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Try cola instead of beer. They like sugar too.

Saw one of their guys without lights nearly get hit by a car tonight as he cut accross the road without looking. Again dark clothing. A high vis vest with their logo on is all it would take to vastly improve the visibility of their riders. The size of the box etc, isn't really a problem. I cycle with pannier bags crammed full of stuff and the average pannier can take up to 25kg of weight anyway. You don't notice the weight when cycling. But some reflective strips on those pannier boxes would again be helpful. We also have to remember that the diliveroo business model isn't a very good one for the riders. They are paid per drop, not per hour, and some riders struggle to make the equivalent of min wage when business is quiet. So it is understandable why on busier nights they cut every second they can getting from A-B. It's why motorcycle couriers are also prone to more accidents. Commission based pay and wheels are never a good idea.

The problem is that Corbyn seems to have cast some magical spell on people who don't think polling, or election results or performance at PMQs matters. Who knows how they think Labour will win the next election. That's what irritates me most. The naval gazing and ignorant blind faith, and there's no reasoning with them. Like you Rendel, I had great hope for Corbyn, and voted for him. But I also didn't know very much about him and can now see what a disaster he is for the party. But as you say, his ego is massive, and he is living in the past.

Not a mention of the EU or G7 from Corbyn at PMQs today. What planet is he on? Even on the topic of housing, he failed to mention the upcoming homelessness resolution debate. He seems to deliberately sidestep anything that is topical and it is just far too easy for May. And Labour look likely to be stuck with him.

If X = X, what is the value of X? This is the nonsense we are now being presented with. Eventually May has to tell us exactly what X is. She can only stall for so long.

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!