Dogkennelhillbilly

It's weird and irrational to continue to insist that Southwark is lying even when it has been explained to you why the number is stated that way. You can't even identify a motive for why Southwark would want to lie. Why not just say you got the wrong end of the stick when you read the document?

That seems a very reasonable amd plausible explanation. This thread is a great example of #southwarkderangementsyndrome in action. Someone doesn't understand a number on a council document? Clearly it's a LIE and part of a terrible conspiracy (even though that person can't identify a reason why that would make sense).

Why imagine when you could just look up the facts? This was the first hit when I Googled "GLA 8.6%". Khan is spending it on the police, the fire brigade and TfL - the greedy bastard... https://www.london.gov.uk/www.london.gov.uk/media-centre/mayors-press-release/Mayor_proposes_council_tax_increase_due_to_lack_of_Government_funding_for_the_police_fire_and_transport_services

Your story is demonstrating exactly what ULEZ was supposed to do: reduce or eliminate usage of older, dirtier cars in London. Well done on making the shift!

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Alleyns Head somehow feels a bit plastic.

It's odd to spend time wondering about implausible ways in which the Council might persecute you. 🤔 Have you spoken to your family about your worries? #southwarkderangementsyndrome

Luckily you don't need to draw inferences from your observations about new flats on Shad Thames in the last 40 years. Just read the Council's budget documents. They're published in extreme detail and linked above.

...a fake claim based on a real number made by a tiny group of obsessives who confuse banging away endlessly on here with real life.

Southwark is like the UK in miniature: there are Dulwich Village mansions with 5 cars parked in front, but there are also people living in abject poverty across much of the borough. People generally should be careful not to extrapolate their own experience too widely. The idea that Southwark is bathing in an ocean of Council Tax from new builds is just wrong. It's taken years to redevelop the Heygate Estate - and those were the years of austerity. Southwark's finances are all freely available - check them out for yourself, and see how much money has been cut. https://www.southwark.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/fairer-future/fairer-greener-safer-southwark-s-council-delivery-plan?chapter=2

The Peckham Coal Line proposals (which frankly I had forgotten the details of, and never knew the council had made any contribution toward) were an interesting idea worth exploring at the time. A £10k contribution to a feasibility study that was mostly paid by private donations is pretty good value. Obviously those struck by #southwarkderangementsyndrome will say this thing the council did 8 years ago is literally the end of Western civilisation. https://www.peckhamcoalline.org/blog/feasibility-study-1-year-on

tbf - those were not council projects, were they?

Then let's not gossip about it online.

That is the most banal, predictable observation possible on this subject. If the council were run like a business, it wouldn't bothering to provide services that don't make a profit for its owners, like aged care or pre-school childcare or social services to try to keep kids out of abusive situations. Those ungrateful sods never put their hands in their pocket for anything. It wouldn't bother having environmental officers to stop take aways dumping their rubbish on the street. It wouldn't piss around maintaining parks or fixing street lights. It wouldn't fund firefighters or police. If the council were a business, it would probably be much more interested in developing an app for getting gig "contractors" to deliver laughing gas in disposable plastic hookahs tax free to children so it can seek venture capital funding from Saudi Arabia and dodge VAT, or something. But the council isn't a business, and shouldn't be run like one, and we should be grateful for that. https://www.southwark.gov.uk/council-tax/a-guide-to-your-council-tax?chapter=2

Amazing talent to be able to do structural surveys by looking at an estate agent's photos!

I'm sorry to hear that. Good luck in chasing them down. What kind of car was it?

OMG!

Support the local cafes that still exist! Otherwise we will end up with nothing but twee chains owned by private equity firms and multinational coffee shops.

Hold on, though - isn't that a proposal for something that would come in by 2026 from a government that isn't buying green bananas?

It's not always easy, but we have to try to not allow supermarket inconveniences affect our happiness. Worse things happen at sea.

That doesn't sound like the end of the world.

I do not think the comment was made about the (putative?) robber.

Rye Lane or Electric Avenue. I successfully bodged a repair with a battery off ebay in the past...and broke another phone trying to repeat the trick.

Jesus wept. How does anyone expect the council to get anything done if they want a public consultation on what kind of surface goes under the street drinkers' benches? Councillors are voted in to get on with stuff, not fanny about with every curtain twitcher's ill-informed opinion. There was a mistake, it's been fixed already.