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I used to get the 197 from Dulwich Library (so a fair bit closer than say, ED station) to East Croydon station - off-peak And if peak is longer than that (and one would imagine it is significantly busier) I would say avoid. It's a long dull schlep which I was happy enough with on an idle Saturday morning but if I had to do daily? Hard no No harm trying all options and seeing which works best for you tho

Now, Aussie Rules crossed with Gaelic football - THAT was a boisterous sport

This thread has been interesting to watch develop - leaving aside the topic itself, many of The Usual Suspects (myself included) have been involved, often saying things one would expect to hear, sometimes forcefully so And yet this time things haven't spilled over into slanging matches* (again I hold my hand up - in my defence, I'm usually right ;-) ) and people have had space to consider and reconsider It's better than usual is what I'm saying * I'm generalising a bit . Cat, for example has directly been called a troll - but in fairness to that poster (j.a., one of my current forum faves) , it reads to me like they have more direct involvement in this subject than many of us and I can see why they would be so upset

great post Duncan Interesting to see several prominent conservative MPs and commentators (Johnny Mercer, Steve Baker, Danny Finkelstein in the Times) all being very clear the government is wrong on this issue

to be clear Cat I'm not calling you a racist or even "suggesting" it in an underhand way but taking the side of the booers (as Patel and Johnson - leaders of this country ffs - have done) against English players is very much dog whistling to the racists. You must be able to see this much? If you (not you, but one) if one is a racist, and you boo players taking the knee and you hear govt leaders support you, not the players - you are going to feel emboldened right? You (actually you this time) do go to great pains to construct an elebaborate rationale for objecting to the knee, but why? you don't need to. They might even be very good reasons - but no-one is listening - you have people using a gesture against racism, and you have a plenty of racists booing them (and worse). That's what people are seeing

We know that taking the knee is an anti racist gesture We know there are more than a couple of racists in the crowd We know that those racists boo the gesture So, if it was me who had a problem with some perceived Marxist/BLM organisation agenda, but was also against racism, I think I would choose which side I condemned a bit more carefully than some people do

he is absolutely spot on - and the fact that an English football player has to call the British government out on this is extraordinary. It should be a wake up call - but I suspect it will be the line where many people say "ah come on now - we all deplore racism, but you've gone too far here"

Whilst of course it's good to see the public backlash against racist behaviour, that's still a low bar - that is people simply doing what they should be doing politicians publicly condemning? That is often hypocritical given their previous public pronouncements in the case of Johnson and Patel, and should be condemned as precisely that But the bigger problem remains - the cycle continues. Players (in this instance - bit of course regular folk as well( have to live with abuse, consequences for the abusers are effectively nil (notwithstanding outliers like the estate agent employee) and around and around we go - "it's just a minority. it's just bots from east Europe online" etc etc It's going to take more than that to change things.

Anyone had any fresh thoughts over last couple of days? Senior govt ministers and the sun seem to be (publicly at least) backtracking

short answer = no longer answer = yes https://www.wikihow.com/Print-from-Kindle

Only the hare is still claiming not only victory, but many future victories as well

And here we are in first half of July https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/STATEMENT_21_3641 I can?t see much evidence of UK benefits - especially as we approach ?freedom day? with infections soaring and mutterings about cabinet wobbles re July 19th

Now imagine if Denmark had won

but UK has to stop "not listening to experts", and has to start listening to the realities of the path it has chosen It cannot continue to ignore everyone and then just say "this isn't my Brexit!"

Oh the ignorance

I don?t think you know who John Bruton even is A more Anglophile, pro British Irish politician you couldn?t find. He is considered by many Irish people to be effectively British If he has written such a brutal article, brits Should sit up and take notice. For once in last five years listen to what people are saying and warning about. Enough of the shrugging, hand waving, patronising. This isn?t some agreement that can easily be amended. People have warned about this for years. Govt legal advisers would have been all over this. But we know how they have been treated by this govt and brexiteers This is one of the most delicate and costly situations possible - you don?t get to gaslight people and shrug and say ?stop living in the past?. This was known - English arrogance has got us here But if you want to look forward - you have to decide this are going to align with eu rules. If not you have to decide where border goes and how it works. And you can?t

and in the meantime, businesses hit the wall, HGV drivers are told to drive longer hours, hospitality is shy of workers - slow bleed of economy (and that's brexit itself - nowt to do with NI)

"Things change, mistakes are made. " What has changed? What mistakes were made? for example - would any new agreement be put in front of parliament and debated properly? or would Brexiters shout everyone down and say "people don't want to talk about this anymore?" will any new deal require support of British people? another election anyone? Another referendum? when these shysters claim any new deal is "a great deal" how do we believe them based on past record? How do we believe them? And how does EU believe them? UK govt has no intention of honouring any deal with EU - it wants problems to point the finger and blame them for the mess that Brexit is causing - it's that simple.

"People from all sides seem to agree that the NI protocol is not working" Not strictly true "ow whether that's because it was poorly designed or poorly understood is really a moot point now isnt it? " massively incorrect - it was signed by a government that lied about it - this is how they operate and any "new" negotiation will be with people that are not trusted This is the whole point - from the referendum to this protocol - the british govt has flat out lied/not cared/brushed aside all concerns if we have to look forward we have to accepts lessons learned - and the lesson is that this govt lies to its negotiating partners, it's voters and itself Any new negotiation is going to rely on understanding the complexities, and fulfilling it's promises. This govt will do neither

sure - and geography and gravity doesn't matter - another Brexiter myth on and on it goes

what point are you making there keano - none of it sounds like a win for UK

maybe a dumb question - but why are people who repeatedly use the forum not bookmarking the actual site, rather than googling every time?

"principles are expendable if people are going to lose money." if that were a universal truth, we would see UK doing a lot more compromising of its' "principles" and would be aligning with SM/CU

5 years after Brexit, the Uk is going to have to stop barking what it wants ("EQUIVALENCE") and expecting others to comply it's been 5 years - you've had multiple elections and leader changes that shouldn't have happened You've had plenty of time to sit down with the EU and hammer out a deal - and you did. And the deal is playing out exactly as agreed . You said you would put processes around chilled meats (for example) after a 6 month extension. You didn't. You had chances to debate the protocol in parliament - that whole point about taking back control - that would have allowed things like these problems to be discussed. But that couldn't happen because it would show up the lie that was "oven ready" Take some fekkin responsibility and stop a) whining and b) threatening

The EU and Ireland understand NI just fine - it is clear that the English govt (and voters) neither understand nor care about it if you are going to rip up the protocol, you have to have a better suggestion. And you don't.