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4321 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As James Barber (who lets not forget closed his > own street in the first of the east-West closures) > said, Labour have created a school street for > Alleyns. Perhaps Cllr James Ashworth-McClintock > might tell us about his work to give Alleyns > coaches access at the expense of local parents? How did James Barber close his own street in when: a) he hasn?t been a councillor for a couple of years b) even when he was a councillor he was a Lib Dem and therefore not running Southwark?

Rugbytots from age 2 is great, it runs on Sundays at Dulwich College Sports Centre. There?s usually a waiting list but who knows post-lockdown.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think that's fairly unlikely given that Trump > and Brexit supporters over index among white > working class and blue collars worker and > non-metropolitan areas My understanding is that this is a bit of a misreading of the data. The majority of Brexit votes came from the South of England, including asset rich retirees in the Home Counties who may well have been yuppies in the 80s. The majorities for Brexit were higher in the white working class areas of the North, but by numbers of voters Brexit was won in Southern England. As for Trump you?re right that his support is strongly in rural areas and he suffered a strong shift away from him in the suburbs and exurbs. It?s also distorted by the electoral college system that inflates rural states vs more urban states.

ED - NAGAIUTB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bic Basher Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I don't believe for one minute these huge > lorries > > are going down Goodrich Road. Apps will > usually > > send my cab along either Barry Road or Wood > Vale > > to get to my place rather than use Goodrich or > > Dunstans Road as a shortcut. > > The GPS systems used by hauliers 'usually' default > to roads only suitable for HGV's, much like on > Waze you can choose car/cycle/walk routes. > > I've seen John Lewis vans etc and the odd delivery > of steel for extensions or loft conversions but > never anything bigger than that. Not saying that > once in a blue moon you don't get the odd driver > of anything bigger trying to take an ill advised > short cut but I wouldn't say it was a regular > thing (source: resident for nearly 30 years) I had a chat with an HGV driver stuck on the corner of Maxted and Nutbrook. He was very embarrassed and waiting for the police to guide him out. He said that his companies commercial route planning software had sent him down that route even though its unsuitable for HGVs. The answer is for the council to designate the roads access only for HGVs which will eventually filter into the route planners and satnavs

uplandrd2020 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Here are some true facts from the UK Gov Yellow > card weekly reporting > > https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronav > irus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronaviru > s-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting I?m not sure what point you?re trying to prove with this link. The key section for me is just before the conclusion: ? The MHRA has received 173 UK reports of suspected ADRs to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in which the patient died shortly after vaccination, 150 reports for the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine and 3 where the brand of vaccine was unspecified. The majority of these reports were in elderly people or people with underlying illness. Usage of the AstraZeneca has increased rapidly and as such, so has reporting of fatal events with a temporal association with vaccination however, this does not indicate a link between vaccination and the fatalities reported. Review of individual reports and patterns of reporting does not suggest the vaccine played a role in the death. A range of other isolated or series of reports of non-fatal, serious suspected ADRs have been reported. These all remain under continual review, including through analysis of expected rates in the absence of vaccine. There are currently no indications of specific patterns or rates of reporting that would suggest the vaccine has played a role. A range of other isolated or series of reports of non-fatal, serious suspected ADRs have been reported. These all remain under continual review, including through analysis of expected rates in the absence of vaccine. There are currently no indications of specific patterns or rates of reporting that would suggest the vaccine has played a role.?

Wandavision on Disney+. Disney+ has just added Star which gives a huge back catalogue including Scandal so that?s my next 6-months of watching sorted. I also really enjoyed Mandalorian (Disney+) and Bridgerton (Netflix) recently.

Excess deaths have closely tracked recorded COVID deaths in waves 2 and 3 (and were well ahead of the recorded COVID deaths in wave 1 due to lack of testing). It?s simply not credible that there?s a wave of ?with but not of? COVID deaths occurring.

In your example I?d certainly be on the look out for what dodgy proposition he was using it as cover for. Just like neo-nazis using superficially un-contestable statements like ?all lives matter? or ?blue lives matter? to appear reasonable when opposing the BLM protests, I would be suspect he had an ulterior motive. And so it is with the Moore article. As with most of his others he cobbles together a collection of anecdotes with some innuendo to advance a fundamentally individualist view that if you want to succeed you will, and that society (and particularly the educational system) has no place critically evaluating our history or the structural inequalities that remain. The last paragraph is pure fiction, acknowledging deep structural racism (and misogyny) in our society doesn?t imply the end of the nation state it just shows we need to be better, something Moore is ideologically opposed to as it implies prioritising society over individualism. I particularly like the selective quoting of MLK, I suspect that he wouldn?t have supported MLK?s point of view when he was alive and would point out that MLK?s daughter has repeatedly disavowed this type of argument from right wing politicians misconstruing for her father?s words in this way.

This would be the same Charles Moore who wrote ?that there really is something different about blacks, or at least about black men, or at least about young black men.? and ?I wonder if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one?s dog. Until now, this would have been considered disgusting, since marriage has been a law revolving around sexual behaviour, and sexual acts with animals are still, I believe, illegal.? He also displays that curious antisemitism of the libertarian right is casting Jews as ?other? but thinking they?re being complimentary while doing so, e.g. ?If it is true, as it surely is that some races ? the Jews are the obvious example ? are highly enterprising and talented, it may also be true that some are the opposite.? I have to presume that anyone who looks to him to support their argument either hasn?t read him very closely or has pretty suspect motives. PS Woke is such a moronic epithet.

Four or five redwings in a tree on Nutbrook St this morning.

It appears the council have put bin day back by a day this week because of the snow. Our blue bin was collected a couple of minutes ago instead of yesterday as scheduled.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ?Ireland will unite? > > Some not inconsiderable issues with this > including. > > > Dublin taking over the ?10bn subsidy that NI > currently gets from the UK > Adding 50% to the republic?s population overnight > including around a million or so who wouldn?t > really support this including several thousand > pyschopathic extreme unionist morons who wouldn?t > accept this. > The 2 million people of Northern Ireland giving up > their free healthcare > > Not saying it?s not possible, the republic itself > sacrificed reasonable economic security itself to > gain independence, and didn?t really recover from > this until it joined the EU, but thinking this is > a given at the click of a finger is somewhat naive You?re points are certainly reasonable (not sure about the healthcare point or how meaningful that would be), but on the other hand it?s unthinkable that Dublin would say no to unification if a majority in Northern Ireland wanted it. It was a founding principle of the Republic and part of the constitution until 1999. I see it as similar to German re-unification it?ll be complicated and painful in some respects but once it has been requested I cannot see it being prevented.

As I understand it, the footbridge (or more specifically the supports) needs fixing/replacing. Southwark have claimed that in order to do this safely and to have a lasting effect they need to cut down a bunch of trees including some old oaks. The counter view is that the footbridge could be fixed without cutting down the trees. The goal of preserving the trees is clearly valuable, but I have no idea on the accuracy of the claims and counter claims on whether the footbridge could be made safe without cutting down the trees.

Sephiroth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > you can read one FT article free a day if you > google the headline and click on results link If you use incognito browsing (and close the tab between each article) you can read unlimited articles through that method. You can?t read the comments though.

Cat can you point to anywhere where the EU is breaking the agreement? If they are then I hope our government is bringing this to the dispute resolution process. If you?re just complaining that member states are enforcing the agreement as specified, then that?s the fault of this government for negotiating such a terrible deal based on their own stupid red lines and refusal to request an extension.

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh and barefaced Brexit shafting (even you must > admit this has been shockingly bad for them) the > fishing industry is probably a final distillation > of enough is enough for many. No shell fish > exports until April?! I wonder how that going > down. Timing wise, not great for some bluff > ?better together? TPHQ type sloganeering. Weirdly I think this could be a double edged sword. At the moment I?m sure it?s playing strongly towards the independence vote, but in 12-18 months when the referendum happens, might people feel that the damage has been done and that another 2-4 years of doing it all again to leave the UK and rejoin the EU will just compound the damage? I think a lot will be down to the EUs position on accession, agreement to roll-over UK terms followed by a rapid accession probably tips things towards independence, but Spain might block that type of overture.

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sturgeon in some ways is arguing for a choice > between the EU or the Union, but the SNP are > nationalists at heart and that has to be > remembered. How will that nationalism sit in the > context of the EU? Scottish nationalism, or at least the SNP, have been vocally pro-EU for a very long time. I imagine this is for pragmatic (hard to see Scotland going it alone outside the EU as was a key point in the last referendum), historic (French, Scandinavian and Irish ties with certain Scots) and political (it winds up the English right wing). In that way the SNP are not a traditional isolationist nationalist party.

Exactly diable. For me pre-Brexit I didn?t think the loss of political control for the UK was in reality that significant. We were rarely outvoted, the measures we supported (eg single market in services) were of huge benefit, and where we were theoretically constrained (eg labour standards) my personal politics meant I valued the constraint. Compare that to the position in Scotland where they are a permanent minority voice in the union, a fairly different outlook politically with a government in Westminster that?s going out of their way to antagonise them. I think the shift of English politics to the right and the changed economic circumstances post Brexit have changed the balance.

There?s a flag lurking behind Tricky Dicky too. The lapel badge was a post 9/11 thing. Not exactly sure when it became a thing over here but I remember seeing conservatives with a union flag/stars and stripes combo showing support for the US in around 2008.

I think you?re right about the halfway house problem for devolution. The idea at the time was to have devolution in the English regions too, but many (most?) of these were rejected at referendums. My view is that most people don?t have a strong sense identity below the country level perhaps with the exception of a few counties (Yorkshire/Cornwall) or towns/cities (Liverpool/Manchester). Also the government were reluctant to cede real power to the regions making them a bit of a talking shop and nothing else. Even London which has a reasonable amount of control in terms of transport and policing still struggles for legitimacy and to differentiate with the boroughs. I?m struggling to think of another G20 country of our size that?s so centralised (Germany, Australia and Canada are all more decentralised) but it?s tricky to see how to fix it. It?s why I think Scotland and N. Ireland will leave in the next 10 years, the pressure is all in one direction (perhaps this was true of the National conversation about the EU too). As for going it alone, I certainly thought that Scotland couldn?t afford to go it alone in 2014. However post-Brexit I?d have to look again, there?s a potential for them to be another Ireland in terms of a services gateway to the EU. Also a strategy that relies on a long term subsidy from London to Edinburgh also seems as risky as a reliance on petroleum revenue.

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > While it appears to me (from afar) that there is > of course a more hardcore group of Scottish > independence supports who just want independence > at any cost. It's hard to see how a major issue of > any independence referendum would not be a painted > as a straight up choice between remaining in the > UK or re-joining the EU (at some future point).... You?re right, but I also think Brexit has opened up another more fundamental issue in the independence case. Brexit (and the huge Tory majority it led to in 2019) has demonstrated that Scotland and Scottish voters have no real voice in the Union. In the Labour years and even under the coalition there were a decent number of Scottish cabinet members and one of the governing parties were a large party in Scottish politics. Post-2015 this wasn?t the case, and was made worse by Johnson and May seeming to go out of their way to snub Scotland. As a Brexiteer I?m sure you can see the power of the narrative of Scotland being dictated to by the UK. It?s hard to see how that could ever change without a really radical constitutional realignment and even then I think there is so much suspicion and resentment that it probably wouldn?t be enough. I?m sure we?ll disagree about whether it?s better to be a small nation in the EU or a small nation in the UK, but I expect the framing will be about more than the narrow question of EU membership.

Hamletter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If the EU does take it to court, then which court? > The EU court supposedly no longer has jurisdiction If it?s taking AZ to court then presumably a court in whichever jurisdiction was specified in the contract (I guess Belgium as that?s where it was signed). If you?re talking about the potential blockage of vaccine exports the new treaty has a disputes mechanism to address this.

Romnarz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A blues sign tells you what is permissible - you > should NOT be fine for passing that . Red signs > are needed to prohibit you - they need to be > placed in a space where the message is clear and > unambiguous That?s not correct; round blue signs are mandatory positive instructions (do this) red circles are mandatory negative instructions (don?t do this). From the government publication on road signs ?Blue circles generally give a mandatory instruction, such as "turn left", or indicate a route available only to particular classes of traffic, e.g. buses and cycles only?

We?ve gone with Andrews and Arnold (https://www.aa.net.uk/). Because of their low contention and no traffic shaping etc I?ve found that in practice the performance on a 70Mbit line with two adults and a kid at home working I s indistinguishable from the 300Mbit Virgin line we had (which we never never maxed). Their offer is more aimed at the techie/home office crowd, but that?s what we all are these days! Responsive UK based support from actual people is a bonus too.

I used dropless over the summer and was really impressed. I think hand car washes are not permitted to operate under the current lockdown but don?t know if they count.