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Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just to be controversial > > Do we need a mayor at all ? > > Just think about the layers of bureaucracy that > can be peeled away without one. Much like when the > GLA was disbanded 🤔 If London has a vote to increase or decrease devolution (and I'm OK with that - we can put abolish or extend on the ballot) then only fair so should Scotland and Wales (abolish, extend, independence).

Well Mrs Clooney has resigned if you like high profile ones and the PM (according to the Daily Mail - no link) is falling into misery. "In her resignation letter, Mrs Clooney, who is married to Hollywood actor George Clooney, said she had accepted the job last year because of the UK's historic role in upholding the international legal order." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54210658 OK here's the mail link then - they seem to be turning against Boris (probably supporting Sunak/Gove https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8750253/Subdued-Boris-Johnson-worries-money-salary-shrunk-150k.html

Anyway SeenBeen if you hate him an election is coming (should have been done) and you can vote for Bailey. I suspect Khan will win :)

seenbeen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On Transport alone he is an abject failure. TfL > was in debt before the Covid and then he allowed > free fares (even though it's all contactless > anyway!)...what an idiot. Now he wants another ?5 > billion from central government. Not to mention > the traffic chaos now. The Communities secretary > should take over and Khan should step down . And > JohnL wants him to have MORE powers..... > He proved what a puerile idiot he is WITH the > Trump thing- he was an embarrassment of the > highest order. If he could raise taxes or even keep the taxes already coming from London there would be a lot more coming in. London has always subsidised the rest of the country. https://www.theweek.co.uk/checked-out/84933/does-london-really-subsidise-the-uk The argument for London having more independence isn't dependent on the Mayor of the moment - it's logical that London should have as much independence as Scotland. To be honest I don't think the Mayor has as much power as Ken Livingstone and the GLC did in the 80s.

London NYE fireworks display cancelled.

The one thing I'd like him to do is to fight for more powers and devolution/independence for London. I'm not sure his profile (other than as an opponent to Trump) is that high.

In reality if someone said that in front of me I'd just quietly take my business elsewhere which totally contrasts with my usual complaints for late delivery etc, when I loudly complain but do order again. I suppose late delivery can be changed you see.

keano77 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > j.a. Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > --- > > > > So you?re saying that we don?t have to ?police? > > (for want of a better word) goods that cross > the > > border from the Republic to UK territory? We > just > > wave them through? > > > Au contraire j.a. (See what I did there, I?m > pro-funny foreign languages). > > I?m saying UK goods going from NI to RoI should be > waved through given our superior standards. That's English Exceptionalism :) We are the country of Mad Cow Disease because we fed cows their own brains remember.

Dominic Raab got 9 minutes with Nancy Pelosi apparently and she gave him really short shift. https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/91620-2 They took the knee for longer https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/jun/08/george-floyd-tribute-democrats-take-a-knee-for-almost-9-minutes-video

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well the good news from America is that the virus > will go away if enough of us just think that way. > I presume that's what the President meant by 'herd > mentality'. 'At the ABC town hall, the president also said the virus would ?go away?, with or without a vaccine. This would happen because of ?herd mentality?,' Plagues do go away (and come back) but usually after killing loads of people and nothing to do with mentality.

Apparently Brandon Lewis answered the wrong question It's so far unclear what question the NI secretary was answering. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/minister-answered-wrong-question-over-breaking-law_uk_5f60ff76c5b6e27db133e67a?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAL8wfW7IzEeiTKsgBezGVtuP48Me5oHe0enDfn6X35qPe_Yp42qlKCkR9xwaEibdBFLdEkDcJ0eqbw33MBJQuGEA50IGALpD5jwmtSAsB2kiYQetQOCkm3NO9-ON7wmgEbWcUpf6wr93DAM_i365jvabAuW4PL_2fcbRzC3Phkf

The Speaker wasn't happy - exercising his right as a constituency MP to complain about test and trace. Didn't he have a little go at Hancock last week too - even he can only take so much https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/18721840.coronavirus-sir-lindsay-hoyle-says-testing-issues-unacceptable/

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Irish writer Fintan O'Toole wrote this (cut and > pasted as behind paywall). Strangely as a boy I remember being warned of English nationalism in a sort of "push them but don't push them enough to start that off" way. At that time the Welsh Independence movement consisted of green pen over English place names (Meibion Glyndwr came later)

Sephiroth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > he'll be long gone by summer His Long Covid will flare up and he'll need to spend more time with his family.

It's strange how there could be basic life on Mars and Venus but no life appears to have advanced enough to want to contact us. Scientists are worried about this as they think there could be a universal law that kills civilisations before they get to that stage... ..or maybe they watch us, see what we are and say no thanks, don't talk to them.

Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > rahrahrah Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > @Rockets I ah e always said that I disagreed > with > > the council?s approach. But now the LTNs have > been > > created, I believe we should support them, at > > least for the length of the trial. My personal > > view is that we need to start allocating more > > space to pedestrians and cyclists to make it > > easier for people to chose those options for > short > > journeys. Continuing with total car dominance > Over > > every street is going to get us nowhere. > > I don't disagree with you that more space needs to > be dedicated to cyclists and pedestrians - but > closing roads to through traffic is not the > solution. We have seen plenty of schemes across > London to dedicate large parts of the road to > bikes and other non-car modes of transport and > there is debate about whether they have increased > the number of journeys being made by bike or on > foot and how effective they have been. > > A shared road usage plan, paired with a frank > discussion on transport links, is the only way > these issues can be dealt with effectively. The change this time was the government (shapps) said coloured parts of roads shared with cars aren't good enough. there has to be physical separation to encourage people to feel they can cycle . https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/07/27/well-build-thousands-of-miles-of-protected-cycleways-pledges-boris-johnson/#26e0def26b2c

I wonder if Kate Hooey sits with the Labour Lords in the HOL or somewhere more appropriate for her beliefs

Curfew is coming I think maybe 10PM - 4AM. Just the word Curfew will wind up some.

The streets would look nice like that, but wasn't Peckham famous for plastic palm trees some years ago. I picked out a Cisco Shop too - so maybe SF. The tower will be the issue.

Peckham vision have been watching this for years. https://www.peckhamvision.org/wiki/Aylesham/Morrison_site Look at the top 3 rooftop bars in London (not been sorry) but the view from these should be included. https://www.timeout.com/london/bars-pubs/londons-best-rooftop-bars

Kay Burley just mentioned as a sort of aside that students are banned from having parties in student accommodation. or as the Sun puts it "Randy freshers will be stopped from bonking because of the coronavirus pandemic." How will they cope :)

Barnier and Frost are arguing it out on twitter now - can't be much official talks going on between them if they're having it out on twitter.

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The virus is going to mutate if it hasn't already > done so- then we are back to square one. > > It is not in the virus' best interest to kill its > host - so many viruses mutate to become less > lethal (as syphilis did, originally a killer over > a few days it changed to something which offered > its hosts a much longer life). > Surely that's because ill people stay in or don't have sex if they're ill and look ill BUT with COVID-19 we have a long period of activity when people are infectious with this and still go out and don't change behaviour. Even more worrying it seems to go to some animals and back again. I've no idea what that could lead to but no chances being taken in this tale of mink (all slaughtered) https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-outbreaks-at-european-mink-farms-shows-virus-may-pass-from-animals-to-humans-12040878

j.a. Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 2. May?s disastrous GE. No need to call it, > absolutely no need. And now she?s lost the solid > majority she had and everyone is jostling for > position and advantage. She fell apart though - and she wasn't under that much pressure. That crazy speech where she coughed, the letters fell off and she got a P45. Never seen anything like it. The look of horror in her face.

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wil72 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Has anyone set up a petition yet? I can see > that > > residents in Wandsworth have done one for the > same > > reason on Change.org > > > On tonight's London news they reported that there > are demonstrations in various London boroughs > today and that yesterday Wandsworth did a U turn > on the LTNs and is now removing barriers. > > Hopefully the Souhwark based petition will have > the same effect and the council will do a proper > consultation exercise that listens to what people > actually want and not a few vocal locals ! > > > Edited to add link to story > https://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/news/september-2020/ > low-traffic-neighbourhood-trials-suspended/ They haven't given up - they're coming out with alternatives traffic must be reduced and that's a fact of life - it's just how to do it fairly.