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    The deadline for progress on NI is end of Sunday, so the a.m. announcement may be significant, athough I can not see how May can have satisfied the DUP and her own backbench brexiteers and the EU. UKIP are finished whatever happens in my opinion. And I think the Tory Party will never be the same either. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-northern-ireland-border-deal-theresa-may-dup-eu-arlene-foster-deadline-summit-european-a8097726.html
  2. It is a step back to the coffin box dorms of the Victorian Era is we are ever going to seriously consider this as an approptiate type of accomodation for the low paid. This mentality has to stop. A short let hostel for travellers is what it says it is. It is not a substitute for housing longer term and nor should it ever be.
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    He was all over the place today in his press conference over trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Isreal.
  4. No Alice it is not. Going down a route of accepting that housing anyone long term in this kind of accomodation is wrong. Tenants have rights under the law which will not apply in this kind of accomodation.
  5. Sounds like the Police will be able to get a dangerous dogs order on this owner, which will require her to keep her dogs on leads in public and/ or muzzled.
  6. A shared bunk room is not a home. It is meant to be temporary and short let. Any suggestion that this is suitable for people in work over fixing the ridiculous housing and rental inflation in London is wrong.
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    She didn't do badly at PMQs because Corbyn prefers to give speeches instead of askng actual questions these days.
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    Wot, Teresa May doing another U-Turn? Surely not!
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    But what would they be paying for exactly?
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    It has gone from a slow car crash to a great big huge train crash hurtling at full speed and there is nothing Teresa May can do about it. Oh how she wishes she never called that General Election now!
  11. We had this problem some years ago from a council building. The solution in the end was to change the angle of the light and turn the brightness down a little, which the council did after we reported the problem to them.
  12. Yes, some people seem to convenirently forget that 20,000 police officers have been lost since the coalition came to power and stations have closed as the Met tries to cope with cuts. There is not a lot the mayor of any party colour can do about that, let alone one in opposition. There is little that can be done by the Police to stop knife crime anyway. This is why inititatives are more about pursuading people to not carry knives in the first place. But then again, there have also been massive cuts to youth services and other mentoring programmes (we can even throw Safer Neighbourhood Teams in there). Local authorities have seen central government funding cut by 40%. Everyone always wants better public services, but never thinks about where the money is coming from for that.
  13. Another vote for PeckhamRose.
  14. 'Starter jobs'? have you seen how hard it is for those under 24 and over 50 to find stable jobs? And how is someone supposed to hold down a job if they have no stable home? The rising levels of evictions show that everything is geting worse not better, and there is no government will whatsoever to take responsibilty for policy failings or to do something meaningful about any of it.
  15. Agreed Rendel. He sounds to me like someone who wants his independence, and that includes independence from the stress of maintaining a rented home and dealing with the DWP.
  16. I have to echo Higgers here Sally. The vast majority referred to food banks are simply without money, experiencing benefit delays, subject to the Universal Credit waiting, and experiencing sanctions (often which are overturned for being spurious) and not because of some self induced poverty due to being unable to manage money. The explosion in referrals to foodbanks since 2010 is a direct consequence of this governments policies. Many people referred to foodbanks need more than food as well. They need some way to feed an electric or gas meter to cook the food. They also need toiletries and all the things that enable you and me to feel clean and human every day. They people best qualified to say what is needed are those on the front line delivering services, and if they say they need money, they have very good reason for asking for it.
  17. Wouldn't she be better with a DSLR camera? I have no idea what a selfie clog is but most selfie videos seem to be shot on smartphones using instagram and fb live from what I can see.
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    I think all major world powers do that to be honest JoeLeg. Lots of pot calling kettle black going on.
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    And while all of this brexit stuff is going on, very little other legislation is going through the house, at a time when there is lots that needs to be addressed.
  20. We would be happy to help too when that list is ready. Maybe even consider setting a 'just giving' page for those who might want to donate money instead. There are going to be things they will need to buy and with Christmas coming too, even a couple of hundred pounds raised would make a big difference I'm sure.
  21. The police have a team on this and have forensic evidence too. I find any suggestion that SNARL are fabricating anything deeply offensive personally, given how many much loved pets have been murdered. A simple google search shows press coverage of all of this.
  22. Gaynor Hill Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Susan Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Does anyone know if he is still there? > > will bring him some hot food > > Thanks > > > Yes he's still there I took him a duvet on > Saturday had long chat he's got a camping gas > cooker top and saucepans. He's been on Street for > a long time was in shelter accommodation but felt > trapped for personal reasons > I was going down to see him again but my hubby had > car crash just as we left him found out it's a > right off > Will try and see him soon as do not live far away > and will take him food Christmas day which is the > worst of days to be alone > Hope this helps you > Gaynor He might want to come to the Crisis day centre any day over Christmas in Bermondsey, where he can get hot meals and all kinds of other services and entertainment. Alternately there are residential Crisis centres open during Christmas week. They are not the same as hostels or sheltered accomodation and he can come and go as he pleases.
  23. Some of them do. Have seen it plenty of times, including by buses.
  24. Houseoflego Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But removing someone from a film when there is > absolutely no evidence is just not part of a > modern democratic system of justice. Career's and > reputations totally ruined on no evidence of > anything illegal and often years ago when there > was a very different culture! > > Is that ok? On that basis I think almost anyone > could be taken down if they spoke out against the > wrong people. > > Also not condoning anything Spacey did or did not > do! Would you extend that to the removal of Saville's headstone? And when was there ever a culture that saw sexual harassment/ assault and rape as acceptable? It was not more acceptable at the time any more than it is now. It is just that now, we don't turn a blind eye.
  25. walkman, why do I feel I am being drawn into sink hole. No-one's life was at risk if there was no oncoming traffic. This is no different than crossing the road at a non designated crossing point, or crossing a pelican crossing when the man is red with no traffic coming. My original point was that an adult can not 'shoot' anywhere when followed by two five year olds. It is that which I am questioning - the need for embellishment, to make the cyclists sound more wreckless than they probably were. Ergo a disproportionate reaction to a cyclist going through a red light.
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