Louisa

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Plaid Cymru have about 3 :) God can you imagine the stick Milliband would get if he went into an informal agreement with not just one but TWO nationalist parties? I guess he's always got that solitary Green MP for support. Louisa.

KK no there is not. Statistically guesstimating, I would take a stab in the dark and suggest the majority if not 80% plus post 2000 blow in folk would be university educated professionals employed in tech/finance as rah suggests, predominantly white and middle class. Louisa.

Frightening prospect post may, the budget is the calm before the storm. No workable majority is clear from current polling projections. Even the Lab/SNP pact would be half a dozen short, and the Libs refuse to work with SNP/UKIP on any level. Louisa.

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MrBen dear heart, it is a generalisation as I stated, but equally not s million miles from the truth. Yes socio-demographic change is a constant but not an irrelevant Darwin style natural selection process either. It involves real people and it's happening at a ridiculously and ever faster pace, and IMO for the wrong reasons. Looking back at previous waves of social change brought about by immigration and the industrial revolution, we see cities like London taking many decades to gradually change and for reasons primarily associated with work (initially at least). The more recent changes are often characterised by sharp house price rises which have allowed the natural process of the resident population to reach retirement age and sell up for a pile in the sticks (this is not uncommon historically), to become a savage opportunity for transient cash buyers from wealthier places to move in and make a bomb on run down property stock, turning these into million pound homes and forcing people out into the poorer suburbs and new towns to find anything resembling a half affordable property. Louisa.

Right. A 'blow-in' is usually defined as a professional usually middle class person who was brought up from a more than likely wealthy and often Home Counties (but not exclusively) background, who follows a trend for cultural or economic reasons to move closer into London and in so doing helps contribute towards the displacement of the resident working class population whatever ethnic background they may come from. Notably, these people appear to be more often than not ethnically white but not exclusively British and this has changed the nature and feel to various diverse inner London suburbs over a short period of time (ED, Brixton and now even Peckham good case studies). They have also contributed to rising house prices and helped price the resident population out of buying in the area they were brought up in. This is all of course a generalisation and there are other aspects to this but in a nutshell, the above isn't far from the truth. Louisa.

Or take it to Clapham and have it publicly humiliated in the stocks on the common. Louisa.

The forum has become somewhat watered down. Even my old sparring partner SJ has buggered off, and quids is even bored of the "eat,sleep,rave,repeat" mantra. We need someone to spice things up around here, change those Lounge curtains and get winding up the masses again. Keeky, it seems the old guard is done with. Louisa.

Never give in. Theres only so many skinny lattes posh mothers and estate agents one can take before they turn bad ass. Louisa.

I'm more Saturday afternoon at the North cross road market hosted by DulwichFox at the minute. Louisa.

I only found out yesterday that Saint Patrick was a Romano-Briton who was born here and taken to Ireland as a Slavs after being abducted by pirates. Louisa.

I'll play! I was just sat here thinking after being woken at 6 this morning by some inconsiderate scumbag builders I'm in just the mood to have a good rant. Louisa.

With you 100% on this foxy. It most certaintly isn't irrational, it's opportunism in its most abhorrent form, stealing from a charity. I've confronted a few people but it's fairly rare I actually catch them. They must head out in the early hours to engage in this activity? The mess left behind would be enough to turn a visitor away from the area. Louisa.

I've got a few things to moan about. The first being, following a mid morning stroll along the lane to Barclays I noted three cashpoints all out of use. This is frustrating, as these machines are rarely if ever in service when I need to use them. That's the first gripe, the second concerns charity shops. I've noticed that on LL a certain shops has bags of goodies collecting up outside most evenings and it's beginning to look unsightly. I appreciate these places are bastions for good causes, but it wouldn't hurt for people to leave the goods with the helpers inside during shop open hours rather than in bags outside for foxes and opportunistic people to ravage open and litter our pavements. If I can think of anything else I'll get back to you. Louisa.

Oh am how can you be reeled in to this tosh? The acting is second rate at best and doesn't even begin to compare with the earlier TV adaptation. I turned off half way through tonight's episode. Louisa.

Had a minor altercation with a person going for the final item in the fridge at sainsburys. Both our hands reached out for the item. Resolved by diligent staff member waiting to restock with more of the same item. Louisa.

I think we should talk about blurred vision personally, still forced to walk all the way to Peckham for a specsavers. Louisa.

Nearest Toby Carvery is in Beckenham http://www.tobycarvery.co.uk/edenparkbeckenham/ Louisa.

I've been banged to rights by the grammar old bill so many times I've lost count. Louisa.

I saw last nights show and I was personally very sad to see the state Charles Kennedy was in. It seemed unfair on him as well as the audience at home, and as you say communication break downs between the producers and host are abundant on this show. Louisa.

Family photographs. Louisa.

What about a woman with a beard? Louisa.

I would love a swop Jeremy, shame we don't have a unit big enough. I agree with rah about the chips, they're pretty tasteless. The half chicken though marinated with extra hot sauce is a thing sent from god. I have happily walked to Camberwell when I've had a craving just for half a chicken with some corn on the cob. Louisa.

Out of the big chains Nandos is the only one where I see any real value for money. GBK is overcharging for a food item I consider to be pretty basic. I much prefer the idea of a build your own burger type place, rather than some botched up thing containing all sorts of randomly put together stuff and then you'll get charged extra for the chips anyway. Louisa.

Pineapple should only be used in two contexts, and neither of them involve eating the damn things. Louisa.