Dogkennelhillbilly

Is this one of these things where whoever the next Prime Minister is the Brexiteers will say "ahh, but they didn't do what was necessary, so it wasn't Brexit that failed, it was the PM"? Like a "no true Scotsman/proper socialism has never been implemented anywhere so you can't say socialism failed" kind of argument?

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I guess these > oddballs and myself are people who see opportunity > in some of those areas for regulatory divergence, > to reshape a national economy (which will > obviously take time) How long, do you reckon? Have any of those opportunities for regulatory divergence been realised yet? Or, as someone once phrased it, sunlit uplands: are we there yet?

rupert james Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You could always ask Mr Khan to pick you up in his > armoured Range Rover with outriders to make sure > it is not stolen. If you get enough death threats from neonazis, you too will get a police escort. It doesn't seem like a worthwhile exchange to me.

If you out enough effort into it, you could spend your whole life moaning about bad cyclists, bad drivers, bad joggers, bad pushchair pushers, bad pedestrians...and some people do.

It's not going to happen because it's already happened.

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So, the bloke in charge of No.10 communications, > and presumably behind the PM's line ''There was no > party'' for the past week, turns out to have been > at the party handing out awards to the assembled > staff. > > The sheer, utter contempt they have for the truth > and the public is off the scale... A bit like Shaun Bailey who said he was present at the gathering but only to give a speech. As he has quit as Chair of the Police and Crime Committee (!), that excuse turns out to be less successful than Clinton's "I smoked marijuana but didn't inhale" and about as successful as Corbyn's "I was at the Black September wreath laying but didn't participate". https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/extraordinary-image-shows-raucous-xmas-25699183

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > do I hear any support for policy > to lessen traffic and pollution on our roads - I'm > listening.... You received a wave of support for your proposal to remove parking from residential streets of Dulwich. I don't know why you're backtracking now...

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As I said - it's all a distraction to stop us all > demanding real political will to reduce dependency > on fossil fuels and cars - because those > Conglomerate Companies give a lot of money to the > Tory party...so LTNs - perfect, nobody has to give > up anything. > Job done! Literally conspiracy theory. 🥇🥇🥇 Just waiting to hear the full details of how Bilderberg Group, 7 foot lizards and a sex den under a pizza shop are responsible for some roads in an obscure suburb of London being closed to cars at some times of day. Wake up, sheeple!

Monkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Happy to leave my car behind but give me good > local transport. ...and local transport can't improve until more private drivers leave their cars behind and get out of the way of buses.

Great to see a bit of vision brought to the party. Sous?les?pav?s,?la?plage?! ✊

Good bit on LTNs and the privatisation of public space by car owners in that notorious Bolshevik anarcho-greenie rag, the Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/56929d0a-2375-40a1-872c-b7fb94d9003f

ab29 wrote: > It is also one of the most > socially unjust scheme ever invented. Gonna go out on a limb and suggest that maybe the Great Leap Forward or Irish Potato Famine was worse.

Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > cycling > is struggling to reach pre-pandemic levels. Not sure if you've noticed mate but commuting is a fraction of pre-pandemic levels. Presumably you don't work in the City or West End - you'd have spotted it's much quieter than January 2021. Perhaps this blind spot reflects the retired, 2.4 cars demographic of OneDulwich and the mansions on Dulwich Village. Who knows...? https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-back-to-office-wfh-covid-pandemic-b953861.html

Jesus 😳

Peckhamnearbe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Burgeon or John McDonnell are on > that side of politics too but no, it?s the young > Asian woman who is picked on - why? Because Burgon's selection process was in 2015 and McDonnell's was in the Jurassic era?

Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Consider it the privatisation of our street space! > ;-) If you're upset about the privatisation of street space caused by a few scooter parking bays, you're gonna be appalled when you realise how much street space has been "privatised" to store private cars.

Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DKHB - in your response to 4 you know there was a > tender and procurement process to select the 3 > companies for the trials don't you - and that the > 3 winning companies have about $1.5bn of VC money > behind them globally to win the deployment > goldrush? There's big money at stake here and TFL > and the councils know this and use it for > leverage.... So just to be clear: you're NOT now saying that the costs of the Council and TfL were paid for by the rental companies?

sand12 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >here. I?ve > brought up the filth, graffiti on bus > shelters/boards Bus shelters are a TfL thing, not a council thing. Every bus stop should have a sticker telling you the number to call if it's vandalised. There isn't an email address. When I've called about graffiti in the past, it's been fixed in 1-2 days.

hammerman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dogkennelhillbilly Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > hammerman Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > Harriet is > > > leaving in the wake of so many Southwark > Labour > > > decisions made about the closing of local > > > roads/bicycle lanes being made etc. > > > > Bit of a ahoehorn there. > Don't you mean shoehorn? Mo, nate, I mean ahoehorn.

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > He hates sacking people > ...which is odd for someone who's sacked off so many wives and children.

There's nothing Labour loves more than bickering with itself.

#1) waste disposal is an expensive business. If the waste producer doesn't pay for it, all taxpayers will. There's no easy answer. #2) never heard of anyone anywhere actually getting fined for letting their dogs shit on the street (a shame, as I would suppose an authoritarian response). There will never be enough street sweepers to pick up all the dickheads...but TBF better dustbins and better enforcement of dumping would stop foxes spreading stuff anywhere. #3) planning is very tough. #4) between austerity and COVID, it's not easy. However - a lot of people really prefer to communicate face to face or at least by email, not through apps and forms. When emails or forms are sent, I have a 50/50 experience of whether they're responded to immediately or not replied to at all...

Daily circulation of 296,000. Twice as many as Guardian and FT, about a quarter of the Daily Mail. Obviously circulation is not the same as sales but people are reading it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom_by_circulation

hammerman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Harriet is > leaving in the wake of so many Southwark Labour > decisions made about the closing of local > roads/bicycle lanes being made etc. Bit of a ahoehorn there. She's retiring because she's 71, not because of some local dispute over road closures (which are a council matter and not a Parliamentary one anyway). Harman has a 75% share of the vote in this constituency, having grown it from 50% when she was first elected. In fact Lab has had 50% share continuously since 1936 and its one if the 20 safest Lab seats. Harman was not worried about losing her seat.

Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > what I find amazing is that TFL and > the council roll out these grand programmes (often > funded by the companies who are desperately trying > to get a foothold in the market and will pay huge > amounts to do a land grab) 1) Southwark is not "rolling out" any "grand programmes". It is a trial of fixed duration. 2) TfL didn't roll anything out and didn't want the trial. It was the (central government) Dept for Transport introduced emergency legislation to allow for the trials across the UK. A bunch of London councils said they wanted to run trials. Only then did TfL agree to play a coordination role so that at least the trials in different parts of London would be run according to the same rules and produce comparable data sets. If you actually read the TfL risk assessment, it says ?as might be expected from the introduction of a new form of motorised transport, a degree of residual risk in relation to the trial will remain even after a wide range of mitigations have been applied (which include impacts on individuals with protected characteristics and an expected increase in collisions and injuries). Nevertheless, those risks will be significantly lower than if this proposal were not to be implemented and if TfL were to play a lesser role in London with the London boroughs operating their own, fragmented, series of trials." 3) the purpose of the London trials is to give feedback to central government on whether to allow private and rental e-scooters generally. 4) what is the source of your information that the costs of TfL and the Council have been paid for by the operators? There's a wealth of detailed information and statistics on the TfL website for anyone that's (genuinely) interested in understanding what the trial involves. https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/electric-scooter-rental-trial