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Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why not put them into a charity bin - there is one > at the Plough I believe the "charity" bin at the Plough is operated by a company under the Tvind umbrella. Tvind is...a bit questionable. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36940384

Artemis Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I find that rather a distasteful post to make on > the day of the Duke of Edinburgh?s memorial > service. Perhaps many consider that the 95 year > old Queen, who is unwell but has continued to > serve the country at an age when most women of her > age retired 35 years ago, deserves a bit of > respect today I find it rather distasteful that we privilege one 95 year old lady to live in a Palace in the middle of London and wear a magic hat and wave a magic wand studded with stones produced by slaves...but you know, it's all a matter of taste. The current Queen seems a nice enough lady individually and you're right that it's bonkers that she feels obliged to keep pegging along. I'd pay tribute to her service by ensuring that no-one else feels trapped in her position by disestablishing the monarchy.

legalalien Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Looking at Linked In, TH qualified 18 months ago > and is in the private client department of a city > law firm. He?s probably is having a fair amount of > pro bono work given to him, based on my experience > - partners in loads of other departments looking > for free help for charities that they and their > clients are involved in ?as a favour?. Junior > lawyers always end up doing this stuff! > > But yep, he?s probably giving some tax planning > advice to some rich people. And charities by the > look of it. Hardly sinister. Macfarlanes is well-known in the biz for having a "high net worth individual" practice with a significant oligarch slant. That's who needs cross-border tax and estate planning. The firm is not paying associates (?100,000+ a year for newly-qualified 23 yo ffs!) to spend their time doing pro bono work for charities. I'm not criticising the Tory candidate for doing that kind of work (I don't know if what I do makes the world a better place...), but let's not create fairy stories about it. https://www.thelawyer.com/macfarlanes/

The leaflet I got was rather nasty and evidently counterproductive from the reaction above. It's been an odd time in hyperlocal politics- a Tory candidate comes from one of the most vociferous, smallest and youngest residents' groups. OneDulwich opens up as the SE21/SE22 franchise of similar groups across London, but doesn't disclose its funding. 🤔

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Creative solutions > 1. Efficient cheap green local transport (PTAL > Dulwich very poor) > 2. Reduction in council tax for anyone with no car > or one car, increase if two cars > 3. Road tax > 4. Council 'taxi' service for anyone with mobility > issues > 5. Policing of parents parking in no parking zones > to drop off and pick up kids from schools (rife on > ED Grove - idling cars every afternoon) > 6. Open up all roads - stop road parking on at > least one side of all roads and add an elevated > cycling lane > 7. Private Schools insist children must come by PT > or school coach I agree with all of this except 4 (because that's what Dial-A-Ride already is), 2 (because it's too modest - second cars and homes need to be taxed much more heavily), and 6 (because it's self-evidently nuts and would induce demand). I would also add 7) enforcement wardens to be armed with MANPAD style weapons to aid enforcement. The launchers would be loaded with paintball projectiles...for the first three weeks...

scrawford Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- didn?t come across any closed roads > like the nonsense in ED. That's because they were all closed off 20 or 30 years ago. People seem to imagine that Amsterdam has always been a walking and cycling paradise. It wasn't. In the 70s it was just as traffic-prone as London. 400 kids a year were being killed. https://www.fastcompany.com/3052699/these-historical-photos-show-how-amsterdam-turned-itself-into-a-bike-riders-paradise

CPR Dave Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If most particulate pollution is not from road > traffic why do we have the Ultra Low Emission Zone > and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods? If your house had a leaky pipe and a hole in the roof, would you not bother fixing the pipe because the hole would still be there?

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think that what goes on in your loft Bob, is > over most people's heads. Actually quite a good joke.

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > even if we had a London wide ULEZ it > wouldn't help as the Mayor said "we are importing > pollution from the continent" ..."alongside a build-up of local emissions", as the article points out. > LOL is he trying to impose his car free empire > across Europe London ain't car free. Wake up and smell the diesel.

There are LEZs in place or on the way all over the shop. https://www.carwow.co.uk/blog/uk-low-emissions-zones#gref

The truck is also usually parked across the pavement 🙄 Freezer trucks are (often) hooked up to electrical power overnight so they don't need to leave engines running if they need to be kept cold.

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's why they're installing compulsory water > meters - so they can rely on an income without > having to do much to fix the 25% loss of water > through leaks This is (still) complete bobbins. kford Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's the annual Goose Green junction leak. It's part of our Dulwich Heritage! 😁

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It?s interesting how many people claim to be in > favour of reducing car use, reducing pollution and > increasing walking and cycling yet oppose every > effort to actually achieve these things. I'm in favour of reducing car use by other people.

OP - complain to the company whose van it is. Copy Alleyns on the email. Parking on zigzags can be reported to Met Police via their website: https://www.met.police.uk/ro/report/rti/rti-beta-2.1/report-a-road-traffic-incident/ (Describe it as failure to comply with a road sign on the drop down - it is reviewed by MPS staff anyway). They do take action. You can't report "normal" naughty parking to Met Police - that is a council job. I don't know if parking on footpaths is council or police. Have you tried contacting the council parking team? It is not great that they're blocking the pavement outside the school...

trinidad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > if you go over the red large c painted on the road > between operational times, you need to pay. Yes but you also need to pay if you drive within the zone during the operational times. It's not only if you enter or exit the zone.

It hasn't come true, though. Dugin is bonkers and this stuff is just a rambling collection of assertions that give dogmatic cover to the prejudices of siloviki. It's like a cross between Mystic Meg and Sam Huntingdon. It's influential but it's not insightful.

Waseley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's interference with a vehicle not damage. It isn't, actually. It's not interference with a vehicle because none of the offences in s9(2) Criminal Attempts Act 1981 were intended. Interference is "tried to nick the car, tried to hotwire it, failed in nicking, succeeded in interfering". https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/47/section/9?view=plain It's criminal damage: "Any alteration to the physical nature of the property concerned may amount to damage within the meaning of the section. The courts have construed the term liberally and included damage that is not permanent such as smearing mud on the walls of a police cell. Where the interference amounts to an impairment of the value or usefulness of the property to the owner, then the necessary damage is established - R v Whiteley [1991] 93 Crim. App. R. 25." https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/criminal-damage

Waseley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In terms of > criminal damage, it isn't, It is, actually.

The council was out painting the white posts out there (why, I don't know - I thought they were the estate's problem). Maybe the worker mistakenly thought he was repairing a missing section? It shouldn't be there.

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is it sad or cynical of his motivations > > After all in a few years we're all supposed to be > driving electric or hydrogen vehicles so it's a > short term expensive tool that when petrol/ diesel > is no longer used will need to look at another way > to raise revenue Petrol and diesel cars are going to be sold for another 8 years - if the government doesn't let the timetable slip. The idea that we are shortly going to be in a place where London is running on electric cars only is nuts - and even electric cars cause congestion and noise. They're not a magic bullet. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-takes-historic-step-towards-net-zero-with-end-of-sale-of-new-petrol-and-diesel-cars-by-2030

While I don't agree with interfering with blah blah blah, it is totally absurd that people are driving around South London in Range Rovers and Jeeps.

While of course one is sympathetic to Zelensky - you'd be mad to admit Ukraine to the EU. They're miles off the accession criteria and the corruption and organised crime was ten times worse than even Bulgaria before the war.

Johnny Vaughan, buying a large jug of disinfectant at Farmer's.

No, it's not.

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dear Billy , you are now showing your true colours > by trying to troll other posters Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Be brave Billy, walk into each bar, ask for the > owner or manager and tell them yourself > I'm sure you'll get a good hiding response Okay, mate 👌