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DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Drivers who get caught are Heavily Fined and get > points on their Licence (quite rightly) Except there is almost zero enforcement which is why I see drivers on their phones almost every time I?m out. Even when a woman almost ran me over on zebra crossing the police screwed up the paperwork so she got away scot free. I?d make driving holding a mobile phone an automatic 12-month ban and ?1000 fine, balance the low likelihood of being caught with serious consequences if you are.

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This smacks more of personal than political, even > Farage realised that by standing at the last GE, > votes for his party would undermine the chances of > the Tories winning and thereby Brexit completing. Not that I disagree with the sentiment, but doesn?t Scotland?s system of PR make this a different calculation there?

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I read it that jazzer said 2022 not this year. You?re quite right I must have misread the title.

The election here is for the mayor and assembly, Southwark councillors are not up for reelection until next year.

siousxiesue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you sign up to Money saving Expert they have a > scheme where they tell you if you start paying > over the odds and where you can save money. > > I think they even do the switch for you They do require you to track usage, update the website and initiate the switch. The nice thing about the automatic services is they do all of that for you. I just got a notification today that they?re switching tariffs within my current supplier to save me ?67 a year which is good.

They calculate the cost benefit of shifting (including any exit fees). That said the deals I?ve been shifted to (mostly back and forth between Arvo and Green) haven?t had penalties.

I use a company called flipper to move me automatically when I can get a better deal. It cost ?50 a year but only when they?re saving you more than that.

A Thames Water guy threatened me when I asked them to stop idling their truck outside The Belham. I complained to Thames Water but never heard anything back. In general my success rate pre-pandemic was about 10%.

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's a different coffee for a atart never mind the > rest of the conspiracy theory. > > ?A uniquely Australian coffee, slightly stronger > than a latte, with steamed milk,? says Starbucks? > Australian website. New Zealand would disagree with the claim to be ?uniquely Australian?

A lot of people are saying traffic is terrible at the moment (which may well be true) but even pre-pandemic and LTNs getting from Greenwich to E Dulwich in twenty minutes wasn?t realistic. Even if things go back to regular traffic patterns 40+ mins seems more realistic.

That kind of gentle mocking on a light hearted magazine breakfast show would have been fine a few years ago with the politician likely playing along to show how ?normal? they were. This confected culture war is swallowing up the norms of behaviour I grew up with. See for example Mrs Merton (Caroline Ahern) interviewing Debbie McGee or Clive Anderson?s BeeGees interview. In both cases the public and press were firmly on the side of the interviewer.

I thought they were mocking the escalating performative and escalating patriotism of Conservative politicians. Historically British patriotism has been restrained, flags popping up indoors (in ministers homes during lockdown) and on suits in ever increasing numbers for me looks insincere and gauche. As has been said before, growing up in the UK I don?t think I saw a Union flag indoors except in the scout hut or at church parade. On a more serious note, wrapping themselves in the flag is a way for this government to imply everyone who opposes them is a traitor. They did that with Brexit and they?re realised it?s successful so they?re ramping it up.

Yes you can borrow ebooks and audiobooks online through Southwark libraries website.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Signs prohibiting vehicles still in place.. > > BEWARE Probably Cameras too. Another SCAM to > generate Fines.. How are road signs enforced by cameras a scam as opposed to enforcement of the rules of the road?

I haven?t read the leaked report but if it is as described then yes she should resign. Of course I recognise I don?t have a dog in the fight and so it?s easy for me to say that. For me it?s a genuine conundrum, I think the pro-Brexit/pro-Tory side have been successful by dispensing with many democratic norms so I can see the temptation for my side of the argument to do the same. On the other hand you can?t get a healthy, liberal society through populism and norm breaking, so better to try to hold the line and hope that it starts resonating with the public. Fundamentally the last 5-10 years in the UK and US have shown that the general public don?t place much value on honesty in politics and until that changes the behaviour of politicians won?t change either.

Yes, we?re with Sternhall Lane surgery.

Zak Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For that many people to have driven through a > prohibited road unknowlingly (one assumes),it must > be the result of something more than simply their > being inatttentive. Do even 10% of cars obey the 20 limits across Southwark? I see at least a few drivers on a handheld mobile every time I go out. Drivers routinely ignore road rules and then complain about enforcement.

I?m confused, the planters are unacceptable because they permanently block the road preventing access at off peak hours and stopping emergency vehicles getting through, but camera controlled timed closures are a money making plot because drivers are too inattentive to read signs and incur fines.

legalalien Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > With the possible exception of beer measures, > TheCat? Well they use Schooner and Pot from what I can remember (which are confusingly different sizes between States).

DuncanW Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think that's pretty much it. > It wasnt a Death on the Rock style execution. In > the heat of the moment, they thought he was a > threat. Cressida Dick was in operational command > and I believe gave the green light to use fatal > force, but she made that decision on the basis of > poor intel that was given to her. - I think. Almost certainly true and if she?d owned up to it immediately then I?d perhaps accept that. However there was a protracted attempt to mislead the public and place the blame on the victim. As Dick was the operational commander the cover up after the fact should have ended her career. In terms of is it still relevant 15 years later, I think it is part of a pattern of her (and other senior officers) being unable to accept criticism. We saw it in Stockwell, with Tomlinson at the G20, and last summer with the stopping of the Black athletes and her subsequent handling of that. I don?t think she?s a fit leader if she doesn?t have sufficient humility and self awareness to accept legitimate criticism.

That Dick was ever considered an appropriate commissioner after her role in the Stockwell shooting boggles the mind.

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lots of different type of engineers...structural, > civil, mechanical, electrical, heating... Absolutely all valid engineering disciplines, but the difference between a civil engineer and a builder, a heating engineer and a plumber, and an electrical engineer and an electrician are vast. The misuse of engineer in the UK drives me mad.

mynamehere Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone think finding skilled engineers: > plumbers building electricians etc is harder after > BREXIT? All of those are important, skilled trades, but none of those are engineers.

We had our son in Oakfield for a year and then moved him to the local primary school. Even with a much shorter commute compared to what you?re proposing the drop off and pick up was only really manageable with a nanny to do it. However many parents did manage it and there were kids from all over South London at the school. That was the other reason we switched to the local primary, we really wanted him to have friends he would see in the park after school and at weekends.

Sephiroth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Cat loves the oneils and liddles of this world. > Always posting them with cringey ?possibly a bit > OTT but..? caveats > > Any sane person can read an o Neil or Liddle > column and think them deeply troubled and strange > men, with a track record of being wrong about > pretty much everything And in Liddle?s case a Police Caution for assaulting his partner and a history of racist, homophobic and misogynistic articles - including one that caused his magazine to be prosecuted for potentially prejudicing a murder trial.