. I found a thread on Reddit where whole towns in Ireland would shut as soon as some travellers turned up at the first pub (they all phones around). Obviously there's a perception of something by pub managers and companies.

Not only did the staff in Pret Holborn give me regular free coffee but they also waved at me as they brought sandwiches into the building I then worked in. I know its probably corporate policy to be nice to your regular customers but they did seem to make an effort.

Brideshead Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well after much consideration my own personal > opinion is that the ?Gas Leak? single day > temporary closure, on the evidence, WAS a lie. > That is most likely because of plain & simple > discrimination against the Traveller Community. > > If I can be shown evidence from a gas engineer/ > fire brigade to the contrary, I?ll happily change > my opinion. > > That being said a business telling lies to the > public? looks like the new manager isn?t much > better. > > ?Gas leak? sounds a bit of a fake excuse. Why not > just say ?Temporary Closure. Apologies?? Why the > disrespectful silly lies? Makes you wonder what > else they?re up to, hey? what goes on out of > sight, before your drink &/or food gets brought > out. > 😱😱😱 eek! 2015: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/02/wetherspoon-backs-campaign-against-traveller-and-gypsy-discrimination 2019: https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2019/08/traveller-anger-shops-and-pubs-close-across-two-counties-day-girls-funeral

Nadine copied his email word for word - she is so smitten

The Cherry Tree has always been empty as long as I remember except after football matches - when I first came to this area the then landlord was not popular on here (that takes me back) I'm sad it never really got popular as its a great space.

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sad thing is, we should be training the young in > programming rather then outsourcing or importing > labour. > Isn't it better to have home grown talent? I'm not sure what Boris's plan is but I suspect he has no plan except to say he got a trade deal and that worries me as he could get it completely wrong.

So on his way to India the PM says we need more immigrants to do IT jobs after years of saying the NHS and other services are overused because of immigrants. Thanks Boris.

Chick Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was told by a pub manager the pubs were all > closed because a traveller's funeral was taking > place. Anti traveller bigotry-the last socially > acceptable racism. I was in the Angel Oak and it was definitely open Strangely no Camden Hells.

Boris on his way to India today saying "The UK needs hundreds of thousands of new workers particularly in IT and programming" So no refugees allowed but we are selling visas for a trade deal

Is this a dark kitchen ? I asked on another thread how you link complaints like this to licensing when it comes up. ?

So what if the noise is people leaving a pub at 1:00AM every night and only lasts a short time whilst they wait for their taxis and shout. Surely Southwark can ask for notices to be put saying "please leave quietly and respect the residents" without having to attend. How do you just register a complaint so when licensing time comes you can say there were xxx complaints after 1:00am

It wasn't just the Archbishops of Canterbury and York criticising this but the Pope made a little reference too (without saying UK).

Just do the sh*ke and v*c and put the freshness back (I think that ad might be sexist these days)

The Pret I went to the staff used to wear the flag of their place of birth on their uniform. I liked the colour - but I admit there weren't many union jacks LOL

SO if you want to stop human trafficking Send the victims to Rwanda

Tom Tugendhat seems to be the closest who aren't in the tight Boris Clique in the Tories. Nobody around seems to have the gravitas of even Gordon Brown and he had his problems.

or maybe Truss is now favourite It's like the magic Roundabout.

Why is Pritti Patel now favourite to replace Boris Johnson Is that by default as all the rest have mis-stepped.

Moovart Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Surely the test is just one measure of how much > effort someone is willing to put in to become a > British citizen given that even most current > citizens would have to do specific revision in > order to pass the test. > > The other measure being whether someone is willing > and able to pay as it's not cheap to become a > citizen. Maybe so - so you learn it as is taught But the answers in my view are debatable whether true or not

If you associate James Barber with National Liberal Democrat policy in the early 2010s which you can do (I think the CON-DEM alliance was a huge mistake and they should have stuck with Gordon Brown in 2010) (that is a mistake for the Lib Dems) you must associate the current Tory candidates with Johnson and Sunak. I think many will vote on National issues.

Were XR out drinking last night as it seemed rather noisy for a sunday night or was there something else on that i didn't know about.

Pret are moving out of Central London into the more central residential areas as people work from home I heard. They gave me free coffee after free coffee when I worked in holborn :)

XR are known to be clever about what they do - they might give an indication of turning up on Peckham Rye then turn up at Clapham.

Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If it is authorised then the council needs to > explain why; XR are not a group they should be > supporting or encouraging. It's described as unauthorised in the original picture :)