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Sunak’s own report. Which you can be sure would want to contradict mayor https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/08/low-traffic-neighbourhoods-generally-popular-report-ordered-by-sunak-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I moved to ED in 2001 so I remember the "shallow" version of eD before the extension out the back but nothing before then Always glad when I come back to the area to see the place still going

Taking any kind of journey in a car these days is a real lottery - the roads feel like they have been abandoned to the elements. I had to drive through Kent towns at the weekend and I tried different routes there and back - both times felt like an assault course that Sydenham hole might be "marked for repair" but it will only be filled in with cornflakes (I exaggerate) and will be in a worse state a couple of months later of course councils have been starved of cash by government so this is one area that has been cut back - but it's another very visible sign of the state of the nation

Agree with Sue - seems unlikely that the whole space would operated by another pubco - it's massive (and not cheap) Details still seem to be up on Savill's so not sure it has been acquired by another pubco https://assets.savills.com/properties/GB0456L118507/dabf92f615b3ea6592283d295cc7b440-london-capitol.pdf

"Diplomacy is really the only way out. " But how does this work in this situation? Who does it involve? What sort of outcome would you want? And why would Putin "diplomatically" agree to it? I know how diplomacy works - but it requires engagement from stakeholders.

When has that ever been true tho? Many of the household names we use daily today made fortunes in world war 2 we could go back to empires maybe. It’s what Putin is trying to do I dont care if it’s companies, Tories, corbynites, pixies or leperachauns. Putin needs defeating and I would take help from any and all to ensure it but even if I was as suspicious of bae or whoever - just going “that’s enough now” and giving Putin what he wants would be shooting outselves in the foot and will lead to millions of more deaths and if anyone is happy with that then yeah. I will judge them

At which point of the Second World War would you have drawn a line and said “that enough bloodshed/profit for whoever. Let adolf have what he wants” The answer? it’s going to be a combination of superior bombs/guns AND diplomacy. And diplomacy will only be entertained when Putin is beaten if their is “another way” perhaps you could use history or maybe your Quaker faith to guide us I don’t believe I have personally attacked you. I have taken your publicly posted position and called it a disgrace Which it is. Objectively no one likes the war or the losses or the bloodshed but if you think appeasement will end it then you are naive at best. But to suggest it’s being sustained to profit western companies is immoral that doesn’t mean companies won’t profit. Vaccine companies profited from the pandemic. But they were necessary as well.

Russia invades Ukraine with clear eyes in other European territories, murders people and you, you start a thread implying all of this just for western profit an absolute disgrace

Obviously the place underneath Dulwich Cafe no longer exists but the concept/"organisation" lives on https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100080979353803

awful story - I get so angry

4th anniversary yesterday lads. no celebrations? no one?

And 8 years (eight!) after the referendum what is it about ending freedom of movement that British people don’t get? anyone? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13009671/amp/brits-forced-leave-french-homes-brexit-rules-visa-rights-thrown-out.html

Been a good week hasn't it? - The UK gave up on negotiations to extend our trade deal with Canada, leaving us worse off than when we were an EU member https://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68098177 - New incoming border checks will add £200 million a year to the cost of our food and drink. https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/brexit-fallout-200m-price-hike-looms-for-fruit-and-veg-imports/ - MPs were warned that the EU's upcoming ETIAS/EES border systems may lead to 14-hour queues to enter (the rest of) Europe from the autumn. https://itv.com/news/2024-01-25/traffic-gridlock-and-14-hour-queues-await-tourists-entering-to-europe-mps-told - There were warnings of possible shortages of flowers for Valentines Day because of the new incoming border checks. https://news.sky.com/story/roses-are-red-violets-are-blue-fears-of-shortages-on-valentines-day-over-brexit-checks-with-the-eu-13056060 - A plan to extend visas for British expats in France from 90 to 180 days was blocked by France's Constitutional Council court (a decision which has no right of appeal). https://lbc.co.uk/news/french-court-blocks-allow-british-expats-stay-france-90-days/ - Rishi Sunak's pledge to ensure no future laws can create a border down the Irish Sea has gone down like a bucket of sick in TUV quarters. (And has sent the blood pressure of the usual suspect Brexiters sky-high.) https://belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/brexit/jim-allister-rishi-sunaks-offer-to-dup-on-sea-border-makes-a-nonsense-of-brexit/a1159820922.html - The EU's plans to increase bulk medicine procurement across the bloc risk creating shortages in Britain because they have very significantly greater buying power than the UK does. https://theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/25/eu-plan-medicine-stockpile-uk-record-shortages

it would indeed be a desperate thing - I'd love them to try

The extent of the "greeness" of new processes can be debated - but it isn't really a Brexit debate The point In this thread is workers were lied to and encouraged to vote against their own interests. And they have no way of registering their change of heart now they know. And that applies right across the country in swathes of industries

I’m not saying the tata steel decision is Brexit related what I’m saying is that farage, Johnson’s and co said that it was imperative to vote leave to save the British steel industry

Farage told you in 2016 to vote leave or else it would be the end of steel in the uk It’s 2024 and uk steel is over despite leaving the eu. So now Farage is onto the next scam and blaming net zero meanwhile Johnson is now advocating for another trump presidency Dangerous grifters the lot of them. And too many people continue to pretend to not see

Cud, The Boo Radless and Milltown Brothers were we ever so young etc FWIW my top gig of 2023 was Waterboys back in March - hadn't seen them in years but what a setlist and what a show

32 years since I saw Marxman/Sisters of Mercy/Depeche Mode there - agreed on a great summer venue

Let’s check in on divergence https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/29/were-out-of-step-how-post-brexit-uk-is-drifting-from-eu-standards?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other oh and the much-delayed U.K. checks on imports starts in a few weeks That will go well too

Yep - I'm not all that keen either. But we're sort of away from the point. Someone posted a Christmas related quote on a Christmas related thread and you called them repulsive and offensive (which isn't very festive). It's OK to neither know nor care for Dickens - but maybe now we all know a bit more is it worth revisiting or addressing those posts?

alright jazzer, calm down Whole point of Dickens is he is readily and freely available and has been read by "the masses" since he was published I left school at 16, was working straight away and have never been anywhere near attending any exam. You aren't hard done by! No-one has stopped you reading anything in your spare time have they? You have time to post and argue on here so... y'know. And you don't HAVE to read him either. Fine if you don't. But no need to try and suggest you have been prevented by "life" Other clues that PGC post was a quote and not "offensive": 1) - looked like a copy/paste from a website. Different font the giveaway 2) - the language seemed not only wordy, but less-than-modern. And obviously crafted. If I didn't know the original I would at least recognise it was unusual enough to google and just see

I meant "heathen" in the sense of "you don't know your culture/DIckens" in a kind of eye-roll, light-hearted fashion. I'm not actually calling you a literal heathen (whereas I very much am an actual heathen)

so without any knowledge or context or any awareness, you are comfortable flinging around "offensive" seasons greetings to you too - sheesh Take it up with Dickens ya Heathen ya

I'm hoping you know it's a quote rather than a comment