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Ask him if he has now started using that offshore account he set up a couple of years ago?

May has no choice but to spin the brexit means brexit line. Two thirds of conservative voters voted for it. She also has a party full of eurosceptics.

But that's because most people, no matter where they come from around the globe, vote out of self interest.

I completely agree Joe. May is quite the strategist here. And yes, we haven't even got the beginnings of a plan, because as you say, the three amigos can't agree amongst themselves.

And to follow that, here is last years VFM self-assessment from Wandle. http://www.wandle.com/media/file-browser/Wandle%20Value%20for%20Money%20self%20assessment%202014-15.pdf It contains the projections that the HCA think to be optimistic in their report.

It's also why May has appointed three fervent Brexiters to now negotiate the deal they promised they could deliver.

There are 650 MPs uncleglen. They are being reduced to 600 with coming bondary changes. We need that many to ensure every region of the country is represented in parliament.

The recent injection of another ?70bn quantative easing into the markets tells you all you need to know about the pandora's box this has unleashed. Personally can't see us leaving. We'll end up with a Norway type deal to protect those exports that are vital to jobs and our now tanking economy. So we'll still pay into the EU and have no say in the directives we have to keep, like free movement of people. Those who voted for Brexit will feel cheated but no-one will really be happy and Cameron will go down in history as possibly the most foolish PM we've ever had. I too can't see an election before boundary changes in 2018. If Labour tank in those local elections, I think May will seize that as her opportunity to call an election, to take advantage of both the boundary changes and Labour's position. She will do everything possible to stave off a recession in the meantime, so expect to see borrowing for capital investment from central government, and more quantitative easing, while she scraps the human rights act that is and whatever other telling signs of the right wing style of government that awaits. Labour and Corbyn have 18 months max to get their act together. I'm not hopeful.

Very sad to hear of your loss. Sounds like he was a real character and will be missed by many x

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/540318/Wandle_Housing_Association_RJ.pdf Worth a look. The HCA references the cost of rebuilding as something that may give Wandle cause for concern when managing their fiscal viability over the coming years.

Like many members, I'm now resigned to Labour losing a GE being the only way he will be got rid of. And am hoping the tories call an early GE to save us all from his incompetance. A telling moment was during the (third I think) hustings, when Jeremy again tried to claim credit for forcing the government to U-turn on tax credits and welfare reform etc (like the Lords had nothing to do with that of course). And Owen Smith pointed out how it was he as shadow DWP minister who did all the work, and that Jeremy met with him just once in 9 months. This is the telling sign of what kind of leader Jeremy is, one who doesn't know what's going on in parliament half the time because he doesn't meet one to one with ministers. He's more interested in speaking to the already converted at rallies than he is in doing the actual work of healing rifts within the party. In other words, he hides. He clearly doesn't lke dealing with people who challenge him. That's why he doesn't do too many media interviews. We've seen his irritation a few times now (and even at members who support Smith challenging him) and in one interview with Evan Davies, he was just wierd, saying 'boo' to Davies at one point. He will be torn apart in the run up to a GE.

Yes, I too am constantly having to remind other party members of all the things New Labour DID do after 16 hard years of the Tories. People are obsessed with Iraq. There is no reasoning with some people either. You have new members joining who aren't interested in party process and call foul if anything they don't like is said about Jeremy Corbyn. In fact, the labour party is far more democratic than they realise. The membership at least get a say in who leads the party. And everything, from branch delegate upwards is decided by those members who take part in those things. I've been a party member for a long time, and I've never seen such fury and bad behaviour by some members. It is mob rule. That's what Jeremy has unleashed from the membership, and he seems unable to do anything about it.

It's an East Dulwich forum though. Why would Peckham Rye councillors have threads here?

I grew up with a boiler in my bedroom! These days, landlords have to have the boiler serviced every year (that is the law), so the real danger is not actually private landlords, but those of us that own our own homes and only get an engineer in when the thing breaks down. Personally, we get ours serviced every year too - better safe than sorry - although the boiler is in the kitchen, not a bedroom. And servicing isn't just the boiler, but all the gas applainces and the meter too.

Quite. Affordable is just a by word for as much as you can get away with, towards market prices.

He speaks to the already converted, that's the problem.

Interesting. It also shows though how law and planning rules are getting in the way of any meaningful attempts to do something. Also why does it have to be private developers who build on the land? Why can't it be housing associations or even councils the land is sold to?

Our ballots are arriving from today and it's quite clear from Heidi's account just how clueless Corbyn is when it comes to running his office. If he can't even keep an opposition cabinet together, how on earth will he ever be able to run a government. There is a LOT of denial amongst Corbyn supporters. Labour is almost certainly heading to electoral defeat under him, but they all seem to think some great revolution is coming in the marginals. I will be voting for Smith, but don't expect him to win. And yes, Heidi is being attacked on social media. Groups like Momentum are definitely organising to steal the party for themselves, and don't seem to care if it can win an election or not.

It's because I don't like marshmallow - and wagon wheels have that in them. I've never eaten a tea cake thing for the same reason. Love oysters though - can eat buckets of those!

I've never eaten a Wagon Wheel. I've never seen Game of Thrones.

I buy food for people begging all the time, and have never regretted doing so.

We got a bronze in the womens hammer - totally random :)

The the condition of the cycle lane is terrible - it's falling apart with missing kerbs stones filled in with tarmac. The whole thing is poorly designed, including the lampost that sits right in the middle of the start of the lane from the crossing. When you put lanes on pavement as shared space, you encourage cyclists to share the whole space.

titch juicy Wrote: > Indeed. But, of course it's relevant. The only > reason the BBC charge is because they don't have > advertising. The reason why the BBC have a Royal Charter and licence fee is because they were the first broadcaster. They can easily become a commercial broadcaster if the licence were taken away. My original comment was in reply to the idea that the BBC couldn't survive without the licence fee, when they obviously could survive under a commercial business model.