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Ahhh, I see. I'm sorry to hear that. What a drag.

I'm sorry to hear about the thefts. It must be a real pain and upset. I don't really understand who's stealing them. They're not going to be used with clone plates or sent out to West Africa like the newer stolen 4x4s would be, and surely breaking them or selling them to collectors would be too obvious given how small the target market would be...?

For most people in East Dulwich, releasing it 100 yards away just means flicking the problem onto your neighbours! Southwark pest control team is cheap, affordable and serves all residents (not just council tenants). https://www.southwark.gov.uk/pest-control

Give over, pet

They're only making plans for Nigel (Road)...

Crikey

Where is the burst water main (this time)?

If you're talking about this Voice article, it's pretty pernicious journalism - there's a strong implication that McLeod was binned because of his race, but the candidate selected was also black.

Shelter may be able to give advice on housing law: https://england.shelter.org.uk/get_help South Bank Uni has a free legal clinic: https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/study/study-at-lsbu/our-schools/law-and-social-sciences/study/subjects/law/legal-advice-clinic Good luck!

Yeah, xenophobia, like when you talk about people f**king off back to another country. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/19/woman-anti-muslim-bus-tirade-admits-racial-abuse

Tbf you can hardly blame them for something they didn't say and don't believe.

Oh my goodness, that's awful and very upsetting. Take care.

I'm not convinced by your cost assertions tbh but I'm surprised that Labour is proposing more devolution - as it's never been particularly popular with English voters...

Do many people really associate Labour with the unions any more?

Buddy - the problem is still not that people won't see the illegally parked cars. Stop rage typing for a second and read what someone else has already explained to you: I don't think there is any point in us wasting more of each other's time. 🎩

The problem is not that people won't see the illegally parked cars. 🙄

It appears that Baroness Hussey of North Bradley isn't her real name. But in any case you'd have thought the Royal Household would be pretty cool about changing family names to better reflect your identity...

The photo gets taken and sent to the Council with a note that says "hello, council, someone keeps leaving this car parked illegally on double yellows. It's blocking sight lines at a busy junction." The council sends an enforcement officer along, tickets the car, the silly owner doesn't park there again, and there is no crash caused by sight lines being blocked. It ain't complicated.

I think that's a bit of a simplistic position. I can easily believe that some people like HeadNun are sensible and sensitive enough to "read the room" to ask it in a nice way to the right people, while others by intent or ineptitude will end up bothering people with the same question.

No explanation is necessary. "It may be that illegal parking is not the only illegal activity to be associated with these vehicles..." Totally weird to leap from "these cars are illegally parked" to immediate speculation about criminal activity.

Or just produce energy-intensive goods so the energy export is embodied in the goods.

I don't think anyone that asks is necessarily being rude or discriminatory but personally I avoid asking the question out of nowhere because: 1) it gets quite boring answering the same question over and over again 2) I don't want to pry into people's lives (if they bring it up etc then it's a different matter) 3) there are people who have spent a lot of time being othered and made to feel like they don't belong, and who may understandably feel narked off being asked where they're from just because of the colour of their skin. As an aside, it's striking that the "rudeness" took place within the institution that is so painfully up its own arse when it comes to protocol and etiquette...

Probably better that people don't park illegally in the first place, and so there are no consequences of an accident to bear.

This is one of those lies the English tell themselves. Yes, there were poor aristocrats regarded as upper class, and the newly rich not being accepted by the upper class. But they are a small number of edge cases and generational transition: you look at where those exceptions' kids are, you see the class system is totally resilient. That's because the overwhelmingly constant and only useful predictor of class is wealth, and wealth is becoming even more concrentrated over time. The signifiers of class and wealth are changing - it's not Cleese's bowler hat any more - but they're unquestionably still important in this country.